Sky News No More - Replaced By BBC HD

It was the BBC world news channel:) BBC HD was a separate channel and Sky News always available

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I can only report the facts as exist on Azura right now. Sky News was replaced by BBC HD three days ago. We have been in Madeira all day and still no Sky News.

Representations were made to Reception for an explanation. This was elevated to the Communications Department and an Officer provided an explanation that Sky News would no longer be shown fleetwide on P&O. It had been replaced with BBC HD with immediate effect.

Surely P&O Officers have more integrity than to fob off a passenger enquiry with an intentional lie?

And for the record Dai, are you accusing me of intentionally misleading this forum? Yes or no would be fine, thanks.

Just left Azura on Friday after a 12 nighter and had both BBC HD and Sky News working fine etc...

Just off Britannia and we had BBC HD which was useless as there was no schedule and if you happened to catch one episode of a drama, you didn't really know when the next one would pop up. On ITV there seemed to be mainly quizzes. We also had BBC World - more magazine than news, Sky News (VG and kept us up t date with election results and the fire tragedy) and Sky Sports news. We also had a Sport 24 and something else I can't remember.

Sky News, is, I think, free-to-air. It's available on Freeview, why would it cost anything on board?

It's Free-to-air for HOME viewing, not commercial viewing.

In the US (and most lines follow US law) it is illegal for a company to sell consumers something that they get for free. Television is included in the price of your ticket, so the cruise lines can't "sell" you FTA broadcasts and cruise lines can only offer channels that they pay for.

As far as the satellite package, many lines use MTN/Global Eagle as a provider, and they have a wide range of different channels available at all times, but the ships only license the ones they feel reflect the demographics of a ship's itinerary. Satellite channels aren't cheap either. Sport 24 alone is around $14k a month for ships to receive.

Plus, since cruise lines don't actually want guests staying in their cabins and watching tv, they tend to underfund broadcast packages/movies and it's very difficult to convince them to pay for something that will keep people locked away in their rooms.

Just back from Oriana and we had Sky and BBC

Just back from Oriana and we had Sky and BBC

Jean, did you have Sky Sports News as well?

Jean, did you have Sky Sports News as well?

A couple of weeks ago, on Arcadia we had Sky Sports News and Sports 24 in addition to Sky News.

Jean, did you have Sky Sports News as well?

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On Oriana now and we have BBC world Sky news Sky Sports News and sport 24

 

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I shall expect no less on my Ventura cruise in 4 weeks time, although with its tiny TVs I probably won't see much.:)