Plans by Sky to launch a pay-TV service via Freeview have suffered another set back because of media regulator OfCom's ongoing review of the pay-TV market, prompted by the previously reported spat between cable telly firm Virgin Media and the satellite broadcaster - a spat which led to Sky's non-premium channels being removed from Virgin, and renewed accusations being made that Sky is too dominant in the pay-TV market.
Sky, who currently have three free-to-watch channels on Freeview, want to scrap them and make four pay-to-watch channels available instead, one for news, sport, film and entertainment. Those channels would work like the Setanta and TopUpTV services that already operated on not-completely-Freeview. But in light of concerns regarding Sky's dominance in pay-TV-ville, those plans will now have to be delayed until OfCom have completed their report on the sector, which aint gonna be till next year at the earliest.