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Sky Q customers fear ‘slow death’ of beloved TV box as ANOTHER channel is removed today in ‘backward step’ for satellite

Published on April 02, 2025 at 03:39 PM

SKY Q customers face another blow today as a fourth TV channel closes down in so many days.

Broadcasters have been busy making a number of changes to satellite TV lately.

a black box with the word sky on it
Sky Q was released back in 2016

On Monday, a positive closure took place with Racing SD (standard definition) switched off leaving the HD version only.

But since yesterday a number of other channels have done the reverse, shutting down their HD channels and opting to keep the inferior SD ones alive instead.

Viewers have slammed the move, writing on Sky‘s forum that it “seems a backward step to keep SD and close HD channels on satellite”.

Sky Q was released in 2016 and there hasn't been a new satellite box since.

Meanwhile, the company's newer internet based Sky Glass, first released in 2019, was recently updated with a new Gen 2 model.

Sky Glass relies on an internet connection to beam channels to your screen instead of a satellite dish.

At the launch of a senior boss revealed that Sky Q will still “be with us for a while”.

“It's [Sky Q] still a great product,” Fraser Stirling, Global Chief Product Officer for Comcast andSky said at the event.

“Customer satisfaction is really good still and the reason it's good is because we're still invested in it.”

Others believe it's the start of the end of Sky Q, the firm's most recent satellite TV product that's not been replaced for nine years.

But satellite loyalists believe the gradual loss of channels is the start of the end for Sky Q.

“This is the start of Sky Q's slow lingering death,” one user wrote.

“Q subscribers paying extra for HD channels that are being axedforcing you to Stream.”

The latest channel to disappear from today is Sky History 2 HD.

It once again means satellite viewers will have to rely on the SD broadcast to watch their favourite shows – though many are shown in HD on the main Sky History channel still, as well as on demand.

Sky History 2 HD will continue to be accessible on Sky Glass and Sky Stream.

It follows U&W and U&Yesterday which both ceased broadcasting in HD on Sky satellite services yesterday.

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