19 November 2013
Sky Go cements its position as the home of mobile TV as 14 new channels join the service
Sky Go extends leadership in mobile TV becoming the home of the widest range of entertainment channels anywhere with 3G/4G or Wi-Fi signal
From today, Sky Go the award-winning mobile TV service, will offer a further 14 entertainment channels to watch across the full set of Sky Go compatible devices. Now with the widest range of entertainment channels anywhere you like, customers have an even greater choice of what to watch on Sky Go whenever they want in line with their subscriptions.
Comedy Central, MTV, Dave, Watch, Gold, Discovery, Nat Geo and History are just a selection of the 14 new channels that can now be watched with any Sky Go device. So if customers want to remind themselves of some of Dynamo's biggest stunts in Dynamo: Magician Impossible (Watch),or listen to Jack Dee's twisted storytelling in Crackanory (Dave) or simply keep up with talked about shows like Geordie Shore (MTV); it's all there on Sky Go if the main TV is being used by someone else at home.
There are more award-winning shows from an even wider range of channels for customers to watch at no extra cost live or on demand. Up to 57 different channels are now available on Sky Go, with 40 entertainment channels sitting alongside 6 Sky Sports channels and 11 Sky Movies channels.
Luke Bradley-Jones, Sky's Brand Director of TV Products, comments: Sky Go has gone from strength to strength since it launched in July 2011 and now attracts over 3 million unique users quarterly. The addition of these new channels is part of our continued commitment to provide our customers with a great TV experience whenever and wherever they want it, all at no extra cost. Customers now have even more choice and flexibility whether they want to watch TV Box Sets, live Barclays Premier League football, the latest blockbusters from Sky Movies or awarding-winning drama from a wider range of entertainment channels.
Sky Go continues to see millions of On Demand viewing requests, with just over 3 million requests to watch shows and movies On Demand during early October (7-13th) as The Blacklist continued on Sky Living and preview episodes of crime thriller The Tunnel and Stephen Merchant's Hello Ladies became available. Sky Go Extra has also proved popular with users with 219,000 upgrading to the new service in the last quarter, allowing them to use Sky Go on more devices and download shows and movies to watch wherever they are.
The full list of new channels includes:
MTV - including Geordie Shore available On Demand
Comedy Central - including Jeff Dunhams Very Special Christmas Special and South Park
Gold - including You, Me & Them and The Two Ronnies Spectacle available On Demand
Watch - including Dynamo: Magician Impossible and Primeval available On Demand
Dave - including Red Dwarf X and Storage Hunters available On Demand
Alibi - including Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and Rizzoli & Isles available On Demand
Nat Geo - including Meet the Polygamists and Prospectors available On Demand
Nat Geo Wild - including World's Weirdest and Fish Tank Kings II
Discovery - including Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell and Ice Pilots
TLC - including Toddlers and Tiaras and Beauty & The Geek Australia
Animal Planet - including My Cat From Hell and Finding Bigfoot
History - including Ice Road Truckers and Pawn Stars available On Demand
Good Food - including Choccywoccydoodah
Eden - including David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
In addition to adding more great channels, Sky TV customers with Entertainment Extra+ can also now watch a wide range of TV Box Sets from ABC TV on Sky Go including Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy.
For more information on Sky Go customers should go to sky.com/skygo.
-ENDS-
For more details:
Amy Holland
Consumer PR, Sky
amy.holland@bskyb.com
Notes to editors:
Access live channels on Sky Go in the UK or Ireland on a compatible device using 3G/4G/WiFi. Content available depend on the customer's Sky TV subscription. TV Box Sets require Ents Extra+ or another Sky HD subscription. Sky Movies Pack required for movies On Demand.
The following channels require a Sky TV Entertainment Extra subscription:
Discovery
Animal Planet
Nat Geo
Nat Geo Wild
History
About Sky:
Sky is the UK and Ireland's leading home entertainment and communications company. Around 40% of all homes have a direct relationship with Sky through its range of TV, broadband and home telephony services.
Sky is the UK's biggest investor in television content, investing more than £2.5 billion a year in channels such as Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Living, Sky Arts, Sky Sports, Sky Movies and Sky News. Around two-thirds of Sky's content spend is invested in the UK and Sky is the fastest-growing source of investment in original British programmes. More than 30 million people watch Sky content each week.
Alongside its commitment to offering customers a greater choice of high-quality content, Sky is a leading innovator. Customers enjoy total control and flexibility over their favourite TV through Sky+, watch TV on the move through Sky Go, and enjoy the best quality TV experience at home through High Definition and 3D.
Sky distributes its content broadly over several platforms, including satellite, cable, IPTV, mobile and WiFi. NOW TV, Sky's second consumer brand, builds on the company's leadership in internet TV. Sky is also the UKs fastest-growing home communications company and favourite triple-play' provider of TV, broadband and home phone.
Sky believes in making a wider contribution to the communities in which it operates by taking positive action on the environment, supporting grassroots sports and increasing access to, and partic
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