Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian

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platform owned by the American media conglomerate

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. Sky Italia also broadcasts three national free-to-air television channels: TV8, Cielo, and Sky TG24.

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services on the Sky Italia satellite platform are broadcast on the Hot Bird satellites at 13.0°E and are encrypted in NDS VideoGuard.

History

Sky Italia was founded on 31 July 2003 by the merger of TELE+ and

Stream TV Stream TV was an Italian digital television, digital satellite television pay TV company launched in 1993 and closed in 2003, due to the merge with TELE+ into Sky Italia. History Stream S.P.A. was the service provider, a television company ow ...

. On 28 June 2010, Sky Italia changed its brands and logos, making them identical to the BSkyB ones. On 1 October 2010, Sky activated its first 3D channel, Sky Sport 3D, available without any extra cost to the Sport pack subscribers. The very first event Sky Sport 3D aired was the

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. On 25 December 2010, Sky launched another 3D channel: Sky Cinema 3D, airing 3D movies, available for free for Cinema pack subscribers. These channels were replaced by Sky 3D on 6 September 2011, and then closed on 16 January 2018. Tom Mockridge, the then head of Sky Italia, replaced Rebekah Brooks as chief executive of

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after she resigned on 15 July 2011. Andrea Zappia replaced Tom Mockridge as CEO on 1 August 2011. On 7 October 2011 Sky Italia announced it reached the 5 million subscribers benchmark. Following

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's split into two on 28 June 2013, to create two separate companies,

21st Century Fox Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., which did business as 21st Century Fox, was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was formed on June 28, 2013, as the legal successor ...

(the re-branded News Corporation), and the spin-off company New

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, the 100% stake held by News Corporation in Sky Italia was retained by the re-branded 21st Century Fox. Following media speculation, on 12 May 2014 Sky Italia's sister company, BSkyB, confirmed it was in talks with its largest shareholder,

, about acquiring 21st Century Fox's 57.4% stake in

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and its 100% stake in Sky Italia. The enlarged company would likely be called "Sky Europe" and would consolidate 21st Century Fox's European digital TV assets into one company. The sale was announced on 25 July 2014, which was subject to regulatory and shareholder approval. The acquisition was completed on 13 November. In 2016, Sky Italia created Vision Distribution, a film distribution venture with five Italian production companies: Wildside (owned by

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(backed by

ITV Studios ITV Studios Limited is a British multinational television media company owned by British television broadcaster ITV plc. It handles production and distribution of programmes broadcast on the ITV network and third-party broadcasters, and is ba ...

), Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production. Since the beginning of August 2019,

Universal Pictures Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios or simply Universal), is an American filmmaking, film production and film distribution, distribution company headquartered at the 10 Universal Ci ...

, Sky's corporate cousin via

NBCUniversal NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and Trade name, doing business as NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational mass media and Show business, entertainment conglomerate (comp ...

, has handled theatrical distribution for Vision's releases in Italy. On 20 January 2020, Vision launched their international sales arm, Vision Distribution International. Since October 2018, Sky Italia, as well as

Sky UK Sky UK Limited (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited (BSkyB)), Trade name, trading as Sky, is a British broadcasting, broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television, broadband internet, fixed line and mobile telephone ...

, Sky Ireland and

, is controlled by

. On 1 October 2019, Maximo Ibarra replaced Andrea Zappia as CEO. Maximo Ibarra, however, had already left Sky Italia on 30 June 2021. On 16 June 2020, Sky Italia launched Sky Wifi, its ultra-broadband service. On 6 September 2021, Andrea Duilio started as the new CEO of Sky Italia.

Timeline

1998

*December: Miro Allione,

Stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...

's CEO, stated that

signed a preliminary deal with Telecom Italia to buy 80% of Stream, but the introduction of a bill limiting the acquisition of soccer pay TV rights has made the company reconsider its plans.

1999

*April: 35% of

is acquired by

2002

*June: TELE+ is acquired by

2003

*March: the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...

approves the merger between TELE+ and

. *31 July: Sky Italia is founded. *31 August: Sky TG24 is launched as a rolling news channel.

2004

*April: Sky Italia abandons SECA encryption system to switch to the NDS, managed by the

. *1 August: Sky launches weather news channel, Sky Meteo 24. *November: Sky's subscribers reach 3 million.

2005

*May: Sky Italia are awarded the broadcast rights to the

2006 FIFA World Cup The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to FIFA World Cup hosts ...

. *November: Sky Italia launches the My Sky decoder with PVR functionality.

2006

*May: Sky launches its first high definition channels: Sky Cinema HD, Sky Sport HD,

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HD and Next:HD. *December: Sky's subscribers reach 4 million.

2007

*April: Fox airs the first TV drama created by an Italian pay television channel, '' Boris''. *May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for

Formula One Formula One (F1) is the highest class of worldwide racing for open-wheel single-seater formula Auto racing, racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA Formula One World Championship has been one ...

for two and a half years. *May: Cooltoon anime programming is launched. *November: A selection of Sky channels become available via

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on Telecom Italia, Fastweb and Wind.

2008

*February: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

. *May: Sky launches My Sky HD. *30 August: Sky launches sports news channel, Sky Sport 24. *December: VAT on subscriptions is increased from 10% to 20%.

2009

*January: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

FIFA Confederations Cup The FIFA Confederations Cup was an international association football tournament for men's national teams, held every four years by FIFA. It was contested by the holders of each of the six continental championships ( AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBO ...

and the

Six Nations Championship The Six Nations Championship (known as the Six Nations, branded as Guinness M6N) is an annual international rugby union competition by the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It is the oldest sports tournament conte ...

. *April: Sky launches Sky Uno and Sky Primafila HD. *August: Sky increases its high-definition offering to 12 channels. *September: Sky announces the Sky Digital Key, a USB Key with terrestrial decoder functions. *December: **Sky On Demand service launches. **Sky launches free-to-air channel Cielo.

2010

*January: All

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matches begin transmitting in high-definition. *April: Sky launches three Sky Movies channels in high-definition, bringing the total number of HD channels to 25. *June: **Sky changes its brand identity with a new logo, similar to that used by BSkyB. **Mondiali 1–4 launch for the

2010 FIFA World Cup The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national Association football, football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. ...

. *August: The number of high-definition channels reaches 36. *October: The

final is the first sports event to be broadcast in 3D. *November: **Sky's subscribers reach 4.8 million.

2011

*January: ''

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'' is the most watched film on Italian

pay TV Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, b ...

, with an audience of 1.3 million viewers. *February: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

2011 Copa América The 2011 Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América, better known as the 2011 Copa América or the Copa América 2011 Argentina, was the 43rd edition of the Copa América, the main international association football, football tournament for national ...

, 2011 and 2012 Copa Sudamericana and 2012 Copa Libertadores. *March: Sky Cinema Passion and Sky Cinema Comedy launch. *May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for ''

X Factor ''The X Factor'' is a television music competition franchise created by British producer Simon Cowell and his company Syco Entertainment. It originated in the United Kingdom, where it was devised as a replacement for '' Pop Idol'' (2001–200 ...

''. *August: Sky launches Sky Go, an app which allows a number of Sky channels to be viewed on

smartphone A smartphone is a mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities. It typically has a touchscreen interface, allowing users to access a wide range of applications and services, such as web browsing, email, and social media, as well as multi ...

s and tablets. *September: Sky launches Sky 3D, the first 3D channel in Italy. *October: **Sky's subscribers reach 5 million. ** Sky Uno begins broadcasting in HD for the premiere of ''

''. *December: **Sky's HD channels reach 40 with the launch of

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HD.

2012

*February: **12 new HD channels are launched, Fox Life HD, Real Time HD, Extreme Sports Channel HD, ESPN America HD, Discovery Science HD, Discovery Travel & Living HD, History HD,

Nat Geo Wild National Geographic Wild (shortened as Nat Geo Wild and abbreviated NGW) is a global pay television network owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27% ...

HD, Nat Geo Adventure HD, Gambero Rosso Channel HD, Disney Channel HD and MTV Live HD, bringing the total number of HD channels to 52. **Sky changes the

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of My Sky HD. *March: Sky Go becomes free and is made available for PC,

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iPhone The iPhone is a line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple that run iOS, the company's own mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, at ...

and Android. *May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

Grand Prix motorcycle racing Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the highest class of motorcycle road racing events held on Road racing, road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Independent motorcycle racing events have been held sin ...

for the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 seasons of

MotoGP Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the highest class of motorcycle road racing events held on Road racing, road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Independent motorcycle racing events have been held sin ...

Moto2 Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the highest class of motorcycle road racing events held on Road racing, road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Independent motorcycle racing events have been held sin ...

and Moto3 series. *June: **Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

and its feeder series ( GP2, GP3 and Porsche Supercup) for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons, with an option for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. **The launch of Sky Arts is announced. *July: **Sky updates the On Demand service. **Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries, top-divisio ...

for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons. **Sky adds 12 extra channels for the

. *August: Sky's subscribers reach 4.9 million. *September: ** Sky TG24 receives an on-screen rebrand. **Sky adds two more high definition channels: DeA Sapere HD and Disney XD HD. *October: Planet Kids, a new channel for kids, is launched. *November: **1: Sky Arts launches in HD, bringing the total number of HD channels to 58. **Sky Go is updated to include three more channels and Sky On Demand.

2013

*February: Sky's subscribers fall to 4.83 million. *March: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

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for two seasons. Sky launches the Sky Sport F1. *3 April: Cielo launches in HD. *May: Sky's subscribers fall to 4.78 million. *July: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for 2014 Winter Olympics, but transfers the rights for the

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to RAI. *9 August:

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launches on Sky and Mediaset Premium, broadcasting the

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, the

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La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest ...

and

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. *September: Sky TG24 launches in high-definition, bringing the total number of HD channels to 63. *October: Classica and

MTV MTV (an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television television channel, channel and the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on ...

launch in high-definition, bringing the total number of HD channels to 65. *November: Sky's subscribers fall to 4.76 million. *December: Sky Go launches on

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2014

*February: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for '' Italia's Got Talent'' and the

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (UEL), usually known simply as the Europa League, is an annual association football, football club competition organised since 1971 by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European footb ...

for 3 seasons. *10 March: Sky Sport MotoGP launches. *9 April:

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launches, broadcasting American, Italian and European TV series.

2015

*August: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

Lega Basket Serie A The Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) is a professional men's club (sport), club basketball list of basketball leagues, league that has been organised in Italy since 1920. Serie A is organised by Lega Basket, which is regulated by the Italian Basketball ...

for 2 seasons. *December: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

for the 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons.

2016

*May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

EuroBasket 2017 EuroBasket 2017 was the 40th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe and held between 31 August and 17 September 2017. Beginning from 2017, the continental championships take place every four years with a similar ...

, EuroBasket Women 2017, 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, EuroBasket Women 2019, EuroBasket 2021, AfroBasket 2021, AmeriBasket 2021, 2021 FIBA Asia Cup and EuroBasket Women 2021. *October: **Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the NBA for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons. **Sky's subscribers rise to 4.67 million. *November:

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is launched, bringing the number of HD channels to 66.

2017

*June: ** Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

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. ** Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the

and

for the 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons, and for the 2018, 2019 and 2020

UEFA Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup Association football, football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions: the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's offic ...

. *November: Sky launches Sky Q Platinum.

2018

*April: Mediaset Premium's cinema channels start broadcasting on Sky. *June: Mediaset Premium's TV series channels start broadcasting on Sky. *July: Channel logos became identical to the Sky UK ones. Sky launches Sky Q Black. *December: Sky's subscribers reach 5,2 million.

2019

*February: Discovery Travel & Living and Animal Planet close. *July: Mediaset Premium's TV series channel Premium Joi closes. *September: Sky launches Sky Q Fiber. *October: Disney XD, Disney in English,

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and Nat Geo People close.

2020

*May: Bike Channel,

Disney Channel Disney Channel is an American pay television television channel, channel that serves as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney Entertainment business segment of the Walt Disney Company ...

, Disney Junior, Teennick, MTV Rocks and MTV Hits close. *July: Fox Life, Lei, Dove TV and Man-ga close. *September: **Due to the

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pandemic, Sky's subscribers fall to 4.6 million. **The logos became identical to the Sky UK ones. *December: GINX Esports TV close.

2021

*July: Fox Crime and Roma TV close, and Sky Documentaries, Sky Investigation, Sky Nature and Sky Serie are launched.

2022

*January: Premium Action, Premium Stories, Premium Crime, Premium Cinema, Paramount Network and Spike close. *July: Fox closes. *October: National Geographic, National Geographic Wild and Baby TV close and Lazio Style Channel is upgraded to HD.

2023

*November: Crime & Investigation rebranded as Sky Crime.

2024

* April: Eurosport 4K, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 launch in occasion of the Roland Garros and Paris 2024. * December: Garante fine for telemarketing activities and GDPR violations

2025

* February: Classica rebranded as Sky Classica.

Sky HD and 4K HDR

Sky HD is the brand name of the

HDTV High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. The term has been used since at least 1933; in more recent times, it ref ...

service launched by Sky Italia on 20 April 2006 in Italy – during the

– to enable high definition channels on Sky Italia to be viewed. The service requires the user to have a Sky Box HD (distributed by Sky Italia), and an

with

HDCP High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of digital copy protection developed by Intel Corporation to prevent copying of digital audio and video content as it travels across connections. Types of connections include DisplayPort ...

enabled.

A HD PVR decoder called My Sky HD was launched on 26 May 2008 (on 20 December 2008 was sold a particular edition designed by

Fendi Fendi Srl () is an Culture of Italy, Italian luxury goods, luxury fashion house producing fur, ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, fragrances, eyewear, timepieces and accessories. Founded in Rome in 1925 by fashion designers Edoardo Fendi and ...

in favour of the international organisation ''Child Priority''). Sky Q Silver

On 29 November 2017, Sky launched Sky Q Platinum, a set-top box enabled to view programmes in 4K HDR and to use the multiscreen wireless service.

On 2 July 2018, Sky launched Sky Q Black, a set-top box identical to the Sky Q Platinum which enables the 4K HDR service but not the multiscreen wireless. Here are the channels available in HD:

Logos

Channel Packs

Sky Italia offers a range of channels that are grouped into: * Sky TV – Entertainment, TV series,

Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territorie ...

's sport, news, documentaries and music; * Entertainment plus – Adds

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to the Sky TV package; * Sky Cinema – Sky's, and some other companies', film channels; * Sky Sport and Sky Calcio (Football) – Sports and football channels; * Sky Kids – Programmes for Children, most notably Cartoons.

Sky TV

Rai 1 Rai 1 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's Flagship (broadcasting), flagship television channel and is known for broadcasting ...

* Rai 2 * Rai 3 * Rete 4 *

Canale 5 Canale 5 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel of Mediaset, owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It was the first private television network to have national coverage in Italy in 1980. On 4 December 2012, Mediaset launched Canale 5 HD, a ...

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* La7 * Sky Uno (Sky One, +1 available) * Sky Serie (+1 available) *

(+1 available) * Sky Crime (+1 available) * Sky Arte (Sky Arts, +1 available) * TV8 *

Comedy Central Comedy Central is an American Cable television in the United States, cable television channel, channel owned by Paramount Global through its Paramount Media Networks, network division's Paramount Media Networks#MTV Entertainment Group, MTV Ente ...

(+1 available) *

* Sky Classica * NOVE * 20 Mediaset * Cielo * 27 Twentyseven * La5 * Real Time * Mediaset Extra * Giallo * TOPcrime * Sky Investigation (+1 available) * DMAX * Mediaset Italia 2 *

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* Horse TV * Gambero Rosso Channel * Food Network * HGTV * Sky TG24 (Sky News Italy) * Sky TG24 Primo Piano * Sky Meteo 24 (Sky Weather 24) *

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* Mediaset TGCom24 * MTV Music * VH1 *

Discovery Channel Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience. It init ...

(+1 available) * National Geographic (+1 available) *

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History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

(+1 available) * Sky Documentaries (+1 available) * Sky Nature (+1 available) * Focus *

Motor Trend ''Motor Trend'' is an American automobile magazine. It first appeared in September 1949, and designated the first Car of the Year, also in 1949. Petersen Publishing Company in Los Angeles published ''Motor Trend'' until 1998, when it was sold ...

* Super! * K2 * Frisbee * Rai Gulp HD

Sky Kids

* DeA Kids (+1 available) * Nick Jr. (+1 available) *

Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (nicknamed Nick) is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on April 1, 1979, as the first ca ...

(+1 available) *

Cartoon Network Cartoon Network (CN) is an American cable television television channel, channel and the flagship property of the Cartoon Network, Inc., a sub-division of the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery. It launched on ...

(+1 available) *

Boomerang A boomerang () is a thrown tool typically constructed with airfoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight, designed to return to the thrower. The origin of the word is from Australian Aborigin ...

(+1 available) * DeA Junior

Sky Sport and Sky Calcio

* Sky Sport 24 (Sky Sports News) * Sky Sport Uno * Sky Sport Calcio * Sky Sport Arena * Sky Sport Max * Sky Sport Tennis * Sky Sport NBA * Sky Sport F1 * Sky Sport MotoGP * Lazio Style Channel * Sky Sport (channels from 251 to 263)

Sky Cinema

* Sky Cinema Uno (+24 available) * Sky Cinema Due (+24 available) * Sky Cinema Collection * Sky Cinema Family * Sky Cinema Action * Sky Cinema Suspense * Sky Cinema Romance * Sky Cinema Drama * Sky Cinema Comedy * Iris * Cine34

Optional Channels

DAZN DAZN (; pronounced "da zone") is a British Over-the-top media service, over-the-top sports Sports broadcasting, streaming and entertainment platform. Founded in 2007 as Perform Group via the merger of Premium TV Limited and Inform Group, it is o ...

(channels from 214 to 216) * Milan TV * Inter TV * Caccia e Pesca

References

External links

*
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on

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