Three Sky TV digital Satellite dishes together attached vertically above each other on a modern house wall in Dundee, UK
Sky UK Limited (formerly British Sky Broadcasting or BSkyB) is a British telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom. Sky provides television and broadband internet services and fixed line telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is the UK's largest pay-TV broadcaster with 11 million customers as of 2015. It was the UK's most popular digital TV service until it was overtaken by Freeview in April 2007. Its corporate headquarters are based in Isleworth. Formed in November 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB became the UK's largest digital subscription television company. The United Kingdom operations also changed the company name from British Sky Broadcasting Limited to Sky UK Limited, still trading as Sky. Launch of Sky Digital. BSkyB's digital service was officially launched on 1 October 1998 under the name Sky Digital, although small scale tests were carried out before then. At this time the use of the Sky Digital brand made an important distinction between the new service and Sky's analogue services. These services were the improvement in picture and sound quality, increased number of channels and an interactive service branded Open now called Sky Active, BSkyB competed with the ONdigital (later ITV Digital) terrestrial offering and cable services. In addition to most channels from the Sky Multichannels package, Sky Digital launched with several new channels that were exclusive to the digital offer. The switch over from analogue to digital proceeded relatively quickly. In Q3 1998, there were 6 million multichannel TV homes in the UK ( homes that watch television other than the traditional analogue terrestrial), and over half of these homes watched television using BSkyB's analogue service. BSkyB's digital service surpassed the analogue service in terms of subscribers in late 1999.
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Location: Dundee, Tayside, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Dundee Photographics / Alamy / Afripics
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