Why is the debate on Sky tonight

[XTR2Turbo]

Seems wrong to me that the election debate this evening is only live on Sky.

I thought this would fall under the 'crown jewels' rules of needing to be on free to view TV.

What percentage of the population have sky now?

[Jonny671]

Because they've done one on ITV, one on Sky and one on BBC.



ETA:

Its on Sky3 which is on Freeview which most people have now too.

Edited by Jonny671 on Thursday 22 April 09:52

[S3_Graham]

isnt the sky channel its on, on free view? hence its free ?

[MG511]

It's on Sky News, which is on Freeview and Freesat, so almost everyone will be able to watch (if they want to).

[Highway Star]

Its also on the BBC News Channel and BBC radio live (R4 I think)

[coley20]

It was given to ITV 1, BBC 1 and Sky news, I presume to make it fair, and i`d also assume its because they are the three biggest broadcasters in the UK??

Most people have virgin, or sky, or freeview of some sort, and SKY news is shown on all of them.

Unless you just have the 5 analogue channels you should get it

[FraserLFA]

press the red button!

BBC are also showing it i beleive

[cs02rm0]

I'm slightly surprised it's on a commercial station at all, but yes, I've heard on it's on a sky freeview channel too.

[GT03ROB]

cs02rm0 said:

I'm slightly surprised it's on a commercial station at all, but yes, I've heard on it's on a sky freeview channel too.

So you'd rather they only be shown on that unbiased voice of the nation, the BBC??

[Jonny671]

I think because certain people will watch certain channels.. Same as doing a vote across 'The Sun' readers, with 'The Mail' and something else.

[ascayman]

wasnt it sky's idea in the first place??

[reggie82]

If you don't have freeview / Sky etc you can always watch it live on the Sky News website anyway.

[Republik]

There are 51 different ways you can watch it apparently.

http://blogs.news.sky.com/editorsblog/Post:743febb...

[Jonny671]

reggie82 said:

If you don't have freeview / Sky etc you can always watch it live on the Sky News website anyway.

If you haven't got Freeview/Sky/Virgin you probably shouldn't have internet

[reggie82]

Jonny671 said:

reggie82 said:

If you don't have freeview / Sky etc you can always watch it live on the Sky News website anyway.

If you haven't got Freeview/Sky/Virgin you probably shouldn't have internet

Why not - I don't get it?

[Jonny671]

reggie82 said:

Jonny671 said:

reggie82 said:

If you don't have freeview / Sky etc you can always watch it live on the Sky News website anyway.

If you haven't got Freeview/Sky/Virgin you probably shouldn't have internet

Why not - I don't get it?

Everyone has some form of 'extra tv' don't they?

[cs02rm0]

GT03ROB said:

cs02rm0 said:

I'm slightly surprised it's on a commercial station at all, but yes, I've heard on it's on a sky freeview channel too.

So you'd rather they only be shown on that unbiased voice of the nation, the BBC??

I should, but yeah, I couldn't really bring myself to say that!

[reggie82]

Jonny671 said:

reggie82 said:

Jonny671 said:

reggie82 said:

If you don't have freeview / Sky etc you can always watch it live on the Sky News website anyway.

If you haven't got Freeview/Sky/Virgin you probably shouldn't have internet

Why not - I don't get it?

Everyone has some form of 'extra tv' don't they?

Ahh yes (over 90% apparently). I don't see why the 10% "shouldn't" have the internet though so got a bit confused

[Mosman]

ascayman said:

wasnt it sky's idea in the first place??

Yep, they were campaigning for it to happen for months.

[fergywales]

It's happening around the corner from one of my bars, at the Arnolfini in Bristol.

Seeing the disruption that it has caused since Tuesday (blocked roads, police coming into bar and questioning staff and warning them to report suspicious people) our potential 'leaders' are feeling threatened. Since midday yesterday there has been 4 helicopters hovering above the floating harbour, the water is full of divers, armed police standing guard on the streets, they are obviously anticipating disruption from the anti-war brigade seeing as that is on the agenda for this evening's debate.

Would be exciting if it hadn't been for all the pomp and circumstance in the run up.

Now, where's that 'DOWN WITH WINKY' banner??