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From 1 March 2010, all Sky Arts channels are broadcasting 24 hours a day. [citation needed] An on and off-air brand refresh for all four channels (Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 1 HD (a simulcast), Sky Arts 2 and Sky Arts 2 HD (a simulcast)) was launched on 16 August 2010. [citation needed] On 9 June 2015, at 6 am, Sky Arts 2 HD closed down.
The catch-up TV section of on Demand launched on 26 September 2012, featuring ITV Player, Demand 5, Sky TV (Sky1, Sky Arts, Sky Atlantic and Sky Living), Sky Sports and Sky Movies. [11] [16] BBC iPlayer arrived on 30 October 2012, [17] while 4oD launched on 18 March 2013. [18]
The Now TV boxes and dongles have extra downloadable apps that provide access to free catch-up or streaming services such as BBC iPlayer, ITVX, and UKTV Play, as well as access to Sky Store, Netflix (added in late 2018), Peacock (added in November 2021), Sky Sports Box Office, Disney+ (added in April 2020) [31] and YouTube. [32]
Sky Replay is in many ways a catch-up service for Sky's main entertainment channels, Sky Witness and Sky Max, broadcasting their popular shows. Doing so, Sky Two is described as a time shuffle channel, so called to distinguish it from timeshift channels , which rebroadcast their principal channel, delayed by one hour.
An Android app was released on 9 September 2011, [14] and iOS on 22 December 2011. [15] STV Player launched on Freesat in October 2016, [16] and on Sky UK in November 2019. [17] In December 2020, it was announced that STV Player would be installed on Now TV devices, automatically appear on the home screens for all users. [18]
Sky Go is a streaming television service from Sky Group provided free for Sky TV subscribers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It complements Sky TV by allowing subscribers to watch live and on demand Sky TV via an internet connection on the go. The Sky Go app is available on Windows and Mac computers and also on Android and iOS devices.
A Big Brother Demand 5 app for the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone launched on 19 August 2011, the app offered a 30-day catch-up service for Big Brother content. The app has been extended to incorporate catch-up content from Channel 5, 5* and 5USA, creating an overall Demand 5 app. [ 26 ] The app is compatible with iOS 10.0 or later. [ 27 ]
Sky Documentaries is a British pay television channel owned and operated by Sky, a division of Comcast, which launched on 27 May 2020. [2] [3] Sky Documentaries broadcasts imported programming from HBO alongside new original and other acquired programming. [2] [4] The channel can also be watched via a live stream and box sets on Sky's streaming ...