Sky Cinema
British subscription film service owned by Sky Group / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sky Cinema is a British subscription film service owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). In the United Kingdom, Sky Cinema channels currently broadcast on the Sky satellite and Virgin Media cable platforms, and in addition Sky Cinema on demand content are available through these as well as via Now, EE TV and TalkTalk TV.
Country | United Kingdom |
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Broadcast area | United Kingdom Ireland |
Headquarters | London, England |
Programming | |
Picture format | 2160p UHDTV (downscaled to 1080i and 16:9 576i for their HDTV and SDTV feeds respectively) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Sky Group (Comcast) |
Sister channels | List of Sky UK channels |
History | |
Launched | 5 February 1989; 35 years ago (1989-02-05) |
Replaced | The Power Station (on the BSB service) Disney Cinemagic (UK & Ireland, Sky Cinema Disney) |
Former names | Sky Movies (1989–1998, 2002–2016) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
Sky Go | Watch live (UK & Ireland only) |
Now TV | Watch live (UK and Ireland only) |
Virgin TV Anywhere | Watch live (UK only) |
In 2016, Sky rebranded its television film channel operations under one single branding on 8 July, the channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland were rebranded from Sky Movies to Sky Cinema; on 22 September in Germany and Austria, the Sky Cinema brand (originally used for the flagship network) was extended to the German channels in the group formerly known as Sky Film; the Italian Sky Cinema channels followed suit on 5 November by adopting the brand packages introduced in the United Kingdom and Ireland earlier
Sky Cinema includes movie premieres from Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures alongside Sky Originals films