Sky One, Sky Digital, Mini-Dish, Satellite TV, B Sky B, Sky Premium Channels, Channel 106.

In Central London we can't use the Sky Mini Dish because we live in private flats, and our cable TV company does not accept new customers.

We can't get SKY ONE in Central London.
SKY ONE is one of the UK's leading TV channels,with loads of great programmes like Star Trek Enterprise, and the latest Simpsons, but for anyone moving to Central London for the first time
THERE IS NO WAY TO RECEIVE THE CHANNEL!
Why is this situation allowed to carry on?

Central London (Westminster) is a "Black Hole" where no one can watch SKY ONE, and this is wrong.

• 90% of people in Westminster live in apartments where we cannot use a Sky Digital dish to receive Sky One.
• Central London has effectively NO CABLE TV SERVICE. There is an outdated Analogue-only cable run by NTL which does carry Sky One, but NTL do not accept any new subscribers on this system! Worse still, NTL have no plans to upgrade Central London's Analogue-only cable TV system EVER. I have this in writing and will gladly supply copies of their letter on request. NTL have the exclusive franchise to provide cable TV in Central London but they do not accept new customers.
• Sky One is not available on Freeview
• There is another new option, Homechoice, which provides an expensive service similar to cable TV using Broadband Internet, but they do not provide Sky One either!

I think it's unfair on the residents of Central London that we are not allowed to watch Sky One, no matter what we do or how much we are prepared to pay. Like me, do you want to get something done about it?

• Why can't Homechoice carry Sky One?
• Why can't they put Sky One on Freeview?
• Why don't Sky make sure there's a Cable TV alternative in places like Central London where most people can't use a dish?
• If Sky really want to make their service DISHES ONLY, then for Heaven's sake give us some assistance in getting Sky Mini Dishes put up on our apartment blocks! There must be 1000's of people in Central London who can't wait to subscribe to Sky's Basic and Premium packages, but can't because they are not allowed their own dish, and communal dish systems for our private blocks never get organised in practise. Meanwhile we can't even subscribe to Sky via cable, or even get Sky One on Homechoice.

IT'S NOT FAIR.

If you want to get something done about making SKY ONE available to TV viewers in Central London then e-mail me here:

skyone@sptv.demon.co.uk

I will forward your e-mails to BSkyB, and do my best to make them listen.

My feeling is that BSkyB are "blase" about the situation. They think that "everyone" can get Sky on a Mini-Dish and anyone else is in a tiny and insignificant minority who will soon be getting Sky like everyone else. Well, it's NOT TRUE.

There is NOTHING I can do to get Sky One.
Let me repeat that, just incase any BSky B executives might ever read this:
There is NOTHING I can do to get Sky One, and I am NOT in a small minority.
No one moving to Central London can get Sky One either.

• I CAN NOT persuade my property management company to give me permission to use my own Sky Mini-Dish.

• I CAN NOT persuade my resident's association to install a communal satellite receiver system.

• I CAN NOT get Sky One any other way because BSKYB DO NOT MAKE THE CHANNEL AVAILABLE any other way.

Wake Up, BSkyB!
People can not subscribe to TV channels which are not made available to them, and there are 1000's in Central London in precisely this situation, and why should advertisers pay to screen their commercials on a TV channel people can't get?

"We can't get Sky One in Central London!" website last updated 22nd June 2005.