This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Force the tax paid UKTV stations onto Freesat
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UKTV is half owned by BBC Worldwide, which in turn is owned by the BBC. As the BBC is paid by all owners of Television sets, Radio sets and Computers it is deplorable that UKTV is largely not available on Freesat and only five of the channels are available on Freeview.
We demand that a service that we are paying for is made available in it's entirety on the Free to Air formats of Freeview, Freeview HD, Freesat and Freesat HD.
The channels (and their HD equivalents) include the following and any future additions under the UKTV umbrella:
Alibi, Blighty, Dave, Eden, Gold, Good Food, Home, Really, Watch and Yesterday.
We also demand that these channels are immediately removed from Sky's paid subscription service and that any BSkyB action to claim compensation is immediately rejected as they knowingly and willingly entered an agreement that they knew should not have been allowed to happen.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
BBC Worldwide is a commercial operation and not funded by the Licence Fee, so this is not something the Government can influence.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.