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Sky Sports F1's coverage of the 2024 Australian Grand Prix will be completely different from what they have done before. Sky has had the rights to broadcast Formula 1 in the United Kingdom since 2012 and will continue to broadcast the races exclusively until at least 2029. F1 had 'just' 20 races in 2012 (which dipped to 19 in 2013, 2014 and 2015), but now there are 24 races scheduled, so Sky are changing their plans.
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Sky Sports F1's coverage of the 2024 Australian Grand Prix will be completely different from what they have done before. Sky has had the rights to broadcast Formula 1 in the United Kingdom since 2012 and will continue to broadcast the races exclusively until at least 2029. F1 had 'just' 20 races in 2012 (which dipped to 19 in 2013, 2014 and 2015), but now there are 24 races scheduled, so Sky are changing their plans.
Fear not. Sky Sports F1 will broadcast the entire 2024 Australian Grand Prix weekend. They will cover all the action during the 2024 Formula 1 season for viewers in the United Kingdom, so fans won't miss anything. GPblog will also provide a live blog with updates throughout each day.
Why Sky Sports F1's coverage will look completely different in Melbourne
Sky regularly field a team of eight in the paddock, but that will be reduced to four this weekend. The 'core presenting team' will be in Sky Sports' new studio, which is surrounded by high-resolution screens and immersive AR graphics. The addition of ambitious AR graphics creates an immersive space, with a modern, mixed reality lighting set up above and a “fourth wall” that conceals camera positions to create a 360-degree filming environment.
Pioneering sporting analysis is made possible with an enhanced touchscreen and a massive LED floor that gives our presenters a huge canvas to guide viewers around the track and run through the qualifying grid. Sky will use this studio for race weekends in Australia, Japan, and China. Sky Sports will return to the paddock in their usual format for the Miami Grand Prix in May.
This has happened previously. Prior to Sky Sports and the BBC holding the rights, ITV sometimes presented Formula 1 from the studio. This was for some of the flyaway races. Channel 4's current coverage of Formula 1 highlights opt for this method as well. The recent Rugby World Cup also saw the presenters and pundits host the shows from a studio in the United Kingdom rather than the stadiums in France. As a result of this new broadcast method for Sky Sports, their shows have been reduced in length.
What is the Sky Sports F1 broadcast schedule for the Australian Grand Prix?
Sky Sports F1 returns on Saturday at 1:10am for a 20-minute build-up to FP3. They will continue to broadcast for 40 minutes after, allowing a little build-up for qualifying. They return at 4:15am for another 45-minute build-up to qualifying. Sky Sports F1 will continue to broadcast for one hour after qualifying. Ted's Notebook will then summarise the qualifying session, which starts at 7am and lasts 30 minutes.
Sky Sports F1 return on Sunday for the 2024 Australian Grand Prix. Coverage will start at 3:00am, which is just a 60 minute build-up rather than the usual 90 minutes. Ted's Notebook will then summarise the Bahrain Grand Prix, which starts at 7am and lasts 30 minutes. To see the full Grand Prix schedule, click here.
Will Sky Sports F1 broadcast F2 and F3 this weekend?
Sky Sports F1 will show every session from Formula 2 and Formula 3 in Australia. This includes practice and qualifying.
Who will be on the Sky Sports F1 team in Australia?
Ted Kravitz will be present in Australia. He will be joined by David Croft, Martin Brundle and Rachel Brookes. Whilst Karun Chandhok, Naomi Schiff and Natlie Pinkham bring fans insight from Sky’s Osterley (London) base.
How can you watch Sky Sports F1?
Sky Sports F1 is available in the United Kingdom. You can purchase the channel through a package offered by Sky themselves. You can also buy a package which includes Sky Sports F1 on Virgin Media TV. You can add Sky Sports F1 if you are with BT TV. You can stream Sky Sports F1 online via NOW TV, where you can purchase a monthly package.
How can you watch the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend without Sky Sports F1?
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BSkyB is to scrap the word “British” from its branding after almost 25 years as the company completes an ambitious transformation into a pan-European pay TV giant following the £6.88bn buyout of its sister companies in Germany and Italy.
The enlarged company, which is 39.1% controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, will revert to the Sky name that Murdoch used when launching into the UK pay-TV market at the end of the 1980s.
British Sky Broadcasting was formed in 1990 by the merger of Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Television with British Satellite Broadcasting.
BSkyB announced the name change on Thursday, although it will need to be rubber-stamped by shareholders at the company’s AGM on 21 November.
The word “Broadcasting” is also being dropped to reflect the company’s evolution beyond TV into a multimedia content company.
The completion of the buy-out of Sky’s sister companies will see Murdoch achieve a long held ambition of creating a pan-European pay-TV giant with more than £11bn in revenues and 20 million customers in the UK, Germany, Italy, Austria and Ireland.
The enlarged business will be a programme and content powerhouse with a combined budget of £4.6bn and deliver profits of about £1.3bn annually, most of which are generated by the highly successful UK operation.
“The three Sky businesses will be even better together,” said Jeremy Darroch, chief executive of BSkyB who steps up to run the enlarged group.
“By joining together, we will share our strengths and expertise while retaining a strong identity in each country where we operate. The opportunity ahead is substantial and we believe the new Sky will be good for customers, content creators and shareholders alike.”
Brian Sullivan will remain as chief executive of the Sky operation in Germany, and Andrea Zappia will continue to lead Sky in Italy.
On Wednesday, Sky confirmed it had completed the takeovers of the Fox-owned Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, in which Fox had a 57% stake.
Sky also made an offer to minority shareholders in Sky Deutschland, 89.71% of whom accepted. In total Sky paid £6.88bn to form the pan-European pay-TV company.
“Customers will benefit as we launch exciting new services, bring them even more great TV and accelerate innovation across all of the markets in which we operate,” added Darroch.
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Sky follows Premier League deal in DACH with Italy renewal
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Pay-television giant Sky is to remain as a Premier League rights-holder in its major European markets until at least 2028, after striking a new deal in Italy.
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Pay-television giant Sky is to remain as a Premier League rights-holder in its major European markets until at least 2028, after striking a new deal in Italy.
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Horizons expand and all boundaries seem to fade away when you reach an altitude of 3,466 meters. Suspended between the sky and the mountains above 4,000 m, Courmayeur's futuristic cable car takes you to the foot of the granite rock giants, surrounded by millennial glaciers and perennial snow.
Skyway Monte Bianco perfectly embodies the ice dream of Count Dino Lora Totino, who envisioned a ropeway connection between Italy and France in the 1930s. Since its inauguration in 2015, the cable car has been whisking mountain enthusiasts at 3.466m, taking them on a breathtaking journey through the three stations of Courmayeur/The Valley, Pavillon/The Mountain and Punta Helbronner/The Sky.
This ambitious engineering feat also features cultural, gastronomic, and alpine experiences. All of this is set against the breathtaking backdrop of the majestic Alps.
Conquering the glaciers of Mont Blanc is possible even if you are not an experienced mountaineer. The immersive experience in the heart of the Alps is made thanks to an engineering jewel whose genesis start with a challenge to the apparently insurmountable limits imposed by a place as spectacular as impervious.
Valle d'Aosta is the region of peaks that soar beyond 4,000 m. Still, it is also characterised by its famous castles, the Roman civilisation, cuisine with genuine flavours, and high-altitude vineyards where farmers cultivate grapes that eventually transform into excellent wine with heroic devotion – all of these elements signify the perfect bond between man and nature.
As you lift your gaze towards the stone giants you cannot help but be stunned. Climbing higher and higher to meet them is the mission of the journey we are about to embark on. Our ascent towards the sky begins at 1,300 metres in Courmayeur.
Find out more about Skayway Monte Bianco❯
The cable car journey starts from the Courmayeur/The Valley station. The panoramic cabins rotate during the entire ascent, offering an increasingly vast and complete view of the Valle d'Aosta peaks. In just 20 minutes, you reach the summit of Punta Helbronner.
The first stop is at Pavillon/The Mountain, located at an impressive altitude of 2,173 meters. That's where you'll have your first direct contact with the wildest mountain, with a view on Val Veny, Val Ferret and on the alpine village of Courmayeur.
Indulge in a pleasant break by using the solarium and tasting the specialities available at the Mountain Bar and Alpine Restaurant. Additionally, take a moment to explore the Alpine Cinema and Hangar 2173, which allow you to relive the fascinating history of the cable car.
Cave Mont Blanc, the highest vine in Europe, boasts an experimental cellar at 2,173 metres above sea level. This authentic laboratory is the birthplace of the renowned sparkling wine, the Cuvée des Guides, dedicated to the Courmayeur Mountain Guides.
Step outside to be enveloped in the vivid colours of the botanical garden Saussurea, which flourishes during the summer with hundreds of plants from every corner of the world.
Continuing the journey from the Pavillon, visitors are led to Punta Helbronner, the highest point of the Skyway Monte Bianco route.
Upon arrival, guests are greeted by an incredible circular viewing terrace. The space offers a breathtaking view of the Alpine ridges, including Dent du Géant, the Rochefort ridge, Aiguille Noire and the Peuterey ridge, Mont Maudit, Aiguille du Midi, Matterhorn, Monte Rosa, Gran Paradiso and Grand Combin.
You can walk on a glass floor that makes you feel suspended in the void and enjoy a dinner at a majestic table designed by Kartell while admiring the breathtaking panorama of the thousand-year-old glaciers. Take a closer look at the perfection of the Mont Blanc crystals on display in the dedicated area and wander among the shelves of La Feltrinelli, the highest bookshop in Europe.
Directly from the Punta Helbronner station, a lift and a tunnel carved into rock lead to the storied Rifugio Torino, a reference point for mountaineers and hikers; from here, set off on exploration under the supervision of an alpine guide.
Boasting numerous archaeological sites, castles, towers, and majestic mountains that reach over 4,000 meters in height, Valle d'Aosta delivers a special combination of spectacular landscapes, history, and culture. The smallest Italian region is an ideal place for those striving for a quiet break away from the crowd, and it's loved by outdoor enthusiasts in all its forms, from hiking to paragliding, from snow sports to rafting.
Relaxation is guaranteed by the thermal spas and the restful scenaries of the valleys. Take a break at the Pré Saint Didier thermal baths (with the help of the 'Mont Blanc Wellness' package available for all the Skynauts) followed by a leisurely walk along one of the many paths and cycling routes. And be awed by the stunning panoramas that showcase the harmonious blend of nature and man's imprint.
The castle village of Forte di Bard is one of the finest examples of this entanglement. This Savoy fortress is a jewel that plays a central role in cultural and artistic events. Those travelling with Skyway Monte Bianco also haveaccess to discounts for exhibitions and museums.
While Aosta enchants you with its simple and relaxing everyday mountain life, as you move further away, you'll discover princely castles and ancient isolated churches that stand out amidst landscapes dotted with Alpine ridges, apple orchards and rows of vines.
The unwavering stare of the mountains accompanies you wherever you may roam.
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Carlo De Marchis, known as ‘a guy with a scarf’, made a welcome return to this year’s Sky Sport Italy Summit, held on 27 June at the Milan Santa Giulia headquarters of Sky Italia.
Alongside him, Vincenzo Lagattolla, head of creative hub at Sky Italia, provided original perspectives on the impact of generative AI in sports media.
Moderated by Monica Peruzzi of Sky Sport, the two experts began by comparing the AI revolution to Gutenberg’s printing press, highlighting its potential to democratise content creation on a large scale.
“New technologies will emerge, but the ability to tell a story, which is the core of our business, will become even more crucial”
De Marchis, recognisable by his iconic scarf, emphasised how AI is redefining the landscape of digital content production, particularly live sports production. His clear invitation to everyone was to make use of the available tools to better understand the potential and challenges presented by this technology. His enthusiasm and advocacy for AI tools highlighted a significant shift in the industry, promoting the adoption and experimentation of AI at various levels to enhance content quality, distribution and audience engagement.
Lagattolla supported this vision, focusing on AI’s transformative capabilities while underscoring the enduring and unique importance of human creativity. Both speakers articulated that although AI can significantly enhance content creation and production, it cannot replace the central human element in storytelling and emotional engagement in sports journalism.
AI and ethics
The discussion also addressed ethical issues, stressing the imperative for media professionals to adapt and stay ahead in an evolving digital landscape. The ethical use of AI, transparency in AI-generated content, and maintaining journalistic integrity were highlighted as vital considerations.
This engaging talk painted a picture of a future where AI serves as a powerful tool that enhances rather than replaces human storytelling, presenting a harmonious fusion of technology and creativity in the sports media world. The session, among other insights, left the audience with a clear message: the future of sports journalism will be defined by those who can skilfully combine the capabilities of AI with the irreplaceable human touch.
De Marchis also noted: “The tension between digital creators and the media eases, and the new formats born in the digital world are absorbed by the media world where storytelling adopts these new languages: it will be interesting to see how the media landscape will continue to change under these powerful influences.”
Aside from AI, the reassessment of skills was also explored. Summarising, Lagattolla said: “Even in the future, the idea will be more important than the technique. New technologies will emerge, but the ability to tell a story, which is the core of our business, will become even more crucial.”
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High-speed internet. Available almost anywhere on Earth.
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Streaming, video calls, online gaming, remote working and more are now possible in even the most remote locations thanks to the world’s most advanced internet system.
Set up Starlink with just two steps. Instructions work in either order:
1 PLUG IT IN
2 POINT AT SKY
Starlink requires an unobstructed view of the sky. Download the Starlink app to determine your best install location.
Download for androidchevron_rightDownload for iOSchevron_right
Long term contracts prevent both you and Starlink from making sensible changes when necessary. With Starlink, it is a fair deal both ways. Starlink can adjust terms and pricing as needed, and you can cancel at any time, for any reason.
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We're also determined to make a positive impact on the world. So across Sky, we support two important causes. Through Sky Up, we help people fulfil their potential by giving them access to the internet and opportunities in our industry. And through Sky Zero, we're slashing our carbon emissions and inspiring others to do the same.
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Sky Mobile customers can use their UK data, calls and text allowances in 55 overseas destinations for an extra £2 a day.
Which locations are covered by roaming on Sky Mobile?
Since Sky Mobile reintroduced roaming charges, customers can no longer roam for no extra charge outside the UK. However, you can roam for an extra £2 a day in the following destinations:
Aruba (Netherlands Antilles)
Australia (including Cocos Islands)
Austria
Azores
Belgium
Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles)
Bulgaria
Canada
Canary Islands
Christmas Islands)
Croatia
Curacao (Netherlands Antilles)
Cyprus (excl. Northern Cyprus)
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
French Guiana (French West Indies)
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Guadeloupe (French West Indies)
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madeira
Malta
Martinique (French West Indies)
Mayotte (French Territories in the Indian Ocean)
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Reunion (French Territories in the Indian Ocean)
Romania
Saba (Netherlands Antilles)
Sint Eustatius (Netherlands Antilles)
Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles)
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
St Barthelemy (French West Indies)
St Martin (French West Indies)
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey (incl. Northern Cyprus)
UAE
USA
When did Sky Mobile impose roaming fees?
Since 3 May 2022, Sky Mobile has imposed a £2 daily fee on its large customer base who use their phones for calls, texts, and data outside of free WiFi networks while outside the UK.
Previously, mobile companies were prohibited from levying additional charges when customers used their UK allowances in Europe. However, with the conclusion of the post-Brexit transition period, these restrictions no longer apply.
Sky Mobile’s Roaming Passport Plus
Sky Mobile customers using their devices in Europe and other specified countries will have the "Roaming Passport Plus" pass automatically activated and appended to their accounts upon making a call, sending a text, or consuming over 10MB of data, at a cost of £2 a day.
The pass is valid for 24 hours, during which customers can utilise their inclusive minutes, texts, and data without extra charges. Sky will text to confirm the 24 hours have started and when the period is coming to an end. Subsequent passes will be triggered as customers reach the specified thresholds after the 24-hour pass expires.
In case of data depletion while roaming in a Passport Plus destination, users can tap into any unused data from previous months stored in their 'Piggybank.' However, the £2 daily roaming charge still applies.
If you want to avoid incurring charges for data usage abroad, you can disable data roaming by adjusting your phone settings to prevent automatic charges from your carrier.
Sky International Saver
Even with the £2 per day passport charge, it will still cost you to phone and text international numbers. If you wish to make calls or send texts to numbers outside of the UK Sky has the International Saver feature that Sky Mobile customers can add to their plans.
Costing £3 a month, International Saver is designed to save money for those who regularly make calls to friends, family and colleagues around the world. Customers with the add-on pay reduced per-minute rates for calls to a group of countries including Australia, Hong Kong, the USA and Nigeria.
Usually, when you dial out to international numbers from your UK mobile you will face huge charges, with call costs of more than £1.75 a minute. Texting can also be expensive, with providers charging more than 40p a text depending on its destination.
With International Saver, you’ll pay just £0.05 a minute and either £0.06 or £0.10 a text to talk with anyone in any of the available countries listed above.
For more information read Sky Mobile’s tariff guide.
What about roaming on Sky Mobile pay-as-you-go?
If you don’t want to buy the Roaming Passport Plus pass, you can pay as you go for data, calls and texts when you’re abroad. The cost of pay-as-you-go roaming varies depending on the destination, but it’s usually much cheaper than using your UK allowances.
Sky Mobile add-ons when roaming
When you’re in a Roaming Passport Plus destination, you have the option to purchase data add-ons, similar to when you’re at home.
The Roaming Passport Plus subscription, priced at £2 per 24 hours, will still be in place. So on top of that, a 1GB data add-on can be acquired through your Sky Mobile account for £6.
This data add-on remains active until the commencement of your next monthly billing cycle and you can purchase a maximum of 5 add-ons concurrently on a single account.
Additionally, you have the flexibility to use any data you have stored in your Sky Piggybank.
These provisions offer flexibility and convenience for managing your data needs while roaming with Sky Mobile in Roaming Passport Plus destinations.
Does Sky Mobile have a fair usage policy?
Luckily, Sky Mobile doesn't impose any specified fair usage policy for EU roaming at the moment. So, you can go ahead and use your monthly data allowance in any of the countries listed above, safe in the knowledge that it won't cost you any more than it would in the UK.
However, Sky T&C do state you cannot roam abroad for an ‘extended period of time’ and if you do you won't be able to buy any more Roaming Passport Plus 24-hour passes.
Can you roam in the USA?
Since the start of the year, mobile network providers in the USA have discontinued their 2G and 3G coverage to pave the way for more advanced 4G and 5G networks.
Because of this, it's imperative that your phone is compatible with VoLTE Roaming, also known as 4G Calling abroad. You will also need to confirm that 'VoLTE' is activated in your device settings. Some 5G iPhones might have VoLTE enabled by default.
What to do before embarking on your trip to the USA
Many phones support VoLTE Roaming (4G Calling abroad) in the USA, including iPhone 7 and above running iOS 15 or higher, and Samsung S10 and above, as well as Samsung A series devices running Android 12 or higher.
To check compatibility your phone’s compatibility visit Sky’s Device Support page and then:
Select your phone make and model.
Scroll down to the Specifications/Specs tab and navigate to/select Network.
Confirm whether your phone is compatible with VoLTE Roaming in the USA. A green tick or 'Yes (with Android 12 or higher)' beside 'VoLTE Roaming (works in the USA)' indicates compatibility.
If ‘VoLTE Roaming (works in the USA)’ is absent or marked with a red cross (X), your device is not compatible.
You also need to activate VoLTE in your device settings.
On iPhones: Go to Settings > Mobile Data > Mobile Data Options > Voice & Data > switch VoLTE on.
On Android devices: Navigate to Settings > Connections/Network & internet > Mobile networks > switch VoLTE on.
Can I roam outside the EU with Sky Mobile?
Yes, you can roam in most countries outside the EU with Sky Mobile.
But, if the country you’re visiting is not covered by Roaming Passport Plus, you will be charged an out-of-tariff rate, which varies depending on the country you are visiting. A list of the destinations covered by Roaming Passport Plus can be found here.
It is worth noting that the most you can be charged in a monthly billing cycle is £45. You can disable the roaming spend cap through your account’s settings.
For more information about Sky Mobile, including mobile deals and offers, check out its provider page.
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While associated with its long run on UK commercial channel ITV, X Factor is an international format, and as such has become a major draw for Sky Italia.
A key element of the programme is the audience vote and over the last 12 years, Sky has outsourced this to a third party, who provided a robust, well-tested platform.
In 2021, the team behind it began to explore the idea of taking the voting platform in-house to improve performance, lower costs, and re-architect it for use cases beyond X-Factor itself.
“We wanted to have a more generic platform, focused enough for X-Factor but extensible enough to handle other use cases,” explained Nicola Cremaschini, Principal Technical Architect of Digital Properties, Sky Italia. “In addition, in 2022, the TV show introduced temporary rankings on stage with the audience in near-real time. We had a very short time to get our platform ready to support X-Factor live events.”
Sky Italia called on Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed services and in the six months of the start of the 2022 season a new system was deployed, handling millions of votes per session while adhering to competition rules and providing near-real time ranking. At the same time, AWS was able to reduce costs by a staggering 84% when compared to the legacy platform.
Each season Sky Italia delivers seven live X-Factor shows, one per week. Each includes three voting sessions. Votes start when the host from the live stage opens the session, and viewers from home can vote for their favourite performers before they even sing. Viewers can vote up to 10 times during the live show. The voting platform has to identify which votes are coming from each device.
Cremaschini said, “For the first live show, we had to be sure that the platform wouldn’t crash under the votes of real traffic. In July, we performed a huge amount of vote tests and did even better than our goal. We reached 60 million votes in about 10 minutes, which averaged 75,000 votes per second.”
The new voting solution also needed to support three existing channels— the X-Factor websites, mobile apps (Android and iOs), and the Sky Decoder and Sky Glass streaming TV. Voters needed to be able to use the authentication service leveraged on Amazon Cognito for support in social logins and via the Sky Ad login. It was also essential that the voting platform kept the interface the same as it was when it was designed 12 years ago, as the API was essentially fixed due to the massive task that would have been required to change set-top boxes across the country.
The new AWS-powered voting platform delivered 18 polls across all live sessions facilitating 20 millio votes overall across the seven live sessions, and handling 5.7M total votes over the final live session. The platform realized a performance of 400K votes/minute at peak. Additionally, analyzing the data captured by the voting platform provided insights that helped the show adjust and build on its success, such as 47-50% of votes come from decoder, 47-50%from the mobile app, and less than 3% from the website.
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Serie A is reportedly considering an approach to acquire broadcaster Sky Italia.
All 20 clubs and league executives met on Monday to discuss outside investment in Serie A’s media business, potentially from private equity firms or banks. According to Italian publication La Stampa, one media strategy could be to take a majority stake in the whole, or part, of Sky Italia - which is currently owned by Comcast.
Reuters has reported that a plan could include using financing from the organisations interested in Serie A’s media business, and that Serie A has made an “internal preliminary analysis” of what a move could look like.
This could allow the competition to launch a D2C offering in Italy. The next domestic rights cycle starts from 2024/25, with DAZN the main rights holder and Sky Italia airing three games-a-week currently. DAZN has come in for some criticism, with
Serie A chairman Lorenzo Casini, speaking to reporters after Monday’s meeting, said: “The proposals received from funds and banks were set out to the clubs who have given themselves time to evaluate the various options.”
He added on the Sky Italia links: “There is nothing concrete on the table at the moment.”
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Formula 1 has announced the renewal of its partnership with Sky Italia. For the next three years, from 2018 until 2020, Sky Italia will hold the exclusive broadcasting right of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship on TV and digital platforms in the Italian territory.
The new agreement includes coverage of the three free practice sessions on Friday and Saturday, qualifying sessions on Saturday afternoon and race on Sunday, all on Sky Sport F1 HD, the channel totally dedicated to the FIA Formula 1 World Championship.
Also, the main support competitions – the FIA Formula 2 Championship, GP3 Series and Porsche Supercup – will be added to the Sky Sport F1 proposal for the Italian motorsport fans.
Furthermore, at least four of this season’s 21 Grands Prix – including the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d’Italia 2018 – will also be broadcast live and free-to-air on TV8 channel, where the remaining races will be available delayed. Also, Now TV will stream live the whole season.
“We are very happy to have renewed our partnership with Sky Italia for a further three years,” said Ian Holmes, Director of Media Rights, Formula 1. “Italy is one of the most important countries in the history of Formula 1, where the passion for our sport is part of the DNA of many people, and it is very important to have reached this agreement which will ensure that all the races will be broadcast live.
“Also, it is crucial to have maintained a free-to-air package of rights, which will always include the Italian Grand Prix, part of the Formula 1 World Championship since its origins in 1950. Sky Italia has shown a great commitment to the sport and will offer the Italian fans a deeper and broader experience than ever before. More hours and more quality analysis across of Sky’s channels and platforms.”
Matteo Mammi, Senior Director, Sport Rights, Programming and Production, Sky Italia, added: “We are thrilled to have renewed our long-term relationship with Formula 1 for the following three years, and we are glad that, once again, Formula 1 has recognized Sky Italia as a key partner for engaging fans and maximizing exposure of F1 brand.
“The new agreement sets a new paradigm in Italy where Sky gets full exclusivity for the first time ever and will broadcast all 21 races of which 17 live on a pay TV basis only. We look very much forward to the partnership and continuing to serve Formula 1 fans in Italy by offering a broader and enriched multiplatform offer, including a multitude of contents via Sky digital and social media accounts.
“F1 is the second sport in Italy in terms of following, deeply rooted in the passion of the Italian sport fans and perfectly fits in our motor sport offer, which is the second pillar of Sky Sport portfolio. We are confident F1 will confirm itself as a mass high rating event throughout the seasons to come.”
Formula 1’s agreement with Sky Italy is added to the others sealed throughout 2017 - among them Australia, France, Germany and United States - and immediately follows those signed in the last few weeks with Movistar+ in Spain and FOX Sports in Latin America.
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Sky has changed the viewing habits of millions of Italians and is a byword for innovation. The latest is Sky Glass, a next-generation smart TV that integrates Sky content, free-to-air channels and streaming services in a single interface. The range of products and services is completed with Sky Q, which combines Sky content and that of the main apps; and NOW, the OTT offer that gives access to Sky content. In addition, Sky offers the Sky Wifi ultra broadband service, the fastest fixed network in Italy according to Oookla®.
In addition to sports, news, entertainment, cinema and culture content, Sky is also the producer of some of Italy's most successful original TV series and its production commitment continues to increase. With the channels TV8, Cielo and Sky Tg24, Sky is also present on free-to-air digital terrestrial television.
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Italy’s new national flag carrier, ITA Airways, which was created in 2021 to replace the debt-laden Alitalia brand, has taken issue with a privately owned rival airline, alleging its name and logo is too similar to the now defunct Alitalia and has demanded a complete rebrand in the next ten days. Aeroitalia was launched last…
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Italy’s new national flag carrier, ITA Airways, which was created in 2021 to replace the debt-laden Alitalia brand, has taken issue with a privately owned rival airline, alleging its name and logo is too similar to the now defunct Alitalia and has demanded a complete rebrand in the next ten days.
Aeroitalia was launched last year by Francesco Gaetano Intrieri with the backing of a German private equity investor. The airline currently has a fleet of seven Boeing 737 jets and two ATR turboprops, serving destinations across Italy, as well as across Europe and the United Kingdom.
According to Corriere Della Sera, the airline filed a trademark application with the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office last year. Included in the application was the Aeroitalia name, as well as the use of a stylized ‘A’ logo in Italy’s tricolor.
Over a year later, the Italian Patent Society published a challenge to Aeroitalia’s trademark application on behalf of ITA Airways, which claims the airline’s name and logo is too similar to Alitalia.
Despite the fact that Alitalia doesn’t formally exist anymore, ITA Airways acquired the rights to the Alitalia brand for a reported €90 million.
At the time, ITA Airways said it bought the old brand to stop it from falling into the hands of rivals, although there is speculation that new minority shareholder Lufthansa might want to resurrect the Alitalia brand because it is already well-known globally.
In its challenge, ITA Airways says it “learned with astonishment and understandable concern” of Aeroitalia’s trademark application.
“These marks, similar to those of Alitalia and “rudder design”, are in conflict with Ita’s prior rights not only because of their obvious phonetic and/or graphic and/or conceptual similarities, but also because of their use on the liveries and rudders of the aircraft, which clearly recall those of Alitalia’s aircraft,” the objection continued.
“Your trademarks represent a clear violation of ITA’s exclusive rights and take unjustified advantage of the reputation of ITA’s trademarks.”
ITA has not only demanded that Aeroitalia immediately change its name and logo, and rename its website but also reach a financial settlement with ITA for damages and legal expenses.
Aeroitalia has been given just ten days to reach an amicable settlement with ITA, although Intrieri has suggested that his airline has no intention of caving to ITA’s demands.
Intrieri says ITA Airways is only now challenging Aeroitalia because the airline has grown much faster than they had anticipated and is now poaching customers, especially on flights to Sicily. Intrieri also says Aeroitalia employed a “highly qualified trademark management company” when they designed the logo in order to avoid a trademark clash.
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Geographical and historical treatment of Italy, including maps and a survey of its people, economy, and government. Italy comprises some of the most varied and scenic landscapes on Earth, and its more than 3,000-year history has been marked by episodes of temporary unification and long separation.
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Italy, country of south-central Europe, occupying a peninsula that juts deep into the Mediterranean Sea. Italy comprises some of the most varied and scenic landscapes on Earth and is often described as a country shaped like a boot. At its broad top stand the Alps, which are among the world’s most rugged mountains. Italy’s highest points are along Monte Rosa, which peaks in Switzerland, and along Mont Blanc, which peaks in France. The western Alps overlook a landscape of Alpine lakes and glacier-carved valleys that stretch down to the Po River and the Piedmont. Tuscany, to the south of the cisalpine region, is perhaps the country’s best-known region. From the central Alps, running down the length of the country, radiates the tall Apennine Range, which widens near Rome to cover nearly the entire width of the Italian peninsula. South of Rome the Apennines narrow and are flanked by two wide coastal plains, one facing the Tyrrhenian Sea and the other the Adriatic Sea. Much of the lower Apennine chain is near-wilderness, hosting a wide range of species rarely seen elsewhere in western Europe, such as wild boars, wolves, asps, and bears. The southern Apennines are also tectonically unstable, with several active volcanoes, including Vesuvius, which from time to time belches ash and steam into the air above Naples and its island-strewn bay. At the bottom of the country, in the Mediterranean Sea, lie the islands of Sicily and Sardinia.
Italy’s political geography has been conditioned by this rugged landscape. With few direct roads between them, and with passage from one point to another traditionally difficult, Italy’s towns and cities have a history of self-sufficiency, independence, and mutual mistrust. Visitors today remark on how unlike one town is from the next, on the marked differences in cuisine and dialect, and on the many subtle divergences that make Italy seem less a single nation than a collection of culturally related points in an uncommonly pleasing setting.
Across a span of more than 3,000 years, Italian history has been marked by episodes of temporary unification and long separation, of intercommunal strife and failed empires. At peace for more than half a century now, Italy’s inhabitants enjoy a high standard of living and a highly developed culture.
Though its archaeological record stretches back tens of thousands of years, Italian history begins with the Etruscans, an ancient civilization that rose between the Arno and Tiber rivers. The Etruscans were supplanted in the 3rd century bce by the Romans, who soon became the chief power in the Mediterranean world and whose empire stretched from India to Scotland by the 2nd century ce. That empire was rarely secure, not only because of the unwillingness of conquered peoples to stay conquered but also because of power struggles between competing Roman political factions, military leaders, families, ethnic groups, and religions. The Roman Empire fell in the 5th century ce after a succession of barbarian invasions through which Huns, Lombards, Ostrogoths, and Franks—mostly previous subjects of Rome—seized portions of Italy. Rule devolved to the level of the city-state, although the Normans succeeded in establishing a modest empire in southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century. Many of those city-states flourished during the Renaissance era, a time marked by significant intellectual, artistic, and technological advances but also by savage warfare between states loyal to the pope and those loyal to the Holy Roman Empire.
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Italian unification came in the 19th century, when a liberal revolution installed Victor Emmanuel II as king. In World War I, Italy fought on the side of the Allies, but, under the rule of the fascist leader Benito Mussolini, it waged war against the Allied powers in World War II. From the end of World War II to the early 1990s, Italy had a multiparty system dominated by two large parties: the Christian Democratic Party (Partito della Democrazia Cristiana; DC) and the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano; PCI). In the early 1990s the Italian party system underwent a radical transformation, and the political centre collapsed, leaving a right-left polarization of the party spectrum that threw the north-south divide into sharper contrast and gave rise to such political leaders as media magnate Silvio Berlusconi.
The whole country is relatively prosperous, certainly as compared with the early years of the 20th century, when the economy was predominantly agricultural. Much of that prosperity has to do with tourism, for in good years nearly as many visitors as citizens can be found in the country. Italy is part of the European Union and the Council of Europe, and, with its strategic geographic position on the southern flank of Europe, it has played a fairly important role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The capital is Rome, one of the oldest of the world’s great cities and a favourite of visitors, who go there to see its great monuments and works of art as well as to enjoy the city’s famed dolce vita, or "sweet life." Other major cities include the industrial and fashion centre of Milan; Genoa, a handsome port on the Ligurian Gulf; the sprawling southern metropolis of Naples; and Venice, one of the world’s oldest tourist destinations. Surrounded by Rome is an independent state, Vatican City, which is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church and the spiritual home of Italy’s overwhelmingly Catholic population. Each of those cities, and countless smaller cities and towns, has retained its differences against the leveling effect of the mass media and standardized education. Thus, many Italians, particularly older ones, are inclined to think of themselves as belonging to families, then neighbourhoods, then towns or cities, then regions, and then, last, as members of a nation.
The intellectual and moral faculties of humankind have found a welcome home in Italy, one of the world’s most important centres of religion, visual arts, literature, music, philosophy, culinary arts, and sciences. Michelangelo, the painter and sculptor, believed that his work was to free an already existing image; Giuseppe Verdi heard the voices of the ancients and of angels in music that came to him in his dreams; Dante forged a new language with his incomparable poems of heaven, hell, and the world between. Those and many other Italian artists, writers, designers, musicians, chefs, actors, and filmmakers have brought extraordinary gifts to the world.
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Transcoding video on demand with preemptible virtual machines
As a first step, Sky Italia transcoded its entire back catalog into high definition in only a few weeks. This was a major technical challenge. Processing high-definition content takes longer and demands four times more CPU than standard-definition video, meaning that Sky Italia needed to add resources to its on-premises infrastructure in order to meet its deadlines. To do that, Sky Italia teamed up with Google Cloud Partner Go Reply to develop a solution for integrating its hybrid transcoder into Google Cloud.
“We had to transcode all our assets to the new bit-rate set optimizing costs and time. This wasn’t possible using only our existing on-premises infrastructure,” says Gabriele Ubertini, Director of Technology Engineering and Innovation at Sky Italia. “With Compute Engine, we could spin up new instances so quickly that managing our peak transcoding workload became a no-brainer. No extra capex, no time wasted. And by using Custom Machine Types, we could optimize the configurations of VMs to our real needs.”
Transcoding old video content while keeping up with new content produced every day can put a strain on a broadcaster’s infrastructure. With more than 5,000 video assets to be transcoded to HD on tight deadlines, Sky Italia had to source new transcoding capacity in addition to its existing on-premises servers. Rather than purchase and install extra hardware, the team looked for a cost-effective solution that met stringent internal security requirements. Together with Go Reply, Sky Italia conceived a public cloud and on-premises hybrid HD transcoder and benchmarked a range of potential cloud providers. They decided to take advantage of Google Cloud preemptible VMs—highly affordable, short-lived compute instances that could handle the batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads that Sky Italia needed.
Preemptible VMs offer the same machine types and options as regular compute instances and last for up to 24 hours. Working with Custom Machine Types, which respond rapidly to peaks in demand without the need for overprovisioning, and a custom orchestrator that manages the whole process, Sky Italia has been able to efficiently manage costs for savings up to 80 percent.
“Google offered us direct peering services between its infrastructure and the Sky data center,” says Ubertini. “Google preemptible virtual machines reduced our VM spending, but we needed a way to manage the moments when they might be unavailable. With Go Reply, we created an orchestration layer that let us use preemptible VMs and normal instances together and easily recover from preemptible VM shutdowns.”
Instead of taking months, the hybrid transcoder processed the entire Sky Italia archive in just one week. On a day-by-day basis, the time required to catalog new video assets has also been significantly reduced. Taking the hybrid approach a step further, Sky Italia looked to the cloud to help manage the spikes in traffic coming at different times of the day and for special events. Video processing request volume can vary widely based on when new series are aired, when soccer matches are being played, or simply by day of the week. While the cloud offers virtually unlimited scalability to handle peaks and valleys as they arise, Sky Italia opted for a hybrid approach, keeping the baseline on-premises and scaling to the cloud as traffic requires. This solution offers on-demand, highly efficient scaling with reduced lead time for delivering VOD assets with high signal quality. At the same time, costs are kept well under control.
Scoring a win for the business by moving software-defined encoding to the cloud
The TV business is competitive, with new providers and new offers continually entering the market. Sky Italia has a market advantage by providing its subscribers with premium sports content in HD—especially soccer—as part of the traditional, set-top box subscription. But more and more subscribers are moving from TV decoders to the company’s mobile Sky Go and streaming NowTV services, which allow users to watch on computers, mobile devices, and smart TVs. The product team saw that it could help Sky Italia stay competitive on mobile by converting its premium soccer streams to HD. With the COVID-19 crisis adding uncertainty as to when the 2020/2021 Series A season would actually begin, they brought this idea to Gandino. He immediately saw that his team would need to move very quickly so that the business would be ready whenever the season started. In fact, by the time they got to work, the starting date had been announced, and they had less than two months to get the technology ready for the business to take it to market.
Gandino explains, “We were asked to upscale our sports channels from SD to HD on NowTV and Sky Go mobile devices. Over the past two years, we’ve developed a solution that leverages Kubernetes to support our encoding stack. We created a software-defined encoding framework that allows us to deploy this encoding stack in the cloud, on-premises, wherever we want. After receiving this time-sensitive request from the business, we knew the only way to be able to deliver the project in time was to do it in the cloud.”
Gandino’s team had two technical challenges to consider when defining the project. Sky Italia offers two types of sports channels to subscribers—linear channels that are available 24/7 and “pop-up” channels that are available for specific events. Working with Google Cloud engineers, his team decided to use VPNs to accommodate Sky Italia’s ingest to the cloud. Encoding the linear channels for the cloud was a straightforward solution, since the encoding stack was already in production on-premises using Kubernetes. Gandino says, “We process the same content in exactly the same way, twice basically, just to be able to provide better resilience to our customers.” The encoding stack is then deployed into two availability zones, and the streams flow to the encoding stacks. Then the channels are fed back to the content delivery network and delivered to viewers.
“On-premises, when we experience a failure on the main encoders, it takes a few seconds for the backup encoders to kick in. As a result, mobile customers see a few seconds of black screen. Now, with the Google Cloud encoding solution, the switch is seamless because we already have a copy available and ready to deliver,” adds Gandino.
Sky Italia took a different approach for the pop-up channels, which only go live for specific sports events. In order not to waste cloud and license resources for channels that were only live for special events, Gandino and his team developed an orchestrator that essentially creates those channels ad hoc when an event goes live. “We create the channel, we consume the feed, and we deliver it back on-premises only when there is an event. This is done to save money on Google Cloud consumption and software licenses,” says Gandino. Sky Italia not only met the deadline but also is saving about 90 percent of the cost of a traditional channel by creating pop-ups for special events, all while delivering HD quality to viewers.
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Italian satellite pay-television platform
Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian satellite television platform owned by the American media conglomerate Comcast. Sky Italia also broadcasts three national free-to-air television channels: TV8, Cielo, and Sky TG24.
Pay TV services on the Sky Italia satellite platform are broadcast on the Hot Bird satellites at 13.0°E and are encrypted in NDS VideoGuard.
Sky Italia was founded on 31 July 2003 by the merger of TELE+ and Stream TV.[2]
On 28 June 2010, Sky Italia changed its brands and logos, making them identical to the BSkyB ones.
On 1 October 2010, Sky activated its first 3D channel, Sky Sport 3D, available without any extra cost to the Sport pack subscribers. The very first event Sky Sport 3D aired was the 2010 Ryder Cup. On 25 December 2010, Sky launched another 3D channel: Sky Cinema 3D, airing 3D movies, available for free for Cinema pack subscribers. These channels have been replaced by Sky 3D on 6 September 2011, then closed on 16 January 2018.
Tom Mockridge, the then head of Sky Italia, replaced Rebekah Brooks as chief executive of News International after she resigned on 15 July 2011.[3]
Andrea Zappia replaced Tom Mockridge as CEO on 1 August 2011.[4] On 7 October 2011 Sky Italia announced it reached the 5 million subscribers benchmark.
Following News Corporation's split into two on 28 June 2013, to create two separate companies, 21st Century Fox (the re-branded News Corporation), and the spin-off company New News Corp, the 100% stake held by News Corporation in Sky Italia was retained by the re-branded 21st Century Fox.
Following media speculation, on 12 May 2014 Sky Italia's sister company, BSkyB, confirmed it was in talks with its largest shareholder, 21st Century Fox, about acquiring 21st Century Fox's 57.4% stake in Sky Deutschland and its 100% stake in Sky Italia. The enlarged company would be likely to be called "Sky Europe" and will consolidate 21st Century Fox's European digital TV assets into one company.[5][6] The sale was announced on 25 July 2014, which was subject to regulatory and shareholder approval.[7] The acquisition was completed on 13 November.[8]
In 2016, Sky Italia created Vision Distribution, a film distribution venture with five Italian production companies: Wildside (owned by Fremantle), Cattleya (backed by ITV Studios), Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production. Since the beginning of August 2019, Universal Pictures, Sky's corporate cousin via NBCUniversal, handles theatrical distribution for Vision's releases in Italy.[9] On 20 January 2020, Vision launched their international sales arm, Vision Distribution International.[1]
Since October 2018, Sky Italia, as well as Sky UK, Sky Ireland and Sky Deutschland, is controlled by Comcast.
On 1 October 2019, Maximo Ibarra replaces Andrea Zappia as CEO. Maximo Ibarra, however, had already left Sky Italia on 30 June 2021.
On 16 June 2020, Sky Italia launched Sky Wifi, its ultra-broadband service.
On 6 September 2021 Andrea Duilio started as the new CEO of Sky Italia.
December: Miro Allione, Stream's CEO, stated that News Corp signed a preliminary deal with Telecom Italia to buy 80% of Stream, but the introduction of a bill limiting the acquisition of soccer pay TV rights has made the company reconsider its plans.[10]
April: 35% of Stream is acquired by News Corp.[11]
June: TELE+ is acquired by News Corp.[12]
March: the European Commission approves the merger between TELE+ and Stream TV.
31 July: Sky Italia is founded.
31 August: Sky TG24 is launched as a rolling news channel.
April: Sky Italia abandons SECA encryption system to switch to the NDS, managed by the News Corporation.
1 August: Sky launches weather news channel, Sky Meteo 24.
November: Sky's subscribers reach 3 million.
May: Sky Italia are awarded the broadcast rights to the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
November: Sky Italia launches the My Sky decoder with PVR functionality.
May: Sky launches its first high definition channels: Sky Cinema HD, Sky Sport HD, National Geographic Channel HD and Next:HD.
December: Sky's subscribers reach 4 million.
April: Fox airs the first TV drama created by an Italian pay television channel, Boris.
May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for Formula One for two and a half years.
May: Cooltoon anime programming is launched.
November: A selection of Sky channels become available via IPTV on Telecom Italia, Fastweb and Wind.
February: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
May: Sky launches My Sky HD.
30 August: Sky launches sports news channel, Sky Sport 24.
December: VAT on subscriptions is increased from 10% to 20%.
January: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the FIFA Confederations Cup and the Six Nations Championship.
April: Sky launches Sky Uno and Sky Primafila HD.
August: Sky increases its high-definition offering to 12 channels.
September: Sky announces the Sky Digital Key, a USB Key with terrestrial decoder functions.
December:
Sky On Demand service launches.
Sky launches free-to-air channel Cielo.
January: All Serie A matches begin transmitting in high-definition.
April: Sky launches three Sky Movies channels in high-definition, bringing the total number of HD channels to 25 channels.
June:
Sky changes its brand identity with a new logo, similar to that used by BSkyB.
Mondiali 1–4 launch for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
August: The number of high-definition channels reaches 36.
October: The 2010 Ryder Cup final is the first sports event to be broadcast in 3D.
November:
Sky's subscribers reach 4.8 million.
January: Avatar is the most watched film on Italian pay TV, with an audience of 1.3 million viewers.
February: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the 2011 Copa América, 2011 and 2012 Copa Sudamericana and 2012 Copa Libertadores.
March: Sky Cinema Passion and Sky Cinema Comedy launch.
May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for X Factor.
August: Sky launches Sky Go, an app which allows a number of Sky channels to be viewed on smartphones and tablets.
September: Sky launches Sky 3D, the first 3D channel in Italy.
October:
Sky's subscribers reach 5 million.
Sky Uno begins broadcasting in HD for the premiere of X Factor.
December:
Sky's HD channels reach 40 with the launch of Eurosport 2 HD.
February:
12 new HD channels are launched, Fox Life HD, Real Time HD, Extreme Sports Channel HD, ESPN America HD, Discovery Science HD, Discovery Travel & Living HD, History HD, Nat Geo Wild HD, Nat Geo Adventure HD, Gambero Rosso Channel HD, Disney Channel HD and MTV Live HD, bringing the total number of HD channels to 52.
Sky changes the operating system of My Sky HD.
March: Sky Go becomes free and is made available for PC, OS X, iPhone and Android.
May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Grand Prix motorcycle racing for the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 seasons of MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 series.
June:
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Formula One and its feeder series (GP2, GP3 and Porsche Supercup) for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons, with an option for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
The launch of Sky Arts is announced.
July:
Sky updates the On Demand service.
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the UEFA Champions League for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons.
Sky adds 12 extra channels for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
August: Sky's subscribers reach 4.9 million.
September:
Sky TG24 receives an on-screen rebrand.
Sky adds two more high definition channels: DeA Sapere HD and Disney XD HD.
October: Planet Kids, a new channel for kids, is launched.
November:
1: Sky Arts launches in HD, bringing the total number of HD channels to 58.
Sky Go is updated to include three more channels and Sky On Demand.
February: Sky's subscribers fall to 4.83 million.
March: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Bundesliga for two seasons. Sky launches the Sky Sport F1.
3 April: Cielo launches in HD.
May: Sky's subscribers fall to 4.78 million.
July: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for 2014 Winter Olympics, but transfers the rights for the 2016 Summer Olympics to RAI.
9 August: Fox Sports launches on Sky and Mediaset Premium, broadcasting the Premier League, the FA Cup, La Liga and Ligue 1.
September: Sky TG24 launches in high-definition, bringing the total number of HD channels to 63.
October: Classica and MTV launch in high-definition, bringing the total number of HD channels to 65.
November: Sky's subscribers fall to 4.76 million.
December: Sky Go launches on Windows Phone.
February: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for Italia's Got Talent and the UEFA Europa League for 3 seasons.
10 March: Sky Sport MotoGP launches.
9 April: Sky Atlantic launches, broadcasting American, Italian and European TV series.
August: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Lega Basket Serie A for 2 seasons.
December: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Premier League for the 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons.
May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the EuroBasket 2017, EuroBasket Women 2017, 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, EuroBasket Women 2019, EuroBasket 2021, AfroBasket 2021, AmeriBasket 2021, 2021 FIBA Asia Cup and EuroBasket Women 2021.
October:
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the NBA for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons.
Sky's subscribers rise to 4.67 million.
November: Cartoon Network HD is launched, bringing the number of HD channels to 66.
June:
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League for the 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 season, and for the 2018, 2019 and 2020 UEFA Super Cup.
November: Sky launches Sky Q Platinum.
April: Mediaset Premium's cinema channels start broadcasting on Sky.
June: Mediaset Premium's TV series channels start broadcasting on Sky.
July: Channel logos became identical to the Sky UK ones. Sky launches Sky Q Black.
December: Sky's subscribers reach to 5,2 million.
February: Discovery Travel & Living and Animal Planet close.
July: Mediaset Premium's TV series channel Premium Joi close.
September: Sky launches Sky Q Fiber.
October: Disney XD, Disney in English, Fox Animation, Fox Comedy and Nat Geo People close.
May: Bike Channel, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Teennick, MTV Rocks and MTV Hits close.
July: Fox Life, Lei, Dove TV and Man-ga close.
September:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sky's subscribers fall to 4.6 million.
The logos became identical to the Sky UK ones.
December: GINX Esports TV close.
July: Fox Crime and Roma TV close and Sky Documentaries, Sky Investigation, Sky Nature and Sky Serie are launched.
January: Premium Action, Premium Stories, Premium Crime, Premium Cinema, Paramount Network and Spike close.
July: Fox closes.
October: National Geographic, National Geographic Wild and Baby TV close and Lazio Style Channel is upgraded to HD.
November: Crime & Investigation rebranded as Sky Crime.
Sky HD is the brand name of the HDTV service launched by Sky Italia on 20 April 2006 in Italy – during the 2006 FIFA World Cup – to enable high definition channels on Sky Italia to be viewed. The service requires the user to have a Sky Box HD (distributed by Sky Italia), and an HDTV with HDCP enabled.
A HD PVR decoder called My Sky HD was launched on 26 May 2008 (on 20 December 2008 was sold a particular edition designed by Fendi in favour of the international organisation Child Priority).
On 29 November 2017, Sky launched Sky Q Platinum, a set-top box enabled to view programmes in 4K HDR and to use the multiscreen wireless service.
On 2 July 2018, Sky launched Sky Q Black, a set-top box identical to the Sky Q Platinum which enables the 4K HDR service but not the multiscreen wireless.
Here are the channels available in HD:
TV 31 channels Sky TG24 HD, Rete 4 HD, Canale 5 HD, Italia 1 HD, Sky Uno HD, Sky Uno +1 HD, Sky Serie HD, Sky Serie +1 HD, Sky Atlantic HD, Sky Atlantic +1 HD, Sky Investigation HD, Sky Crime HD, Sky Arte HD, TV8 HD, Blaze HD, MTV HD, Classica HD, NOVE HD, 20 Mediaset HD, Cielo HD, 27 Twentyseven HD, Real Time HD, Giallo HD, DMAX HD, Eurosport 1 HD, Eurosport 2 HD, Horse TV HD, Gambero Rosso Channel HD, Food Network HD, Sky Nature HD, Sky Documentaries HD, Discovery Channel HD, Discovery Science HD, History HD, Motor Trend HD Cinema 11 channels Sky Cinema Uno HD, Sky Cinema Due HD, Sky Cinema Collection HD, Sky Cinema Family HD, Sky Cinema Action HD, Sky Cinema Suspense HD, Sky Cinema Romance HD, Sky Cinema Drama HD, Sky Cinema Comedy HD, Sky Cinema Uno +24 HD, Sky Cinema Due +24 HD Sport 10 channels Sky Sport 24 HD, Sky Sport Uno HD, Sky Sport Football HD, Sky Sport Arena HD, Sky Sport Collection HD, Sky Sport Tennis HD, Sky Sport NBA HD, Sky Sport F1 HD, Sky Sport MotoGP HD, Roma TV Calcio 11 channels Sky Sport 24 HD, Sky Sport Serie A HD, Sky Sport Football HD, Sky Sport HD (channels from 251 to 257), Lazio Style Channel Kids 1 channel Cartoon Network HD Primafila 7 channels Sky Primafila 1 HD, Sky Primafila 2 HD, Sky Primafila 4 HD, Sky Primafila 6 HD, Sky Primafila 8 HD, Sky Primafila 10 HD, Sky Primafila 12 HD Optional Channels 4 channels DAZN 1, DAZN 1+, Milan TV, Inter TV
31 July 2003 – 3 September 2006 4 September 2006 – 27 June 2010 28 June 2010 – 25 September 2013 26 September 2013 – 1 July 2018 2 July 2018 – 13 September 2020 in use from 14 September 2020
Sky Italia offers a range of channels that are grouped into:
Sky TV – Entertainment, TV series, Eurosport's sport, news, documentaries and music;
Entertainment plus – Adds Netflix to the Sky TV package;
Sky Cinema – Movies;
Sky Sport and Sky Calcio (Football) – Sports and football;
Sky Kids – cartoons.
Rai 1
Rai 2
Rai 3
Rete 4
Canale 5
Italia 1
La7
Sky Uno (Sky One, +1 available)
Sky Serie (+1 available)
Sky Atlantic (+1 available)
Sky Crime (+1 available)
Sky Arte (Sky Arts, +1 available)
TV8
Comedy Central (+1 available)
MTV
Classica
NOVE
20 Mediaset
Cielo
27 Twentyseven
La5
Real Time
Mediaset Extra
Giallo
TOPcrime
Sky Investigation (+1 available)
DMAX
Mediaset Italia 2
Eurosport 1
Eurosport 2
Horse TV
Gambero Rosso Channel
Food Network
HGTV
Sky TG24 (Sky News Italy)
Sky TG24 Primo Piano
Sky Meteo 24 (Sky Weather 24)
Sky News
Mediaset TGCom24
MTV Music
VH1
Discovery Channel (+1 available)
National Geographic (+1 available)
Discovery Science
History (+1 available)
Sky Documentaries (+1 available)
Sky Nature (+1 available)
Focus
Motor Trend
Super!
K2
Frisbee
Rai Gulp HD
DeA Kids (+1 available)
Nick Jr. (+1 available)
Nickelodeon (+1 available)
Cartoon Network (+1 available)
Boomerang (+1 available)
DeA Junior
Sky Sport 24 (Sky Sports News)
Sky Sport Uno
Sky Sport Serie A
Sky Sport Football
Sky Sport Arena
Sky Sport Collection
Sky Sport NBA
Sky Sport F1
Sky Sport MotoGP
Lazio Style Channel
Sky Sport (channels from 251 to 263)
Sky Cinema Uno (+24 available)
Sky Cinema Due (+24 available)
Sky Cinema Collection
Sky Cinema Family
Sky Cinema Action
Sky Cinema Suspense
Sky Cinema Romance
Sky Cinema Drama
Sky Cinema Comedy
Iris
Cine34
Zona Dazn (channels from 214 to 218)
Milan TV
Inter TV
Caccia e Pesca
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Sky Italia has chosen not to offer its coverage of Uefa’s club competitions to free-to-air channels.
The paycaster could have sublicensed some of the rights to a third party broadcaster or simply shown the games on its own TV8. It means matches from the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League will only be available to viewers of Sky Sport on the Sky satellite platform or NOW streaming service.
Following changes to the competitions there will be 527 matches for each of the next three seasons of the UEFA Champions League (185 matches, including the playoffs), UEFA Europa League (189 matches) and UEFA Europa Conference League (153 matches). This will include the three finals, in addition to the UEFA Europe Super Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, whose new format is still being defined.
Sky will continue to share rights to the Champions League in Italy with Amazon Prime Video, which will screen 18 Wednesday night games.
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Hi everyone,
Bit of a random question, but does anyone know if it's possible to have Italian TV channels added to my Sky package? And if so, a rough idea of the additional cost?
Thank you
hi @SarahSunflower
Unfortunately the Italian Satellite channels use a different set of Satellites (at 13E) which are directed at Europe rather than the ones used by SKY UK / Ireland (at 28E) directed at the UK & Ireland
The only way to view Italian channels in the UK is this, as many UK independent satellite installers offer;
To access Italian TV in the UK is by using a 60/80cm dish aligned to the Hotbird satellite at 13 degrees east. You will also need a Tivusat decoder and card which will give you access to Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Rete 4, Canale 5, Italia 1, La 7, Rai Premium, Rai Movie and Rai Sport.
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@lettice wrote:
The only way to view Italian channels in the UK is this, as many UK independent satellite installers offer;
To access Italian TV in the UK is by using a 60/80cm dish aligned to the Hotbird satellite at 13 degrees east. You will also need a Tivusat decoder and card which will give you access to Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Rete 4, Canale 5, Italia 1, La 7, Rai Premium, Rai Movie and Rai Sport.
The 1st 3 are FTA along with RAI Storia, RAI Scuola, RAI News, RAI Gulp and of course all the RAI radio stations, so should keep costs down
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@GD1 wrote:
@lettice wrote:
The only way to view Italian channels in the UK is this, as many UK independent satellite installers offer;
To access Italian TV in the UK is by using a 60/80cm dish aligned to the Hotbird satellite at 13 degrees east. You will also need a Tivusat decoder and card which will give you access to Rai 1, Rai 2, Rai 3, Rete 4, Canale 5, Italia 1, La 7, Rai Premium, Rai Movie and Rai Sport.
The 1st 3 are FTA along with RAI Storia, RAI Scuola, RAI News, RAI Gulp and of course all the RAI radio stations, so should keep costs down
But still need the addiional dish of course
I haven't looked - I wonder if the FTA channels are available via the internet.
I know when the French speaking TV5 Monde ceased on 28.2 they pushed the web version - but that is a channel deliberately targetted outside Francophone countries
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@SarahSunflower wrote:
Hi everyone,
Bit of a random question, but does anyone know if it's possible to have Italian TV channels added to my Sky package? And if so, a rough idea of the additional cost?
Thank you
hi @SarahSunflower
Unfortunately the Italian Satellite channels use a different set of Satellites (at 13E) which are directed at Europe rather than the ones used by SKY UK / Ireland (at 28E) directed at the UK & Ireland
In addition the channel owners won't have UK broadcasting licences or be signed up to the Broadcasting Code, so a UK regulated EPG couldn't list them even if they were on the same orbiting platform.
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@Sg8686 wrote:
Is it possible to get UK sky in Italy? If I took my old Sky box and installed a dish? Buying a property in Palermo so would really like to have at least BBC etc
@Sg8686 no it's not possible, using hardware to access it outside the uk is a breach of contract and cannot be discussed especially on a forum operated and owned by sky themselves
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@Sg8686 If it's just the free channels you want you'll need a suitably sized dish 2 meter+ for Italy as many of the transponders are UK focused, even then your likely at a push to only get anything on the European focused transponders, which rule out the BBC channels.
You may get the news channels, however that being the case your better off looking at 13e & 19E as these satellites have a much wider footprint and carry a cluster of english news channels.
As mentioned by other posters you can't take your Sky box with you, it's breach of the T & C's, you can however purchase a cheap generic FTA HD satellite receiver for use in Italy.
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@Sg8686 wrote:
Buying a property in Palermo so would really like to have at least BBC etc
Access to UK media sources is widely discussed in internet forums for expat and overseas second home owners.
As noted, Sicily is really a long way south and east (something like 1000 miles) which presents a basic challenge for reception of Free To Air satellite broadcast intended for UK dishes. Of course, the Licence Fee which legitimises BBC viewing only licences a UK address anyway.
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We have had Italian SKY for a number of years but are quite frankly disappointed with the high volume of repeats and creeping price increases. We enjoy being able to watch some UK programmes and the odd film in English. Does anyone have any knowldege of an Italian Freeview box (we saw some in BRICO recently) and can then simply be plugged into the SKY satellite, are channels just Italian? Are there any alternatives for example will a UK Sky box work across here?
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Two Sky Italia commentators have been suspended after making sexist comments during the channel’s coverage of the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.
Matto Bobbi and Davide Valsecchi made the remarks during live post-race coverage in Barcelona for Italian broadcaster Sky Sport.
Referring to a woman in the background in the paddock, Bobbi, who was speaking from a separate studio, described her as an “upgrade package.”
Valsecchi looked behind him and replied: “I know, but they told me I can’t test them. So I raise my hands.”
Alongside Valsecchi was host Federica Masolin, who looked uncomfortable as the conversation progressed.
She then interjected: “I ask for political asylum. Can’t we watch some interviews instead of listening to these two? Let’s hear from Carlos Sainz, please. I’m going to censor you two.”
She then later read out a viewer’s comment on air, asking: “Will we see them [Bobbi and Valsecchi] safe and sound again at the next grand prix after these comments – that will be greatly appreciated by their wives?”
Bobbi replied: “I think I’ll get a beating if I go home,” while Valsecchi said: “Well you know I’ve had eye surgery twice because I’ve been losing sight since I was a child, looking at those things.”
Both have since apologised for their remarks but Sky Italia told The Guardian that Bobbi and Valsecchi have been “temporarily suspended” and will not work during the next race, the Canadian Grand Prix.
Bobbi said: “I sincerely apologise to anyone who may have felt offended and wish to reiterate my total and profound respect for everyone and for women.
“For 10 years, I have been commenting on F1 with friends from Sky, who have become like a family to me now and, in 10 years, I have never found myself in such an unpleasant situation.
“I’ve always thought that you learn, understand and start again from your mistakes. What happened will lead me to try to improve further as a man and as a professional.”
Valsecchi posted on Instagram: “I’m very sorry because, on Sunday, after the race, I exchanged some jokes that were in bad taste and used inappropriate and disrespectful words.
“And I’m not like this. I would really like to apologise to those who felt offended, to women and to Sky.”
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Where Is Pompeii?
Located on the west coast of Italy along the shores of the Bay of Naples—south of the modern-day city of Naples—ancient Greek settlers made Pompeii part of the Hellenistic sphere in the 8th century B.C. An independent-minded town, Pompeii fell under the influence of Rome in the 2nd century B.C., and eventually the Bay of Naples became an attraction for wealthy vacationers from Rome who relished the Campania coastline.
By the turn of the first century A.D., the town of Pompeii, located about five miles from Mount Vesuvius, was a flourishing resort for the most distinguished citizens of the Roman Empire. Elegant houses and elaborate villas—many filled with exquisite artworks and sparkling fountains—lined the paved streets.
Much of the city’s wealth derived from its rich volcanic soil—the region was a center for olives, grapes and other crops, and wine from Pompeii was enjoyed in some of Rome’s most fashionable houses.
Tourists, townspeople and enslaved people bustled in and out of small factories and artisans’ shops, taverns, cafes, brothels and bathhouses. People gathered in the 20,000-seat arena and lounged in the open-air squares and marketplaces.
On the eve of the fateful eruption in 79 A.D., scholars estimate that there were about 12,000 people living in Pompeii and almost as many in the surrounding region.
Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius did not form overnight, of course. Vesuvius is part of the Campanian volcanic arc that stretches along the convergence of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates on the Italian peninsula—it been erupting for thousands of years.
Sometime around 1995 B.C., for example, an unusually violent eruption (known today as the “Avellino eruption”) shot millions of tons of superheated lava, ash and rocks about 22 miles into the sky. That Bronze Age catastrophe destroyed almost every village, house and farm within 15 miles of the mountain.
Villagers around the volcano had long learned to live with their volatile neighbor. Even after a massive earthquake struck the Campania region in 63 A.D.—a quake that, scientists now understand, offered a warning rumble of the disaster to come—people still flocked to the shores of the Bay of Naples, and Pompeii grew more crowded every year.
Pompeii Eruption
Sixteen years after that telltale earthquake, in either August or October of 79 A.D., a number of small earthquakes rocked the Pompeii region. The people there shrugged off the temblors since they “were not particularly alarming because they are frequent in Campania,” according to the writer and eyewitness Pliny the Younger.
Then, shortly after noon on that fateful day, Mount Vesuvius erupted again. The blast sent a plume of ash, rock and scorching-hot volcanic gases so high into the sky that people could see it for hundreds of miles around.
Pliny the Younger, who watched the eruption from across the Bay of Naples, compared this “cloud of unusual size and appearance” to a pine tree that “rose to a great height on a sort of trunk and then split off into branches.” (Today, geologists refer to this type of volcanic blast as a “Plinean eruption.”)
As it cooled, this tower of debris drifted to earth: first the fine-grained ash, then the lightweight chunks of pumice and other rocks. It was terrifying—“I believed I was perishing with the world,” Pliny wrote, “and the world with me”—but it was not yet lethal: Most Pompeiians had plenty of time to flee, and many did.
Herculaneum and Pompeii
For those who stayed behind in Pompeii, Herculaneum and other towns, conditions soon grew much worse. As more and more ash fell, it clogged the air, making it difficult to breathe. Buildings collapsed under overloaded roofs, but still some people remained in the city, now covered under several feet of ash.
Then, on the morning of the following day, a “pyroclastic flow”—a 100-miles-per-hour blast of superheated gas and pulverized rock—poured down the side of the mountain and vaporized everything and everyone in its path.
By the time the Vesuvius eruption sputtered to an end on the second day of the eruption, Pompeii was buried under millions of tons of volcanic ash.
Some people drifted back to town in search of lost relatives or belongings, but there was virtually nothing left to find. Pompeii, along with the neighboring town of Herculaneum and a number of villas in the area, was abandoned for centuries.
Pompeii Bodies
About 2,000 Pompeiians died in the city, but the eruption in total killed up to 16,000 people in Pompeii, Herculaneum and other towns and villages in the region.
Bodies of men, women, children and animals were frozen right where they’d fallen—many of the bodies uncovered later were still clutching valuable household objects they’d hoped to carry safely out of the city. Some bodies were found with their arms poignantly wrapped around children or other loved ones.
Later archaeologists even uncovered jars of preserved fruit and loaves of bread. Most of the city’s buildings were intact, and everyday objects and household goods still littered the streets. The powdery volcanic ash that buried Pompeii had proved to be an excellent preservative.
Pompeii Exhibit
Pompeii remained mostly untouched until 1748, when a group of explorers looking for ancient artifacts arrived in Campania and began to dig. They found that the ashes had acted as a marvelous preservative: Underneath all that dust, Pompeii was almost exactly as it had been almost 2,000 years before.
Many scholars cite the excavation of Pompeii as an influence in the neo-Classical revival of the 18th century. Europe’s wealthiest and most fashionable families displayed art and reproductions of objects from the ruins, and drawings of Pompeii’s buildings helped shape the architectural trends of the era.
For example, wealthy British families often built “Etruscan rooms” that mimicked those in Pompeiian villas. Today, many of the preserved artworks, frescoes and other artifacts are on exhibit at the Pompeii Antiquarium, located among the city’s ruins.
The excavation of Pompeii that has been going on for almost three centuries continues today, and the entire site has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Scholars and tourists remain just as fascinated by the city’s eerie ruins—and the artifacts and bodies buried on that fateful day over 2,000 years ago—as they were in the 18th century.
“Many disasters have befallen the world,” wrote the German philosopher-poet Goethe, after touring Pompeii’s ruins in the 1780s, “but few have brought posterity so much joy.”
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Sky Go is region-locked to the UK and Ireland, which means anyone travelling or living elsewhere is prevented from using it. That is, of course, unless they use a VPN. A Virtual Private Network is software that allows users to easily change their virtual location and quickly bypass geo-restrictions.
In this comprehensive guide, I’ll walk you through the process of watching Sky Go abroad using a VPN and tell you what to look for when choosing a provider. If you’re just after recommendations, here’s a summary of the best VPNs for Sky Go:
NordVPN: The best VPN for watching Sky Go abroad. Works well with Sky Go and a host of other platforms. Includes top-notch security features, very high speeds, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
TIP In our testing we found that the cheapest NordVPN plan (Standard) works perfectly for Sky Go.
Surfshark: Best value VPN for Sky Go. A low-cost VPN that allows unlimited simultaneous connections and has plenty of servers in the UK and Ireland for Sky Go.
IPVanish: Highly effective VPN that makes it as easy as possible to use Sky Go — and a host of other streaming platforms — abroad. Blocks ads, doesn’t keep logs, and lets you secure any number of devices at once.
ExpressVPN: Fast UK servers provide a high-quality streaming experience on Sky — and all other major platforms. Provides market-leading security and has an app for routers.
Private Internet Access: Allows unlimited device connections and has dedicated streaming servers for accessing Sky Go. Strong on privacy and with fast connection speeds.
ProtonVPN: Very fast, with hundreds of UK streaming servers. Admirable commitment to security and privacy. Keeps no logs and has 24/7 customer support.
PrivateVPN: Low-cost provider that works great with Sky Go and other streaming platforms. Can provide remote control assistance and is compatiuble with routers.
PureVPN: An inexpensive VPN that works flawlessly with Sky Go and most other streaming services. Doesn’t keep logs and offers apps for just about any device.
Hotspot Shield: Beginner-friendly VPN with dedicated streaming servers for Sky Go. Has a large server network and works in China.
Criteria for VPNs for streaming Sky Go abroad
We know that people get frustrated trying to choose between VPN providers. After all, much of VPN companies’ marketing material sounds remarkably similar. To help consumers, we perform an in-depth evaluation process that removes the need for taking company claims at face value. We look at the following areas:
Streaming performance: The first thing we check is whether providers work with Sky Go. If they do, we try them with other popular platforms, too, and score them accordingly. In addition to this, we consider whether they offer a smart DNS service and whether they have streaming-optimized servers. Finally, we ask one of our resident experts to score each provider.
Speed in the UK & Ireland: As Sky Go is only available in the UK and Ireland, we perform speed tests for each provider while connected to servers in—you guessed it—the UK and Ireland. Tests are carried out on a home broadband connection to give users an accurate idea of what speeds they can realistically expect.
Security & privacy: We score providers according to 15 different security and privacy criteria. These include which VPN protocols they support, the level of encryption and authentication they use, and whether they have anonymous payment options.
Ease of use: We use 10 different metrics to calculate providers’ ease of use scores. In addition to judging their design, we look at things like the parity of their features between apps and the existence — or non-existence — of task-specific servers.
Value for money: Value isn’t just about price. The eight different criteria we use for calculating a value for money score include the number of permitted connections and the existence of a free trial and money-back guarantee.
A full breakdown of our testing methodology is available later in the article.
Best VPNs for Sky Go streaming – a snapshot of features
Best VPNs for Sky Go
We’ve reviewed each of our recommended VPNs for Sky Go below:
1. NordVPN
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NordVPN is an excellent choice for a Sky Go VPN. In fact, it’s an excellent choice for streaming generally—it worked with all the streaming platforms we tested it with, including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BBC iPlayer, Hulu, Max, and Disney+.
The company has a strong presence in the UK and Ireland, with 440+ RAM-only servers spread across four UK cities and 50+ RAM-only servers in the Republic of Ireland’s capital, Dublin. These servers are all streaming-friendly and suitable for use with Sky Go.
We wanted to know how fast connections were, so we performed three speed tests connected to a UK server and three connected to a server in Ireland. Speeds were excellent throughout, with only a negligible drop when connected.
NordVPN’s tested download speeds while connected to servers in UK and Ireland
Speeds were particularly fast for UK servers — though this is likely because we were connecting from the UK. Overall, the average speed was only 2.16 Mbps slower than our connection speed when not using a VPN.
NordVPN has several interesting features that help it stand out from the crowd. One is the range of specialty servers available. Depending on which type of server you choose, you can connect to the Tor network in a single click or establish a connection to two VPN servers for additional security and privacy. There’s also an option to use obfuscated servers, which will enable you to bypass VPN blocks — even in heavily restrictive countries such as China.
The company has developed its own connection protocol, NordLynx, which helps ensure consistently fast connection speeds. Its Meshnet service provides a neat way to create your own private network for file sharing or remote device access.
NordVPN is backed by a true zero-logs policy and uncrackable 256-bit encryption. It’s also leak-free, which we tested for ourselves using browserleaks.com.
During the tests, we found no IP address leaks, Web RTC leaks, or DNS leaks. This is important as any leak of your true location (if outside the UK) would stop Sky Go from working.
NordVPN’s live chat support is available on the website. If you’re struggling to access Sky Go, this should be your first port of call. Staff typically know which servers are best for particular streaming services.
While you’re abroad, NordVPN’s automatic Wi-Fi protection ensures you’re always secure when using public Wi-Fi networks. A split tunneling feature allows you to simultaneously use Sky Go connected to a VPN while using other apps with a regular internet connection.
NordVPN’s software is available for Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux, and Android. If you want to use Sky Go with a device that doesn’t support VPNs natively, you can purchase pre-configured routers through flash routers.
A single NordVPN subscription allows subscribers to connect up to ten devices at the same time, which means everyone in your household can use it to watch Sky Go.
Given its strong unblocking abilities, a large number of speedy UK servers, and reasonable price tag, NordVPN is easy to recommend as the go-to provider for using Sky Go while abroad.
BEST VPN FOR SKY GO:NordVPN is our first choice. Extremely fast, with impressive unblocking ability and great privacy and security features. Risk-free 30-day money-back guarantee.
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2. Surfshark
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Surfshark excels at streaming region-locked content from abroad. In our tests, it worked seamlessly with Sky Go as well as popular platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+, and BBC iPlayer.
For Sky Go and other geo-restricted UK streaming services, you can use one of Surfshark’s 212+ UK servers. These are spread across four cities: Manchester, London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. There are also servers available in Dublin.
We tested Surfshark’s download speeds at three different times of day while connected to a server in London and then in Dublin.
Surfshark’s tested download speeds while connected to servers in UK and Ireland
Speeds were excellent and certainly fast enough to stream Sky Go content without buffering. The average download speed was a mere 3.26 Mbps slower than our average download speed when not using the VPN.
Feature-wise, Surfshark is notable for having an alternative ID generator. This allows you to generate an alternative persona complete with name, address, and date of birth. It is particularly useful for signing up to streaming services where an address is needed. Unfortunately, it’s currently only available in the US, Denmark, Australia, Germany, Portugal, and Brazil, so it’s not very good for setting up a Sky Go account.
Another Surfshark feature that you’ll struggle to find with other VPNs is the availability of static IP addresses. These are useful if you’re hosting a gaming server or carrying out another task that requires an unchanging IP address. Static IP addresses are currently available in the UK, the US, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and Singapore. If you want exclusive use of an IP address, you can pay a few dollars more per month for one of Surfshark’s dedicated IPs.
Surfshark uses strong encryption and doesn’t store any logs, a claim that’s been verified through independent third-party audits. Torrenting is allowed, and a kill switch is built into both mobile devices and desktop apps to prevent your true IP address from being exposed to Sky Go if the VPN connection suddenly drops out.
Apps are available for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux. We confirmed that these were leak-free by connecting to a server in Portugal and confirming that our UK location was hidden. We also subjected Surfshark to WebRTC and DNS leak tests — which it passed.
For users who are concerned about their location being traced, Surfshark offers a rotating IP address feature. This changes your IP address without the need to disconnect and reconnect to a server. We don’t recommend using it while streaming Sky Go, but it could provide reassurance if anonymity is important to you.
Those living in oppressive countries can enable the NoBorders mode to bypass VPN blocks. This works in China, which shows just how effective it is.
Surfshark allows you to connect an unlimited number of devices at once. This, combined with its low subscription costs, fast speeds, and streaming ability, makes it a close second to NordVPN.
BEST BUDGET VPN:Unblock Sky Go on as many devices as you want with Surfshark, an inexpensive VPN that’s backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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3. IPVanish
IPVanish operates more than 2,400 servers across 60+ countries. This includes the UK and Ireland, where it has servers in four UK locations and one in the Republic of Ireland. All are suitable for use with Sky Go.
When we carried out our testing, there were 179 servers available, none of which had a load greater than 25%. This makes it easy to find a server for Sky Go that isn’t congested with other users.
We were able to access Sky Go and other UK-based streaming platforms, including ITV Hub, Channel 4, and BBC iPlayer. By connecting to a server in the US, we could watch the US content libraries of both Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
To find out what download speeds users could expect when using IPVanish, we carried out a series of speed tests while connected to servers in the UK and Ireland.
IPVanish’s tested download speeds while connected to servers in UK and Ireland
Download speeds were excellent in both countries, though we did have one slower-than-average connection in Dublin. Even then, you’d have no trouble streaming Sky Go content without buffering. On average, download speeds while connected to the VPN were just 3.06 Mbps slower than when we connected without, which is a great result.
The app is easy to use and has a distinctive design with plenty going on. There’s a graph showing the amount of data uploaded and downloaded in real-time alongside a map with the location of your current connection pinned to it.
IPVanish uses unbreakable encryption and offers a kill switch that will stop sending data if your connection drops. This prevents your true location from being revealed to Sky Go mid-stream.
The provider has been independently audited to prove that it doesn’t keep logs and has automatic tracker-blocking, as well as split tunneling functionality. Split tunneling means you could watch Sky Go while connected to a UK server, but use other apps at the same time with a regular internet connection.
The company’s software is leak-free, which we verified by connecting to a server in Japan and performing IP, DNS, and WebRTC leak tests.
IPVanish users can scramble their traffic (on OpenVPN connections) to help access the Sky Go app if they’re in a country that blocks or otherwise restricts VPN usage. It’s worth noting, however, that IPVanish won’t work in countries with extreme censorship, such as China. If you are planning a visit to China and want to use Sky Go while there, we recommend any one of the other providers in this article.
IPVanish offers apps for Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, Linux, and Amazon Fire TV. Alternatively, you can configure a connection with most routers (check the support center for instructions and router compatibility). Configuring a connection on your router lets you stream Sky Go on VPN-incompatible devices such as game consoles and smart TVs.
BRITISH TV ABROAD:IPVanish works seamlessly with Sky Go, BBC iPlayer, and NOW TV. It’s fast, security-conscious, and novice-friendly. Annual plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee so there’s no harm in giving it a shot.
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4. ExpressVPN
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ExpressVPN optimizes all of its servers for maximum speed and stability, and it works extremely well at accessing a host of streaming services. We successfully used it with Sky Go, as well as the UK and US content libraries of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
The provider has four UK server locations — and one in the Republic of Ireland — that you can use with the Sky Go app.
We carried out speed tests while connected to servers in both countries. ExpressVPN was notable for its consistent download speeds throughout the day — as the chart below demonstrates.
ExpressVPN’s tested download speeds while connected to servers in UK and Ireland
Overall, ExpressVPN’s average download speed was only 2.56 Mbps slower than our average speed when not connected. This makes it a great VPN for uninterrupted streaming of HD SkyGo content and UHD content from other platforms.
The app’s dashboard is visually appealing and very easy to use — even for someone who has no experience with VPN software. Connections are established almost instantaneously, so there’s no waiting around like you have to do with some providers. If you do have any trouble connecting or accessing Sky Go, live customer support is available through the ExpressVPN website 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
The design is a little more rudimentary outside of the main dashboard but still offers plenty of features. The Options screen provides access to the various settings and protocol options.
In the General section, you can enable or disable the kill switch, split tunneling, and auto-connect-on-launch features. The Advanced Protection tab lets you choose whether to block ads and trackers and also has options for blocking access to malicious sites or those displaying pornography.
Use the Protocols tab to choose between the well-established OpenVPN protocol and ExpressVPN’s very own Lightway protocol. If you’re experiencing slow speeds, playing around with the various protocol options can sometimes yield results. The default setting allows ExpressVPN to choose on your behalf — which is good enough for the majority of users.
ExpressVPN’s encryption standards are as strong as those of any VPN, namely 256-bit AES encryption (often dubbed military-grade encryption) and perfect forward secrecy.
The company doesn’t log any of its customers’ activity or IP addresses, opting only to gather non-identifying metadata. It also doesn’t inadvertently leak users’ locations—we tested this for ourselves by connecting to a server in Australia. As you can see from the test results below, our location in the UK was hidden. The provider also passed the WebRTC and DNS leak tests.
Apps are available for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux (command line). If you watch Sky Go on a device that doesn’t support VPNs, you can install ExpressVPN’s customer router firmware on compatible Wi-Fi routers or purchase a pre-configured router directly from the company.
Configuring a VPN connection on a router means that every connected device uses the VPN tunnel. If you want to use this route to stream Sky Go on a smart TV or games console, ExpressVPN’s router app makes it the most hassle-free option.
STEADY SPEEDS:ExpressVPN is great for streaming. Reliably unblocks Sky Go as well as many other online services. Exceptional speeds for buffer-free High Definition viewing along with total security and online privacy. Includes 30-day money-back guarantee.
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5. Private Internet Access
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Private Internet Access (PIA) operates a global network of servers in over 91 countries. This includes the UK, where it has general-use servers in three locations, as well as streaming-optimized servers. The provider also has servers in Dublin.
We successfully accessed Sky Go while connected to PIA’s streaming-optimized servers. We were also able to access BBC iPlayer, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video without issue.
If you’re interested in accessing content libraries in specific countries, PIA has streaming optimized servers in 12 countries in all — the majority of which are in Europe.
We tested PIA’s download speeds by connecting to servers in the UK and Ireland several times during the course of a day. The results were remarkably consistent, as you can see in the chart below.
PIA achieved impressive download speeds during testing
On average, PIA was the fastest provider overall and caused a drop of only 1.76 Mbps when connected. This makes it a great choice for those who want to stream UHD videos or play online games without interruption.
We verified that PIA didn’t leak our IP address while connected to the UK streaming server — which would be a sure-fire way to get blocked by Sky Go. We also confirmed that there were no WebRTC or DNS leaks.
Subscribers are allowed unlimited bandwidth and PIA doesn’t impose data caps. More specifically, the provider allows unlimited simultaneous device connections. This means you can share your account with everyone in your household who needs a VPN.
Top-notch encryption standards are combined with a no-logs policy to keep your ISP and other snoopers out of your data. PIA has had its no-logs policy successfully audited by Deloitte, the results of which are available on its website.
The software includes an internet kill switch and malware filtering. It also includes a Shadowsocks proxy and port forwarding, which can be handy if you want to torrent and can be difficult to find elsewhere.
Overall, the interface is very easy to use, with more advanced features accessible without feeling intimidating.
Opening the expanded dashboard by clicking/ tapping the down arrow provides you with a wealth of information, including the amount of data uploaded and downloaded; the protocol and encryption being used; and icons showing which features are enabled.
Apps are available for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, and Linux — all of which look and behave remarkably similarly. If your device isn’t VPN-compatible, PIA has setup guides for manually configuring the VPN on various VPN-compatible routers. Live chat support is available 24/7 and the VPN provides a satisfying 30-day money-back guarantee to let you try it out.
HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE:PIA offers apps for all popular devices that allow you to fiddle with the encryption settings and connect as many devices as you want, making it ideal for power users. Comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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6. ProtonVPN
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ProtonVPN is a privacy-first provider with hundreds of servers in the UK and more than 20 available in Ireland. While all are suitable for streaming, you might need to try a few before you find one that works with Sky Go.
Once we found a UK server that worked with Sky Go, we used it to successfully connect to other UK-based streaming services such as Channel 4, BBC iPlayer, and ITVX. ProtonVPN also works with the likes of Amazon Prime Video, and Netflix. If you don’t have the time (or inclination) to try out different servers, ProtonVPN’s customer support team is available around the clock over live chat and should be able to point you to the most suitable server for a particular platform.
ProtonVPN’s connection speeds are more than good enough for using Sky Go—even when streaming HD content. We conducted speed tests at various points during the day while connecting to servers in the UK and Ireland. Speeds were noticeably consistent and very fast—ProtonVPN was the third-fastest service after NordVPN and PIA.
ProtonVPN download speed test results
If you’re unfamiliar with ProtonVPN, it’s worth noting that the company is well-regarded among privacy advocates. Activists and whistleblowers have long favored its free email service, and its VPN service is similarly respected.
Users with security concerns can take advantage of the company’s Secure Core servers. These are located in countries with strong privacy laws, housed in secure ProtonVPN-owned data centers, and connected to the internet using a dedicated network. Traffic is routed through these servers before going on to the user’s chosen server. It’s a multi-hop connection (like you get with some other VPNs) but with added security.
The service uses 256-bit encryption, has a kill switch, and prevents DNS and IPv6 leaks. We tested how leak-proof the software was by connecting to a server in Albania and confirming that our true location was hidden.
ProtonVPN has split tunneling for apps and domains and an ad, tracker, and malware blocker. It allows up to 10 simultaneous device connections, which is enough for most people.
The provider makes it easy for users to connect to custom DNS servers rather than use ProtonVPNs by default. There’s also an option to Moderate NAT, which disables the randomization of the local address mapping. This can help gamers establish direct connections. ProtonVPN allows port forwarding, which is another tool useful to gamers and torrenters — though not often offered by VPN providers.
The company doesn’t log any data that could identify you, accepts Bitcoin payments, and has undergone a third-party audit to prove that it’s really as secure as it claims to be.
ProtonVPN apps are available for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and MacOS. This service also supports almost a dozen types of router firmware (though you’ll have to install it manually).
Note that while ProtonVPN has a free tier, this isn’t suitable for accessing streaming platforms like Sky Go or BBC iPlayer from abroad. There are no free VPNs that are suitable for streaming, so this isn’t surprising.
ANONYMITY ABOVE ALL:ProtonVPN goes the extra mile. It’s very fast, can reliably access Sky Go outside of the UK, and is packed with security tools. What’s more, it doesn’t keep any logs, offers a limited free plan, and provides a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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7. PrivateVPN
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PrivateVPN has just over 200 servers in its global network — which pales in comparison to the networks of the other providers in this list. Nevertheless, PrivateVPN is great for streaming and has UK servers in London and Manchester, as well as servers in Ireland.
Ping times are listed next to each server location, so you can just choose the location with the lowest number to get the fastest available speeds.
We tested PrivateVPN with Sky Go, and it worked great. We also successfully tried it with Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and Max. However, in some instances, we could only establish a connection when the VPN was in stealth mode. This feature, which is available via the settings menu, is easy to enable and worth a try if you’re having connection issues.
To find out what speeds users are likely to get while using PrivateVPN to stream Sky Go, we connected to servers in the UK and Ireland and measured our download speeds multiple times.
PrivateVPN download speed test results
Speeds were excellent overall. There was one noticeably slower connection during the day, but even this was fast enough to stream Sky Go in HD. On average, our download speeds were 4.06 Mbps slower when using PrivateVPN.
PrivateVPN doesn’t skimp on security, utilizing strong encryption and adhering to a no-logs policy. Unusually among VPN providers, it allows users to choose what level of encryption to use while connected. Switching from AES-256 to AES-128 can give you a speed bump if needed while still providing enough security for most users.
PrivateVPN is also unusual in that it allows port forwarding. The port number—displayed in the dashboard when connected—can be used in your torrent client to download and upload files more efficiently.
The provider’s apps include a kill switch and an Application Guard feature. If the VPN connection drops out, this feature will terminate any user-specified apps.
Apps also have built-in leak protection. We tested this by connecting to a server in Vietnam and checking that our UK location was hidden. We additionally performed successful WebRTC and DNS leak tests.
This is one of the cheaper VPNs available. If you’re willing to sign up for a three-year contract, subscriptions cost as little as $2 a month. Subscribers get access to apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android and can use up to 10 connected devices at the same time. The software is compatible with some routers, which is useful if you want to use Sky Go with a smart TV, for example.
PrivateVPN’s customer service team is available via live chat, which is fairly standard for top-tier providers. What isn’t standard is that they can provide remote control assistance via TeamViewer if you’re having serious difficulties with the service.
GREAT SPEEDS:PrivateVPN is a good family choice. Unblocks Sky Go and allows up to 10 devices on the same account. A small network of servers, but fast connections. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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8. PureVPN
unblocks Sky GOTested Aug 2024
PureVPN is a solid option for anyone looking to watch Sky Go on vacation or while living abroad. It has hundreds of servers in London, Manchester, and Dublin that are suitable for accessing Sky Go and other UK-only platforms. PureVPN also works well with popular international streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Disney+, and Max.
PureVPN has more than 6,000 servers in 65+ countries. Although it claims to have virtual servers in countries not offered by other VPN providers, such as China, Russia, India, and Afghanistan, this should be taken with a pinch of salt.
For example, when we tried connecting to its server in China, our IP address showed us as being in Indonesia. When we connected to a server in India, our IP address placed us in the US. The Russia server did work as expected however, so it’s not all bad.
To test PureVPN’s speeds, we used servers closer to home. Using a home broadband connection in the UK, we carried out several speed tests while connected to servers in the UK and Ireland.
PureVPN download speed test results
Although PureVPN wasn’t perhaps as consistent as some of the providers in our list, it’s speeds were great overall. Our average download speed dropped by 3.26 Mbps while connected — which isn’t much given our average base connection speed was 48.86 Mbps.
If you have any trouble with your connection, PureVPN’s support staff are on hand 24/7 over live chat (although you may have to wait a few minutes for a reply).
PureVPN stops anyone from monitoring your online activities using uncrackable encryption, a kill switch, and leak protection. We confirmed that the leak protection worked by connecting to a server in Australia and checking whether our UK location was hidden. We also conducted DNS and WebRTC leak tests.
PureVPN has an auto-connect feature, a tracker blocker, and app-based split tunneling. These can all be enabled or disabled using simple toggle switches. Behind the scenes, PureVPN’s automatic obfuscation helps users’ traffic evade VPN blocks. This is great news if you’re trying to access Sky Go from a particularly restrictive country like China.
We also approve of PureVPN’s refusal to store any logs. The provider claims to have an “always-on” audit policy, which allows it to be audited at any time. So far, it has undergone independent audits on two occasions.
Unusually, PureVPN offers a five-year subscription plan, while most providers have a maximum of two years. Subscribing for longer means you lock in the introductory term and ultimately save more money.
PureVPN has apps for Windows, Android, iOS, MacOS, and Linux. Furthermore, the help section on its website provides detailed instructions for getting the service up and running on your router. This enables you to use Sky Go with VPN-incompatible devices.
SECURE AND AFFORDABLE:PureVPN has everything you'll need to stream your favorite shows safely. Long-term plans are reasonably priced and include a 31-day money-back guarantee.
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9. Hotspot Shield
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Editor’s note: Hotspot Shield is owned by Pango, Comparitech’s parent company.
Hotspot Shield is a versatile VPN that operates servers in 80+ countries — including some that aren’t covered by most VPNs. These include the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
The provider has general-use servers in two UK cities (Coventry and London) and one in the Republic of Ireland (Cork). More pertinently, it has dedicated streaming servers in the UK, which you should choose for accessing Sky Go. The video below shows you how to do it.
Using the UK streaming servers, we were able to access Sky Go and other UK-only streaming platforms such as BBC iPlayer, Channel 4, and ITVX. Dedicated streaming servers are also available in the US, which are ideal for accessing the larger content libraries of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. As a side note, Hotspot Shield has gaming-optimized servers in both the UK and US.
We tested Hotspot Shield’s download speeds by connecting to servers in the UK and Ireland at different points during the day. You can see the results below.
Hotspot Shield’s tested download speeds while connected to servers in UK and Ireland
Hotspot Shield’s download speeds are decent — though not as good as the other providers in our list. Nevertheless, they are ample for streaming Sky Go in HD. Our average speed dropped by 9.76 Mbps while connected to Hotspot Shield servers — which is roughly a fifth of our base connection speed. If you already have a slow broadband connection, knocking a fifth off may be too much of a sacrifice.
Feature-wise, Hotspot Shield has a lot to offer. Its proprietary Hydra protocol works at bypassing VPN blocks in countries such as China, and it also offers WireGuard and IKEv2 as options.
If you’re traveling abroad, the auto-protect feature can ensure you never connect to public Wi-Fi without a VPN’s protection. The split tunneling feature is a little more advanced than most in that it allows you to specify which apps and domains should either be excluded from or exclusively included in the VPN tunnel.
Hotspot Shield keeps your activities private using a kill switch and 256-bit AES encryption. It also comes with DNS and IPv6 leak protection, which we tested ourselves by connecting to a server in Algeria.
While Hotspot Shield didn’t leak our actual location in the UK, it didn’t connect us to a server in Algeria. Rather, our IP address suggested we were connected to a server in Amsterdam.
When we tested for WebRTC leaks, our public IP address was in a different country again (Switzerland). This mismatch is just the sort of thing streaming services pick up on when blocking content, so it’s not ideal.
We wanted to know if there were similar problems with servers we’d use for accessing Sky Go, so we carried out the same leak tests while connected to Hotspot Shield’s UK streaming server.
The good news is that our IP address was correctly spoofed, and we looked like we were connecting from London.
However, the same WebRTC issue arose. It wasn’t that there was a leak, it was just the country discrepancy — with our public IP linking to a server in Switzerland rather than the UK. This could cause issues with some streaming services, but as it doesn’t appear to do so with Sky Go, we can let it slide.
Hotspot Shield has apps for Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, and Android. It can also be configured on a wide range of home routers, enabling you to use the Sky Go app with a VPN-incompatible device on your home network.
UK STREAMING SERVERS:Hotspot Shield has servers specially optimized for services like Sky GO, BBC iPlayer, and ITV Hub. Not only that, easy to use and great at bypassing VPN blocks. There’s even a 45-day money-back guarantee included.
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How to watch Sky Go abroad
Connecting to a VPN server in the UK assigns you a UK IP address while connecting to a server in Ireland gives you an Irish IP address. It’s that simple. Provided you’re using one of our recommended VPNs, this is all you need to do to bypass Sky Go’s geo-restrictions.
Here’s how to watch Sky Go abroad:
First, sign up for one of the VPNs for Sky Go listed above. We particularly recommend NordVPN.
Download and install the VPN software on your device or configure your router to use the VPN.
Run the VPN, choose a server in the UK or Ireland, and connect.
Clear your cookies and refresh the page with the video you want to watch.
Head over to Sky Go, launch a video, and enjoy the show!
If you have any trouble accessing Sky Go abroad after following these steps, you should try clearing your cache and trying an alternative server. If issues persist, contact your VPN provider for further support.
Sky Go VPN testing methodology
The ability to access streaming services is a key feature of consumer-facing VPNs — and one that VPN providers try to cash in on. However, not all VPNs work with platforms such as Sky Go. Even among those that do, the situation is far from fixed. A server that works one day may result in an error message the next. This is why we regularly test which providers work with which platforms — those that work with Sky Go are included here. But which one to choose? To help you decide, we carried out various tests to find out which was the best overall.
Streaming performance
Most people have access to more than one streaming service. These additional services often come courtesy of friends and family who’ve shared their login details (a practice we don’t condone!).
With this in mind, we’ve scored VPN providers on how well they can access a range of streaming services in addition to Sky Go. We’ve also included a score for providers with a smart DNS feature (more on this below) and a score for those with streaming-optimized servers that make it easier to locate working Sky Go servers. Finally, one of our resident experts has provided their own score for each provider.
The table above shows how we combined these different test scores to create an overall streaming performance score. The weightings reflect how important each metric is from a user’s perspective. We can use each provider’s overall score to more usefully compare their respective streaming abilities.
Overall streaming performance scores by provider
As the chart shows, NordVPN has the best overall streaming performance. Surfshark and IPVanish also have solid scores. If streaming is your thing, these are the providers to choose.
Speed
As Sky Go is restricted to the UK and Ireland, we’re only really interested in the speed of each VPN’s UK servers rather than global averages. So, although we have existing lab-tested speed scores for Europe, we conducted another round of testing just for servers in the UK and Ireland.
To simulate the average user’s real-world experience, we tested each provider using a home broadband connection with an average speed of 48.86 Mbps. We tested each provider’s download speeds in the morning, at noon, and in the afternoon while connected to a UK server and then a server in Ireland. You can see the data we gathered in the chart below.
Download speed test result by provider (Mbps)
In terms of speed consistency throughout the day, PIA and Proton VPN were the best overall. PureVPN managed the fastest single speed we measured, and PrivateVPN the slowest.
To judge which provider was the fastest overall, we took an average of the results and converted them to a score out of ten. The results can be visualized as follows:
Overall speed test scores by provider
As the chart makes clear, PIA is the fastest VPN on average, closely followed by NordVPN and ProtonVPN.
Security & privacy
VPNs that can’t offer users a high level of security and privacy should be avoided—which is easier said than done when they all seem to make very similar claims. To find out which providers make good on their promises, we score them against 15 different criteria. The data is in the table below.
We assign a score to each of these criteria to create an overall score out of 10. This makes it more convenient to compare providers directly.
Security and privacy scores by provider
Based on the chart above, ExpressVPN has the best overall security and privacy offering. It’s closely followed by NordVPN, Surfshark, and PureVPN. However, to be fair, all of our recommendations perform admirably in terms of protecting users’ data and online activities from interested third parties.
Ease of use
If you’re reading this, it’s likely that you’d prefer to spend time streaming Sky Go rather than learning how to configure a VPN client. With this in mind, we score providers based on how intuitive their apps are to use. We also consider nine other metrics when evaluating their relative ease of use. The data is presented in the table below.
We assign a score to each metric, which we use to generate an overall ease of use score.
Ease of use scores for each provider
If you want an easy life, NordVPN should be your first choice. IPVanish and PIA also provide a particularly user-friendly service perfect for beginners.
Value for money
We all like a good deal, which is why we’ve chosen providers that offer good value for money. To arrive at our choices, we scored providers according to eight different metrics. You can see how they performed in each below.
We combine these scores to give us an overview of how the providers compare in terms of their relative value for money.
Overall value for money scores by provider
There are three standout providers if you want the most bang for your buck: Surfshark, IPVanish, and NordVPN.
How to watch Sky Go using a Smart DNS proxy
A smart DNS proxy provides an alternate way to bypass regional blocks. However, instead of encrypting all of your device’s traffic and routing it through a remote server, only your DNS requests are redirected. Thus, while paying for a standalone Smart DNS service may be able to help you unblock Sky Go – it will not also provide you with online privacy. This makes a VPN service much better value for money.
In addition, it is important to note that services like Sky Go actively block proxy services, including some VPNs (which is why you must pick carefully). Unfortunately, most Smart DNS services have now been blocked, which makes them unsuitable for streaming Sky Go.
The good news is that some VPNs have included a free Smart DNS service for their subscribers. This means you can use both the VPN and a Smart DNS proxy for the same low cost. This comes in handy if your device won’t let you install the VPN app directly (some Smart TVs, for instance).
You can see which of the providers in this article offer a smart DNS service in the table below:
Altering your DNS settings is a bit trickier than setting up a VPN, but you usually don’t need to install any extra software.
DNS settings can be adjusted using your device’s settings menu:
Sign up for a VPN that has a free Smart DNS service. We recommend NordVPN or Surfshark.
Validate your device’s current IP address on the provider’s website.
Input the primary and alternate DNS server addresses into your system’s internet settings (exact process differs depending on your device)
Save changes and restart your device
Navigate to the Sky Go webpage or open the Sky Go app and enjoy!
Sky Go channels
Sky Go is an online television service from UK broadcaster Sky that was first launched in 2006. It was previously known as Sky Player, Sky Anytime PC, and Sky By Broadband. The service allows Sky TV subscribers to watch live channels and on-demand video on internet-connected devices, including Windows PCs, Mac OSX, iOS, Android, and game consoles.
Viewers can access both live TV and replays via Sky Go. The table below contains a list of all the channels you can watch using Sky Go — use the search function if you want to check whether a particular channel is available.
Bear in mind that you can only watch channels if you’ve paid for them with your TV package. It’s also worth noting that content on Sky Go is only available for a limited amount of time after it first airs on TV. So don’t let the latest episode of your favorite show sit for too long!
Sky cable subscriptions start at 22 GBP per month with a minimum two-year contract.
Subscribers can watch videos on up to two simultaneous connections by default, and up to four are available for an extra fee as part of the Sky Go Extra package. If you have used two devices in the past and want to use a third, you must remove an existing registered device before you can register another.
Sky Go Extra also allows users to download content to their local devices so they can watch offline. The content is DRM protected, which means it can’t be copied, distributed, or watched after the expiration date. Files are deleted 48 hours after viewing starts or no later than 30 days after download.
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If you’re connected to one of the VPNs we recommend above but are still unable to watch Sky Go abroad, make sure you meet the rest of Sky Go’s technical requirements:
System settings must be set to the English language
Time zone must be set to UK time (UTC +0)
You need a browser that supports Microsoft Silverlight, which means Internet Explorer (not Edge) for Windows users and Safari for Mac users. Firefox and Chrome have both ended support for Silverlight.
If you tried accessing a video and were blocked prior to using a VPN or DNS proxy, it’s probably a good idea to clear your browser cookies and cache before making another attempt.
Sky Go is not supported on rooted Android devices
Can I use a free VPN to watch Sky Go?
We’ve discussed some quality paid options for Sky Go VPN providers, but there are also a ton of free VPNs available. These seem like attractive choices but we recommend steering clear as these services are typically plagued with issues.
A free VPN provider often has too many users and a limited number of servers. This results in long wait times for servers and slow, unreliable connections. And that’s not the worst part. Many of these services use shady business tactics to make money. They might track user activity, sell customer profiles to advertisers, and even steal users’ idle bandwidth.
It’s definitely worth a few dollars a month to know you’re being served and protected by a reputable VPN provider.
Is it illegal to access Sky Go with a VPN?
It is not illegal to access Sky Go with a VPN. There is no law expressly prohibiting users from using a VPN when watching Sky Go.
When you sign up for Sky Go, however, you have to accept the terms and conditions, which state you must:
Be a resident of the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, or the Republic of Ireland.
Only access and use the Service via your Devices in the Territory.
So, using a VPN to access Sky Go from outside the UK may violate the terms of service, which could be grounds for Sky Go to terminate or suspend service. That being said, we have not seen any precedent of Sky Go taking action against VPN users other than simply blocking access from many VPNs.
Can I watch Sky Go with Tor?
It might be possible but we wouldn’t recommend it. First of all, Tor is slow. Too slow to stream videos in good quality without buffering.
Second, Tor does not let you choose the location from which you’ll access the Internet by default. To get an exit node in the UK, you would have to set up Tor bridges. Even then, reliability could be an issue.
Third, Sky Go requires users to log in with a username and password. Doing so completely erases your online anonymity, so there’s little point in using Tor in the first place.
Lastly, Tor exit nodes are public, so websites, apps, and streaming services all know whether or not you’re using Tor, even if they don’t know your identity. Many sites block access to connections from Tor nodes, and even if Sky Go doesn’t block you entirely, expect to go through a lot more CAPTCHAs to get to the site.
How does Sky Go detect a VPN?
Like many other streaming services, Sky Go uses various techniques to detect and block VPNs to enforce geo-restrictions. Here are some common methods Sky Go may use to detect VPNs:
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The company notes that with the introduction of the new UEFA format, a new UEFA Champions League is kicking off, in a super version: starting in the 2024/2025 season, it will be played 11 months out of 12, and there will be 47% more matches than in previous editions, with the number of teams participating in the final phase increased from 32 to 36, all in a single group.
In total there will therefore be 527 matches for each of the three seasons of the UEFA Champions League (185 matches, including the playoffs), UEFA Europa League (189 matches) and UEFA Europa Conference League (153 matches). This will include the three finals, in addition to the UEFA Europe Super Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, whose new format is still being defined.
Commenting on the development, Andrea Duilio, CEO of Sky Italia, said: “We are really excited to continue being UEFA’s partner and to offer our subscribers exclusively the big matches of these important European competitions until 2027.
“With the renewal of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League, our Casa dello Sport will host many seasons of exclusive live events. A confirmation of our commitment to investing in high-quality content to bring Sky families a varied and quality offer, which combines Italian and international cinema, entertainment, TV series and big sport with the best possible viewing experience”.
Sky Italia currently holds the rights to broadcast to 121 of the 137 UEFA Champions League matches per season and all 282 UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League matches per season for the current three-year period of 2021-2024.
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As the Sky Sport Italy Summit returned to the Milan Santa Giulia headquarters of Sky Italia on 27 June for its 2024 edition, the imminent launch of Sky Sport Plus was high on the agenda. Rossella De Vivo, production & creative hub director at Sky Italia, moderated a panel that delved into the mechanisms behind the channel, which is dedicated to offering premium, exclusive, and high-definition sports content, and the implementation of scalable and resilient solutions, considered fundamental for managing traffic peaks and ensuring a seamless user experience.
Sky Sport Plus offers the opportunity to follow more major international sports events, with in-depth analysis, interviews and reviews. It also includes advanced features such as multiscreen viewing and 4K HDR for an enhanced viewing experience.
Read more Sky Sport Italy Summit 2024: Behind the scenes of Sky Italia’s Euro 2024 setup
The panel featured Pierluigi Magliano, group director of origination & distribution operation / director CT&I Italia, and Giuseppe Laurita, lead of production application development, and Davide Gandino, head of group distribution, Sky Italia.
Magliano explained: “Sky Sport Plus was created to meet the growing market demand by offering an expanded range of sports content. The key is to manage this increased offer and make it valuable in a convenient and comprehensive way. This includes using new content distribution methods, from reception and packaging, to enhancement through metadata and optimised distribution.”
Laurita, describing the “behind the scenes challenges faced by Sky Sport Plus”, said that it “is supported by a data-driven technological architecture. The main challenge was scalability, requiring a rethink of existing architectures and operational processes to deliver a high volume of content without overloading current processes. Sporting events are managed granularly, thanks to a data and cloud-based architecture. Everything starts with the acquisition of editorialised sports data, crossed with the rights matrix. This allows us to define, event by event, on which platforms, in which countries, and within which parameters to distribute the content. Data drives the entire process, from technical resources to providing metadata on various device apps. Real-time data integration and updates trigger a process that effectively manages all cloud resources.”
Gandino spoke about the advanced distribution of sports content revolutionised by Sky Sport Plus, stating: “This solution allows in-depth coverage of each sport’s specifics, making the best use of acquired rights not only for main matches but also offering a broader range of complementary content.”
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He added: “We focused heavily on operational and economic efficiency, avoiding excessive fragmentation of management resources through data-driven automated solutions. This includes managing on-premises resources, booking, configuration, and using cloud resources to dynamically and cost-effectively handle usage peaks.
“From an environmental perspective, we are committed to reducing CO2 emissions, following Sky Zero standards and aiming for overall efficiency. The entire process has been automated, driven by metadata and work orders that automatically configure all downstream systems. This strategy allows for the broadcast of a wide range of content that previously did not find space on front channels, ensuring sustainable and financially responsible management.”
Read more Sky Sport Italy Summit 2024: Exploiting the transformative power of GenAI
Magliano discussed the background operations, stating: “They have undergone significant changes, with the implementation of a new operational model that first and foremost required a new mindset. We have rethought many areas, including editorial aspects, to support the new operations of the events. The adoption of a multi-level approach in event management has guided the development of a new integrated operational model, enabling the management of the entire process from work order acceptance to final control.”
This new model allows a single operational team in any country (Italy, UK, Germany) to manage and monitor events for the entire group. The merger of operations and the technical side has facilitated the review of operational principles and intervention logics, leading to the development of a comprehensive framework.
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Simon Carn, a world authority on satellite-powered analysis of global volcanic activity, is the winner of the 2024 Michigan Technological University Research Award.
Carn has scaled many mountains during his career — it's his love for climbing, hiking and travel that led him to study geology.
"Geology provided a pathway to a deeper understanding of landscape formation and evolution," said Carn, a distinguished professor in the Michigan Tech College of Engineering's Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences (GMES).
"Volcanology was an added attraction due to its focus on dynamic, visually spectacular processes that can have significant impacts on climate, the environment and human health. I also enjoy the interdisciplinary nature of volcanology, which integrates aspects of diverse subjects including geology, physics, chemistry, math, atmospheric science, data science, social sciences, and even history and the arts, among others."
Carn has to date generated approximately $15 million in research grants as a principal or co-investigator. He has received funding support from agencies at the apex of exploration and discovery, including NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
He is a member of several professional and technical societies, including the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). Carn's teaching experiences span the globe, from his volcanology course at Michigan Tech, where he arrived in 2008, to a recent workshop on remote sensing for volcano monitoring at an IAVCEI Scientific Assembly in Rotorua, New Zealand.
At Michigan Tech, Carn has mentored four postdoctoral associates, 22 Ph.D. students — serving as primary or co-advisor to nine — and 37 master's degree students, serving as primary or co-advisor to 18.
"He is one of a very few scientists I would trust to be at my side during a volcanic crisis."John S. Pallister, emeritus scientist, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, and former chief, Volcano Disaster Assistance Program
In his letter of support for the Research Award nomination, John S. Pallister said it's no wonder that students seek Carn out as an advisor. Pallister, emeritus scientist with the U.S. Department of the Interior's USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory and former chief of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program, said he points prospective graduate students in Carn's direction when they seek a recommendation.
"MTU is typically at the top of my list, largely because Dr. Carn is there," he said. "Although best known for his work on volcanic gas emissions, he also has a strong background in physical volcanology and magmatic processes."
Praising his public outreach and contributions, Pallister said many others in the field of volcanology have learned to turn to Carn.
"Put simply, Simon Carn is well-known in the community of volcano observatories as both a world-class volcanologist and a trusted advisor. His soft-spoken manner, coupled with extensive knowledge, experience and a sensitivity to local customs makes him a valued partner, as is evident from his work during periods of unrest and eruption at volcanoes in the West Indies, Latin America, Iceland, Africa and Indonesia," he said.
Demonstrating a long-term commitment to sharing his work with fellow scientists and a broader audience, Carn is a regular contributor to NASA's Earth Observatory educational website, and his expertise has been shared in Scientific American and National Geographic. One of Tech's most oft-quoted experts, he's been interviewed numerous times for TV, radio and newspapers, including BBC World Service, The Weather Channel, The Wall Street Journal and Weather Underground. Carn also shares real-time reports related to volcano activity on X, the social media channel formerly known as Twitter.
In a letter of support for Carn's award nomination, David Pyle, Carn's doctoral advisor at the University of Cambridge, said he's kept up with Carn's "prodigious outputs, both in academic journals, and his social media updates on emerging volcanic events." He described how Carn's Ph.D. work began on the island of Java, where Carn "covered hundreds of square miles to document the dozens of volcanic craters, cones and maars of the previously poorly known Lamongan Volcanic Field and learned to speak Bahasa Indonesia."
Pyle said Carn's work took off in its trailblazing direction based on a parallel project during that time. Carn investigated how freely available satellite imagery could be analyzed to conduct remote monitoring of Indonesia's volcanoes. The paper he wrote on the topic showed the internet's potential as a data source and effective tool for large-scale volcano surveillance and monitoring.
"This concept seems commonplace today, but Simon was ahead of the curve, and his paper won the European 'Len Curtis award' for the best paper in remote sensing literature in 2000," said Pyle. "This defined the trajectory of Simon's future career. While some of his earlier papers in this area were event-driven and others were important technical contributions, his lasting and continuing contribution has been the assembly and analysis of long-term datasets of global volcanic sulfur dioxide emissions."
"We now know the global annual-to-decadal variability of sulfur dioxide emissions from explosive volcanic eruptions, and we have Simon Carn to thank for this."David Pyle, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Carn finished his postdoctoral work on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat, where he monitored the active Soufriere Hills volcano, and went on to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where he continued to use satellite data to monitor volcanic emissions.
Carn's dataset, which extends from the start of the satellite era (circa 1979) to the present day, spans generations of instruments and many hundreds of events, said Pyle.
In addition to receiving this year's Research Award, Carn was also recognized as a 2024 University Professor, which acknowledges substantial contributions by faculty to Michigan Tech and their discipline.
Q&A with Simon Carn
In his own words, the 2024 Research Award winner reflects on his research, the role he and Michigan Tech play in the worldwide volcanology community, and why people are — and should be — interested in volcanoes.
Q: Say you're in a cafe or some other place where people strike up conversations. How do you describe your work? What are people most likely to ask you?
SC: I'm lucky to work in a field that is not too esoteric — I think most people have at least a basic understanding of the significance of volcanoes and the importance of studying them. If you tell people you're a volcanologist, the most likely question is if we can predict volcanic eruptions, and/or when the next large eruption will occur. Although the overarching goal of all volcano science is to improve understanding of volcanoes and provide better forecasts of volcanic activity and eruptions, most individual volcanologists like me are only working on a small piece of the whole puzzle.
Q: You've been highly rated by the GMES students and faculty for your ability to teach complex topics effectively and efficiently to students with a wide range of learning abilities and backgrounds. Your student evaluations are consistently strong. What's your secret? Tell us about your approach to teaching.
SC: As a scientist and educator, I've always strived to break down any complex topic or concept to its underlying, fundamental principles. I think this is the only way to achieve the deep understanding required for effective teaching of any subject. Of course, the sciences we teach are constantly advancing but, in some ways, I think it's more important to focus on understanding the fundamentals rather than the cutting edge. I always try to read widely on any subject and encourage students to do so, as I think differing viewpoints and approaches illuminate any topic and promote deeper understanding.
Q: You're also known as being highly collaborative. Tell me about your world community and how and whom you interact with.
SC: My work with satellite remote sensing data provides a global perspective on volcanic activity, and over the years this has presented opportunities to collaborate with volcanologists in many countries including Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Russia, Vanuatu and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Often, they are seeking assistance with volcano monitoring using satellite data that may not be easy for them to access, process or interpret.
In addition to my strong connections with NASA, I have a long-term collaboration with colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) in Vancouver, Washington, who respond to volcanic crises worldwide and sometimes need outside expertise in satellite data analysis. Satellite measurements of volcanic gases have greatly improved in recent years, and now play a critical role in the response to any volcanic activity.
In general, understanding volcano behavior and finding solutions to volcano science problems requires a multipronged approach and analysis of multiple datasets, so the field is naturally very collaborative. The volcano science community is also relatively small and close-knit compared to some other fields, which makes collaboration easier. Plus, there are relatively few persistently active, accessible or 'laboratory' volcanoes available for studies of active volcanic processes — Kilauea in Hawaii and Stromboli in Italy are good examples — and so volcanologists tend to congregate in these locations for fieldwork.
Q: Why do you care about your research? What do you find most exciting or important about it?
SC: Understanding the impacts of volcanic activity on our atmosphere and climate has never been more relevant, as humanity faces the consequences of ongoing climate change and global warming due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
A single, major volcanic eruption in the future could initiate a few years of cooling, temporarily offsetting global warming. Attempting to identify the warning signs that might herald such an event and the possibility of capturing it if — or when — it happens, is one of the most exciting aspects of my research. But aside from these infrequent, larger events, volcanic activity has some impact on humans and the environment on a daily basis somewhere in the world and my research plays an important role in understanding and mitigating these effects.
"We're still a long way from being able to provide an accurate, long-range forecast of the next major eruption. But my work on volcanic gas emissions contributes both to the detection of eruption precursors, which potentially allow us to improve eruption forecasting, and to our understanding of the impacts of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere and climate."Simon Carn, 2024 Michigan Tech Research Award winner
Q: Why should we care about your research?
SC: Our research on volcanic emissions at Michigan Tech is quite distinctive — there are arguably no other groups anywhere in the world compiling the same data at the same level of detail and we have a strong reputation in the field. Plus, the data we generate are critical to our understanding of the present state of our atmosphere and climate change, so it is important and necessary work. Climate change, and our response to it as a society, has become one of the major polarizing issues of our time, and volcanoes are often incorrectly blamed for rising levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, or other atmospheric impacts. Hence it is vitally important that we maintain accurate accounting of global volcanic emissions to dispel such notions.
Geoengineering, one of the proposed solutions to global warming, involves human interventions to modify climate such as the injection of sulfur gases into the stratosphere to mimic the cooling effects of large volcanic eruptions. To assess the potential efficacy of such efforts we need a detailed understanding of the impacts of volcanic eruptions.
Q: Tell us about some of your most memorable fieldwork experiences.
SC: Fieldwork on active volcanoes is always memorable in some way — the sights, sounds and smells make it a multisensory experience. I've always enjoyed climbing hills and mountains; climbing a volcano provides a similar thrill. But in addition to the view from the top, there is usually a bonus of a potential surprise at the summit, such as a cavernous crater or even an active lava lake. Some of my most memorable field missions have been to volcanoes hosting the world's largest active lava lakes, especially Nyiragongo (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Ambrym (Vanuatu). I've spent quite a few days camped at the summit of these volcanoes, measuring the volcanic gases, but the nights are the most unforgettable aspect — the constant roar of the churning lava and the orange glow illuminating the night sky like a giant searchlight make it an otherworldly experience. On one trip to Nyiragongo, we needed a supply of liquid nitrogen to cool the instrument we were using to measure the volcanic gases, but unfortunately the large dewar containing the liquid got damaged before we started the climb up to the summit crater, and the liquid nitrogen began to rapidly boil off. So, we had to race up the volcano before all the liquid nitrogen had evaporated — luckily, we were still able to make some measurements.
Q: What does your research look like on a daily basis? How is your research field evolving?
SC: On any given day, there might be a new volcanic eruption or other volcanic activity to analyze using various types of satellite data. I'm involved with several NASA satellite missions and so there is always plenty of data to evaluate. In the event of a significant volcanic eruption, I try to provide a rapid, accurate assessment (usually via social media) of any potential climate or other impacts, as there tends to be rampant misinformation and exaggeration of the effects after most large eruptions. Otherwise, there is always a huge amount of archived data to analyze, code to write, or new research papers to read.
In the past few years there have been some exciting new developments in satellite observations, allowing us to study volcanic activity with higher temporal resolution. As in many other fields, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are likely to play an increasingly significant role in volcano science in the future as the volume of satellite and other data to process and interpret grows exponentially. The ongoing, rapid development of AI is simultaneously exciting and a little concerning. In volcanology, I think AI has great potential for tasks such as pattern recognition in complex data, but at the same time I worry that there is still a wealth of human experience of volcanoes and intuition that is yet to be captured in the datasets used to train AI tools.
Q: Why did you come to Michigan Tech?
SC: Michigan Tech has long been known as one of the few institutions specializing in volcanology in the U.S., since Professor Bill Rose, now emeritus, started the program here in the 1970s. It is also particularly recognized for expertise in satellite remote sensing of volcanoes, which I worked on during my postdoc at NASA and the University of Maryland. So, when I was finishing up my postdoc and looking for tenure-track academic positions, Tech was naturally very high on my list. After living for several years on the East Coast near Washington, D.C., I was also attracted to the benefits of small-town life, such as relatively low cost of living, short commutes, clean air and easy access to outdoor recreation.
Q: Why do you think people are so fascinated by volcanoes?
SC: Volcanic activity can certainly be awe-inspiring to watch, and I think our fascination with volcanoes runs deep in the human psyche. When you watch an active or erupting volcano you are looking at a phenomenon that has been acting essentially unchanged for millions of years of Earth history.
In recent years, we are lucky to have had access to a proliferation of webcams providing real-time views of eruptions in places like Iceland, Hawaii and the Canary Islands, which are very popular.
Volcanoes provide a glimpse of the primordial processes that have shaped the Earth throughout deep time, and observing them can be a visceral, even humbling experience, which I think has few parallels in the modern world. As our daily lives become increasingly dominated by technology and detached from the natural world, such experiences are becoming more valuable.
Q: What do volcanoes have to teach us?
SC: Volcanoes represent forces that are beyond our capacity to control, and an important reminder that we inhabit a planet that is geologically active on timescales vastly removed from our own, fleeting human experience. They teach us to think about 'deep time,' to acknowledge human fallibility, and to apply our innate creativity to imagine processes acting within the Earth that will never be directly observable. I think this has ramifications for our approaches to major contemporary issues, such as climate change, which has both natural and anthropogenic components. We must respect the natural cycles of the Earth and its atmosphere and take care not to disrupt them.
Q: On a lighter note, what do you like to do in your free time?
SC: In the winter I enjoy cross-country skiing or snowshoe running on our local trails. We're lucky to have some world-class groomed trails next to campus and elsewhere in the region that provide ample opportunities for outdoor recreation in the winter months (i.e., about half the year in the Upper Peninsula!). When the snow melts, I switch to trail running or mountain biking on the same trails. It's well known that spending time in nature can improve mental health and having easy access to the peace and tranquility of the Northwoods is a big attraction of living here.
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I have some relatives who have recently moved to Italy and still want British Sky TV.
The previous owners of the house were also Brit expats who'd had the Sky dish realigned to pick up the Brit Sky
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I have British friends in Japan who have used TV-through-the-net (like Slingbox) to transmit the programming over the internet for viewing through an internet connection anywhere they travel to.
This requires:
Having someone in the UK to set up the box for you and connect it to the internet
Fast enough internet connections on both sides
Some technical aptitude with computers (downloading, installing, and setting up the Slingbox)
Quality depends on the connection, so that is something to look in to prior to taking the leap, and anything like this will require installation fees to set up the SkyTV in the UK, as well as hardware costs for the actual hardware to transmit the programming.
This may be an alternative option if other things don't work.
Dunno how I didn't spot this before but guess I was too focused around the setup they were already using and had tailored my searches around that but the below links seem to solve the problem mostly albeit losing some channels but being official.
http://www.sky4me.tv/sky-uk-italy
http://www.skyeurope.tv/sky-subscription-italy
Both sites provide access to SKY UK TV to around 18 countries across europe with identical pricing schemes although it's not clear if they both offer the same channel selection.
Hi everyone we live in comano northern Italy. We have a 1.2 metre dish and a invacom quad lnb. We only use 1 feed for sky tv. We get bbc channels from approx 0700 to 1700 hrs. This also depends on weather. The more cloud rain etc we lose signal. Sky news remains on in bad weather. We use a panasonic dsb 31 box.
I am a ex satelite installer from Spain and my advice would be try and go bigger with the dish we will when we have to change it.
Hope this info helps.
If you have a decent Internet connection its easy - Use Sky or UKTV4ITALIA
If you want a real or normal TV experience watching through your TV, UKTV4ITALIA do a box that you plug into your hdmi port on your TV and also the internet and you can get all the UK free to air channels and lots more, including all the UK radio channels, 14 day catch up and recording.
Sky has adverts, similar to Youtube (thats where they make their money, and if you try and watch on a big TV screen its a bit grainy (put fine on an iPad) and there is an annoying Sky Logo always on the screen. Not bad for free though!
UKTV4ITALIA does not have advertising or screen logo and its a normal TV experience but the cost is about £10 a month.
You need about 1.2 Mbps download speed (in the evening) for standard definition and you can check your internet by using speedtest .net
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The above graph displays service status activity for Www.sky.it over the last 10 automatic checks. The blue bar displays the response time, which is better when smaller. If no bar is displayed for a specific time it means that the service was down and the site was offline.
Service Status History
DateTimePing TimeDateTimePing Time 05.Aug.2024 07:3811.77 ms. 05.Aug.2024 12:1015.38 ms. 05.Aug.2024 14:4112.75 ms. 07.Aug.2024 03:3313.82 ms. 07.Aug.2024 20:1112.59 ms. 08.Aug.2024 15:0331.23 ms. 08.Aug.2024 17:4812.36 ms. 09.Aug.2024 05:1514.5 ms. 11.Aug.2024 17:0112.8 ms. 12.Aug.2024 07:3519.69 ms.
* Times displayed are PT, Pacific Time (UTC/GMT 0) | Current server time is 00:56
We have tried pinging Sky Italia website using our server and the website returned the above results. If www.sky.it is down for us too there is nothing you can do except waiting. Probably the server is overloaded, down or unreachable because of a network problem, outage or a website maintenance is in progress...
Can't Access Sky Italia - Troubleshooting Instructions
If the site is UP but you cant access the page, try one of the below solutions:
Browser Related Problems
Force a full refresh for the site. This can be achieved by pressing CTRL + F5 keys at the same time on your favourite browser (Firefox, Chrome, Explorer, etc.)
Clear the temporary cache and cookies on your browser to make sure that you have the most recent version of the web page. For instructions choose your browser :
Fix DNS Problems
A Domain Name System (DNS) allows a site IP address (192.168.x.x) to be identified with words (*.com) in order to be remembered more easily, like a phonebook for websites. This service is usually provided by your ISP.
Clear your local DNS cache to make sure that you grab the most recent cache that your ISP has. For Windows - (Start > Command Prompt > type "ipconfig /flushdns" and hit enter). For details choose your operating system :
If you can access a website at office or from a 3G network yet it's not working on your computer, it is a good idea to use an alternative DNS service other than your ISPs. OpenDNS or Google Public DNS are both excellent and free public DNS services.
Check our help page for step-by-step instructions on how to change your DNS.
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What is a Mirage?
A mirage is a phenomenon where you think you see water. In this picture it looks as though these mountains are reflected in a lake. There might not even be mountains there at all.
Mirages are most common in deserts. They happen when light passes through two layers of air with different temperatures. The desert sun heats the sand, which in turn heats the air just above it. The hot air bends light rays and reflects the sky.
When you see it from a distance, the different air masses colliding with each other act like a mirror. The desert ahead seems to have become a lake but it is actually a reflection of the sky above.
Mirages can be seen almost anywhere – those shimmering heat hazes that appear on the road ahead of you on sunny days, but disappear as you approach are mirages.
In the countryside you may seem to see a small lake or pond near trees or in a field, this is also created by differences in temperature between the ground temperature and the air just above ground level.
A beautiful mirage called the Fata Morgana appears in the Straits of Messina, between Sicily and Italy. It is an image of a town in the sky, like a fairy tale landscape. It is believed to be a mirage of a fishing village situated further along the coast.
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Monday afternoon, via SKY Italia, we clicked on to channel 138, for BBC Entertainment (formerly known as BBC Prime), our favourite channel available with the basic Mondo SKY Italia package, only to see this blunt notice.
We were astonished, as there had been no prior warning of the channel’s impending demise. SKY evidently thought it unnecessary even to have the courtesy to advise its clients that this service was soon to be withdrawn.
To say that I was somewhat disappointed is putting it mildly, I WAS ABSOLUTELY LIVID !!! Paul can vouch for for this, having endured an entire evening of my spontaneous eruptions of disgust, door slamming, stomping, sulking and general tantrums. (You can tell that I’ve got true Italian blood !!!)
I emailed BBC Entertainment via their website and received a prompt reply in which they advised us to complain directly to SKY:
“Unfortunately, SKY Italia has decided not to renew carriage of BBC Entertainment and, as such, the channel ceased transmission on the platform from 28th February 2010 at 24.00 hours. This type of action is commonplace as contracts are considered and renewed by both parties every few years.
We have recently made a significant investment in BBC Entertainment and are committed to offering our viewers the high quality channel that they have come to expect from the BBC. We are currently talking to a number of operators about the opportunity to roll out our portfolio of BBC-branded channels in Italy and we aim to agree carriage for the new channels as quickly as possible so that viewers can resume enjoying BBC content. We hope to be able to announce news of channel launches in the near future. In the meantime, if you have any further queries about how this may affect your current subscription, please contact SKY Italia directly to discuss the terms and conditions of your contract.
We are sorry that we could not let viewers know about this before now. It is difficult to do so on-air because BBC Entertainment transmits to over fifty other regions, but we will be posting an announcement on our website Community Forums shortly.
We appreciate your support of BBC Entertainment.”
I wondered was it co-incidental that a few days ago, it was announced that the BBC was downsizing and discontinuing some of its services ???
BBC Entertainment was the best of the few channels broadcast by SKY Italia that show better quality, English language programmes. This was the principal reason for subscribing to SKY Italia in the first place. It was my little “comfort zone” where I could enjoy some familiar British programmes, especially during the dark winter evenings.
Recently the BBC Channel had been rebranded as BBC Entertainment, with a fanfare of publicity. There seemed thave been some improvement, with several interesting new programmes. Ironically I enlisted as a “BBC Entertainment Channel Reviewer”, but what use is a reviewer if there is no channel available to view !!!
SKY had already withdrawn another good channel, namely CULT, which used to be available with our package, but fairly recently has been moved to form part of the SKY Cinema package. I am afraid we are not great fans of the other numerous American programmes, such as cartoons, sitcoms or news channels.
SKY seems to be making the big mistake of choosing quantity rather than quality. They have recently added a few new channels such as: Lady Channel, Lei, Mediaset Plus, Cielo, Fox Retro, all churning out inferior quality programmes and endless repeats.
When, just occasionally, you do find something interesting to watch, it seems it is impossible to get into the story, before being incessantly bombarded with adverts. The EU has launched legal action against Italian adverts which exceed the maximum EU limit on advertising of 12 minutes per hour, and the limit of 20 minutes minimum intervals between breaks for commercials. The ads are also transmitted at twice the normal volume which is really exasperating and surely counterproductive, as everyone instinctively reaches for the mute button on their remote control.
We try to keep up-to-date with the news around the world by watching English speaking News channels such as BBC World, Euronews, Al Jazeera.
With UK SKY News, it is frustrating that the interactive links do not work for us abroad. We are tired of their over exaggerated stories, the way the presenters try to stretch out a story to its absolute limit, by interviewing numerous bystanders or so called “experts”, asking each the very same questions over and over again. Mammia Mia !!! How much more can one take !!!
Then there’s SKY Meteo 24 Weather Forecast regularly presented by painfully thin ex beauty contestants to tart up the bulletins. The interactive 3 day regional forecast is laughable being more than often spectacularly inaccurate.
“Why not watch Italian TV?” I hear you ask.
Well the one thing in Italy we haven’t managed to embrace is Italian TV, it has to be said – it is utterly diabolical. It has to be seen to be believed. Italian television is dominated by the three Italian state TV channels governed by the Government – ie Berlusconi, namely Rai Uno, Rai Due, Rai Tre, which come with their highly irritating “bing bong bing bong bing bong” musical jingle. The biggest rival channels are the private Mediaset channels owned by of course the mighty media mogul, dear old uncle Berlusconi. These channels pump out a stream of low cost programmes, including trashy soaps, reality TV, excruciating talent shows and badly dubbed American imports.
Every evening there is some ghastly “get rich quick” game show which often seem to be sponsored by companies that liberally advertise their products throughout the programme. There is normally a balding late “middle-aged” male presenter who tries his utmost to look like he did when he was in his 20’s by whatever means he finds available, including copious amounts of black hair dye, greasy “Brill Cream”, carroty smears of fake suntan products and abundant chunky gold jewellery. Despite their big cheesy smiles the producers consider that the audience could do with a little bit of something to pep things up …… Cue at least a dozen titillating young glamour girls, complete with their dozen sets of white teethy smiles, voluptuous pouting lips, tussled hairdo’s, decidedly skimpy outfits emphasising their long, long legs and exposing their ample cleavages. … Yes! That should do the trick !!!
Then there are the regular variety entertainment extravaganzas, introduced by more sad aging male presenters, surrounded by a throng of Italian beauties, who seem to have nothing to do at all with the show, and are just being there to nicely adorn the glitzy set and look “cute”. Lots of applause and then it’s the turn of a lady presenter wearing a low cut evening gown, with a perfect white smile to talk and giggle a lot before the music strikes up and she proceeds to manically gyrate and start ripping off strips of her dress until she is left semi-naked and proceeds to fling herself into some frenetic dance routine. More rounds of pre-cued applause before she continues the job of presenting the first guest on the show, without even breaking into a sweat of course. Next follows some incomprehensible slapstick humour with adults dressed up as children, talking in bizarre squeaky voices. Next … a raunchy dance routine with a troop of girls in miniscule spangled costumes to emphasise bums and voluptuous boobies. All this is quite acceptable in this good Catholic Country? I wonder if its one of the Pope’s favourite programmes? Next … an aging Italian rock star who’s well past his sell-by-date, hairy chested, designer stubbled, medallioned with the usual gravelly voice. And so it goes … on and on, and there’s no relief even during the frequent breaks for pubblicità.
Adverts contain lots of precocious children posing in adverts for tooth rotting chocolates, biscuits and cakes that are – “so healthy and full of milky goodness”! Then there is a sexy lady emerging from a moonlit swim, all silky and seductive to be finger fed strands of delicious spaghetti.
In my opinion, the “pièce de resistance” was a ridiculous ad for Parmesan cheese which featured adults dressed up as shiny tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, onions, garlic, aubergines, bunches of basil, and various pasta shapes dancing around a huge cheese singing the “cheesiest” yet most catchiest of songs that goes “Pa pa pa pa parmigiano eh…….., re re re re reggiano eh ……….” You’ve never seen anything like it ! This is Italia !!!
Currently the most annoying ad is for Buitoni ready made foccacia, pizza bases and pastry which portrays a young, beautiful, perfect, diligent housewife “hand-making” a lovely dinner for their husband and family. The music that accompanies the images has a demented, women’s voice screaming over and over, high pitched, finally reaching an ear splitting crescendo, “Brava !!! Brava !!!” Arghhhhhhhhhhhh !!!
There’s a plethora of other smaller Italian channels to trail through, some regional, though still none worth watching … some dreadful soaps, animated discussions about football and politics, chat shows, saucy comedy shows, agony aunts, sailing, ceramics, horoscopes, tarot cards, analysis and advice on choosing your Lotto numbers, religious channels such as the Vatican’s Peace channel, and Padre Pio station, and diabolical non-stop advertising channels selling keep fit equipment, jewellery, electric coffee makers, and things to make you lose weight overnight.
Why not get a UK Sky Card and watch British TV here in Italy ? You may ask.
It seems that to be able to watch British TV via the ASTRA 2D satellite we would require a dish measuring 4 metres, because of the curvature of the earth !!! Surely in this “world of wonderful up-to-the-minute technology” there must be another way ???
At one stage I thought we would be able to watch BBC programmes via BBC iPlayer. However when we registered it became apparent that with an Italian IP address, this service was beyond us.
Also, here at “Tre Cancelle” we do not have a fixed telephone line. It’s a long story, but one of our neighbours has refused to allow us to put up a pole on her land in order to get a connection. It would be very expensive anyway, as the nearest telephone wires are some considerable distance from the house.
Thus our internet connection is solely via a mobile link, which is slower than ADSL / Broadband, and susceptible to weather / atmospheric conditions. Even if, via a proxy server, we could attempt to stream programmes, the quality may well be insufficient for a quality viewing.
Anyway, back to SKY Italia …
A group has been started on Facebook “BRING BACK BBC ENTERTAINMENT ON SKY ITALIA !!” http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=10150110862420713&ref=ts via which it is advised to bombard SKY Italia with phone calls, emails and faxes of complaint. There have been reports of staff on the SKY Client Help Line putting the phone down on irate customers. Disgraceful !!! It is clear that SKY have no consideration for their viewers.
On the SKY Italia Website, Guida TV, BBC Entertainment programmes are still be scheduled on 138 from Sunday 7 March onwards. What on earth is going on ??? I suppose it just goes to show how incompetent SKY Italia are !!! What do they take us for ???
I have emailed SKY to voice my complaint …….. Still awaiting a reply !!!
If the BBC Entertainment channel is not going to be re-instated we will be cancelling our SKY subscription out of principle !!!
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So pretty that it inspired a Disney movie (Luca), Cinque Terre ("five lands") consists of five startlingly photogenic fishing villages on Italy's northwest coast, their candy-colored houses stacked down the sides of ravines and on top of cliffs. With sea, great food and wine, jaw-dropping views and photo opportunities at every turn, this is everything people love about Italy.
Today, however, that beauty is also its curse – it's one of the most overtouristed parts of the Bel Paese, with thousands of daytrippers crowding into the narrow streets, eager to take a couple of quick shots for the 'Gram and then leave. Is Cinque Terre overcrowded? Absolutely. Does that limit your enjoyment? Not if you take your time. Most people day-trip around the five villages, but stay longer – even three or four days – and you'll get a real appreciation of this extraordinary landscape.
One of the most remote parts of Italy – the single road arrived in the 1960s, and the railway a century earlier – Cinque Terre has always been a place of visceral beauty. Look up beyond those colored houses: for over 1,000 years, the residents have terraced the cliff sides and cultivated olives and wine that were once the toast of Europe's top tables.
Today, the entire area is a national park that celebrates human ingenuity as well as Mother Nature, with around 120km (75mi) of footpaths allowing you to explore it in the raw. But as well as a place to walk, this is also a place to relax. Watch the waves beat against the rocks from one of the medieval castles scattered along the coast – a hallmark of Liguria, the wider region. Drink a glass of wine cultivated on those very cliffs. Watch the sunset set the sea aflame. And rejoice that you chose more than a day trip.
This guide to Cinque Terre shows you how to make the best of your trip to this bucket-list Italian destination.
Want more Italian seaside fun? Head to these beautiful beaches
Introducing Cinque Terre's five villages
Riomaggiore
Vibes: The southernmost village packs fine-dining restaurants and good bars into its teeny terraces. If you're wondering where to start in Cinque Terre, this is your best bet.
See: Castello di Riomaggiore, the clifftop castle overlooking the village
Eat: In the mornings or for lunch on the run, grab a pastry or piece of focaccia at Panificio Rosi. The best views in town are from A Pié de Ma, a superb wine bar and restaurant on the cliffs that has an unbeatable selection of local wines by the glass. Run by Sicilian brothers, La Lampara is a superb seafood restaurant.
Stay: Locanda Ca da Iride has simple, comfortable rooms (but no breakfast) in the higher part of the village.
Manarola
Vibes: Arguably the prettiest part of Cinque Terre, cutesy Manarola has cottages stacked up and over the cliffs, as well as the area's loveliest main street, which spirals down a canyon to the water's edge.
See: Take the footpath forking upwards from the north side of the village to find yourself immersed in cliffside vineyards with spectacular sea views.
Eat: From breakfast to late lunches, Cappun Magru is the place for exceptional sandwiches, pastries and cakes, all washed down with local wine. You can't beat Nessun Dorma for an aperitivo with a view – it's jammed onto the cliffside and delivers sunset views. Da Aristide is a lovely family-run restaurant in the heart of the village. Try the muscoli ripieni – mussels stuffed with mortadella, parmesan and egg by nonna Grazia.
Stay: Posidonia is a sweet guesthouse with wonderful owners in the quiet, higher part of the village.
Corniglia
Vibes: Tiny Corniglia, perched high above the seas, is the only clifftop village in the region. From up here, you can see all of Cinque Terre.
See: Take in the views as you climb (or, easier, descend) the 383 steps between the sea-level train station and the village.
Eat: Dai Luca offers panini, foccacia and street food for snacks or meals on the run, while the wine bar Terra Rossa has a lovely selection of local dishes and drinks overlooking a pretty garden. A Cantina de Mananan is a lovely osteria (cafe) in the village serving the best Cinque Terre ingredients.
Stay: Il Carugio di Corniglia has rooms and apartments overlooking the sea.
Vernazza
Vibes: The busiest village, Vernazza was the most important in the past – though it's crowded, head up the steep staircases to quiet medieval alleyways – as twisty and atmospheric as the caruggi of regional capital Genoa.
See: Wander round the small harbor and step into the atmospheric 13th-century church of Santa Margherita d'Antiochia.
Eat: Top breakfast spot Il Pirata delle Cinque Terre has Sicilian granita and pastries in the morning, as well as excellent lunch and dinner. Grab a snack or pasta box at Pippo a Vernazza and wash it down with a wine tasting at nearby Cantina Cheo. Ristorante La Torre has spectacular views of the sea (though it's a hike to get there).
Stay: Restaurant Gianni Franzi also has rooms scattered throughout the village, most of which have spectacular sea views.
Monterosso al Mare
Vibes: With its long, sandy beach, this – usually known as plain "Monterosso" – is the largest village and the one that most resembles a regular beach resort.
See: Wander through the warren of the old town and head up to the humbug-striped Convento dei Cappuccini to see a Crucifixion by Van Dyck.
Eat: Start the day with pastries from Pasticceria Laura; to go all out, try the torta monterossina, stuffed with jam and chocolate. You could spend a whole day at Buranco – an agriturismo, vineyard and restaurant just outside the center. Take a bottle for a wander round the vineyard, then settle down to a superb home-cooked lunch. Local legend Miky Ristorante has been a must-visit since 1980.
Stay: Friendly Hotel Marina is near Buranco, just outside the historic center of the village.
When should I go to Cinque Terre?
Like the rest of Liguria, Cinque Terre enjoys beautiful, not-too-hot summers. Unlike nearby resorts along the Italian Riviera, however, this isn't really somewhere to flop on a beach – not least because Monterosso has the only real beach, with sand and small pebbles. The other villages either have rocky coves, boulders doubling as diving boards or harbors to swim in. Since most visitors come for an active trip with plenty of hiking, spring and fall are a better bet. Crowded throughout the year – unbearably so in summer – the area is quieter in winter, though it's not always possible to hike due to the weather. Cross-reference your dates with Italian public holidays, as the villages can be impossibly busy with daytrippers.
Italian locals share their favorite places to avoid the crowds on vacation
How much time should I spend in Cinque Terre?
The vast majority of visitors come here for a day trip, and while it's possible to visit all five villages in a day, to do so is to completely miss the beauty of the area. Rather like Venice, Cinque Terre is so popular, and so crowded, that if you just have a quick glimpse, you're likely to end up disappointed.
Instead, you probably need at least three or four full days in Cinque Terre to get a true taste. That gives you time to see the villages, walk some of the Sentiero Azzurro paths, sit back with some of the local wine as you take in the views, and even visit some of the villages further up the cliff sides. Spend a week, and you can add lesser-known hikes and visit some of Italy's most spectacular vineyards. Even longer is better – I spent two weeks on my first trip and enjoyed every minute.
Is it easy to get into and around Cinque Terre?
This is a relatively tough-to-reach location, which makes it even more important to spend as long as you can here. The closest airports are Genoa and Pisa – both are around 1-2 hours by train from Cinque Terre, depending on connections.
One extremely important point: driving here is absolutely to be avoided. Parking is extremely limited, expensive, and usually a long, steep climb outside the villages (only residents are allowed to park inside). The narrow, clifftop roads can also be frightening for newcomers to the area – the Amalfi Coast has nothing on these lanes, and even as a seasoned Italian cliffside driver, one time in Cinque Terre was one time too many for me. Even if you already have a car on your trip, it's best parking outside Cinque Terre (try La Spezia or Levanto) and coming in on the train. You have my word on this.
The best way to travel between the villages is definitely by rail. Trains run around every 15-20 minutes throughout the day, stopping at each of the five villages – the journey time between each stop is only a couple of minutes. Tickets cost €5-10 per journey (even if you're just doing a two-minute hop) depending on the season, and it's often better value to buy a timed Cinque Terre Card, which allows unlimited train travel between Levanto and La Spezia (the cities north and south of the area). The card also includes hiking fees, as well as bus travel to the more remote villages. Proceeds go to the national park.
You can also get around by boat. Navigazione Golfo dei Poeti runs between La Spezia and Levanto, calling at all the villages. Golfo Paradiso has a line from Genoa. Services can be suspended in bad weather, however, and boarding with a lot of luggage can be tricky.
In the villages themselves, the only real option is walking – and they are steep. Those with mobility issues will certainly find it difficult. The centers of Corniglia and Vernazza are largely flat, as is the beach area of Monterosso. Manarola and Riomaggiore are trickier for anyone with mobility issues.
Top things to do in Cinque Terre
Hike (some of) the Sentiero Azzurro
The most famous of Cinque Terre's paths is the Sentiero Azzurro (Blue Trail), which links all five villages across the cliff sides (it's marked as SVA on maps). In recent years, it's been rare that you'll find it fully open – winter storm damage means that some long stretches are closed. The easiest stretch – which is actually more of a moderate level – is Corniglia to Vernazza (2.5 miles, with a steep downhill section at the end). To get updates on closures, check the national park website before you head out.
See the coastline from the sea
Take a boat with Navigazione Golfo dei Poeti to see Cinque Terre's extraordinary landscape from the sea. It gives you an idea of the remoteness of the place – there wasn't a road here until the 1960s – and of how the locals have sculpted terraces from the sheer cliffs, making an uninhabitable landscape productive. Docking at the villages' tiny harbors is a memorable experience, and you can go onwards to La Spezia or (my pick) Levanto.
Walk the Via dell'Amore
Cinque Terre's most famous walk has always been the Via dell'Amore – the flat, accessible, 1km (half-mile) path between Riomaggiore and Manarola. Closed since 2012 due to landslide damage, it's due to reopen in July 2024 for guided tours only. I got a sneak peek last year and was impressed – the tours explain the rich history of the area and make you look beyond those color-popping houses.
Taste the local wine
For centuries, Cinque Terre has been known for its wine: sea-flecked salty whites grown along the cliffs. Try it by the glass at bars like A Pié de Ma in Riomaggiore or Cappun Magru in Manarola – both of these offer wine flights and tastings.
My favorite thing to do in Cinque Terre
Time for more wine: for me, nothing tells you more about Cinque Terre than perching high up in the hills, hearing how the locals have produced bottles that, in the Renaissance period, were so famous that they graced the tables of kings and popes. Tilling those cliffsides is backbreaking manual work, and while the vineyards are a fraction of what they were, they're important for stabilizing the increasingly fragile landscape and warding off the effects of climate change.
The best – and most fun – way to understand this is with a vineyard tour. You'll catch me high up on the hills above Vernazza on a tour from Cheo – from the vineyards, there are jaw-dropper views of the village, castle and sea below. Don't forget to try the heavenly sweet sciacchetrà wine that Cinque Terre is famous for – that sea-salt breeze adds an incredible tang.
How much money do I need for Cinque Terre?
Cinque Terre is expensive by Italian standards – visit in the high season or on a weekend, and you can expect to see prices double. Accommodation is particularly expensive in relation to the quality of what's on offer – there are very few hotels here, and usually your best bet is an affittacamere – room rental without breakfast. Accommodation in La Spezia or Levanto is usually cheaper and less problematic in terms of homeowners turfing out local renters to create Airbnbs, a major issue in the villages. Having said that, Cinque Terre's magic is especially strong at night.
You won't find any bargain restaurants or trattorias – prices are up there with high-end joints in major cities – but on the plus side, Liguria is the home of Italian street food, and there are plenty of small bakeries offering tasty snacks like focaccia that are good for lunch.
Average daily cost for:
Hostel room €20-40 (dorm spot)
Basic room for two €130-250
Self-catering apartment (including Airbnb) €150-250
Public transport ticket €5-10
Coffee €1-4
Sandwich €6-12
Dinner for two €60-150
Glass of Cinque Terre wine €6-15
Bring layers, no matter the season
Weather changes fast on the Liguria coast, and even in the hottest summer months, you'll probably need a jacket or sweater at night – as well as if you go out on a boat during the day.
Be prepared to walk… a lot
Don't underestimate how challenging the villages can be for those with mobility problems. Even if you're not planning to hike, Manarola and Riomaggiore are extremely steep. Be aware of that when you book your accommodation, too – there are limited porter services, and you should be prepared to cart your luggage up the cliffside.
Buy a Cinque Terre card
Village hop without counting the cost. The card includes access to all the hiking trails and allows you onto the bus routes to villages higher up on the cliffs. The proceeds go to the national park.
If availability is limited in the villages, stay in Levanto or La Spezia
Levanto and La Spezia bookend Cinque Terre and are included in Cinque Terre train tickets, so if you're booking last minute and the villages are sold out, try here (I prefer Levanto – La Spezia is a bigger city).
Support local businesses
Like all overtouristed areas, Cinque Terre's future depends on how tourists treat it. Shop at local artisan shops for souvenirs and eat at restaurants that utilize local products like marinated anchovies and regional wine. The latter is an important one – young locals replanting vineyards are helping to stabilize the fragile cliff terraces.
Take care on the trails
Cinque Terre's footpaths are so famous that you can often feel cushioned against nature, but these are vertiginous, cliffside trails that at times are lethally narrow. Always stop to take a photo, rather than walking with your camera, to avoid missteps. Wear decent shoes (flip flops are banned and there are checks at the trailheads) and bring plenty of water, as there's very little shade. Always stick to the designated path – this is an exceptionally fragile environment. And, of course, don't litter.
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Best VPNs for Sky Go Italia:
ExpressVPN:Our top pick for streaming Sky Go Italia.Exceptional speeds, and one of the best services for accessing blocked content in Italy and beyond. Comes with a risk-free 30-day money-back guarantee.
NordVPN: Large network of servers, can be used to access Sky Go Italia via Rome and Milan, lots of affordable deals, and a good all-rounder.
Surfshark: Ideal for streaming content from Italy, consistent speeds, unlimited device connections, and strong security.
PIA: Italian servers, speedy connections, 10 simultaneous connections, and proven zero-logs claims.
PrivateVPN: Arguably the best cheap VPN, can access various international streaming sites, and has servers in Milan.
How to watch Sky Go Italia online abroad with a VPN
If you’re not sure what to do, there’s no need to worry, as the setup process is really simple. Here’s a step-by-step guide to get started with almost any VPN while outside Italy.
Here’s how to watch Sky Go Italia online (from outside Italy):
Pick a VPN that can be used with Sky Go Italia. (ExpressVPN is our top recommendation overall.)
Download the relevant VPN app to your device.
Sign in, and select an Italian server. (This will give you an Italian IP address.)
Once you’ve connected to the server, open Sky Go Italia and sign in.
It's a simple solution for accessing geo-blocked content. Some VPNs will also work with other international streaming platforms, including the likes of BBC iPlayer and Netflix.
The best VPNs for Sky Go Italia | In-depth analysis
With hundreds of competing VPN services to choose from, it can be tough to pick the best provider for the job. For example, as you’re accessing an Italian service, you’ll need strong coverage in the country, as well as connection speeds that are fast enough for streaming live content. (Since October 2022, all live TV and on demand Sky Go content is displayed in HD, capped at 720p.) We used the following criteria to come up with this list:
Secure servers located in Italy
Speeds fast enough for video streaming
Circumvent regional restrictions in Italy and beyond
Ability to mask VPN activity
Additional privacy and security features
User-friendly apps for popular devices
Here’s a rundown with our best VPNs to use with Sky Go Italia:
1. ExpressVPN
Editor's Choice | August 2024
ExpressVPN is our top pick for watching Sky Go Italia from anywhere. Excellent speeds from servers in 94+ countries including Italy, simple apps, and unblocks the majority of services worldwide.Â
Pricing
12 months + 3 months FREE + Backblaze backup: $6.67/mth
49% OFF
6 months: $9.99/mth
1 month: $12.95/mth
Pros
Will unblock almost any geo-blocked service, including Sky Go ItaliaÂ
Lightway protocolÂ
Excellent speeds for streamingÂ
Strong encryption and securityÂ
Italian servers in Milan and Cosenza
Cons
Canât match up to budget providers in terms of pricing
Some server locations are virtual rather than physicalÂ
Available on
Windows
macOS
iOS
Android
Linux
Unblocks
Netflix
iPlayer
Amazon Prime
Hulu
Website
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ExpressVPN is always going to be one of the best options if you’re in need of a provider to unblock tough streaming services. It has servers in 94+ countries worldwide, and speeds that are some of the fastest you’ll find on the market. It is on the pricier side of things, but you’re paying for beginner-friendly apps and servers that can easily access Sky Go Italia, as well as other popular services like Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu.
You’ll be able to pick from Italian servers located in Milan and Cosenza. Additional Italian content you can access includes RaiPlay, Mediaset Infinity, VVVVID, La 7, and more.
The proprietary Lightway protocol is perfect for speedy streaming, and it keeps no identifying logs. Encryption is watertight, and privacy features are numerous, including split tunneling and obfuscation.
You’ll find intuitive apps for Windows, Linux. macOS, Android, iOS, and more, along with router support for various models. It does come with a premium price tag, but you get what you pay for thanks to a stellar all-round service. You’ll also be able to test it out for yourself, as there’s a hassle-free 30-day money-back guarantee.
NordVPN is the best budget option for streaming Sky Go in Italy and elsewhere. Large network of servers and strong streaming capabilities.
Pricing
24 months + 3 months FREE: $3.69/mth
70% OFF
12 months: $4.99/mth
59% OFF
1 month: $11.99/mth
Pros
NordLynx protocol, OpenVPN, and WireGuardÂ
Lots of advanced featuresÂ
Affordable dealsÂ
50+ Italian servers
Will be able to access Sky Go Italia securely
Cons
Can lag while switching serversÂ
May prompt captcha with some servers
Available on
Windows
macOS
iOS
Android
Linux
Unblocks
Netflix
iPlayer
Amazon Prime
Hulu
Website
www.nordvpn.com
Coming in a close second, NordVPN has a selection of affordable deals which make it one of the best options for users on a budget. The NordLynx protocol helps to improve performance while streaming, and there are 50+ Italian servers to choose from.
It’s a capable provider for accessing blocked services, including US Netflix, restricted YouTube videos, BBC iPlayer, Amazon Prime, and more. The same goes for Sky Go, as it works with versions in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and New Zealand. That’s reasonably comprehensive. However, we saw better results with the Windows app during testing.
You’ll find apps for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices, alongside browser extensions which are available for Chrome and Firefox. It allows for six simultaneous connections.
Additional features include double-hop connections, VPN over Tor, DNS-based malware protection, Dedicated IPs, and Smart DNS. The provider is based in Panama, which is great for privacy. NordVPN comes with the industry standard 30-day money-back guarantee.
SurfShark is a viable choice for Sky Go Italia, and another great option if youâre looking for value for money from your streaming VPN.Â
Pricing
24 months + 3 months FREE: $2.19/mth
86% OFF
12 months + 3 months FREE: $2.79/mth
82% OFF
1 month: $15.45/mth
Pros
Unlimited device connectionsÂ
Large server network in 100+ countriesÂ
Fast connection speedsÂ
Works with the majority of major streaming platformsÂ
Cons
Monthly subs could be cheaperÂ
Slower speeds with some locationsÂ
Available on
Windows
macOS
iOS
Android
Linux
Unblocks
Netflix
iPlayer
Amazon Prime
Hulu
Website
www.surfshark.com
Based in the British Virgin Islands, Surfshark makes use of unlimited connections to great effect, allowing you to protect as many devices as you’d like with a range of apps for all popular operating systems. This includes macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Fire TV, and more. It’s great for accessing numerous streaming sites, including various Netflix libraries, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video.
As for Sky Go Italia, there are servers in Milan and Rome offering WireGuard support, along with features such as Camouflage Mode. Surfshark’s servers are RAM-only, and don’t store any data. Speeds are quick enough for watching 4K content, and extras include ad and malware-blocking, obfuscation, and multi-hop functionality.
Live chat is available 24/7, and Surfshark comes with a simple 30-day money-back guarantee.
PIA is an affordable service with strong encryption, 10 simultaneous devices, and speeds that are fast enough to stream Sky Go Italia with ease. Â
Pricing
24 months + 2 months FREE: $2.19/mth
82% OFF
6 months: $7.5/mth
38% OFF
1 month: $11.95/mth
Pros
Italian servers which are perfect for streamingÂ
10 simultaneous device connectionsÂ
Fast and consistent server speedsÂ
Proven no-logs policyÂ
Cons
Based in the US
Not much in the way of notable extras to improve privacyÂ
Available on
Windows
macOS
iOS
Android
Linux
Unblocks
Netflix
iPlayer
Amazon Prime
Hulu
Website
www.privateinternetaccess.com
Private Internet Access (PIA) is another capable VPN if streaming access in Italy is what you’re looking for. You’ll be able to connect up to 10 devices simultaneously with a single account, and there are apps for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux, and Amazon Fire TV. If you need a lightweight version, you can also find a duo of browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
Speeds are quick enough for 4K streaming (even if Sky Go is capped at 720p), while PIA Mace works to block ads, trackers, and malware. One downside is that it’s based in the United States, although it has a no-logs policy that has been proven in court multiple times.
Customer support options are robust, and it comes with a simple 30-day money-back guarantee.
PrivateVPN offers servers in Italy and elsewhere that can be used for streaming live content. It comes with strong privacy features and a free trial.
Pricing
36 months: $2/mth
84% OFF
3 months: $6/mth
50% OFF
1 month: $9.99/mth
17% OFF
Pros
Great for accessing streaming services around the world, including ItalyÂ
User-friendly serviceÂ
Strong encryption and simple privacy policy Â
Will be able to stream Sky Go Italia in HD
Cons
Speeds are slower from a few locationsÂ
Lacks a public audit
Fewer servers than some of the competitionÂ
Available on
Windows
macOS
iOS
Android
Linux
Unblocks
Netflix
iPlayer
Amazon Prime
Hulu
Website
www.privatevpn.com
Sweden-based PrivateVPN has Italian servers found in Milan, which are ideal for accessing content like Sky Go Italia. As with PIA, you’ll be able to connect up to 10 devices at any given time. There are servers in 60+ countries, unblocking an impressive number of international streaming services, including Netflix US, Hulu, and Prime Video.
There are apps for all popular devices, and it comes with features like a kill switch and obfuscation. You’ll be further protected by strong encryption and a zero-logs policy.
As well as a seven-day free trial, you’ll be able to test it out for longer thanks to its 30-day money-back guarantee.
Accessing Sky Go Italia with a Free VPN
There are numerous free VPNs, but we’d strongly advise against using a provider which doesn’t charge for its service via subscription. It’ll be tough to find a VPN that has the servers needed to access Sky Go Italia in the first place, as the majority of free options are limited to the United States.
If you do manage to find a free provider with Italian servers, these are likely to be blocked by most streaming platforms. Sky Go Italia is one of the more difficult platforms to access from abroad, so it’s unlikely to work anyway.
The majority of free VPNs struggle with slow connection speeds due to overloaded servers, so you’ll have to put up with lag or constant buffering. You’re also going to have to deal with a constant barrage of adverts, and some services have even been caught selling user data and bandwidth in the past.
Many free providers are risky in terms of privacy and security and lack solid encryption, which means it will be leaking your data in the background.
Why does Sky Go Italia block its users?
Sky Go Italia can actually be used in many European countries, as long as you meet the following criteria: You must pay for the Sky subscription, and you must be a permanent resident in Italy. If so;
"When you travel to one of the countries in the European Union, you can see the same programs available in Italy on your devices without downloading them.”
You’ll be able to use the Sky Go app in Italy, the Republic of San Marino, the Vatican City, all European Union countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway. However, this no longer includes the UK.
EU countries are as follows:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta , the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Hungary.
However, this only works for 30 days. You will then receive an email to remind you that, within the following week, you need to log in again from Italy to confirm your residence.
Due to complicated international broadcasting rights, streaming services tend to stick to a country or region. (In this case, Italy and the EU.) If you’re on holiday in the UK, or anywhere else outside of the EU, you will probably see the following error message:
"Per vedere este contenuto è necessario trovarsi su Territorio della Repubblica Italiana di San Marino o della Città del Vaticano.”
An Italian IP will trick the service, and gives the user access to Sky Go Italia streams.
How does a VPN access Sky Go Italia?
As the service is restricted to Italian users with a few exceptions, you’ll have to use an IP address from Italy to trick Sky Go into thinking that you’re currently in the country. Most websites tend to use your IP address to determine your current location.
A VPN ‘spoofs’ your IP, which is another term for masking (or hiding) your real IP address with a substitute. Your IP is unique, but you can use a VPN to get an address from any location you connect to.
Sky is one of the more stringent platforms when it comes to blocking the use of VPNs. This is conjecture, but it could be due to the various live sports available on the platform, with broadcasting rights that are split across Europe and beyond. You’ll need a premium service to have any chance of being able to access Sky Go, and the average VPN is unlikely to make the cut.
How to access Sky Go Italia: Further information
Available free of charge to all Sky customers, Sky Go Italia has apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and PC.
According to the Sky help pages, you’ll only be able to watch Sky Go programs on one device at a time, although you can replace devices whenever you want without any limitations.
Premium users can associate their Sky iD with up to eight devices and use the services on two paired devices at the same time.
Watching Sky GO Italia from anywhere: FAQs
Is it legal to watch Sky Go Italia with a VPN?
Yes, it’s legal, and you won’t get in trouble if you plan to watch content with a VPN. However, it is worth noting that you could be in breach of Sky’s Terms of Service. The broadcaster is unlikely to cancel your subscription at any rate.
It’s not illegal to change your IP address in Italy, but rules will vary depending on your current location. For example, VPNs are restricted in some countries, such as China, Russia, and parts of the Middle East. Make sure to check the legality before heading out.
Will my Sky Go Italia account be banned if I use a VPN?
It’s unlikely that you’ll be banned for accessing a service that you’ve paid for, especially if you’re only using it while you’re on holiday. However, you will be restricted from watching content if they find out you’re not in Italy. Streaming services ban the IPs used by VPNs, rather than the users themselves.
What devices can I use for Sky Go Italia?
Sky Go Italia can be used with a variety of different devices. The Sky Go platform is available for tablets and smartphones with iOS 12 or higher and Android 5.1 or higher, for PC/Mac with Windows 7 or higher and Mac OS X 10.11 or higher. It also works with Smart TVs, games consoles, some streaming sticks, and boxes.
I’m having issues with my VPN and Sky Go Italia. Any solutions?
If you’ve followed the guide and you’re still running into problems, there are a number of potential solutions. Make sure to clear all the cookies from your device. Desktop versions tend to have more success with streaming services. You can also try switching to a different server in Italy. If all else fails, we’d advise to contact the VPN support team to see if they can help.
What can I watch with Sky Go Italia?
You’ll be able to watch various live Sky Italia channels, including sports, football, news and more. For example, here are the sports offerings:
Sky Sport 24
Sky Sport Uno
Sky Sport Calcio
Sky Sport Football
Sky Sport Arena
Sky Sport Tennis
Sky Sport Action
Sky Sport NBA
Sky Sport F1
Sky Sport MotoGP
There are also thousands of on-demand cinema titles, TV series, documentaries, and children's programs. However, it will vary depending on your Sky subscription, and you won’t get access to anything you haven’t paid for.
You can watch Peacock content with the platform, but Sky Primafila content is not available on Sky Go.
Can I watch Sky Go Italia for free?
Yes, and no. Sky Go is free for any Sky subscriber, but you will have to be a paying customer.
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Preparing for a new bundle of joy to be added to your family can be exciting, thrilling and a bit daunting. If this is your first baby or your first baby girl being added to your family, it can be especially stressful. You not only have to prepare the house, make sure you have picked out all the right clothes and do all of your baby shopping; but you also have to do one other thing: pick out the perfect name for your baby girl. This list of Black girl names may help. They are specifically chosen to reflect culture, places you may have traveled, and people from around the world.
Take a look at this list gathered from around the world with girl names inspired by an array of cultures (or a hand selected list of boy names for twins or the next bundle of joy). African names, names inspired by Europe and names inspired by notable figures from North America are listed, to name just a few. You’ll be reminded of places you traveled to as well as places you long to visit with your new family addition.
Black Girl Names Inspired by African Culture
The rich history and culture of Africa are inspiring and a call back to who we are as a people. Perhaps you want your baby girl to tap into that identity. These names may help you tap into that power and diversity. Take a look at this list gathered together from all ends of the continent.
Amina (Arabic origin, widely used in Africa) – “trustworthy”
Nia (Swahili) – “purpose”
Zara (Arabic origin, popular in many African countries) – “princess” or “flower”
Adama (West African) – “earth”
Kali (Swahili) – “fierce”
Amara (Igbo origin in Nigeria) – “grace”
Nyala (Ethiopian) – a type of antelope
Imani (Swahili) – “faith”
Ayanna (African origin) – “beautiful flower”
Zuri (Swahili) – “beautiful”
Kioni (Swahili) – “the one who sees”
Asha (Swahili) – “life”
Zahara (Arabic origin) – “flower”
Ife (Yoruba name from Nigeria) – “love”
Safiya (Arabic) – “pure”
Laila (Arabic origin, popular in North Africa) – “night”
Nala (Swahili) – “gift”
Ngozi (Igbo people of Nigeria) – “blessing”
Malaika (Swahili) – “angel”
Makeda (Ethiopian) – associated with the Queen of Sheba.
Unique Black Girl Names That Mean ‘Queen’ in Various Languages
Perhaps you want to infuse your baby girl with a sense of identity and purpose from the get-go with her name. If you are looking to raise your very own little Queen Bey, then these names that translate to “queen” from various languages is just what you may be looking for right now.
Raina (Bulgarian)
Rani (Hindi/Sanskrit)
Regina (Latin)
Reine (French)
Mele (Hawaiian)
Basira (Swahili)
Raja (Arabic)
Mbali (Zulu)
Melisende (Old German)
Malikah (Arabic)
Nzinga (Kimbundu)
Tuya (Ancient Egyptian)
Soraya (Persian)
Reyna (Spanish)
Sabeen (Arabic)
Onyeka (Igbo)
Ensi (Sumerian)
Zahina (Arabic)
Czarina (Russian)
Cleopatra (Ancient Greek)
Black Girl Names With European Origins
These names with European origins have significant meanings and are even associated with kingdoms. These names for baby girls with diverse ethnicities may be perfect for your little one.
Sophia (Greek) – “wisdom”
Isabella (Spanish and Italian) – “pledged to God”
Adriana (Latin) – “from Adria”
Amara (Italian and Greek) – “eternal”
Bianca (Italian) – “white”
Elena (Spanish, Italian, and Slavic) – “bright”
Alessandra (Italian) – variation of Alexandra, meaning “defender of mankind”
Gabriella (Hebrew) – variation of Gabrielle meaning “God is my strength”
Natalia (Latin) – “born on Christmas Day”
Valentina (Italian) – “strong”
Lucia (Italian and Spanish) – “light”
Clara (Latin) – “clear”
Antonia (Latin and Italian) – “priceless”
Isolde (Celtic) – associated with the tragic love story of Tristan and Isolde.
Celeste (Italian) – “heavenly”
Carmen (Spanish) – “song”
Elara (Greek)- associated with one of Jupiter’s moons.
Amalia (Germanic and Latin) – “work”
Seraphina (Italian and Hebrew) – “ardent”
Romina (Italian) – variation of Romaine, meaning “from Rome”
Black Girl Names Inspired by Asian Culture
There is a deep connection between Black and Asian culture; a mutual respect if you will. If your travels have taken you to the Far East and you have developed a love that runs deep for it, choosing a name for your baby girl that reflects this love may be just the right thing.
Mei (Chinese) – “beautiful”
Sakura (Japanese) – “cherry blossom”
Aisha (Japanese) – “alive”
Priya (Indian) – “beloved”
Leela (Sanskrit) – “divine play”
Mei Ling (Chinese) names meaning “beautiful” and “delicate.”
Hana (Korean) – “one” or “first”
Siti (Indonesian and Malaysian) – “lady”
Nara (Korean) – “oak tree”
Anika (Indian and Scandinavian) – “grace”
Ying (Chinese) – “cherry blossom”
Laila (Arabic and Indian) – “night”
Seiko (Japanese) – “truth”
Meiying (Chinese) – “beautiful cherry blossom”
Amara (several Asian cultures) – “immortal”
Tanika (Indian) – “rope”
Sora (Japanese) – “sky”
Zara (Arabic, Hebrew, and Indian cultures) – “princess”
Sana (Arabic) – “brilliance”
Yuki (Japanese) – “snow”
Black Girl Names Inspired by The Middle East
Girl names inspired by the Middle East are a reminder of the diversity and beauty of the culture. These Middle Eastern or Islamic names are eloquent and are like generational positive affirmations.
Amina (Arabic) – “trustworthy”
Layla (Arabic-speaking countries) – “night”
Farida (Arabic) – “unique”
Samira (Arabic) – “companion in evening talk”
Yasmin (Persian) – “jasmine flower”
Leila (Arabic) – “night”
Zahara (Arabic) – “flower”
Amal (Arabic) – “hope”
Saida (Arabic) – “happy”
Shireen (Persian) – “sweet”
Noura (Arabic) – “light”
Nadia (Arabic) – “hope”
Zainab (Arabic) – religious significance, associated with a revered figure in Islam.
Rania (Arabic) – “queen”
Soraya (Arabic) – “gem”
Noor (Arabic) – “light”
Lina (Arabic) – “tender”
Yasmina (Persian) – A variation of Yasmin, meaning “jasmine flower”
Malika (Arabic) – “queen”
Nyla (Arabic) – “winner”
Black Girl Names Influenced by American Culture
Coming back to the USA and looking into its rich history for name inspiration may be just the thing your new baby girl needs. With a long tradition of strong female leaders in the civil rights movement, in literature, and in entertainment, parents have the makings of great ideas for a baby girl name.
Maya – Inspired by the renowned American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou
Rosa – In honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks
Ella – Named after the legendary American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald
Aretha – In tribute to the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin
Billie – Inspired by jazz and blues singer Billie Holiday
Harriet – In honor of Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor
Coretta – Named after Coretta Scott King, an influential civil rights activist
Whitney – In tribute to the iconic American singer Whitney Houston
Ida – In homage to a prolific African-American journalist and activist
Serena – Named after tennis legend Serena Williams
Beyoncé – In homage to the multi-talented American singer, songwriter, and actress Beyoncé Knowles
Michelle – In honor of former First Lady Michelle Obama
Kamala – Inspired by Vice President Kamala Harris, the first female vice president of the United States
Oprah – Named after media mogul, talk show host and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey
Condoleezza – In tribute to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Janelle – Inspired by actress and singer Janelle Monáe
Zendaya – In tribute to actress and singer Zendaya
Simone – Named after the legendary American gymnast and activist Nina Simone
Aaliyah – Inspired by the American R&B singer and actress
Toni – In honor of the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Black Girl Names Influenced by Latina Culture
These girl names derived from Latina culture are perfect for Afro-Latinas who have a heritage with both Hispanic ethnicity and African descent. Travelers who have a respect and love for Latin American roots may also find a perfect name for their baby girl.
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As a large media and technology company, Sky Italia faced challenges around standardizing and managing its APIs.
While the team had an existing SOA Architecture in place, they realized that it would not allow them to deliver on the ambitious goals of creating a platform that would support all aspects of Sky's revenue-generating business.
Without the ability to scale and move to a microservice architecture, the team needed to find a new solution that would allow them to be more efficient, reduce costs, and maintain low latency.
Sky chose Kong as its API management platform to support its new infrastructure built on the pillars of automation, observability, and performance. This infrastructure utilized Kong Enterprises deployment flexibility, running in hybrid mode to support both cloud and on-prem services.
They also used AWS EKS to manage their Kubernetes clusters and microservices in the cloud, alongside an AWS Managed Observability Stack and IaC by policy to build a solution that is both highly scalable and has high availability.
By adding Kong plugins to extend the functionality of this architecture to include security, monitoring, transformation, and integration, the team has been able to implement simple logic directly on the gateway, saving effort and greatly broadening the scope of what Kong Enterprise can provide.
In order to implement APIOps methodology, the Sky team created a clear process to facilitate the rapid building and iteration of APIs through a combination of DevOps and GitOps.
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Since first deploying Kong Gateway Enterprise, Sky Italia has seen impressive benefits and results. From a technical standpoint, they have increased performance by 70%, while maintaining 99.99% availability.
"One of our major goals in partnering with Kong was to be able to support our high volume of transactions, without losing any revenue through downtime. We have been able not only to meet, but exceed these goals," says Spadaccini.
They have also reduced deployment time by 80%, allowing the team to build 200+ APIs designed and built through the APIOps with clear policies, increased testing, and greater consistency.
The broader business has also seen significant results since Sky began working with Kong.
The team has also achieved faster time-to-market, releasing new products and services 20% more quickly than before. This speed provides better experiences for customers across the board, while also producing new revenue streams for the business.
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UK & Ireland
Free-to-air channels
Challenge | Sky Arts | Sky Mix | Sky News
General channels
Sky Atlantic | Sky Comedy | Sky Crime | Sky Documentaries | Sky Kids | Sky Max | Sky Nature | Sky Replay | Sky Showcase | Sky Witness | Sky Sci-Fi
Sky Cinema channels
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Joint-venture channels
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GINX Esports TV (50%, with ITV plc)
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Sky Sport: 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Info | HD Extra | Fanzone
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Sky Q | Wow | Sky Go | Sky Arts | Sky Store | Sky X (Austria) | Sky Zero
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TV8 | Cielo | Sky TG24
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What’s not to adore about France? It’s a country that’s set the trend on every front, from fashion to food to fine art and beyond. And in addition to the fabulous culture France has given us, it’s also a font of inspiration in the baby name department. French names for girls and boys are impossibly chic and often have thoughtful meanings to match.
Whether you’re of French descent or are simply a francophile through-and-through, a French baby name won’t disappoint. No matter your reasons for seeking out a French name for your bebe, peruse our list of French names for girls and boys—as well as French baby names that work for both genders—and then let us know your favorites in the comments section below!
French Baby Names for Girls
Amelie: A French girls’ name meaning “industrious,” it’s a strong pick for a baby girl that feels reminiscent of the charming movie by the same name from 2001.
Arlette: A wildy underused French girls’ name here in the States, this unique French girl name means “Lion of God,” and lends itself to cute nicknames Arly or Lettie.
Bellamy: This precious girls’ name means “fine friend,” a sweet legacy to impart on a daughter. You can call her Bella for short.
Brielle: The shortened version of Gabrielle has picked up speed in recent years. It’s a unique take on a familiar-sounding girl name meaning “God is my strength.”
Celine: Giving her the moniker of a world-famous vocal powerhouse cannot be a bad thing. Celine is a popular French baby name with Latin origins meaning “sky” or “heavens.”
Charlotte: An international top pick with major US and UK appeal, the French female diminutive of Charles—“free man”—is beloved in its home country as well.
Colette: Easy to pronounce and spell, but still quintessentially French, this adorable French girls’ name is a version of Nicholas from the Middle Ages. Its meaning is “necklace” or “victorious.” You can also call her Coco, which would be très chic.
Elise: A bit more common to American ears, this popular French baby name for girls means “pledged to God.”
Elodie: Not as popular as Eloise (also French), but just as light and flowy, this pretty pick translates to “foreign riches.”
Emmeline: Like Pankhurst, the British pioneer of women’s rights. Or, just because it sounds beautiful and has the noble meaning (“work”).
Esme: The short-and-sweet French girls’ name means “esteemed, beloved; emerald” in a modern interpretation. The ancient connotation from the Old French verb esmer translates this name as “to esteem, to love."
Estelle: An old-fashioned name having a bit of a revival, Estelle is a lovely French baby girl name that means “star.”
Fleur: At a time when flower and nature names reign supreme, consider the French word for “flower” as you grow your little garden of children.
Genevieve: It’s a form of the ancient Genoveva, with family meanings “wife, woman.”
Jolie: This jovial sounding French baby name for girls isn’t widely used in France, but is a unique French name nonetheless. It literally translates to “pretty.”
Josephine: A sweet French name with Greek and Hebrew roots that means “will grow.” The icing on the cake (or should we say the butter on the baguette?), it has two precious nicknames built in: Josie or Fifi.
Juliette: It’s hard to ignore the Romeo and… connotations, making this love-oriented name a beautiful pick for a baby girl. In French, Juliette means “young” and “downy,” which is soft and sweet for Baby Girl.
Liana: The name of a tropical vine and also a shortened version of more common picks Elliana and Juliana, this is a pretty French baby name for your little one.
Lucille: In honor of the great American comedienne Lucille Ball, or just because this lovely, roll-off-the-tongue French baby name for girls has the bright and hopeful meaning (“light”).
Ottilie: Add this one to the cool-girl name list running through your mind. This unique French name has a “Natalie” feel but stands out from a crowd. Ottilie means “prosperous in battle,” adding to its fierce flair.
Rosalie: This French name for girls means “beautiful rose” and sounds just as lovely as its meaning. This classic French nature name is a beautiful pick for a modern baby girl.
Sylvie: “From the forest” to your home… an enchanted-feeling French baby name with a fresh and spritely feel.
French Baby Names for Boys
Alain: The French version of Alan, with Celtic roots and a trifold meaning: harmony, stone, noble. Some connotations of Alain also include the meaning “handsome.”
Antoine: A bold French boys’ name meaning “highly praiseworthy.” You can impart the same moniker on a baby girl by altering the ending to Antoinette.
Beau: Oft-used in the Southern US, Beau is a unique French boys’ name meaning “handsome.”
Basile: A noble name for boys meaning “royal, kingly,” it’ll be perfect for your petit prince!
Benoit: In French it means “blessed;” derived from the Latin another translation is the “one who says the good.” Either way, it’s a feel-good name that isn’t common for baby boys, and lends easily to nicknames Ben or Benny.
Gabin: A sidestep from the more popular Gavin, the common French version is a place name borrowed from the Italian “of Gabii”—a city in central Italy. It is currently in the top 20 names for boys in France.
Gaetan: Another place name for boys, this less-popular pick means “of Gaeta”—another Italian city—and is a lovely choice if you’re looking for a more unique French baby name for boys.
Guy: Old-fashioned names are making a comeback, and this cutie that was popular in the late 1880s could be staged for a resurgence. It’s a French baby boy name meaning “leader” or “guide.”
Harvey: From the French meaning “battle-worthy,” it’s more popular at home than it is here in the States, but that could be reason enough to consider it for your bébé boy.
Julien: A popular French baby name for boys, Julien is believed to be derived from the Greek for “downy bearded” or “soft haired.”
Laurent: A French boys’ name from the Roman surname Laurentius, with Old Greek influences giving it the meaning “bright and shining one.” Fashion-minded parents can’t ignore the nod to Yves St. Laurent, which only makes it even more of a chic choice for a baby boy.
Lazare: A rare name that’s recently been inching its way up the French name charts, this one is trés chic. The direct translation is “God is my helper,” and the name also appears in the French train station Gare Saint-Lazare, giving it possible place name cred as well.
Lucien: Meaning “light,” it’s a centuries-old French baby name that might take family and friends some getting used to in the pronunciation department, but is well worth it.
Marceau: In lieu of a classic Marc, consider the elegant French riff on the classic name that translates to “little warrior.”
Mathis: A cool French baby name if you’re naming your baby after a Matthew in the family, this moniker for boys means “Gift of God.”
Maxim: This Latin-derived French boys’ name means “greatest,” and is a nice alternative to the more common Maxwell or Max.
Olivier: If you’re a fan of Oliver, consider the popular French take which adds some flair with its extra syllable. Olivier means “olive tree” and sounds a bit more dramatic than the English version.
Percival: Your petit prince would be well served with a storied French baby name that shows up frequently in history and literature, but not as often on the kindergarten attendance sheet. Percival means “one who pierces the valley,” and lends easily to many refined nickname options (Percy, Civi, and Val, to name a few).
Rainier: A very cool French baby name for boys meaning “strong counselor.” He’ll absolutely be the only one on the playground with this unique name.
Thierry: It means “the power is mighty” or “the ruler of the people,” making this French boys’ name just as bold in meaning as it is in sound.
Valentin: A darling pick for a baby boy this French name translates to “strong” and “healthy.” It’s also reminiscent of the famed St. Valentine...making it an irresistibly love-filled name for your little one.
Gender Neutral French Baby Names
Andre: The French form of Andrew is growing in popularity for boys and girls. Despite translating to “masculine and manly,” it also has the meanings “warrior” and “brave” which applies to both genders.
Blaise: This beautiful French baby name sounds like the English word “blaze,” giving it a fiery feel for a boy or girl. The actual meaning isn’t too exciting—“to lisp, stutter”—but that doesn’t mean it’s not the perfect French name for your baby.
Noé: The French version of Noah (“rest, repose”) offers both familiarity and style.
Paris: A trendy place name that pays homage to France’s capital, Paris is a beautiful and increasingly popular pick for baby boys and girls.
Remi: Meaning “oarsman” or “remedy,” this French baby name has a harmonious quality for team-players-to-be. It’s used as a unisex name in France and abroad.
Simone: A classic French baby name for boys and girls, the French version of Simon means “harkening” and has a beautiful sound to match its cheerful meaning.
Soleil: French for “sun,” this beaming baby name would be well-suited for a shining little blessing of either gender. Nature names are still on the rise, and the more unique the better—so definitely don’t discount this glowing choice.
Final Thoughts on French Baby Names
For francophiles and non-francophiles alike, there are seemingly infinite beautiful French baby names for girls and boys. However, you have plenty of options outside France’s borders. Take a look at all of of our favorite baby names, including:
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Sky Italia, the dominant Italian pay-TV operator, will broadcast European soccer’s UEFA club competitions exclusively on its platforms next season after choosing not to open it up to free-to-air coverage.
The broadcaster has opted against sub-licensing some matches to another broadcaster or even showing games on its own free-to-air TV8 channel in a move to boost its subscriber numbers.
It means matches from the elite UEFA Champions League, second-tier Europa League, and third-tier Conference League will only be shown on the linear Sky channels and Now streaming platform.
This comes after Sky recently announced a price increase in Italy of between €6.90 ($7.45) and €7.99 per month to a final price of between €22.90 and €26.90 per month. Meanwhile, the soccer-only package is rising from between €3 to €8 per month.
In May 2023, Sky acquired exclusive rights to broadcast 185 of the 203 Champions League matches per season, as well as all 342 Europa League and Europa Conference League fixtures for the next three-year period from 2024-25 to 2026-27.
The pay-TV operator will share Champions League rights with Amazon Prime Video, the streaming platform of the global tech and retail giant which will continue to show 18 top-pick Wednesday evening games.
In the previous 2021-22 to 2023-24 cycle, Sky held rights to show 121 of the 137 Champions League games per season, with commercial free-to-air broadcaster Mediaset holding exclusive live rights to the first-pick Champions League match on Tuesdays, as well as delayed coverage and highlights.
Sky also had exclusive linear and non-exclusive digital rights to the Europa League and Conference League but was subsequently banned from acquiring exclusive streaming rights to any content in Italy for three years, from 2019 through 2021 (inclusive).
The ban was put in place by the AGCM, Italy’s antitrust regulator, to maintain competition in the market after the broadcaster’s failed purchase of R2, the pay-TV services and technical platform of Mediaset Premium, the digital terrestrial TV service.
This ban allowed international streaming service DAZN to secure Europa League and Conference League rights in the previous cycle.
Despite Sky’s decision not to sub-license any rights next year, AGCOM, the Italian communications regulator, will enforce a rule that European club finals must be shown free-to-air should they feature an Italian team, as it did with this year’s Europa League final that Atalanta won.
The Bergamo-based side’s 3-0 win over Germany’s Bayer Leverkusen was shown by state broadcaster Rai and drew an audience of 6.3 million. It became the most-watched soccer match of the year in Italy with a combined total viewership of 7.98 million and a national market share of 36.1%, with the match also shown on Sky and DAZN.
Next season, eight Serie A clubs will feature in European competitions, with five in the Champions League – Inter Milan, AC Milan, Atalanta, Juventus, and Bologna. Roma and Lazio will compete in the Europa League, while Fiorentina will play in the Conference League.
The increase in Sky’s Champions League matches for the next deal corresponds to the new format of the competition starting next year. The number of participating teams will increase from 32 to 36, with each side in the initial group stages to play eight games, up from six.
As well as UEFA club rights, Sky holds domestic rights to Serie A and recently renewed its deal to show the English Premier League through 2027-28.
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Rupert Murdoch will collect nearly £5bn after BSkyB agreed on Friday to buy out Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland from the media magnate's 21st Century Fox group.
The transaction will give BSkyB 20 million pay-TV customers across Europe and is the biggest shakeup for the satellite broadcaster since it was created 24 years ago through the merger of Murdoch's Sky with British Satellite Broadcasting.
Murdoch will maintain a foothold in the European pay-TV business through 21st Century Fox's 39.1% stake in BSkyB.
"The new Sky will be a world-class, multinational pay-TV business headquartered in the UK, anchored in Europe," said BSkyB's chief executive, Jeremy Darroch. "It's the right time for Sky to make this move and we think it can create a lot of value for shareholders."
The merger better positions BSkyB to compete with John Malone, a longtime Murdoch rival who is building Liberty Media into Europe's largest cable television business with control of Virgin Media and a slice of ITV in the UK. It also provides a buttress against the growing distribution might of Apple, Google, Amazon and Netflix, which are using the internet to build multibillion-dollar video businesses.
With BSkyB's UK customer base now at 11.5 million, room for growth in its home market is limited. But pay television is less popular and less profitable in Italy and Germany, and the expanded business will operate in a market numbering 97m households, 66m of which have yet to take any form of pay TV.
Over the last five years, BSkyB has more than doubled its paid-for subscription product base and increased revenues by 43% to £7.6bn, while profits have increased 56% to nearly £1.7bn. It says the expanded business – which will serve the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy – could make similar gains.
"The headroom for growth in Italy and Germany is much greater," said Paul Richards, an analyst at Numis bank. "BSkyB has executed really well in the UK over the last decade or two and is looking to export that capability into other markets in Europe."
With increased annual revenues of £11.2bn thanks to the contribution from its continental units, and a total of £4.6bn to spend on screen each year, BSkyB claims it will have the biggest programming budget of any European broadcaster.
As in the UK, BSkyB will offer its content not just over satellite but over the internet via its Now TV service, which is operated as a standalone brand to compete with pay rivals such as Netflix, and over mobile via its Sky Go platform or deals with operators such as Vodafone. However, its German and Italian businesses are not expected to follow the UK in offering broadband and phone calls for the time being.
Darroch will continue to run the UK and Ireland arm but will expand his role to oversee the expanded business. He said BSkyB may cut some jobs but would probably increase overall headcount in each of its three main markets.
By year two, he expects £200m in annual savings from jointly buying programmes, combining IT systems, producing live events, commissioning, rationalising suppliers and, over time, in product and set-top box development.
In annual results released on Friday, BSkyB beat City forecasts on profits, reporting earnings per share of 60p against an expected 57.6p, while revenues came in as forecast at £7.6bn, an increase of 5% on last year.
Despite the battle for customers with BT and its new sports channels, Sky added 50,000 broadband customers in the most recent quarter, ending 30 June, and 76,000 television customers. BSkyB will issue 156m shares to fund the deal, equivalent to nearly 10% of its existing free float. Fox has committed to buying enough of these shares to maintain its current holding in Sky.
The European deal will see BSkyB acquire 21st Century Fox's 57.4% interest in the German business for £2.9bn, equivalent to €6.75 (£5.35) per share, a slight premium to Thursday's closing price of €6.66 and the legal minimum it is obliged to offer under German takeover rules. The same sum has been offered to minority shareholders. Sky Italia is being acquired for £2.45bn, made up of £2.07bn in cash and the balance in the form of a stake in National Geographic which BSkyB is selling to 21st Century Fox for £382m.
Meanwhile, 21st Century Fox is considering its next move in its attempted takeover of Time Warner. News broke last week of an unsolicited $80bn (£47bn) offer for the Hollywood powerhouse behind Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.
However, Murdoch tempered expectations that the proceeds from the BSkyB deal will be funnelled into a new Time Warner bid. The 21st Century Fox chief executive said the group's "number one priority is increasing shareholder value in a disciplined manner" and "we will only consider transactions that fully support this objective".
Combining Time's HBO television production house and Warner Brothers with Fox would create a content giant capable of holding its own against the growing distribution might of Apple and Google's electronic entertainment stores, but with a competitively contentious 30% of US box office receipts.
"We have always believed that a combination of the European Skys would create enormous benefits for the combined business and for our shareholders," said James Murdoch, who is co-chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox. "Ultimately, a pan-European Sky is good for customers, who will benefit from the accelerated technological innovation and enhanced customer experience made possible by a fully integrated business."
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Italy's widely exported 'Gomorrah' and 'Crime Novel' TV series are set for prequels from Cattleya and Sky Italia.
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Sky Studios is developing prequels to “Gomorrah” and “Crime Novel,” the two widely exported Sky Italia original crime series that are considered Italian TV milestones.
News that Sky and ITV-owned production company Cattleya are looking to reboot these two shows with origin stories was announced as Sky Italia celebrates its 20th anniversary with a big bash in Rome.
Sky Italia first ventured into Italian TV production in 2008 with “Romanzo Criminale,” as “Crime Novel” is known in Italian, which is centered around a real Roman heroin-dealing gang. Besides being a hit in Italy, the story also traveled widely. “Gomorrah” (pictured above), which is based on Roberto Saviano’s bestselling Neapolitan mob exposé, launched in 2014. From the outset, this gritty show brought audiences inside the belly of the real Neapolitan criminal underworld, thanks in part to being shot almost entirely in the actual places it portrays. Besides attaining megahit status in Italy, “Gomorrah” has traveled to 190 countries, including on HBO Max in the U.S., which dropped the fifth and final season of the Neapolitan gangster saga last year.
The origin story of the “Romanzo Criminale” series will focus on the years before the rise of the Banda della Magliana criminal gang depicted in the two seasons of the original series, tying in the narrative with the stories of its original characters. Giancarlo De Cataldo, who wrote the novel on which the series is based, as well as the series bible, is on board for the prequel.
The “Gomorrah” prequel will recount the criminal rise of Neapolitan mobster Pietro Savastano, “from when he was just a kid on the streets to becoming the most important and ruthless boss in Naples,” according to a statement. Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, who served as the show’s head writers, are back on board.
“‘Romanzo’ and ‘Gomorrah’ rewrote the rules for Italian TV series,” said Nils Hartmann, EVP Sky Studios for Italy in a statement. “What’s more, if the classic drama has now become a TV series, in Italy, it is thanks to ‘Romanzo,’ which took a completely new path,” he added, noting that “Gomorrah” took the same path but went even further.
“With these two new projects, we will expand upon the worlds of these two beloved stories, going back to our most defining roots but with an eye on the future,” Hartmann said.
Cattleya founder Riccardo Tozzi said that “going back to the origins of ‘Romanzo’ and ‘Gomorrah’ means exploring new opportunities to tell a story that is tonally somewhere between an epic and a realistic piece with a contemporary look from the point of view of its style as well.”
Tozzi went on to call the prequels “a return, but with the same desire to innovate.”
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While LOFAR started as a national project in the Netherlands, consortia of institutes and researchers in several other countries soon placed orders to build one or more LOFAR antenna stations within their own borders. The enormous range of distances between the stations yield unique capabilities for detailed images of the sky.
The collaboration was consolidated with an MoU signed in 2010 in the presence of H.M. Queen Beatrix, and establishment of the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) as a foundation under Dutch law. After a decade, the ILT has grown to encompass nine countries. Next to the Netherlands (38 stations), these are Germany (six stations), Poland (three stations), France, Ireland, Latvia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (one station each); stations in Italy and Bulgaria are funded to be built soon. Still more countries are considering joining as well. Here you will find the interactive LOFAR map.
LOFAR, designed and built by ASTRON in the Netherlands, is a distributed research infrastructure enabling world-leading radio astronomical research. After more than a decade of continuous operation, it has grown to a pan-European scale, with a diverse and expanding set of partners (presently in nine countries).
The partnership has initiated LOFAR2.0 – a major upgrade to deliver excellent, innovative science throughout the present decade and beyond. The LOFAR2.0 upgrade is currently underway and addresses a range of cutting-edge science use cases, compiled in close interaction with the research community. LOFAR2.0 is designed to be impactful and complementary to other major science facilities in the landscape of this decade. To underline this, LOFAR ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) was officially established at the end of 2023 with the Netherlands as the hosting country.
The LOFAR ERIC provides the optimal vehicle, clearly positioning this major facility in the partner countries and in the European landscape. Maintaining the common vision and policies requires appropriately aggregated long-term membership and funding stability.
The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is the period during which the neutral gas in the Universe was completely ionised by the first stars and galaxies. This important event occurred when the Universe was a few hundred million years old (about a twentieth of its current age) and is critical in understanding how the first stars and galaxies were formed. Observations of the 21 cm (1,420 MHz) line, red-shifted to frequencies between 70 and 200 MHz, are a unique probe of this era. LOFAR is the key pathfinder to investigate how to solve the calibration and imaging challenges at these low frequencies. Once these are solved, several thousand hours of LOFAR observations (a few peta-bytes of data) are needed to detect the very faint hydrogen signals.
Image: A high-resolution image of a small (25×35 arc-minute) area close to the true north celestial pole (i.e. declination 90) made from a deep integration using a bandwidth of 60 MHz in the HBA-band. It has a resolution of about 6 arc-seconds and a noise level of about 40 microJy
© Sarod Yatawatta, Ger de Bruyn and the EoR team
The International LOFAR Telescope offers a transformational increase in radio survey speed compared to existing radio telescopes, as well as opening up one of the few poorly explored regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. For these reasons, an important goal that has driven the development of LOFAR since its inception is to explore the low-frequency radio sky through surveys, in order to advance our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies, clusters and active galactic nuclei (AGN).
Reducing LOFAR radio data is a major challenge. This is due to the enormous data rates, bright sources far away from the pointing centre dominating the signal, radio frequency interference from radio, TV and planes and the corrupting influence of the ionosphere. The breakthrough idea was ‘facet-calibration’ and enables us to produce, for the first time ever, thermal noise limited maps at low frequencies with an angular resolution of ~5 arc seconds from 8 hours of data.
A key aim of the project is to study the properties of shocks and turbulence in merging, low-redshift galaxy clusters. The facet calibration technique has resulted in some of the most sensitive and high-resolution low-frequency images that have ever been produced. These images are highlighting new insights whilst revealing many new questions into how particles are accelerated within the intra-cluster medium (ICM). An excellent example is the LOFAR image of the `Sausage cluster,’ enabling the most precise characterisation of a cluster shock ever.
Image: The most sensitive image of the Sausage cluster observed with the LOFAR HBA antennas at 150 MHz. The cluster shows two opposing giant radio relics created through galaxy cluster mergers. The merger heats up the intra-cluster gas to extremely hot plasma emitting X-rays (green).
Here, particles (e.g. electrons) are accelerated to very high energies. The rest of the resolved sources are mostly radio galaxies hosting an active super massive black hole.
© Duy Hoang (Leiden), Tim Shimwell (Leiden), Andra Stroe (ESO), Reinout van Weeren (Harvard), Georgina Ogrean (ESO) and Huub Rottgering (Leiden) for the LOFAR surveys team
The cosmic lighthouses known as ‘pulsars’ shine brightest in long-wavelength radio light, making LOFAR an ideal telescope for studying them. With its huge sensitivity and enormous computational power, LOFAR has already discovered over fifty new pulsars, including a pair of millisecond pulsars, as part of its all-sky survey, LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS), and dedicated searches.
The exceptional sensitivity and wide bandwidth have also enabled LOFAR to make detailed studies of the emission properties of the largest ever samples of normal and millisecond pulsars. Pulsars also provide us with excellent probes of the ionised interstellar medium and magnetic fields and at LOFAR frequencies it is revealing new information on how they vary as a function of space and time through detailed studies of individual objects and precision timing observations.
LOFAR has also been used in combination with the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope to reveal the perplexing relationship between the radio and X-ray emission from two pulsars which show variable radio emission. High-energy astrophysical sources such as pulsars and black holes can also be associated with ejections of matter and energy at close to the speed of light. Such relativistic outbursts have a characteristic signature in the radio band, and LOFAR has been used to both search for new events, utilising its enormous field of view, and to follow-up events first detected with other facilities such as orbiting X-ray telescopes and Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory).
In the past year astronomers have discovered LOFAR’s first ‘blind’ (previously unknown) transient, in the direction of the north celestial pole, and measured the low-frequency spectrum of radio emission from a nearby black hole, V404 Cyg, in outburst and followed-up the first detection of gravitational waves.
Image: The figure shows radio pulsar B0329+54: on the left-hand side, the radio sky around this pulsar is pictured; on the right-hand side, the individual pulses of this lighthouse-like source are shown, stacked onto on another. LOFAR is unique in allowing for simultaneous imaging and high-time resolution recording!
© LOFAR Pulsar Working Group
Astroparticle physicists have known for a long time that there are extremely energetic particles (ionised atomic nuclei, i.e. atomic nuclei without surrounding electrons) that travel through our Universe. These particles carry macroscopic energies of tens of Joules, concentrated in one elementary particle. These particles have energies many thousand times bigger than what can be achieved in manufactured accelerators.
How and where nature accelerates these highest-energy particles in the Universe is an open question. The favoured explanation is that they are being accelerated by exploding stars (in so-called supernova explosions) in our Milky Way and by supermassive black holes at the centre of other galaxies.
In these active galaxies, a black hole is swallowing material and ejecting jets at velocities close to the speed of light. It is generally assumed that up to a certain energy cosmic rays are accelerated in our Milky Way and that at the highest energies they originate in other galaxies, i.e. they are of an extragalactic origin.
LOFAR offers the unique possibility to study the origin of high-energy cosmic rays through the detection of sharp pulses of radio emission that are associated with air showers, caused by the interaction of cosmic rays with the Earth’s atmosphere.
A key method to explore the origin of cosmic rays is to measure their properties at Earth, such as their arrival direction, their (kinetic) energy, and the type of particle, often expressed in terms of the atomic mass. In recent publications, it has been shown that these properties are measured with unprecedented precision with LOFAR. The technique to measure the properties of cosmic rays through the recording of MHz radio pulses has been established by LOFAR and is now routinely used to explore the origin of cosmic rays. First LOFAR data are already constraining astrophysical models of the origin of cosmic rays. The data give new insights into the transition region from an origin of cosmic rays in our Milky Way to extragalactic sources.
Image: A LOFAR low-band antenna measurement of an air shower above the LOFAR Superterp. Good agreement between the data (shown by the circles) and simulations (shown by the background colours) is illustrated.
© A. Nelles & the LOFAR Cosmic Rays KSP
The Sun’s activity appears not only in the well-known 11-year Sunspot cycle, but also in short duration eruptions as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Such eruptive events can harmfully influence our Earth’s environment and technical civilisation and are usually called Space Weather. These events are accompanied with an enhanced radio emission of the Sun, especially in the frequency range (30-240 MHz) covered by LOFAR.
Hence, LOFAR is of great interest for solar physicists, since with its spectroscopic and imaging capabilities it is well suited for studying active processes in the Sun’s corona. This is the reason the Key Science Project “Solar Physics and Space Weather with LOFAR” was founded. During LOFAR’s commissioning phase and the first cycles of regular observations, the solar KSP performed observations of the Sun together with ASTRON.
An example is presented in the figure below, showing the propagation of a type III burst source along the coronal magnetic field (white lines) through the corona. This example impressively demonstrates that LOFAR can really work as a dynamic spectroscopic radio imager of the Sun and is able to track fast motions of radio sources in the Sun’s corona.
Image: LOFAR’s imaging spectroscopy of a solar type III burst occurred in the frequency range 30-60 MHz at 11:00 UT on June 23, 2012. The radio source at 55 MHz is enclosed by a yellow contour line at a 50% flux density level. The white dots mark the source centers at seven frequencies in the range 30-60 MH to show the propagation path of the radio source.
The propagation appears outwards and along the coronal magnetic-field lines (white lines). The white dashed line indicates the distance of two solar radii from the center of the Sun. The blue dashed ellipse (top right) represents the width of the beam. The corresponding extreme ultraviolet image of the Sun (left) was simultaneously recorded by the SWAP instrument onboard the spacecraft PROBA2. It shows the structure of the lower corona.
Magnetic fields exist throughout the Universe. They permeate the interstellar medium of our own Galaxy, trace the large-scale structure of external galaxies, and even fill the voids and filaments of the vast cosmic web that follows cosmological structure formation. Observations at low radio frequencies with the LOFAR telescope allow us to measure these fields at high accuracy, revealing some of the weakest magnetic structures in the Universe.
Previous observations with LOFAR of the region around the bright quasar 3C196 (Jelic et al. 2015) have uncovered a rich morphology of polarised emission probing the ordered magnetic field in our own Galaxy (see image below). As well as complex filamentary structures, these images show a network of dark linear features known as depolarisation canals. One explanation for how these canals are created is that they may be trails left by close-by fast-moving stars. To test this theory, further observations at higher frequencies are now in progress and, when combined with the results of simulations, they may be able to answer this question.
As well as revealing new structures in our own Galaxy, other LOFAR observations (Van Eck et al. 2016) along the plane of the Milky Way show extremely rich polarisation structures emanating from previously known objects. These data focus on nearby clouds of neutral hydrogen gas and have enabled us for the first time to determine the strength of the magnetic field in these clouds at high precision. Being able to measure such fields is important for understanding how stars form and galaxies evolve.
Beyond our own Galaxy, LOFAR is now revealing incredible detail within other nearby galaxies where individual star forming regions are being resolved. Never before have these regions been observed in external galaxies at such low frequencies. From these new data, LOFAR will help us understand the composition and astrophysics of galaxies similar to our own and violently energetic systems known as radio galaxies, which produce huge radio jets powered by super-massive black holes. Polarised radio emission has been observed in the jets and lobes of several such radio galaxies with LOFAR allowing us to obtain accurate magnetic field strengths for these distant objects.
Image: A colour composite image of polarised radio emission observed in 3C196 field is shown in figure.
Different colours represent emission detected at different Faraday depths. Straight and long filamentary structures are visible parallel to the Galactic plane. They are located somewhere within the Local Bubble. A system of linear depolarisation canals (black stripes) is also conspicuous in the image.
© Jelic et al.
Over the course of 2020 and 2021 a windfarm was constructed close to the LOFAR Core by a private company, Drentse Monden en Oostermoer (DMO). This windfarm consists of 45 turbines set out in rows extending 3 – 7 km roughly eastward from the LOFAR Core area. It is the result of years of development. The main prerequisite was that any new installation needs to adhere to local electromagnetic (EMC, radio frequency) regulations, set per project, in order not to affect LOFAR’s astronomical capabilities. The agreements made between the windfarm and ASTRON were set out in a “covenant to co-exist” in 2016. Many efforts were put into developing a modified wind turbine to meet the required EMC standards. All 45 turbines are operational and ASTRON is monitoring the windfarm closely, as well as enforcing the agreements made between the windfarm and ASTRON. A core condition is that the windfarm must go into full shutdown mode for an agreed number of days to accommodate the most sensitive, core-dependent observations by LOFAR each period.
We are pleased to report that there is no excess RFI which exceeds the amount agreed upon in the covenant. That limit can be globally summarised in astronomical terms as leading to less than 10 % increase above the thermal noise in an image from a 4-hour integration (LBA or HBA). It is important to realise that LOFAR’s long-baseline imaging will be largely unaffected by this wind farm.
General situation
The development of further windfarms and solar energy generation systems is almost inevitable in our region of the Netherlands. Local and provincial governments consult ASTRON when such developments are announced. ASTRON is committed to working with the authorities to ensure LOFAR is not impacted.
Several solar parks are planned close to the LOFAR Core as well as a number of others which are close to LOFAR remote stations. All these solar parks are aware of their operating limits for EMC emissions in order to prevent any effect on LOFAR.
With our ongoing efforts, and close cooperation with the authorities and developers, we are confident that LOFAR will continue as the world’s premier low frequency telescope for many years to come. Some key science projects for the 2020’s are described here.
We look forward to continuing to make discoveries in radio astronomy happen.
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Jeremy Darroch will soon mark his 13th year as CEO of Sky. With 32,000 employees and 24 million customers across seven European countries, Sky is a leading player in media content and distribution. Darroch has an atypical background for the head of a large global media company. Raised in a small town in the northeast of England, he attended the University of Hull, and spent 12 years at Procter & Gamble before moving to electronics retailer Dixons as a finance executive. He joined Sky as chief financial officer in 2004, and was named CEO in December 2007. Sky, founded in 1989, was the U.K.’s first satellite TV service. It grew into a media powerhouse, largely on the back of its channels dedicated to news and sports — especially English Premier League soccer. Darroch spearheaded the company’s investments in adjacent business lines such as broadband and over-the-top (OTT) subscription service Now TV, pushed the company into European markets (acquiring Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland in 2014), and invested in prestige original productions such as Chernobyl, the Emmy Award–winning series jointly produced with HBO. In October 2018, when Comcast completed its US$39 billion acquisition of Sky, it sealed one of the largest and most consequential media deals in history. In a virtual interview with strategy+business contributing editor David Lancefield and editor-in-chief Daniel Gross, Darroch discussed his approach to strategy, the importance of culture, and why he doesn’t go out much.
S+B: You have talked about a mind-set of continual reinvention at Sky. How do you go about creating it? How do you sustain it over time?
DARROCH: It starts from having a strategic mind-set about how you think about the business. You have a core assumption that your markets, customers, and the environment are not going to stay the same. When you start with that mind-set, you begin to ask: How do we need to change to stay relevant and continue to grow in the future environment that we see?
The demand for renewal then cascades all the way down. But you can’t be overly prescriptive. Much of my job is not to tell my colleagues how to renew, but to encourage them to continually do it. That means making sure every time I’m in a business meeting or review, it’s one of the core things I talk about. From there, you start to legitimize this idea of constant reinvention.
The other way to do it is through the brand. The basic idea of Sky is to “believe in better.” The essence of this is change and improvement, with an optimism attached to it. If we believe that we can get better, we will get better.
S+B: Pay-TV for years was a fantastic business to be in, with growing revenue streams from both subscribers and advertising. But in the last few years, with the rise of streaming and cord cutting, this disruptive industry is being disrupted. How do you approach this challenge?
DARROCH: It depends where you choose to begin. You could start with technology or content, but do you actually start with consumers?
If our north star is our customers and consumers, let’s understand what their usage and habit patterns are today, and how they’re changing. Because that will give us the best picture of where they’re likely to go in the future. It won’t be perfect, but it will open doorways that get us thinking more about where the business needs to go over time. If you can step into those changes, you optimize your chances of controlling them.
When I joined Sky in 2004, around 93 percent of our customers took what we would call “the big bundle,” where essentially, you had everything that Sky offered. We could see, even back then, that this trend wasn’t likely to hold. So, as early as 2005, we started to break down our packages and give customers more options as to how they could rightsize themselves and get what they wanted for what they could afford. When you play that out over 10 or 15 years — the business we have today has a very different makeup and strategy in terms of what it does and how it sells.
By going on this long journey, you can best influence that change and optimize it over time. Sometimes businesses can resist change too much and when they actually find that they need to change, it’s almost too late. When you do change, you’re going to get things wrong. The idea that you can somehow pivot and become excellent in something new, having been excellent in something old, is quite hard to pull off. But if you think of it as a journey and an evolution of the business, it is easier.
Our first OTT service, Sky Player, was launched in 2006. At the time, we didn’t think it was going to be a huge, immediate success. But we knew if we stepped into it, we would learn. It’s why I often talk about long-term shifting plates. What are the big shifting plates that we think are important, that are going to be important to customers, that are important to the industry?
S+B: Many media companies have a CEO and one or two people around them with a vision, but there’s a gap in translating that vision to the rest of the organization. How do you actually go about making sure the vision is consistent and embedded across your executive team and throughout the organization?
DARROCH: You need to do two things. You need to have your eyes to the horizon and your feet on the floor. At all times. And it’s quite a discipline to do that. You see a lot of people who are consumed about managing the now, and then if you look at the last few months, there’s not been a lot of forward thinking. Then you also see other people who, perhaps the longer they are in their roles, spend more and more time thinking about the future horizon. That’s all very alluring and appealing, but they disconnect with the immediacy of what’s important today. You must try to think of both of those things and also encourage everybody else to think of their own role in that way. So, if you’re in broadcast technology today and you’re running that function or department, how do you get your colleagues to look at the future broadcast technologies and at the same time equip people to shoot with their iPhones and get the news out quickly? What you end up with is this networked brain. Everybody in Sky should be thinking about where the company should go, but also “How do I personally make sure I’m doing what is needed?”
S+B: Sky as an organization is clearly ambitious, very capable, and high performing over the long term. So how do you nurture this networked brain? How do you make sure people are managing their energy, making wise decisions without tipping over into burnout?
DARROCH: When you are a CEO, you own the emotional health, robustness, and resilience of the organization, as well as the business performance. Our organization is a slice of life, and you see the best of times and the worst of times. In my tenure, we tragically lost a colleague from Sky News when Mick Deane was shot while covering the Rabaa massacre. We have to support our people to get through terrible situations like that. Culture and style are both very important. Style is defined by the top. If you behave a certain way, then it’s not surprising to find that others will tend to mimic that.
One of the benefits of the open environments we’ve invested in is a healthy, transparent workplace. We were early in investing in mental health and resilience. I’m always somewhat skeptical when I hear about businesses treating mental health efforts as a discrete program. I think it’s a way of life. Somebody said to me many years ago that when we talk about work–life balance, we have to think about it as a verb, not a noun. It’s balancing and not balance.
I think we got a lot of that from our insights in sports, and particularly from Team Sky, our cycling team.
S+B: Team Sky was a cycling juggernaut that had the best assemblage of talent; made huge advances in health, nutrition, and technology; and won the Tour de France four straight years, and six out of seven. How did that partnership come together? And what precisely did you learn from it?
DARROCH: Back in 2007, with the London Olympics coming up, I was thinking about how we could contribute more broadly to a sport. We’re associated with a lot of big sports, and I had this idea of working much more closely with smaller sports, particularly at the grassroots level. I was also intrigued by what a business could learn from an elite sport. Relative to business, sports are often quite pure environments with very singular goals. Whereas if you’re running a very big organization, you’re pulling all the levers, but you’re not quite sure what’s connected to what lever. And it’s a little bit harder to just translate all specific actions to results.
I talked to a lot of people, and they all told me to meet a guy named Dave Brailsford because they thought we had a lot in common. And in the first meeting, Dave talked about the idea of marginal gains [small improvements that lead to significant success]. There was an immediate meeting of minds. It led us to working with British Cycling ahead of the Beijing Olympics, and then from that, Dave said, “We can create a team that can go on to win the Tour de France.”
The purpose of the team was never just winning bike races — it was about grassroots participation. Over 10 years, we inspired nearly 2 million people to cycle regularly. We learned an enormous amount. Clearly, funding is important. But it’s only part of the mix, and that alone won’t guarantee success. Team Sky benefited from the branding, communications, and infrastructure that we were able to put in around the team. It was an incredible journey. They have continued in their new form [sponsored by chemical company Ineos].
S+B: In your first annual report as CEO, you said that a successful and sustainable business is a responsible business. Sky was the first media company in Europe to launch a net zero carbon emissions campaign. Why?
DARROCH: All businesses are collectives, in which everybody can feel part of the mission and have a stake in the journey. But as a CEO, you’ve got a unique opportunity to define what the business stands for. I was very taken by this idea of creating a good business, one that could see beyond the narrowness of its own financial performance. Every business takes from the environment. We get access to resources, roads, infrastructure, and education. So it’s only right that we have a mind-set that we give back, we replenish as well as consume. And we use our voice to try to make a difference.
That view was very much shared by my senior colleagues. We got into it and took a small step, and I found two things. First, the broader environmental community responded really positively to that, and second, people in Sky responded positively. Back in 2006, we were the first media business to become carbon neutral. And since then, our Rainforest Rescue campaign has saved a billion trees in the Amazon, we launched the hugely successful Sky Ocean Rescue campaign against single-use plastics, and, earlier this year, we set our ambition to be net zero carbon by 2030. Comcast [Sky’s parent company] has a wonderful program called Comcast Cares, which is one of the biggest corporate volunteering programs in the world. We’ve now created Sky Cares because we plan to really step up our volunteering in local communities.
S+B: Streaming has become as powerful a force in entertainment and media as the steam engine was for transportation in the late 19th century. How do you talk about streaming in terms of strategy? Is it a technology or consumer habit?
DARROCH: First, you have to separate technology and how we distribute what we do from the actual product that we sell. When Sky was launched, we had analog TV, which was replaced by digital multichannel TV, which in turn was replaced by high-definition TV. Atop that came the concept of on-demand content, initially served through hard disks in boxes, then through server farms that we owned, and then eventually through the cloud-based virtual servers we have today. And then, there was a transition from a pure broadcast platform to a hybrid platform where we combine satellite and the broadband return pathway. Today, you can get Sky purely over a streamed platform. So we’re on a journey through time, rather than moving toward a destination.
Second, when you have a customer focus, streaming becomes irrefutable because you can see the trends. Streaming today is as much about how people choose to lead their lives as it is about technology platforms and infrastructure. Both of those things are important.
The reality is today, fewer of our customers than ever before consume their content purely through satellite. But 15 years from now, people will still be consuming content by satellite. It will just be a smaller number. I think leaders can race too quickly into some of these changes because they haven’t been thoughtful enough about the right pace of change.
We don’t spend too much time being overly precise on predicting specific outcomes. We want to understand the trends, take a wide view to make sure that we can see them in the broadest context, and then figure out how to step into them. And that becomes liberating, because the question is not, do we change? It’s how, at what rate, and where?
S+B: In some ways you’ll be cannibalizing yourself as an organization. And that can be challenging because you have shareholders to please. How do you manage that tension?
DARROCH: Our role is to build this business for the medium and longer term and create the greatest sustainable value that we can create over that period. At Sky, we reject excessive short-termism. When we invest, we invest for returns. We understand, appreciate, and are equally committed not just to the investment, but to the returns phase that flows off the back of it.
You have to think about strategy at a capability level, a human capital level, and ask: “How do we get the right set of skills into the organization?” We’re seeking people who share our same values. That’s probably the only single thing that we’re quite strict about. When you put that together, then you’ve got the ingredients that allow you to do both of those things.
At a personal level, you have to recognize that with some of your new technologies, your own personal batting average just goes down. You have to be willing to fail a lot over time. And that’s not always comfortable, but that’s part of the job.
S+B: On the content side, you’ve made some bold moves and successful moves in Sky Studios. How do you see the role of short-form, high-quality content?
DARROCH: We have a pretty simple mantra, which is that we want to have something for every household in the market in which we compete and for every person in the household. When I first joined Sky, I realized that we offered a lot for myself and my son, but maybe there was a little bit less for my wife and my daughters. That led me to the decision to build a much broader entertainment portfolio and then to invest in our own content with Sky Studios. It was one of the harder decisions to land on in the business. But once we did it, it turned out to be transformative.
There’s always a lot of people telling you that that particular idea is not a very good one. And you just have to follow your instinct and make it happen.”
Short-form content and its consumption are just going to grow. Whether you’re 20 or 50, you recognize that attention spans are going down a bit. But monetizing in that space is not going to be easy. There’s a lot of short-form content available. Is it going to be a big thing or an addendum to another thing? Maybe we can distribute it over a digital platform, but more and more of it is now flowing into our main in-home TV platforms as well. One of the great things about Sky Studios in particular is that it just gives us a much greater capability to harness our talent and to be able to create more of that type of content.
For many years, we’ve done a set of half-hour Christmas Comedy Shorts on Sky Arts. They’re little stories, quirky stories often, where we work with fantastic on-screen talent and writers. We give them a vehicle to publish their story, and it’s been tremendously successful every year.
S+B: You said that deciding to move into content was one of the harder decisions to land on in the business. What was so particularly hard about it?
DARROCH: It was more of a pivot from where we had traditionally been. At the time, we thought we would continue to work with people around the world to acquire content. In the short term, you can convince yourself that the easy, most efficient, lowest-risk approach is to work with the Universals, Disneys, Warners of this world. And why would Sky think that it should compete in that area? However, I felt that short-term thinking was too limiting in terms of our ambition and could see this real desire for locally originated content. And the free-to-air broadcasters were going to become ever more general, to secure advertising dollars or the license fee. We needed to combine working at scale with the best people…with our consumer insight and mind-set, to create distinctive, highly differentiated, very high quality paid TV content and paid-for content that could complement what we did elsewhere.
It was always going to be a journey. I knew we were going to have to [stay] the course. There are always a lot of people telling you that that particular idea is not a very good one. And you just have to follow your instinct and make it happen. Fortunately for us, it worked — Sky is part of the team that created Chernobyl, which became such a huge success. Those are the great days.
S+B: Sky and other large media companies have a mix of global and national features. How much further do you think Sky intends to go in terms of its global ambition?
DARROCH: We have all the attributes and assets that we need. Being part of the broader Comcast organization has been fantastic. We’re already distributing our content more broadly, and our original productions are being sold in many markets. We can see that it is resonating and working. You can take a service like Sky News and look at its global reach. We recently completed a documentary on what has happened in Lombardy called Coronavirus: Into the Red Zone. It is a fantastic piece of reporting that is being distributed very broadly. We’ve got all the basic ingredients and capabilities now. The question then becomes, where, at what pace, how do we do this? I’m very hopeful that in the next few years, you’ll see Sky’s reach get ever broader.
S+B: This is an industry that has often grown by transformative acquisitions, including the acquisition of Sky by Comcast. What is the next phase of deals? Is it investing in startups that are doing different things in technology and production?
DARROCH: Putting Sky together with Comcast and NBCUniversal has given us a very broad landscape and a significant financial and human resource capability. To me, it doesn’t feel like there’s any one thing that the business has to do so it can find the right opportunities. As you’d expect, I see us continuing to work across the spectrum, whether it’s upstream in terms of working with NBCUniversal in terms of content creation, attracting the right talent, and giving those people a much bigger landscape that they can work with. We’ve got 55 million of the world’s richest consumers in five of the seven top markets in the world. We have a very attractive base of loyal customers who like our products and brands, and typically want to take more from us. And we’re simultaneously working with our colleagues at Comcast’s cable and consumer product platforms so that we can roll out more consistently, faster, and at greater scale.
We are almost a year and a half into the new organization. Our focus initially was to embed Sky into Comcast well and secure the synergies between the companies. And we’ve done that. Now I think the business is really thinking forward. The immediate curveball that’s been thrown at all of us is the events of the moment [the COVID-19 pandemic]. But if you look further afield, I think the opportunity for us to be one of the winners in this broader space over the long term is there for the taking.
S+B: Who, or what, has shaped you the most as a CEO?
DARROCH: The person who had the greatest influence on my life — and even though he has passed away, he still does — is my father. I grew up in a fantastic community, and had a great family and great parents. But my old man in particular had a big influence on me. His mantra all through whatever I did was just “Respect your opponent. Respect yourself. Do your best.”
All of us have a mixture of things we do well and things we don’t do so well. If you can focus on identifying what people do really well, you get rich learning. I’m a little bit of a magpie like that. I try to learn and pick from people I come across. My first boss, Glen Wilson at P&G, had an enormous effect on me, as did John Clare and Stanley Kalms at Dixons. And at Sky, Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch, and Lord Rothschild. I’ve been lucky to work with some incredibly talented people, and I’ve tried to take a little bit from each of them and then mold it into me so that I can get better.
S+B: How else do you learn, especially when you have incredible demands on your time professionally and personally?
DARROCH: I think I’m lucky because I was never the smartest, most talented person. Consequently, I’ve always had to have this idea of self-improvement. I’m constantly trying to get better at everything I do. I’m naturally inquisitive, I’m curious about things, and I’ll take time [to learn]. What I’m not good at is back-to-back meetings every day. That doesn’t work for me. So I carve up time in my schedule for people to come by, to poke around a bit, because I love rubbing minds with people. You can learn a lot just by walking around. And if I’m on the road, I’ll often take a day to look around a city I’ve not been to.
You have to be very careful, particularly in a place like London. It’s such a dominant city in the U.K. You can get sucked into the London chatter that just bounces around. So I don’t go out a lot. I want to come home and spend time with my family and my friends. If you get sucked into a wholly work-based life, the danger is that you miss a slightly wider perspective on what’s really important.
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WHAT IS GENERAL ADMISSION?
The General Admission ticket is your Day Pass to Grand Canyon West, the Tourism Area of the Hualapai Nation, a federally recognized Indian Tribe located in northwestern Arizona. The Day Pass includes the use of our onsite Hop-On Hop-Off shuttle service for a self-guided tour of all points of interest at Grand Canyon West. Included in this package are the live performances, scenic viewpoints, cultural activities, and more. Explore ticket options, including bundled savings opportunities.
Your ticket purchase supports the Hualapai Tribe Nation, a sovereign Indian nation that does not receive federal funding, with proceeds helping to sustain the Indigenous peoples that call the Hualapai Indian Reservation home.
DO I HAVE TO PURCHASE A GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET?
Every visitor to Grand Canyon West is required to purchase a General Admission ticket. Optional activities, such as Skywalk, helicopter and boat tours, and zipline tours can be purchased at an additional cost. Explore ticket options, including bundled savings opportunities.
Your ticket purchase supports the Hualapai Tribe Nation, a sovereign Indian nation that does not receive federal funding, with proceeds helping to sustain the Indigenous peoples that call the Hualapai Indian Reservation home.
WHAT ARE YOUR HOURS OF OPERATION?
Grand Canyon West is open every day of the year, including all major holidays, from 8:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. daily. Last tickets are sold at 5 p.m. from March to November and vary as days get longer or shorter going into and out of the summer. Guests can stay overnight at the west rim at the Cabins at Grand Canyon West — check-in is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Learn more about all of the things you can do at Grand Canyon West.
WHAT IS THE CANCELLATION POLICY?
TICKETS PURCHASED ARE VALID FOR 6 MONTHS FROM PURCHASE, NON-REFUNDABLE, AND TRANSFERABLE. THEY ARE FOR INDIVIDUAL USE ONLY AND CANNOT BE RESOLD; ANY ATTEMPT TO DO SO MAY INCUR PENALTIES.
Promotions and discounts cannot be combined with other offers.
Tours and prices are subject to change without notice.
Discounts only valid on General Admission, Skywalk, Zipline, Meal Tickets, White Water Rafting and select River Tours – not valid for any Aerial Tours. Discounts only valid on specific tours designated at the time of purchase.
Cancellation policies apply to select tours and products. All tours and products are subject to Tribal tax and fees. Tours, prices, taxes and fees are subject to change without notice.
Weather may affect the availability of tours.
Grand Canyon West is owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe and reserves the right to deny entry.
Tickets purchased on this site are for individual consumption only, and are not for resale. Any attempts at reselling tickets will be subject to penalty.
For any questions, please call (888) 868-9378 or (928) 769-2636. Explore ticket options, including bundled savings opportunities.
Your ticket purchase supports the Hualapai Tribe Nation, a sovereign Indian nation that does not receive federal funding, with proceeds helping to sustain the Indigenious peoples that call the Hualapai Indian Reservation home.
WHERE IS THE NEAREST ACCOMMODATIONS TO GRAND CANYON WEST?
Guests book overnight accommodations at the Cabins at Grand Canyon West in one of our western-style cabins facing the Canyon. Each booking includes one General Admission ticket; additional General Admission tickets can be purchased at the time of check-in.
There is RV Parking available at the Hualapai Welcome Center. RV Parking costs $22/night; parking passes can be purchased at the Ticket Terminal or from security for arrivals after hours. Our RV Parking does not offer water or sewer hook-ups. RVs can only stay for a maximum of three nights.
ARE NATIONAL PARK PASSES ACCEPTED?
No. Grand Canyon West is an enterprise of the Hualapai Nation and is not affiliated with Grand Canyon National Park. The National Park is located five hours away on the South Rim in the northwest corner of Arizona, close to the borders of Utah and Nevada. Explore ticket options, including bundled savings opportunities.
Your ticket purchase supports the Hualapai Tribe Nation, a sovereign Indian nation that does not receive federal funding, with proceeds helping to sustain the Indigenous peoples that call the Hualapai Indian Reservation home.
ARE PETS ALLOWED AT GRAND CANYON WEST?
Pets are not permitted on tours or allowed to be left in parked cars. Pet accommodations are available at the Hualapai Ranch (fee applies). Service animals are permitted on tours.
Pets are allowed in the Cabins at Grand Canyon West for overnight guests, however, guests must indicate they are traveling with a pet to be placed in a pet-friendly room.
IS THERE HIKING?
There is a moderate hike at Guano Point called “Highpoint Hike,” which has a beautiful panoramic view of the Canyon and Colorado River. There is also an easy hike down to the edge of the Canyon where you can see the remnants of an old guano mine.
There are also hiking trails available at Hualapai Point. To access the trails, guests must either have a General Admission ticket or be an overnight guest in our cabins. Learn more about all of the things you can do at Grand Canyon West.
WILL I HAVE TO WALK A LOT?
You will not have to do a lot of walking unless you choose to participate in the hiking options. There are many areas where you can sit down at each point of interest and the Hop-On, Hop-Off shuttle can transport you between points quickly. Learn more about all of the things you can do at Grand Canyon West.
HOW WAS THE GRAND CANYON FORMED?
Scientists say the mighty Colorado River cut a channel through layers of rock 5 to 6 million years ago, creating the mile-deep gorge known as the Grand Canyon. The Hualapai Nation’s oral history tells of a different beginning when a big ice comet landed in Colorado. After millions of years, the comet melted and the water rushed through the rocks carving the Grand Canyon. A giant eagle soared the skies before the flooding started, and swooped down to save the Hualapai people, flying the Hualapai on his back and depositing the tribespeople along the ledge of the west rim when the flooding stopped. The eagle itself turned into stone, where it remains to this day.
You can see the grand eagle at the aptly named Eagle Point when you visit Grand Canyon West.
CAN CHILDREN WALK ON THE SKYWALK?
If children are old enough to walk on their own, they are permitted to walk on the Skywalk. If children are old enough to walk on their own, they are permitted to walk on the Skywalk. Children 4 and younger are free to enter and do not require a General Admission or Skywalk ticket. Learn more about Skywalk.
HOW DO I GET PICTURES OF ME ON THE SKYWALK?
We have trained photographers on the Skywalk who will take your picture in a variety of poses if you choose. They will give you a card that you can turn in at the photo counter to see the photos that were taken. Photos can be purchased for $17 per print or $69 for a complete package of digital photos. If you would prefer not to have your picture taken you can simply walk out onto the Skywalk and enjoy the view. We allow you to take your time on your walk and ask only that you be mindful of those who do choose to have their pictures taken. Learn more about Skywalk.
If you visited Skywalk and had professional photos taken of you and your family or friends (or have trouble downloading your photos), you can purchase the photographs by emailing skywalkphoto@grandcanyonresort.com with the following information:
Full Name
Phone Number
Email Address
Receipt Number (if you have it available)
Date of Visit
WHAT IS THE ZIPLINE WEATHER POLICY?
The Zipline at Grand Canyon West will suspend operations in inclement weather. In the event of weather-related cancellations made by The Zipline at Grand Canyon West guests will be issued a refund or a 30-day rain check good for the full value of the reservation. The Zipline at Grand Canyon West does not make cancellation decisions based on the forecast, all decisions regarding weather will be made the same day. Learn more about the Zipline.
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"Sky (company)" redirects here. For other companies called Sky, see Sky (disambiguation).
For Sky's UK operations, see Sky UK. For Sky's Irish operations, see Sky Ireland.
Sky Group Limited[4] is a British media and telecommunications conglomerate, which is a subsidiary of the American conglomerate Comcast, and headquartered in Isleworth. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Sky is Europe's largest media company and pay-TV broadcaster by revenue (as of 2018 ),[5] with 23 million subscribers and more than 31,000 employees as of 2019.[2][6] The company is primarily involved in satellite television, producing and broadcasting. The current CEO is Dana Strong.
Initially formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB became the UK's largest digital pay television company.[7] In 2014, after completing the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, the merged company changed its name to Sky plc.[8]
Prior to November 2018, Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox owned a 39.14% controlling stake in the company;[9] on 9 December 2016, following a previous attempt under News Corporation that was affected by the News International phone hacking scandal, 21st Century Fox announced that it had agreed to buy the remainder of Sky, pending government approval. However, after a bidding war that included the Walt Disney Company (which was, in turn, acquiring most of 21st Century Fox's assets), US media and telecoms conglomerate Comcast acquired the entirety of Sky in 2018 for £17.28 per share. NBCUniversal, which is Sky Group's sister company, is also a subsidiary of Comcast.
Before the acquisition by Comcast, Sky was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index and had a market capitalisation of approximately £18.75 billion (€26.76 billion) as of 2018.[10]
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British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) was formed by the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting on 2 November 1990.[11] Both companies had begun to struggle financially and were suffering financial losses as they competed against each other for viewers. The Guardian later characterised the merger as "effectively a takeover by News Corporation".[12]
The merger was investigated by the Office of Fair Trading[13] and was cleared a month later since many of the represented views were more concerned about contractual arrangements which had nothing to do with competition.[14] The Independent Broadcasting Authority was not consulted about the deal; after approval, the IBA demanded precise details about the merger, stated they were considering the repercussions of the deal to ultimately determine whether BSB contracts were null and void.[15][16] On 17 November, the IBA decided to terminate BSB's contract, but not immediately, as it was deemed unfair to 120,000 viewers who had bought BSB devices.[17]
Sam Chisholm was appointed CEO[18] in a bid to reorganise the new company, which, continued to make losses of £10 million per week. The defunct BSB's HQ, Marco Polo House were sold, 39% of the new company's employees were made redundant to leave just under 1000 employees,[12] many of the new senior BSkyB executive roles were given to Sky personnel with many BSB leaving the company. In April the nine Sky/BSB channels had been condensed into five, with EuroSport being dropped soon after the Sky Sports launch.[19] Chisholm also renegotiated the merged company's expensive deals with the Hollywood studios, slashing the minimum guaranteed payments. The defunct Marcopolo I satellite was sold in December 1993 to Sweden's NSAB, and Marcopolo II went to Norway's Telenor in July 1992[20] after the Independent Television Commission (ITC) was unable to find new companies to take over the BSB licences and compete with BSkyB. News International received 50%, Pearson PLC 17.5%, Chargeurs 17.5%, Granada 12%, Reed International 2% of the new shares in the company.[21]
By September 1991, the weekly losses had been reduced to £1.5M a week, Rupert Murdoch said "there were strong financial marketing and political reason[s] for making the compromise merger instead of letting BSB die. Many of the lessons had been learnt with more than half the running cost of the combined company". Further cuts in losses were a direct result of 313,000 new customers joining during the first half of 1991.[22] By March 1992, BSkyB posted its first operating profits, of £100,000 per week, with £3.8 million weekly from subscriptions and £1 million from advertising, but continued to be burdened with £1.28 billion of debt. Stockbroker firm James Capel forecast BSkyB would still be indebted in 2000.[23]
In the autumn of 1991, talks were held for the broadcast rights for Premier League for a five-year period, from the 1992 season.[24] British television network ITV were the current rights holders for the Football League, and fought hard to gain the new rights. ITV had increased its offer from £18m to £34m per year to obtain the new rights.[25] BSkyB joined forces with the BBC[26] to make a counter bid. The BBC was given the highlights of most of the matches, while BSkyB paid £304m for the Premier League rights, giving them a monopoly of all live matches, up to 60 per year from the 1992–93 season.[27] Murdoch has described sport as a "battering ram" for pay-television, providing a strong customer base.[28] A few weeks after the deal, ITV went to the High court to get an injunction as it believed their details were leaked before the decision was taken. ITV also asked the Office of Fair Trading to also investigate since it believed Rupert Murdoch's media empire via the newspapers had influenced the deal.[29] A few days later neither action took effect, ITV believed BSkyB was telephoned and informed of its £262m bid, and the Premier League advised BSkyB to increase its counter bid.[30] BSkyB retained the rights paying £670m for the 1997–2001 deal, but was challenged by On Digital[31] for the rights from 2001 to 2004, thus it was forced to pay £1.1 billion which gave it 66 live games a year.[32] Following a lengthy legal battle with the European Commission, which deemed the exclusivity of the rights to be against the interests of competition and the consumer, BSkyB's monopoly came to an end from the 2007–08 season. In May 2006, the Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports was awarded two of the six Premiership packages that the English FA offered to broadcasters. Sky picked up the remaining four for £1.3bn.[33]
Becoming a public limited company
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In October 1994,[34] BSkyB announced its plans to float the company on the UK and US stock exchanges, selling off 20% of the company.[35] The stock flotation reduced Murdoch's holding to 40 per cent and raised £900m, which allowed the company to cut its debt in half. Sam Chisholm said "By any standards this is an excellent result, in every area of the company has performed strongly".[36] Chisholm became one of the world's most highly paid television executives.[37]
In 1995, BSkyB opened its second customer management centre at Dunfermline, Scotland,[38] in addition to its original centre at Livingston which opened in 1989. BSkyB entered the FTSE 100 index, operation profits increased to £155M a year, and Pearson sold off its 17.5% stake in the company.[39]
Sam Chisholm resigned from BSkyB due to a rift with Rupert Murdoch in June 1997.[40] A week later, Murdoch was quoted as saying "I cannot understand the fuss; BSkyB was grossly overpriced", which caused further rifts with the new management.[41]
In 1997, BSkyB formed a partnership with Carlton and Granada to bid for the right for the new digital terrestrial network. In June, it was awarded the right to start the service, ONdigital, under the condition BSkyB withdrew from the group's bid.[42] In February 2003 BSkyB wished to renegotiate its deal with MTV to reduce its payment from £20m. Chief executive Tony Ball said "We're definitely prepared to stare them down if we can't get a sensible deal. MTV, and other channels, have done particularly well out of the growth of Sky but the opportunity for savings is now there and Sky will be taking it," he added. "MTV has done extremely well out of that original deal."[43] On 17 April 2003 BSkyB launched its own range of music channels Scuzz, Flaunt and The Amp, as part of its plan to create its own original channels for the platform.[44] Within 18 months the channels failed to make impact, and were outsourced to the Chart Show Channels company.[45]
Shortly afterwards it acquired Artsworld, giving a majority of subscribers full access to the channel. The buyout was part of James Murdoch's strategy to improve the perceptions BSkyB which could lead to potential new subscribers. John Cassy, the channel manager of Artsworld, said: "It is great news for the arts that a dedicated cultural channel will be available to millions of households."[46]
In early 2007 Freeview overtook Sky Digital with nearly 200,000 more subscribers at the end of 2006, while cable broadcaster Virgin Media had three million customers.[47] In July 2007, BSkyB announced the takeover of Amstrad for £125m, a 23.7% premium on its market capitalisation.[48]
BSkyB and Virgin Media announced that they had reached agreement for the acquisition by BSkyB of Virgin Media Television. Virgin1 was also a part of the deal and was rebranded as Channel One on 3 September 2010, as the Virgin name was not licensed to Sky.[49][50] The new carriage deals are understood to be for up to nine years.[51] The deal was completed in July 2010 and Virgin Media Television was renamed Living TV Group.
In June 2010, News Corporation made a bid for complete ownership of BSkyB. However, following the News International phone hacking scandal, critics and politicians began to question the appropriateness of the proposed takeover. The resulting reaction forced News Corp. to withdraw its bid for the company in July 2011.[52][53] The scandal forced the resignation of James Murdoch, who was the chairman of both BSkyB and News International, from his executive positions in the UK, with Nicholas Ferguson taking over as Chairman of BSkyB.[54] In September 2012, Ofcom ruled that BSkyB was still fit to hold broadcast licenses in the UK, but criticised James Murdoch's handling of the scandal.[55] On 28 June 2013, News Corporation was split into two publicly-traded companies; the company's publishing operations (including News International, renamed News UK) and broadcasting operations in Australia were spun into a new company known as News Corp, while the company's broadcast media assets, including its 39.14% stake in Sky, were renamed 21st Century Fox.[56]
European acquisitions
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On 12 May 2014, BSkyB confirmed that it was in talks with its largest shareholder, 21st Century Fox, about acquiring 21st Century Fox's 57.4% stake in Sky Deutschland and its 100% stake in Sky Italia. The enlarged company (dubbed "Sky Europe" in the media) would consolidate 21st Century Fox's European digital TV assets into one company.[57] The £4.9 billion takeover deal was formally announced on 25 July, where BSkyB would acquire 21st Century Fox's stakes in Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia. BSkyB also made a required takeover offer to Sky Deutschland's minority shareholders,[58] resulting in BSkyB acquiring 89.71% of Sky Deutschland's share capital. The acquisitions were completed on 13 November.[8]
Sky plc
[edit]
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc changed its name to Sky plc to reflect the European acquisitions, and the United Kingdom operations were renamed Sky UK Limited. Sky plc bought out the remaining minority shareholders in Sky Deutschland during 2015, using a squeeze-out procedure to obtain the remaining shares and delist Sky Deutschland on 15 September 2015.[59]
Competition around being acquired
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On 9 December 2016, 21st Century Fox announced that it had made an offer to acquire the remainder of Sky plc for £11.7 billion at a value of £10.75 per-share. It marked Fox's second attempt to take over Sky, as its previous attempt under News Corporation was affected by the News International scandal. The two companies reached an agreement on the deal on 15 December, subject to regulatory approval.[60][61]
Ofcom expressed concern that this purchase would give the Murdoch family "material influence over news providers with a significant presence across all key platforms" and "increased influence over the UK news agenda and the political process". However, the regulator did deem that a Fox-owned Sky would be "fit and proper" to hold broadcast licences, despite the recent sexual harassment controversies that had emerged at the US Fox News Channel, as there was no evidence to the contrary.[62][63][64] Avaaz opposed Ofcom's opinion, stating that the regulator "made mistake after mistake in deciding to give the Murdochs a clean bill of health to take over more of our media".[65]
The Walt Disney Company announced on 14 December 2017 that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including its stake in Sky plc but barring specific US assets. Fox stated that this purchase would "not alter [its] full commitment and obligation to conclude our proposed transaction". Analysts suggested that Disney's proposed transaction could ease regulatory concerns over Fox's purchase of Sky, as the company will eventually lose its ties to the Murdoch family. Disney has a narrower scope of media ownership in the country than the Murdoch family.[66] Sky already has a relationship with Disney for its Sky Cinema service, holding pay television rights to its films in the United Kingdom and operating a dedicated Sky Cinema channel devoted to Disney content.[67]
A preliminary report by the Competition and Markets Authority issued January 2018 called for the insulation or outright divestment of Sky News as a condition of the purchase, so that it is editorially independent from the Murdoch family.[68] Sky had threatened to reevaluate the channel's continued operations if they "unduly impeded merger and/or other corporate opportunities available in relation to Sky's broader business". The channel has operated on a loss of at least £40 million per-year.[69][70] In February 2018, Fox proposed the establishment of an independent editorial board, and committing to fund the network for at least 10 years. This commitment would be inherited by Disney after the completion of its purchase of 21st Century Fox.[71][72] On 3 April 2018, Fox stated that Disney had "expressed an interest in acquiring Sky News", which would not be conditional on its proposal to acquire 21st Century Fox.[73]
A bidding war began 25 April 2018, when the competing US media and telecoms conglomerate Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal), announced a counter-offer for Sky at £12.50 per-share, or approximately £22.1 billion.[74][75][76][77] NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke stated that purchasing Sky would roughly double its presence in English-speaking markets, and allow for synergies between the respective networks and studios of NBCUniversal and Sky.[78]
On 5 June 2018, Culture Secretary Matt Hancock cleared both 21st Century Fox and Comcast's respective offers to acquire Sky plc. Fox's offer was contingent on the divestiture of Sky News.[79][80] On 12 June 2018, Comcast announced a US$65 billion counter-offer to acquire the 21st Century Fox assets that Disney had offered to purchase.[81] However, Fox subsequently agreed to an increased, US$71.3 billion offer from Disney instead.[82] On 15 June 2018, the European Commission gave antitrust clearance to Comcast's offer to purchase Sky, citing that in terms of their current assets in Europe, there would be limited impact on competition. Comcast included a 10-year commitment to the operations and funding of Sky News similar to that of Disney's offer.[83][84][85] On 19 June 2018, Disney formally agreed to acquire Sky News as part of Fox's proposed bid, with a 15-year commitment to increase its annual funding from £90 million to £100 million.[86]
On 11 July 2018, Fox increased its bid for Sky to £14.00 per share, valuing it at £24.5 billion. Comcast subsequently counterbid just hours later with an offer at £14.75 per-share, valued at £26 billion.[87][88] On 19 July 2018, after Fox agreed to a Disney counter-offer,[89][90] it was reported that Comcast had abandoned its bid for 21st Century Fox to focus solely on Sky.[91][92]
On 20 September 2018, the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers ordered that a blind auction be held "in order to provide an orderly framework for the resolution of this competitive situation". In this process, Fox, followed by Comcast, made new cash-only bids for Sky. After these first two rounds of bidding, there would be a third round where both companies could make new offers. However, the third round of bidding would only be binding if both companies make a bid. The results were to be revealed on 22 September, and be confirmed by the start of trading on 24 September.[93] Comcast won the auction with a bid of £17.28 per-share, beating Fox's bid of £15.67.[94][95] Sky plc had until 11 October to formally accept this offer.[96]
Following its auction victory, Comcast began to acquire Sky shares from the open market. On 26 September 2018, Fox subsequently announced its intent to sell all of its shares in Sky plc to Comcast for £12 billion.[97][96] On 4 October 2018, Fox completed the sale of their shares, giving Comcast a 76.8% controlling stake at the time.[98]
Sky Group Ltd
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On 12 October 2018, Comcast announced it would compulsorily acquire the rest of Sky after its bid gained acceptances from 95.3% of the broadcaster's shareholders with the company being delisted by early 2019.[99] Sky was delisted on 7 November 2018 after Comcast acquired all remaining shares.[100]
In August 2021, Sky Group signed a deal with ViacomCBS to launch Paramount+ in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria by 2022.[101] On 3 May 2022, it was announced that Paramount+ will launch on 22 June 2022 for Sky customers in Ireland and the United Kingdom.[102]
Management
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Executive Chairman: Jeremy Darroch (since January 2021)
Chief Executive: Dana Strong (since January 2021)
List of former chairmen
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Rupert Murdoch (1990–2007)
James Murdoch (2007–2012)
Nicholas Ferguson (2012–2016)
James Murdoch (2016–2018); second term
List of former chief executives
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Sam Chisholm (1990–1997)
Mark Booth (1997–1999)
Tony Ball (1999–2003)
James Murdoch (2003–2007)
Jeremy Darroch (2007–2021)
The first CEO of BSkyB was Sam Chisholm, who was CEO of Sky TV before the merger. Chisholm served in this position until 1997. He was followed by Mark Booth who was credited with leading the company through the introduction of Sky. Tony Ball was appointed in 1999 and completed the company's analogue to digital conversion. He is also credited with returning the company to profit and bringing subscriber numbers to new heights. In 2003, Ball announced his resignation and James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch was announced as his successor. This appointment caused allegations of nepotism from shareholders.[103]
On 7 December 2007, it was announced that Rupert Murdoch would be stepping down as BSkyB's non-executive chairman and would be replaced by his son, James. In turn, James stepped down as CEO of BSkyB, to be replaced by Jeremy Darroch.[104] It was estimated that Darroch would earn around £38.2 million from selling Sky to Comcast. He sold his 775,772 shares in Sky worth £13.4 million and would cash in on previously awarded bonus shares.[105]
In January 2021, it was announced that Darroch would be standing down as CEO, and will become executive chairman of Sky for the remainder of 2021, and will then be an advisor to the company.[106] He will be succeeded as CEO by Dana Strong.[106]
The current company directors are Comcast personnel: Michael J Cavanagh (Comcast senior VP & CFO), Arthur R Block (legal counsel) and David L Cohen (senior VP & CDO).[107]
Financial performance
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Financial results have been as shown in the table.[108]
Revenue and profit or loss, by fiscal year Year ended Revenue (£m) Profit/(loss)
before tax (£m) Net profit/
(loss)(£m) 30 June 2018 13,585 864 815 30 June 2017 12,916 803 691 30 June 2016 11,965 752 663 30 June 2015 9,989 1,516 1,952 30 June 2014 7,632 1,082 865 30 June 2013 7,235 1,257 979 30 June 2012 6,791 1,189 906 30 June 2011 6,597 1,014 810 30 June 2010 5,709 1,173 878 30 June 2009 5,359 456 259 30 June 2008 4,952 60 (127) 30 June 2007 4,551 815 499 30 June 2006 4,148 798 551 30 June 2005 4,048 631 425 30 June 2004 3,656 480 322 30 June 2003 3,186 128 190 30 June 2002 2,776 (1,276) (1,383) 30 June 2001 2,306 (515) (539) 30 June 2000 1,847 (263) (272) 30 June 1999 1,545 (389) (285) 30 June 1998 1,434 271 249 30 June 1997 1,270 314 288 30 June 1996 1,008 257 – 30 June 1995 778 155 – 30 June 1994 550 93 – 30 June 1993 380 (76) – 30 June 1992 233 (188) – 30 June 1991 93 (759) –
In February 2019, The Economist magazine claimed that Sky enjoys gross margins of 50%.[109]
Current operations
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Subsidiaries
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Subsidiary companies of Sky Group Name Details Sky UK Limited The original Sky Television, now a holding company for Sky's United Kingdom operations.[110] Sky Subscriber Services Limited Operating company for the Sky pay-television service.[111] Sky In-Home Services Limited Home installations of satellite dishes and set-top boxes.[112] Sky Broadband Limited and Sky Home Communications Limited Operating companies for Sky's broadband and telephony services, including Be Un Limited which was acquired from O2.[113] Sky Ireland Limited Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Ireland.[114] Sky Italia S.r.l. Operating company for Sky pay-television, broadband and telephony services in Italy.[115] Sky Deutschland GmbH Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.[116] Sky Studios In June 2019, Sky formed Sky Studios with the production assets from Sky Vision. Excluding distribution which was transferred to sister company NBCUniversal.[117][118] Amstrad British electronics company acquired by BSkyB.[48] Now An internet broadcast company owned by Sky. Freesat from Sky A free satellite television service similar to Freesat and Freeview. The Cloud Free Public Wi-Fi hotspot provider acquired by BSkyB.[119]
Ventures
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Current venture operations of Sky Group Venture Share Partner General information A&E Networks UK 50% A&E Networks Operates Blaze, History, H2 and CI channels[120] Sky Sports Racing 50% Arena Racing Company Ginx TV Ltd 50% ITV plc[121] Jupiter Entertainment 60% Skybound Stories 50% Skybound Entertainment [122] Comedy Central (British TV channel) 25%[123] Paramount British Pictures, part of Paramount Global/National Amusements DTV Services Ltd 20% Arqiva, BBC, Channel 4, ITV plc Manages and markets the Freeview brand[124] SkyShowtime 50% Paramount Global (through Showtime Networks)
Sky services per country
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Services offered by Sky Group divisions Division Countries Years Television Broadband Telephony Sky UK United Kingdom 1990– Pay TV satellite, free TV satellite (Freesat from Sky), pay IPTV (Sky Glass/Sky Stream) DSL and FTTP Landline and mobile Sky Ireland Ireland 1998– Pay TV satellite DSL and FTTP Landline Sky Italia Italy, San Marino, Vatican City 2003– Pay TV satellite, pay IPTV (Sky Q via internet/Sky Glass) FTTH and FTTC Landline and mobile Sky Deutschland Germany, Austria, Switzerland (through Sky Switzerland) 2009– Pay TV satellite — —
Former operations
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Subsidiaries
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Former subsidiary companies of Sky Group Name Details Sky España An over-the-top video streaming service in Spain. On 1 September 2020, Sky España ceased its own operations.[125] Acetrax A video on demand movie rental service. Now closed down.[126] Sky México (41.3%) – with Liberty Media and Grupo Televisa
Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Mexico. Sold their stake to DirecTV Sky Brasil (80%) – with Liberty Media and Grupo Globo
Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Brazil. Sold their stake to DirecTV Sky Vision Unit for distributing TV shows globally and investment in production assets. Assets split between Sky Studios and Universal Television Distribution following Comcast's takeover of Sky[127][118] Japan Sky Broadcasting [ja] (JSkyB) – with SoftBank Corp.
Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Japan. Sold to DirecTV and later absorbed into SKY PerfecTV!
Ventures
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Former venture operations of Sky Group Venture Share Partner General information Australian News Channel 33.3%[123] Seven Network and Nine Entertainment and operated Sky News Australia Sold to News Corp Australia Bad Wolf minority HBO, BBC Studios Sold to Sony Pictures Television[128][129] Beamly 10% Sold to Coty Nickelodeon UK 40%[123] Paramount Networks UK & Australia, part of Paramount Global Sold to Paramount Networks UK & Australia
Stake in ITV
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ITV plc has been the subject of a flurry of rumoured take-over and merger bids since it was formed. For example, on 9 November 2006, NTL announced that it had approached ITV plc about a proposed merger.[130][131] The merger was effectively blocked by BSkyB on 17 November 2006 when it controversially bought a 17.9% stake in ITV plc for £940 million,[132] a move that attracted anger from NTL shareholder Richard Branson[133] and an investigation from media and telecoms regulator Ofcom.[134] On 6 December 2006, NTL announced that it had complained to the Office of Fair Trading about BSkyB's move. NTL stated that it had withdrawn its attempt to buy ITV plc, citing that it did not believe that there was any possibility to make a deal on favourable terms.[135] On 17 July 2014, BSkyB's 6.4% stake in ITV was sold to Liberty Global, valued at £481 million.[136]
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For all lovers of Sport, Sky experts selected the best international sports events, in more than 20 sports
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After four months of negotiations, a joint bid from DAZN and Sky Italia for Serie A’s domestic broadcast rights has been green-lighted by 17 of the league’s 20 clubs. The deal is reportedly worth a combined $4.77B (€450B) and will cover five seasons from 2024-25 to 2028-29.
With less than eight months to go before the 2024-25 season begins, and with Lega Serie A more desperate by the day, the two sports media companies’ determination to bargain until the last possible minute has paid off. DAZN is the major player and is said to have proposed $744M (€700M) minimum in revenue per season for the Italian top flight, while Sky Italia’s coverage will inject another €200M ($213M) throughout each of the five campaigns.
Viewers in Italy can expect seven Serie A games per round (266 of the 380 league matches per season) on DAZN, with the three remaining matches broadcast on Sky Italia (114 matches overall).
Italian clubs could lose out
It’s no secret that these are precarious times of stagnation and deflation in Italy’s footballing economy. At face value, this deal represents a 2.95% decrease in overall revenue. Serie A’s current deal (2021-24), also with DAZN and Sky Italia, runs out in June of 2024 and is worth a combined $975M per season - $28M more than the renewed agreement - prompting Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis’ cries to scrap the proposal.
"It's a total defeat, these deals will be the death of Italian football," he told us, speaking over Serie A CEO Luigi De Siervo during a press conference.
However, according to De Siervo, the new deal may match or even hit one billion euros per season, inflating the arrangement to $5.3B overall, when including some add-ons. As part of the DAZN deal, clubs will also be entitled to uncapped revenue sharing associated with various performance criteria such as subscriber growth.
Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that the clubs will earn less than the agreed annual payment of $947M in the first two years, with the amount increasing across years three to five.
Overall, three Serie A clubs rejected the DAZN and Sky Italia joint bid, instead opting for Italy’s governing body of club football to launch a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model where Lega Serie A itself would broadcast all matches. This idea was proposed on the back of the League’s decision to build its own broadcasting centre (IBC) in 2021, located 15 miles away from Milan’s main stadium, Stadio San Siro, which is home to AC Milan and Inter Milan.
Meanwhile, Torino chairman Urbano Cairo told reporters that Lega Serie A was right to accept the revised ‘low-ball’ offer for 2024-29, "Figures were below our initial expectations and below our current contracts...however, I think we were right to continue our relationship with Sky and DAZN."
"Creating a Serie A TV channel now...would had mean adding further risk to an (already) risky business like soccer", said the 66-year-old, who also owns Cairo Communication.
How the tables have turned
The value of broadcasting rights for Serie A is well below what is generated by the English Premier League (PRL), encouraging big-name players to bypass Italian football for huge sums of money at Newcastle United, Manchester City and even Sheffield United - all owned by Gulf states.
Even the bottom (relegated) English clubs earn more than Italy’s title winners, with Premier League clubs sharing in $2.04B per season in domestic broadcasting revenue alone, that’s $1.12B more than Serie A’s present deal.
To compound the misery, Serie A’s international TV rights income averages only $217M per season, over ten times lower than the PRL’s $2.18B per year.
In the end, the big winners are DAZN and Sky Italia. Serie A had been targeting a deal worth up to $7.7B and instead have siphoned out and swallowed a salty treaty of nearly $3B less than what they wanted.
The question must be asked. If Serie A was really ready to roll out its own streaming service as De Siervo had stated, then why agree to the five-year deal and not a traditional three-year accord? Perhaps the longer term was something that DAZN insisted upon at the negotiation table. For now, and until at least 2029, De Laurentiis and his contingency will have to wait.
Given the disparity in funding between the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A, it appears as though a return to the glory days of calcio is improbable.
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Jeremy Darroch will soon mark his 13th year as CEO of Sky. With 32,000 employees and 24 million customers across seven European countries, Sky is a leading player in media content and distribution. Darroch has an atypical background for the head of a large global media company. Raised in a small town in the northeast of England, he attended the University of Hull, and spent 12 years at Procter & Gamble before moving to electronics retailer Dixons as a finance executive. He joined Sky as chief financial officer in 2004, and was named CEO in December 2007. Sky, founded in 1989, was the U.K.’s first satellite TV service. It grew into a media powerhouse, largely on the back of its channels dedicated to news and sports — especially English Premier League soccer. Darroch spearheaded the company’s investments in adjacent business lines such as broadband and over-the-top (OTT) subscription service Now TV, pushed the company into European markets (acquiring Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland in 2014), and invested in prestige original productions such as Chernobyl, the Emmy Award–winning series jointly produced with HBO. In October 2018, when Comcast completed its US$39 billion acquisition of Sky, it sealed one of the largest and most consequential media deals in history. In a virtual interview with strategy+business contributing editor David Lancefield and editor-in-chief Daniel Gross, Darroch discussed his approach to strategy, the importance of culture, and why he doesn’t go out much.
S+B: You have talked about a mind-set of continual reinvention at Sky. How do you go about creating it? How do you sustain it over time?
DARROCH: It starts from having a strategic mind-set about how you think about the business. You have a core assumption that your markets, customers, and the environment are not going to stay the same. When you start with that mind-set, you begin to ask: How do we need to change to stay relevant and continue to grow in the future environment that we see?
The demand for renewal then cascades all the way down. But you can’t be overly prescriptive. Much of my job is not to tell my colleagues how to renew, but to encourage them to continually do it. That means making sure every time I’m in a business meeting or review, it’s one of the core things I talk about. From there, you start to legitimize this idea of constant reinvention.
The other way to do it is through the brand. The basic idea of Sky is to “believe in better.” The essence of this is change and improvement, with an optimism attached to it. If we believe that we can get better, we will get better.
S+B: Pay-TV for years was a fantastic business to be in, with growing revenue streams from both subscribers and advertising. But in the last few years, with the rise of streaming and cord cutting, this disruptive industry is being disrupted. How do you approach this challenge?
DARROCH: It depends where you choose to begin. You could start with technology or content, but do you actually start with consumers?
If our north star is our customers and consumers, let’s understand what their usage and habit patterns are today, and how they’re changing. Because that will give us the best picture of where they’re likely to go in the future. It won’t be perfect, but it will open doorways that get us thinking more about where the business needs to go over time. If you can step into those changes, you optimize your chances of controlling them.
When I joined Sky in 2004, around 93 percent of our customers took what we would call “the big bundle,” where essentially, you had everything that Sky offered. We could see, even back then, that this trend wasn’t likely to hold. So, as early as 2005, we started to break down our packages and give customers more options as to how they could rightsize themselves and get what they wanted for what they could afford. When you play that out over 10 or 15 years — the business we have today has a very different makeup and strategy in terms of what it does and how it sells.
By going on this long journey, you can best influence that change and optimize it over time. Sometimes businesses can resist change too much and when they actually find that they need to change, it’s almost too late. When you do change, you’re going to get things wrong. The idea that you can somehow pivot and become excellent in something new, having been excellent in something old, is quite hard to pull off. But if you think of it as a journey and an evolution of the business, it is easier.
Our first OTT service, Sky Player, was launched in 2006. At the time, we didn’t think it was going to be a huge, immediate success. But we knew if we stepped into it, we would learn. It’s why I often talk about long-term shifting plates. What are the big shifting plates that we think are important, that are going to be important to customers, that are important to the industry?
S+B: Many media companies have a CEO and one or two people around them with a vision, but there’s a gap in translating that vision to the rest of the organization. How do you actually go about making sure the vision is consistent and embedded across your executive team and throughout the organization?
DARROCH: You need to do two things. You need to have your eyes to the horizon and your feet on the floor. At all times. And it’s quite a discipline to do that. You see a lot of people who are consumed about managing the now, and then if you look at the last few months, there’s not been a lot of forward thinking. Then you also see other people who, perhaps the longer they are in their roles, spend more and more time thinking about the future horizon. That’s all very alluring and appealing, but they disconnect with the immediacy of what’s important today. You must try to think of both of those things and also encourage everybody else to think of their own role in that way. So, if you’re in broadcast technology today and you’re running that function or department, how do you get your colleagues to look at the future broadcast technologies and at the same time equip people to shoot with their iPhones and get the news out quickly? What you end up with is this networked brain. Everybody in Sky should be thinking about where the company should go, but also “How do I personally make sure I’m doing what is needed?”
S+B: Sky as an organization is clearly ambitious, very capable, and high performing over the long term. So how do you nurture this networked brain? How do you make sure people are managing their energy, making wise decisions without tipping over into burnout?
DARROCH: When you are a CEO, you own the emotional health, robustness, and resilience of the organization, as well as the business performance. Our organization is a slice of life, and you see the best of times and the worst of times. In my tenure, we tragically lost a colleague from Sky News when Mick Deane was shot while covering the Rabaa massacre. We have to support our people to get through terrible situations like that. Culture and style are both very important. Style is defined by the top. If you behave a certain way, then it’s not surprising to find that others will tend to mimic that.
One of the benefits of the open environments we’ve invested in is a healthy, transparent workplace. We were early in investing in mental health and resilience. I’m always somewhat skeptical when I hear about businesses treating mental health efforts as a discrete program. I think it’s a way of life. Somebody said to me many years ago that when we talk about work–life balance, we have to think about it as a verb, not a noun. It’s balancing and not balance.
I think we got a lot of that from our insights in sports, and particularly from Team Sky, our cycling team.
S+B: Team Sky was a cycling juggernaut that had the best assemblage of talent; made huge advances in health, nutrition, and technology; and won the Tour de France four straight years, and six out of seven. How did that partnership come together? And what precisely did you learn from it?
DARROCH: Back in 2007, with the London Olympics coming up, I was thinking about how we could contribute more broadly to a sport. We’re associated with a lot of big sports, and I had this idea of working much more closely with smaller sports, particularly at the grassroots level. I was also intrigued by what a business could learn from an elite sport. Relative to business, sports are often quite pure environments with very singular goals. Whereas if you’re running a very big organization, you’re pulling all the levers, but you’re not quite sure what’s connected to what lever. And it’s a little bit harder to just translate all specific actions to results.
I talked to a lot of people, and they all told me to meet a guy named Dave Brailsford because they thought we had a lot in common. And in the first meeting, Dave talked about the idea of marginal gains [small improvements that lead to significant success]. There was an immediate meeting of minds. It led us to working with British Cycling ahead of the Beijing Olympics, and then from that, Dave said, “We can create a team that can go on to win the Tour de France.”
The purpose of the team was never just winning bike races — it was about grassroots participation. Over 10 years, we inspired nearly 2 million people to cycle regularly. We learned an enormous amount. Clearly, funding is important. But it’s only part of the mix, and that alone won’t guarantee success. Team Sky benefited from the branding, communications, and infrastructure that we were able to put in around the team. It was an incredible journey. They have continued in their new form [sponsored by chemical company Ineos].
S+B: In your first annual report as CEO, you said that a successful and sustainable business is a responsible business. Sky was the first media company in Europe to launch a net zero carbon emissions campaign. Why?
DARROCH: All businesses are collectives, in which everybody can feel part of the mission and have a stake in the journey. But as a CEO, you’ve got a unique opportunity to define what the business stands for. I was very taken by this idea of creating a good business, one that could see beyond the narrowness of its own financial performance. Every business takes from the environment. We get access to resources, roads, infrastructure, and education. So it’s only right that we have a mind-set that we give back, we replenish as well as consume. And we use our voice to try to make a difference.
That view was very much shared by my senior colleagues. We got into it and took a small step, and I found two things. First, the broader environmental community responded really positively to that, and second, people in Sky responded positively. Back in 2006, we were the first media business to become carbon neutral. And since then, our Rainforest Rescue campaign has saved a billion trees in the Amazon, we launched the hugely successful Sky Ocean Rescue campaign against single-use plastics, and, earlier this year, we set our ambition to be net zero carbon by 2030. Comcast [Sky’s parent company] has a wonderful program called Comcast Cares, which is one of the biggest corporate volunteering programs in the world. We’ve now created Sky Cares because we plan to really step up our volunteering in local communities.
S+B: Streaming has become as powerful a force in entertainment and media as the steam engine was for transportation in the late 19th century. How do you talk about streaming in terms of strategy? Is it a technology or consumer habit?
DARROCH: First, you have to separate technology and how we distribute what we do from the actual product that we sell. When Sky was launched, we had analog TV, which was replaced by digital multichannel TV, which in turn was replaced by high-definition TV. Atop that came the concept of on-demand content, initially served through hard disks in boxes, then through server farms that we owned, and then eventually through the cloud-based virtual servers we have today. And then, there was a transition from a pure broadcast platform to a hybrid platform where we combine satellite and the broadband return pathway. Today, you can get Sky purely over a streamed platform. So we’re on a journey through time, rather than moving toward a destination.
Second, when you have a customer focus, streaming becomes irrefutable because you can see the trends. Streaming today is as much about how people choose to lead their lives as it is about technology platforms and infrastructure. Both of those things are important.
The reality is today, fewer of our customers than ever before consume their content purely through satellite. But 15 years from now, people will still be consuming content by satellite. It will just be a smaller number. I think leaders can race too quickly into some of these changes because they haven’t been thoughtful enough about the right pace of change.
We don’t spend too much time being overly precise on predicting specific outcomes. We want to understand the trends, take a wide view to make sure that we can see them in the broadest context, and then figure out how to step into them. And that becomes liberating, because the question is not, do we change? It’s how, at what rate, and where?
S+B: In some ways you’ll be cannibalizing yourself as an organization. And that can be challenging because you have shareholders to please. How do you manage that tension?
DARROCH: Our role is to build this business for the medium and longer term and create the greatest sustainable value that we can create over that period. At Sky, we reject excessive short-termism. When we invest, we invest for returns. We understand, appreciate, and are equally committed not just to the investment, but to the returns phase that flows off the back of it.
You have to think about strategy at a capability level, a human capital level, and ask: “How do we get the right set of skills into the organization?” We’re seeking people who share our same values. That’s probably the only single thing that we’re quite strict about. When you put that together, then you’ve got the ingredients that allow you to do both of those things.
At a personal level, you have to recognize that with some of your new technologies, your own personal batting average just goes down. You have to be willing to fail a lot over time. And that’s not always comfortable, but that’s part of the job.
S+B: On the content side, you’ve made some bold moves and successful moves in Sky Studios. How do you see the role of short-form, high-quality content?
DARROCH: We have a pretty simple mantra, which is that we want to have something for every household in the market in which we compete and for every person in the household. When I first joined Sky, I realized that we offered a lot for myself and my son, but maybe there was a little bit less for my wife and my daughters. That led me to the decision to build a much broader entertainment portfolio and then to invest in our own content with Sky Studios. It was one of the harder decisions to land on in the business. But once we did it, it turned out to be transformative.
There’s always a lot of people telling you that that particular idea is not a very good one. And you just have to follow your instinct and make it happen.”
Short-form content and its consumption are just going to grow. Whether you’re 20 or 50, you recognize that attention spans are going down a bit. But monetizing in that space is not going to be easy. There’s a lot of short-form content available. Is it going to be a big thing or an addendum to another thing? Maybe we can distribute it over a digital platform, but more and more of it is now flowing into our main in-home TV platforms as well. One of the great things about Sky Studios in particular is that it just gives us a much greater capability to harness our talent and to be able to create more of that type of content.
For many years, we’ve done a set of half-hour Christmas Comedy Shorts on Sky Arts. They’re little stories, quirky stories often, where we work with fantastic on-screen talent and writers. We give them a vehicle to publish their story, and it’s been tremendously successful every year.
S+B: You said that deciding to move into content was one of the harder decisions to land on in the business. What was so particularly hard about it?
DARROCH: It was more of a pivot from where we had traditionally been. At the time, we thought we would continue to work with people around the world to acquire content. In the short term, you can convince yourself that the easy, most efficient, lowest-risk approach is to work with the Universals, Disneys, Warners of this world. And why would Sky think that it should compete in that area? However, I felt that short-term thinking was too limiting in terms of our ambition and could see this real desire for locally originated content. And the free-to-air broadcasters were going to become ever more general, to secure advertising dollars or the license fee. We needed to combine working at scale with the best people…with our consumer insight and mind-set, to create distinctive, highly differentiated, very high quality paid TV content and paid-for content that could complement what we did elsewhere.
It was always going to be a journey. I knew we were going to have to [stay] the course. There are always a lot of people telling you that that particular idea is not a very good one. And you just have to follow your instinct and make it happen. Fortunately for us, it worked — Sky is part of the team that created Chernobyl, which became such a huge success. Those are the great days.
S+B: Sky and other large media companies have a mix of global and national features. How much further do you think Sky intends to go in terms of its global ambition?
DARROCH: We have all the attributes and assets that we need. Being part of the broader Comcast organization has been fantastic. We’re already distributing our content more broadly, and our original productions are being sold in many markets. We can see that it is resonating and working. You can take a service like Sky News and look at its global reach. We recently completed a documentary on what has happened in Lombardy called Coronavirus: Into the Red Zone. It is a fantastic piece of reporting that is being distributed very broadly. We’ve got all the basic ingredients and capabilities now. The question then becomes, where, at what pace, how do we do this? I’m very hopeful that in the next few years, you’ll see Sky’s reach get ever broader.
S+B: This is an industry that has often grown by transformative acquisitions, including the acquisition of Sky by Comcast. What is the next phase of deals? Is it investing in startups that are doing different things in technology and production?
DARROCH: Putting Sky together with Comcast and NBCUniversal has given us a very broad landscape and a significant financial and human resource capability. To me, it doesn’t feel like there’s any one thing that the business has to do so it can find the right opportunities. As you’d expect, I see us continuing to work across the spectrum, whether it’s upstream in terms of working with NBCUniversal in terms of content creation, attracting the right talent, and giving those people a much bigger landscape that they can work with. We’ve got 55 million of the world’s richest consumers in five of the seven top markets in the world. We have a very attractive base of loyal customers who like our products and brands, and typically want to take more from us. And we’re simultaneously working with our colleagues at Comcast’s cable and consumer product platforms so that we can roll out more consistently, faster, and at greater scale.
We are almost a year and a half into the new organization. Our focus initially was to embed Sky into Comcast well and secure the synergies between the companies. And we’ve done that. Now I think the business is really thinking forward. The immediate curveball that’s been thrown at all of us is the events of the moment [the COVID-19 pandemic]. But if you look further afield, I think the opportunity for us to be one of the winners in this broader space over the long term is there for the taking.
S+B: Who, or what, has shaped you the most as a CEO?
DARROCH: The person who had the greatest influence on my life — and even though he has passed away, he still does — is my father. I grew up in a fantastic community, and had a great family and great parents. But my old man in particular had a big influence on me. His mantra all through whatever I did was just “Respect your opponent. Respect yourself. Do your best.”
All of us have a mixture of things we do well and things we don’t do so well. If you can focus on identifying what people do really well, you get rich learning. I’m a little bit of a magpie like that. I try to learn and pick from people I come across. My first boss, Glen Wilson at P&G, had an enormous effect on me, as did John Clare and Stanley Kalms at Dixons. And at Sky, Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch, and Lord Rothschild. I’ve been lucky to work with some incredibly talented people, and I’ve tried to take a little bit from each of them and then mold it into me so that I can get better.
S+B: How else do you learn, especially when you have incredible demands on your time professionally and personally?
DARROCH: I think I’m lucky because I was never the smartest, most talented person. Consequently, I’ve always had to have this idea of self-improvement. I’m constantly trying to get better at everything I do. I’m naturally inquisitive, I’m curious about things, and I’ll take time [to learn]. What I’m not good at is back-to-back meetings every day. That doesn’t work for me. So I carve up time in my schedule for people to come by, to poke around a bit, because I love rubbing minds with people. You can learn a lot just by walking around. And if I’m on the road, I’ll often take a day to look around a city I’ve not been to.
You have to be very careful, particularly in a place like London. It’s such a dominant city in the U.K. You can get sucked into the London chatter that just bounces around. So I don’t go out a lot. I want to come home and spend time with my family and my friends. If you get sucked into a wholly work-based life, the danger is that you miss a slightly wider perspective on what’s really important.
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Well yes, Sky Digital is owned by News Corporation, which also owns Foxtel in Oz.
as you can see here, Sky Italia use the same remote.
Some remotes are the same, if made by the same company, like a Sony remote will work with almost every other Sony TV.
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Sky, Foxtel and Sky Italia are all partly owned by NewsCorp, all using the same EPG software and NDS technology (which also happens to be NewsCorp owned). Therefore they all have the same remote layout. I know the MySky boxes from Sky NZ also now follow the same setup, but the normal satellite receivers use different EPG software and I think different remotes. I know that remote layout is also used by Tata Sky, but I have no idea what EPG software and boxes it is using.
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Austar in Australia -also- use that remote. I think it may be an NDS design...
I think it's more a NewsCorp design than an NDS one, as it's all the companies that NewsCorp have interests in that use that remote design. The same applies to the EPG software. I've noticed NDS develops two customisable EPG's, the Sky one that is adapted to all the other NewsCorp companies, and another generic one which can be customised to each provider who wishes to use it. In the case of Austar, I think they are closely connected with Foxtel in some way.
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They have a nicer looking EPG too judgiung by that website and it appears that ALL their programmes are given ratings for parental control purposes. Something that is boasted about here, but very little channels use. The BBC, ITV and RTÉ never give ratings for their programmes so parental controls can't be used on any of their channels.
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They have a nicer looking EPG too judgiung by that website and it appears that ALL their programmes are given ratings for parental control purposes. Something that is boasted about here, but very little channels use. The BBC, ITV and RTÉ never give ratings for their programmes so parental controls can't be used on any of their channels.
Paddy
RTÉ rate -all- their shows.... on-screen. They don't use Sky's BBFC-based rating system as they don't have any basis to be showing BBFC-rated content.
I'd suspect BBC and ITV will have age rating on Freesat.
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In Australia it's a requirement for all shows to be rated, in the same way it is in the US. Therefore, every show has a rating on the EPG. The rating is even displayed on Foxtel's Search and Scan banner, which means if they wanted to add that functionality here it's already in the software.
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RTÉ rate -all- their shows.... on-screen. They don't use Sky's BBFC-based rating system as they don't have any basis to be showing BBFC-rated content.
I'd suspect BBC and ITV will have age rating on Freesat.
But that still doesn't stop the channel from being watched when a certain film or programme is being broadcast though.
In the cinema, Ireland now uses a different ratings system to the UK, but on video/DVD it is the exact same, G (same as 'U'), PG, 12, 15 and 18, so surely these can still be used for films at least.
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But that still doesn't stop the channel from being watched when a certain film or programme is being broadcast though.
In the cinema, Ireland now uses a different ratings system to the UK, but on video/DVD it is the exact same, G (same as 'U'), PG, 12, 15 and 18, so surely these can still be used for films at least.
Paddy
The age bands are the same, correct. The movies in the age bands often aren't (although thats not majorly of issue here).
My view of it is that its down to the parents to prevent children watching content they shouldn't, not let the magic box decide whats safe and whats not. Although theres not much risk of me having kids myself...
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Thanks to its recognized excellences, Italy is the most desired destination in the world by far.
The challenge is presenting ITA Airways not as an airline company but as the sum of the Italian excellences in flight.
How can we turn into physical expression what people search for when dreaming of a trip to Italy and reveal in the end that everything can be found up in the sky?
The starting point was to learn and understand what people look for when searching about Italy and this was achieved thanks to the support from Google, who shared key insights from Google Search Trends from around the world and specifically from the US related to Italy.
What people search when planning a trip to Italy is exactly what ITA Airways offers on board: a unique style, like the one of the crew’s uniforms designed by Brunello Cucinelli; surprising flavors, like those of the onboard menus created by starred Italian chefs; a refined design and the highest comfort, both ensured by the interiors and the seats conceived by Walter De Silva. But above all, that typical warm welcome that every passenger can experience. That’s why, with ITA Airways, Italy starts even before touching the ground.
We present ITA Airways not as an airline company but as the sum of the Italian excellences in flight.
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The heavyweight Sky Italia pay-TV broadcaster has unveiled an extension to its exclusive rights deal covering English soccer’s top-tier Premier League (EPL) for another three seasons.
The renewal, confirmed late last week, will see Sky Italia continue to exclusively cover the 20-team EPL until the end of the 2027-28 campaign.
The current deal between the broadcaster and the league (also for three years) runs through 2024-25.
There will be coverage of (up to) all 10 matches per round, live on both Sky’s linear channels and via the Now streaming service, as well as pre and post-match analysis, and the Premier League Remix highlights show.
Feature-style programming, such as the Premier League Stories segment, will also be aired.
The current tie-up between Sky Italia and the EPL is worth, GlobalData (Sportcal) has estimated, $35 million per year, and was unveiled in May 2022.
Before that, Sky Italia also covered EPL action during the 2019-22 cycle.
That agreement, however, only included a maximum of seven live EPL games being shown every week, meaning this new extension also represents an expansion of the tie-up.
Marzio Perrelli, executive vice president of sport at Sky Italia, has said: “We are happy to announce this agreement with the Premier League, which will remain a fundamental pillar of Sky Sport's offering in the coming seasons.”
Prominent Italian players currently competing in the EPL include Arsenal’s Jorginho, Tottenham Hotspur’s Destiny Udogie, and Aston Villa’s Nicolò Zaniolo.
The broadcaster’s German counterpart, Sky Deutschland, has already announced a similar extension through 2027-28 (exclusive in Germany and Austria, and non-exclusive in Switzerland), with that deal made public in early February.
Sky’s UK branch is the main domestic broadcaster for the league (alongside TNT Sports), in a deal struck late last year and worth £6.7 billion ($8.45 billion) for the 2025-26 to 2028-29 cycle.
Sky Italia, meanwhile, is also a domestic rights partner of Italy’s Serie A through 2028-29. That deal gives the network live coverage rights to co-broadcast three games per week, with DAZN holding rights to all matches.
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Rupert Murdoch will collect nearly £5bn after BSkyB agreed on Friday to buy out Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland from the media magnate's 21st Century Fox group.
The transaction will give BSkyB 20 million pay-TV customers across Europe and is the biggest shakeup for the satellite broadcaster since it was created 24 years ago through the merger of Murdoch's Sky with British Satellite Broadcasting.
Murdoch will maintain a foothold in the European pay-TV business through 21st Century Fox's 39.1% stake in BSkyB.
"The new Sky will be a world-class, multinational pay-TV business headquartered in the UK, anchored in Europe," said BSkyB's chief executive, Jeremy Darroch. "It's the right time for Sky to make this move and we think it can create a lot of value for shareholders."
The merger better positions BSkyB to compete with John Malone, a longtime Murdoch rival who is building Liberty Media into Europe's largest cable television business with control of Virgin Media and a slice of ITV in the UK. It also provides a buttress against the growing distribution might of Apple, Google, Amazon and Netflix, which are using the internet to build multibillion-dollar video businesses.
With BSkyB's UK customer base now at 11.5 million, room for growth in its home market is limited. But pay television is less popular and less profitable in Italy and Germany, and the expanded business will operate in a market numbering 97m households, 66m of which have yet to take any form of pay TV.
Over the last five years, BSkyB has more than doubled its paid-for subscription product base and increased revenues by 43% to £7.6bn, while profits have increased 56% to nearly £1.7bn. It says the expanded business – which will serve the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy – could make similar gains.
"The headroom for growth in Italy and Germany is much greater," said Paul Richards, an analyst at Numis bank. "BSkyB has executed really well in the UK over the last decade or two and is looking to export that capability into other markets in Europe."
With increased annual revenues of £11.2bn thanks to the contribution from its continental units, and a total of £4.6bn to spend on screen each year, BSkyB claims it will have the biggest programming budget of any European broadcaster.
As in the UK, BSkyB will offer its content not just over satellite but over the internet via its Now TV service, which is operated as a standalone brand to compete with pay rivals such as Netflix, and over mobile via its Sky Go platform or deals with operators such as Vodafone. However, its German and Italian businesses are not expected to follow the UK in offering broadband and phone calls for the time being.
Darroch will continue to run the UK and Ireland arm but will expand his role to oversee the expanded business. He said BSkyB may cut some jobs but would probably increase overall headcount in each of its three main markets.
By year two, he expects £200m in annual savings from jointly buying programmes, combining IT systems, producing live events, commissioning, rationalising suppliers and, over time, in product and set-top box development.
In annual results released on Friday, BSkyB beat City forecasts on profits, reporting earnings per share of 60p against an expected 57.6p, while revenues came in as forecast at £7.6bn, an increase of 5% on last year.
Despite the battle for customers with BT and its new sports channels, Sky added 50,000 broadband customers in the most recent quarter, ending 30 June, and 76,000 television customers. BSkyB will issue 156m shares to fund the deal, equivalent to nearly 10% of its existing free float. Fox has committed to buying enough of these shares to maintain its current holding in Sky.
The European deal will see BSkyB acquire 21st Century Fox's 57.4% interest in the German business for £2.9bn, equivalent to €6.75 (£5.35) per share, a slight premium to Thursday's closing price of €6.66 and the legal minimum it is obliged to offer under German takeover rules. The same sum has been offered to minority shareholders. Sky Italia is being acquired for £2.45bn, made up of £2.07bn in cash and the balance in the form of a stake in National Geographic which BSkyB is selling to 21st Century Fox for £382m.
Meanwhile, 21st Century Fox is considering its next move in its attempted takeover of Time Warner. News broke last week of an unsolicited $80bn (£47bn) offer for the Hollywood powerhouse behind Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.
However, Murdoch tempered expectations that the proceeds from the BSkyB deal will be funnelled into a new Time Warner bid. The 21st Century Fox chief executive said the group's "number one priority is increasing shareholder value in a disciplined manner" and "we will only consider transactions that fully support this objective".
Combining Time's HBO television production house and Warner Brothers with Fox would create a content giant capable of holding its own against the growing distribution might of Apple and Google's electronic entertainment stores, but with a competitively contentious 30% of US box office receipts.
"We have always believed that a combination of the European Skys would create enormous benefits for the combined business and for our shareholders," said James Murdoch, who is co-chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox. "Ultimately, a pan-European Sky is good for customers, who will benefit from the accelerated technological innovation and enhanced customer experience made possible by a fully integrated business."
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Plans for a “Gomorrah” series prequel are moving forward, with shooting now scheduled to start in winter 2025 on the hit crime drama’s previously announced origin story.
News that the “Gomorrah” prequel show is firmly on track surfaced as Sky Italia celebrated the 10th anniversary of the country’s top TV export, with a special aired on Sunday – of which Variety has been given an exclusive clip – in which key cast traded anecdotes about how their onscreen roles wound up seeping into their real lives.
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The “Gomorrah” origin story will recount the rise of mobster Pietro Savastano in the 1970s, when the Neapolitan criminal underworld was pervasive but less cutthroat — more tied to selling contraband cigarettes than large amounts of drugs — as the show’s lead producer Riccardo Tozzi, chief of ITV-owned Cattleya, revealed. Roberto Saviano, who generated the “Gomorrah” IP, is on board. Other details are being kept under wraps.
“Gomorrah,” which is based on Saviano’s bestselling Neapolitan mob exposé, launched in 2014. From the outset, the gritty show brought audiences inside the belly of the real Neapolitan criminal underworld, thanks in part to being shot almost entirely in the actual places it portrays. Besides attaining megahit status in Italy, “Gomorrah” has traveled to 190 countries, including on HBO Max in the U.S.
The hyper-realistic crime skein is Italy’s greatest TV export, having sold to 190 territories since its 2014 launch, despite being subtitled even for Italian audiences, most of whom don’t understand the Neapolitan dialect in which “Gomorrah” is voiced. The show — best known for mixing neorealism with genre conventions and Shakespearean tropes — is produced by ITV Cattleya in collaboration with Germany’s Beta Film.
Watch the exclusive clip from the 10th anniversary special above.
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British media and telecommunications conglomerate
"Sky (company)" redirects here. For other companies called Sky, see Sky (disambiguation).
For Sky's UK operations, see Sky UK. For Sky's Irish operations, see Sky Ireland.
Sky Group Limited[4] is a British media and telecommunications conglomerate, which is a subsidiary of the American conglomerate Comcast, and headquartered in Isleworth. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Sky is Europe's largest media company and pay-TV broadcaster by revenue (as of 2018 ),[5] with 23 million subscribers and more than 31,000 employees as of 2019.[2][6] The company is primarily involved in satellite television, producing and broadcasting. The current CEO is Dana Strong.
Initially formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB became the UK's largest digital pay television company.[7] In 2014, after completing the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, the merged company changed its name to Sky plc.[8]
Prior to November 2018, Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox owned a 39.14% controlling stake in the company;[9] on 9 December 2016, following a previous attempt under News Corporation that was affected by the News International phone hacking scandal, 21st Century Fox announced that it had agreed to buy the remainder of Sky, pending government approval. However, after a bidding war that included the Walt Disney Company (which was, in turn, acquiring most of 21st Century Fox's assets), US media and telecoms conglomerate Comcast acquired the entirety of Sky in 2018 for £17.28 per share. NBCUniversal, which is Sky Group's sister company, is also a subsidiary of Comcast.
Before the acquisition by Comcast, Sky was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index and had a market capitalisation of approximately £18.75 billion (€26.76 billion) as of 2018.[10]
History
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BSkyB
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Formation
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British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) was formed by the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting on 2 November 1990.[11] Both companies had begun to struggle financially and were suffering financial losses as they competed against each other for viewers. The Guardian later characterised the merger as "effectively a takeover by News Corporation".[12]
The merger was investigated by the Office of Fair Trading[13] and was cleared a month later since many of the represented views were more concerned about contractual arrangements which had nothing to do with competition.[14] The Independent Broadcasting Authority was not consulted about the deal; after approval, the IBA demanded precise details about the merger, stated they were considering the repercussions of the deal to ultimately determine whether BSB contracts were null and void.[15][16] On 17 November, the IBA decided to terminate BSB's contract, but not immediately, as it was deemed unfair to 120,000 viewers who had bought BSB devices.[17]
Sam Chisholm was appointed CEO[18] in a bid to reorganise the new company, which, continued to make losses of £10 million per week. The defunct BSB's HQ, Marco Polo House were sold, 39% of the new company's employees were made redundant to leave just under 1000 employees,[12] many of the new senior BSkyB executive roles were given to Sky personnel with many BSB leaving the company. In April the nine Sky/BSB channels had been condensed into five, with EuroSport being dropped soon after the Sky Sports launch.[19] Chisholm also renegotiated the merged company's expensive deals with the Hollywood studios, slashing the minimum guaranteed payments. The defunct Marcopolo I satellite was sold in December 1993 to Sweden's NSAB, and Marcopolo II went to Norway's Telenor in July 1992[20] after the Independent Television Commission (ITC) was unable to find new companies to take over the BSB licences and compete with BSkyB. News International received 50%, Pearson PLC 17.5%, Chargeurs 17.5%, Granada 12%, Reed International 2% of the new shares in the company.[21]
By September 1991, the weekly losses had been reduced to £1.5M a week, Rupert Murdoch said "there were strong financial marketing and political reason[s] for making the compromise merger instead of letting BSB die. Many of the lessons had been learnt with more than half the running cost of the combined company". Further cuts in losses were a direct result of 313,000 new customers joining during the first half of 1991.[22] By March 1992, BSkyB posted its first operating profits, of £100,000 per week, with £3.8 million weekly from subscriptions and £1 million from advertising, but continued to be burdened with £1.28 billion of debt. Stockbroker firm James Capel forecast BSkyB would still be indebted in 2000.[23]
In the autumn of 1991, talks were held for the broadcast rights for Premier League for a five-year period, from the 1992 season.[24] British television network ITV were the current rights holders for the Football League, and fought hard to gain the new rights. ITV had increased its offer from £18m to £34m per year to obtain the new rights.[25] BSkyB joined forces with the BBC[26] to make a counter bid. The BBC was given the highlights of most of the matches, while BSkyB paid £304m for the Premier League rights, giving them a monopoly of all live matches, up to 60 per year from the 1992–93 season.[27] Murdoch has described sport as a "battering ram" for pay-television, providing a strong customer base.[28] A few weeks after the deal, ITV went to the High court to get an injunction as it believed their details were leaked before the decision was taken. ITV also asked the Office of Fair Trading to also investigate since it believed Rupert Murdoch's media empire via the newspapers had influenced the deal.[29] A few days later neither action took effect, ITV believed BSkyB was telephoned and informed of its £262m bid, and the Premier League advised BSkyB to increase its counter bid.[30] BSkyB retained the rights paying £670m for the 1997–2001 deal, but was challenged by On Digital[31] for the rights from 2001 to 2004, thus it was forced to pay £1.1 billion which gave it 66 live games a year.[32] Following a lengthy legal battle with the European Commission, which deemed the exclusivity of the rights to be against the interests of competition and the consumer, BSkyB's monopoly came to an end from the 2007–08 season. In May 2006, the Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports was awarded two of the six Premiership packages that the English FA offered to broadcasters. Sky picked up the remaining four for £1.3bn.[33]
Becoming a public limited company
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In October 1994,[34] BSkyB announced its plans to float the company on the UK and US stock exchanges, selling off 20% of the company.[35] The stock flotation reduced Murdoch's holding to 40 per cent and raised £900m, which allowed the company to cut its debt in half. Sam Chisholm said "By any standards this is an excellent result, in every area of the company has performed strongly".[36] Chisholm became one of the world's most highly paid television executives.[37]
In 1995, BSkyB opened its second customer management centre at Dunfermline, Scotland,[38] in addition to its original centre at Livingston which opened in 1989. BSkyB entered the FTSE 100 index, operation profits increased to £155M a year, and Pearson sold off its 17.5% stake in the company.[39]
Sam Chisholm resigned from BSkyB due to a rift with Rupert Murdoch in June 1997.[40] A week later, Murdoch was quoted as saying "I cannot understand the fuss; BSkyB was grossly overpriced", which caused further rifts with the new management.[41]
In 1997, BSkyB formed a partnership with Carlton and Granada to bid for the right for the new digital terrestrial network. In June, it was awarded the right to start the service, ONdigital, under the condition BSkyB withdrew from the group's bid.[42] In February 2003 BSkyB wished to renegotiate its deal with MTV to reduce its payment from £20m. Chief executive Tony Ball said "We're definitely prepared to stare them down if we can't get a sensible deal. MTV, and other channels, have done particularly well out of the growth of Sky but the opportunity for savings is now there and Sky will be taking it," he added. "MTV has done extremely well out of that original deal."[43] On 17 April 2003 BSkyB launched its own range of music channels Scuzz, Flaunt and The Amp, as part of its plan to create its own original channels for the platform.[44] Within 18 months the channels failed to make impact, and were outsourced to the Chart Show Channels company.[45]
Shortly afterwards it acquired Artsworld, giving a majority of subscribers full access to the channel. The buyout was part of James Murdoch's strategy to improve the perceptions BSkyB which could lead to potential new subscribers. John Cassy, the channel manager of Artsworld, said: "It is great news for the arts that a dedicated cultural channel will be available to millions of households."[46]
In early 2007 Freeview overtook Sky Digital with nearly 200,000 more subscribers at the end of 2006, while cable broadcaster Virgin Media had three million customers.[47] In July 2007, BSkyB announced the takeover of Amstrad for £125m, a 23.7% premium on its market capitalisation.[48]
BSkyB and Virgin Media announced that they had reached agreement for the acquisition by BSkyB of Virgin Media Television. Virgin1 was also a part of the deal and was rebranded as Channel One on 3 September 2010, as the Virgin name was not licensed to Sky.[49][50] The new carriage deals are understood to be for up to nine years.[51] The deal was completed in July 2010 and Virgin Media Television was renamed Living TV Group.
In June 2010, News Corporation made a bid for complete ownership of BSkyB. However, following the News International phone hacking scandal, critics and politicians began to question the appropriateness of the proposed takeover. The resulting reaction forced News Corp. to withdraw its bid for the company in July 2011.[52][53] The scandal forced the resignation of James Murdoch, who was the chairman of both BSkyB and News International, from his executive positions in the UK, with Nicholas Ferguson taking over as Chairman of BSkyB.[54] In September 2012, Ofcom ruled that BSkyB was still fit to hold broadcast licenses in the UK, but criticised James Murdoch's handling of the scandal.[55] On 28 June 2013, News Corporation was split into two publicly-traded companies; the company's publishing operations (including News International, renamed News UK) and broadcasting operations in Australia were spun into a new company known as News Corp, while the company's broadcast media assets, including its 39.14% stake in Sky, were renamed 21st Century Fox.[56]
European acquisitions
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On 12 May 2014, BSkyB confirmed that it was in talks with its largest shareholder, 21st Century Fox, about acquiring 21st Century Fox's 57.4% stake in Sky Deutschland and its 100% stake in Sky Italia. The enlarged company (dubbed "Sky Europe" in the media) would consolidate 21st Century Fox's European digital TV assets into one company.[57] The £4.9 billion takeover deal was formally announced on 25 July, where BSkyB would acquire 21st Century Fox's stakes in Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia. BSkyB also made a required takeover offer to Sky Deutschland's minority shareholders,[58] resulting in BSkyB acquiring 89.71% of Sky Deutschland's share capital. The acquisitions were completed on 13 November.[8]
Sky plc
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British Sky Broadcasting Group plc changed its name to Sky plc to reflect the European acquisitions, and the United Kingdom operations were renamed Sky UK Limited. Sky plc bought out the remaining minority shareholders in Sky Deutschland during 2015, using a squeeze-out procedure to obtain the remaining shares and delist Sky Deutschland on 15 September 2015.[59]
Competition around being acquired
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On 9 December 2016, 21st Century Fox announced that it had made an offer to acquire the remainder of Sky plc for £11.7 billion at a value of £10.75 per-share. It marked Fox's second attempt to take over Sky, as its previous attempt under News Corporation was affected by the News International scandal. The two companies reached an agreement on the deal on 15 December, subject to regulatory approval.[60][61]
Ofcom expressed concern that this purchase would give the Murdoch family "material influence over news providers with a significant presence across all key platforms" and "increased influence over the UK news agenda and the political process". However, the regulator did deem that a Fox-owned Sky would be "fit and proper" to hold broadcast licences, despite the recent sexual harassment controversies that had emerged at the US Fox News Channel, as there was no evidence to the contrary.[62][63][64] Avaaz opposed Ofcom's opinion, stating that the regulator "made mistake after mistake in deciding to give the Murdochs a clean bill of health to take over more of our media".[65]
The Walt Disney Company announced on 14 December 2017 that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including its stake in Sky plc but barring specific US assets. Fox stated that this purchase would "not alter [its] full commitment and obligation to conclude our proposed transaction". Analysts suggested that Disney's proposed transaction could ease regulatory concerns over Fox's purchase of Sky, as the company will eventually lose its ties to the Murdoch family. Disney has a narrower scope of media ownership in the country than the Murdoch family.[66] Sky already has a relationship with Disney for its Sky Cinema service, holding pay television rights to its films in the United Kingdom and operating a dedicated Sky Cinema channel devoted to Disney content.[67]
A preliminary report by the Competition and Markets Authority issued January 2018 called for the insulation or outright divestment of Sky News as a condition of the purchase, so that it is editorially independent from the Murdoch family.[68] Sky had threatened to reevaluate the channel's continued operations if they "unduly impeded merger and/or other corporate opportunities available in relation to Sky's broader business". The channel has operated on a loss of at least £40 million per-year.[69][70] In February 2018, Fox proposed the establishment of an independent editorial board, and committing to fund the network for at least 10 years. This commitment would be inherited by Disney after the completion of its purchase of 21st Century Fox.[71][72] On 3 April 2018, Fox stated that Disney had "expressed an interest in acquiring Sky News", which would not be conditional on its proposal to acquire 21st Century Fox.[73]
A bidding war began 25 April 2018, when the competing US media and telecoms conglomerate Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal), announced a counter-offer for Sky at £12.50 per-share, or approximately £22.1 billion.[74][75][76][77] NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke stated that purchasing Sky would roughly double its presence in English-speaking markets, and allow for synergies between the respective networks and studios of NBCUniversal and Sky.[78]
On 5 June 2018, Culture Secretary Matt Hancock cleared both 21st Century Fox and Comcast's respective offers to acquire Sky plc. Fox's offer was contingent on the divestiture of Sky News.[79][80] On 12 June 2018, Comcast announced a US$65 billion counter-offer to acquire the 21st Century Fox assets that Disney had offered to purchase.[81] However, Fox subsequently agreed to an increased, US$71.3 billion offer from Disney instead.[82] On 15 June 2018, the European Commission gave antitrust clearance to Comcast's offer to purchase Sky, citing that in terms of their current assets in Europe, there would be limited impact on competition. Comcast included a 10-year commitment to the operations and funding of Sky News similar to that of Disney's offer.[83][84][85] On 19 June 2018, Disney formally agreed to acquire Sky News as part of Fox's proposed bid, with a 15-year commitment to increase its annual funding from £90 million to £100 million.[86]
On 11 July 2018, Fox increased its bid for Sky to £14.00 per share, valuing it at £24.5 billion. Comcast subsequently counterbid just hours later with an offer at £14.75 per-share, valued at £26 billion.[87][88] On 19 July 2018, after Fox agreed to a Disney counter-offer,[89][90] it was reported that Comcast had abandoned its bid for 21st Century Fox to focus solely on Sky.[91][92]
On 20 September 2018, the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers ordered that a blind auction be held "in order to provide an orderly framework for the resolution of this competitive situation". In this process, Fox, followed by Comcast, made new cash-only bids for Sky. After these first two rounds of bidding, there would be a third round where both companies could make new offers. However, the third round of bidding would only be binding if both companies make a bid. The results were to be revealed on 22 September, and be confirmed by the start of trading on 24 September.[93] Comcast won the auction with a bid of £17.28 per-share, beating Fox's bid of £15.67.[94][95] Sky plc had until 11 October to formally accept this offer.[96]
Following its auction victory, Comcast began to acquire Sky shares from the open market. On 26 September 2018, Fox subsequently announced its intent to sell all of its shares in Sky plc to Comcast for £12 billion.[97][96] On 4 October 2018, Fox completed the sale of their shares, giving Comcast a 76.8% controlling stake at the time.[98]
Sky Group Ltd
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On 12 October 2018, Comcast announced it would compulsorily acquire the rest of Sky after its bid gained acceptances from 95.3% of the broadcaster's shareholders with the company being delisted by early 2019.[99] Sky was delisted on 7 November 2018 after Comcast acquired all remaining shares.[100]
In August 2021, Sky Group signed a deal with ViacomCBS to launch Paramount+ in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria by 2022.[101] On 3 May 2022, it was announced that Paramount+ will launch on 22 June 2022 for Sky customers in Ireland and the United Kingdom.[102]
Management
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Executive Chairman: Jeremy Darroch (since January 2021)
Chief Executive: Dana Strong (since January 2021)
List of former chairmen
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Rupert Murdoch (1990–2007)
James Murdoch (2007–2012)
Nicholas Ferguson (2012–2016)
James Murdoch (2016–2018); second term
List of former chief executives
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Sam Chisholm (1990–1997)
Mark Booth (1997–1999)
Tony Ball (1999–2003)
James Murdoch (2003–2007)
Jeremy Darroch (2007–2021)
The first CEO of BSkyB was Sam Chisholm, who was CEO of Sky TV before the merger. Chisholm served in this position until 1997. He was followed by Mark Booth who was credited with leading the company through the introduction of Sky. Tony Ball was appointed in 1999 and completed the company's analogue to digital conversion. He is also credited with returning the company to profit and bringing subscriber numbers to new heights. In 2003, Ball announced his resignation and James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch was announced as his successor. This appointment caused allegations of nepotism from shareholders.[103]
On 7 December 2007, it was announced that Rupert Murdoch would be stepping down as BSkyB's non-executive chairman and would be replaced by his son, James. In turn, James stepped down as CEO of BSkyB, to be replaced by Jeremy Darroch.[104] It was estimated that Darroch would earn around £38.2 million from selling Sky to Comcast. He sold his 775,772 shares in Sky worth £13.4 million and would cash in on previously awarded bonus shares.[105]
In January 2021, it was announced that Darroch would be standing down as CEO, and will become executive chairman of Sky for the remainder of 2021, and will then be an advisor to the company.[106] He will be succeeded as CEO by Dana Strong.[106]
The current company directors are Comcast personnel: Michael J Cavanagh (Comcast senior VP & CFO), Arthur R Block (legal counsel) and David L Cohen (senior VP & CDO).[107]
Financial performance
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Financial results have been as shown in the table.[108]
Revenue and profit or loss, by fiscal year Year ended Revenue (£m) Profit/(loss)
before tax (£m) Net profit/
(loss)(£m) 30 June 2018 13,585 864 815 30 June 2017 12,916 803 691 30 June 2016 11,965 752 663 30 June 2015 9,989 1,516 1,952 30 June 2014 7,632 1,082 865 30 June 2013 7,235 1,257 979 30 June 2012 6,791 1,189 906 30 June 2011 6,597 1,014 810 30 June 2010 5,709 1,173 878 30 June 2009 5,359 456 259 30 June 2008 4,952 60 (127) 30 June 2007 4,551 815 499 30 June 2006 4,148 798 551 30 June 2005 4,048 631 425 30 June 2004 3,656 480 322 30 June 2003 3,186 128 190 30 June 2002 2,776 (1,276) (1,383) 30 June 2001 2,306 (515) (539) 30 June 2000 1,847 (263) (272) 30 June 1999 1,545 (389) (285) 30 June 1998 1,434 271 249 30 June 1997 1,270 314 288 30 June 1996 1,008 257 – 30 June 1995 778 155 – 30 June 1994 550 93 – 30 June 1993 380 (76) – 30 June 1992 233 (188) – 30 June 1991 93 (759) –
In February 2019, The Economist magazine claimed that Sky enjoys gross margins of 50%.[109]
Current operations
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Subsidiaries
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Subsidiary companies of Sky Group Name Details Sky UK Limited The original Sky Television, now a holding company for Sky's United Kingdom operations.[110] Sky Subscriber Services Limited Operating company for the Sky pay-television service.[111] Sky In-Home Services Limited Home installations of satellite dishes and set-top boxes.[112] Sky Broadband Limited and Sky Home Communications Limited Operating companies for Sky's broadband and telephony services, including Be Un Limited which was acquired from O2.[113] Sky Ireland Limited Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Ireland.[114] Sky Italia S.r.l. Operating company for Sky pay-television, broadband and telephony services in Italy.[115] Sky Deutschland GmbH Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.[116] Sky Studios In June 2019, Sky formed Sky Studios with the production assets from Sky Vision. Excluding distribution which was transferred to sister company NBCUniversal.[117][118] Amstrad British electronics company acquired by BSkyB.[48] Now An internet broadcast company owned by Sky. Freesat from Sky A free satellite television service similar to Freesat and Freeview. The Cloud Free Public Wi-Fi hotspot provider acquired by BSkyB.[119]
Ventures
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Current venture operations of Sky Group Venture Share Partner General information A&E Networks UK 50% A&E Networks Operates Blaze, History, H2 and CI channels[120] Sky Sports Racing 50% Arena Racing Company Ginx TV Ltd 50% ITV plc[121] Jupiter Entertainment 60% Skybound Stories 50% Skybound Entertainment [122] Comedy Central (British TV channel) 25%[123] Paramount British Pictures, part of Paramount Global/National Amusements DTV Services Ltd 20% Arqiva, BBC, Channel 4, ITV plc Manages and markets the Freeview brand[124] SkyShowtime 50% Paramount Global (through Showtime Networks)
Sky services per country
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Services offered by Sky Group divisions Division Countries Years Television Broadband Telephony Sky UK United Kingdom 1990– Pay TV satellite, free TV satellite (Freesat from Sky), pay IPTV (Sky Glass/Sky Stream) DSL and FTTP Landline and mobile Sky Ireland Ireland 1998– Pay TV satellite DSL and FTTP Landline Sky Italia Italy, San Marino, Vatican City 2003– Pay TV satellite, pay IPTV (Sky Q via internet/Sky Glass) FTTH and FTTC Landline and mobile Sky Deutschland Germany, Austria, Switzerland (through Sky Switzerland) 2009– Pay TV satellite — —
Former operations
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Subsidiaries
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Former subsidiary companies of Sky Group Name Details Sky España An over-the-top video streaming service in Spain. On 1 September 2020, Sky España ceased its own operations.[125] Acetrax A video on demand movie rental service. Now closed down.[126] Sky México (41.3%) – with Liberty Media and Grupo Televisa
Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Mexico. Sold their stake to DirecTV Sky Brasil (80%) – with Liberty Media and Grupo Globo
Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Brazil. Sold their stake to DirecTV Sky Vision Unit for distributing TV shows globally and investment in production assets. Assets split between Sky Studios and Universal Television Distribution following Comcast's takeover of Sky[127][118] Japan Sky Broadcasting [ja] (JSkyB) – with SoftBank Corp.
Operating company for Sky pay-television service in Japan. Sold to DirecTV and later absorbed into SKY PerfecTV!
Ventures
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Former venture operations of Sky Group Venture Share Partner General information Australian News Channel 33.3%[123] Seven Network and Nine Entertainment and operated Sky News Australia Sold to News Corp Australia Bad Wolf minority HBO, BBC Studios Sold to Sony Pictures Television[128][129] Beamly 10% Sold to Coty Nickelodeon UK 40%[123] Paramount Networks UK & Australia, part of Paramount Global Sold to Paramount Networks UK & Australia
Stake in ITV
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ITV plc has been the subject of a flurry of rumoured take-over and merger bids since it was formed. For example, on 9 November 2006, NTL announced that it had approached ITV plc about a proposed merger.[130][131] The merger was effectively blocked by BSkyB on 17 November 2006 when it controversially bought a 17.9% stake in ITV plc for £940 million,[132] a move that attracted anger from NTL shareholder Richard Branson[133] and an investigation from media and telecoms regulator Ofcom.[134] On 6 December 2006, NTL announced that it had complained to the Office of Fair Trading about BSkyB's move. NTL stated that it had withdrawn its attempt to buy ITV plc, citing that it did not believe that there was any possibility to make a deal on favourable terms.[135] On 17 July 2014, BSkyB's 6.4% stake in ITV was sold to Liberty Global, valued at £481 million.[136]
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We know how frustrating it can be when you can’t watch your favorite sports on Sky Go Italia due to geographic limitations, especially if you’re on vacation or working abroad. Despite having a subscription at home, access to streaming videos is restricted when you’re outside Italy. However, we’ve discovered that using a VPN can easily bypass these restrictions.
A VPN encrypts all internet traffic from your device and directs it through an intermediary server in a region of your choice. By connecting to an Italian VPN server, your actual IP address and location are masked, allowing you to access Sky Go Italia from anywhere and ensure a secure internet connection.
After extensive testing of different VPNs, we’ve selected the top options for accessing Sky Go Italia from any location. Our detailed analysis of each VPN will give you an in-depth perspective, but we’ve also summarized our top picks for those with limited time.
NordVPN Our top choice for Sky Go Italia. Operates a large network of servers that perform well with streaming. Unblocks Sky Go Italia and most other popular streaming sites. Comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
TIP In our testing we found that the cheapest NordVPN plan (Standard) works perfectly for streaming.
Surfshark Top budget recommendation. Expanding server network, great unblocking potential, and a true no-logs policy.
IPVanish Good speeds and allows unlimited simultaneous connections. Secures your data with high-end encryption.
ExpressVPN An extensive network of super-fast servers that are great for streaming. Unblocks most popular content. Excellent privacy and security.
CyberGhost 10,000+ servers globally (approximately 200 in Italy). Unlimited bandwidth and strong security. Use on up to seven devices. 24/7 support.
PrivateVPN Up and coming network that is growing in size. Servers geared for speed and reliability. Allows 10 simultaneous connections.
Private Internet Access Servers in over 80 locations, Italy included. Fast, unthrottled connections. No-logs VPN with unlimited simultaneous connections.
How to watch Sky Go Italia online abroad with a VPN
Even if you’ve never used a VPN before, getting one set up is a very easy process. Just follow our step-by-step instructions below, and you’ll be able to access all your favorite content while outside Italy.
Here’s how to watch Sky Go Italia online (from outside Italy):
Firstly, sign up with a suitable VPN provider that can access Sky Go Italia. We particularly recommend NordVPN (don’t forget to make the most of the free trial if you only need a VPN for a short time).
Next, download the appropriate VPN app for your device.
Launch the VPN and select a VPN server in Italy, then hit connect.
Open the Sky Go app (or your browser if you’re on a PC) on your registered device and log in.
You should now be able to access everything as normal!
If you’re finding any issues, try clearing your cookies and reloading the page, any further issues and you should contact your VPN’s customer support team for assistance.
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There are no hidden terms - just contact support within 30 days if you decide NordVPN isn't right for you, and you'll get a full refund. Start your NordVPN trial here.
How we found the top Sky Go Italia VPNs
There are plenty of VPNs on the market, but unfortunately, not all of them provide the same level of service, and not all of them will be able to access Sky Go Italia from abroad. We’ve taken the guesswork out of VPN selection by only recommending those providers that meet the following criteria:
Multiple servers in Italy
Fast speeds for uninterrupted video streaming
Consistent ability to get around regional restrictions
Ability to mask VPN activity
Easy to use and good value for money
This is just an overview. You can read a more detailed description of how we selected the VPNs in this list later in this article. For now, let’s take a closer look at the ones that made our list.
Best VPNs for Sky Go Italia: at a glance
We’ve compared the most important features of the top VPNs here. Prefer to read the in-depth reviews? Start with NordVPN – our #1 choice for Sky Go Italia.
Best VPNs for Sky Go Italia
The following VPNs consistently impress us during our on-going real-world testing.
Here’s our list of the best VPNs to use with Sky Go Italia.
1. NordVPN
Aug 2024 Unblocks Sky Go ItaliaTested Aug 2024
NordVPN is our top choice for unblocking Sky Go Italia from anywhere. It has 60+ servers in Italy and approximately 6,000 servers in 100+ other countries. This is a great VPN for video streaming and reliably accesses some of the toughest services to get into from abroad, such as Sky Go Italia and Netflix. It has dedicated servers for streaming, and you can even ask the knowledgeable support team for the best server for Sky Go Italia. Plus, you get a simultaneous connection allowance of 10 with NordVPN.
Nord uses shared IP addresses, which means no one who tries to trace the users of a particular site could get back to you because lots of other people are using the same address at the same time. The mechanism that the company uses to map each response to each customer is called “network address translation.” This system acts as an excellent firewall because it makes it impossible for hackers to get to the real internet address of each customer. NordVPN also uses OpenVPN with a 256-bit AES encryption for data.
You can install the NordVPN app on Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices. If you have a Linux computer, you will have to configure the VPN manually. The same goes for routers. However, in both cases, you will find very precise instructions on the NordVPN website. You can just protect your browser with the NordVPN browser extension, available for Chrome and Firefox.
Pros:
Blazing fast speeds to stream HD content without interruptions
Operates over 60+ servers in Italy
Easily access Sky Go, Italia, RaiPlay, and Netflix Italy from abroad
Military-grade 256-bit encryption for great privacy
DNS leak protection comes built-in
Support staff are helpful and knowledgeable
Cons:
Server switching can be slow
BEST VPN FOR SKY GO ITALIA:NordVPN is our first choice. Amazing speeds and works well with Sky Go Italia. Allows up to 10 simultaneous connected devices. Great privacy and security credentials. A 30-day money-back guarantee makes it risk-free.
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2. Surfshark
Unblocks Sky Go ItaliaTested Aug 2024
Surfshark is a great low-cost provider that operates servers in 100+ countries. It pegs decent speeds and is adept at unblocking geo-restricted content from abroad. It works with notoriously tough sites, including multiple Netflix libraries, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video, so Sky Go should pose no issues, and you’ll be able to watch all your favorite home content while abroad. Surfshark also allows unlimited simultaneous connections, so it’s ideal for protecting the whole family.
Surfshark doesn’t disappoint on security, either. It offers 256-bit AES encryption, perfect forward secrecy, a kill switch in all apps, and protection against leaks. Extras include split tunneling, multi-hop VPN, and automatic wifi protection. Surfshark never retains connection logs, it allows torrenting, and it even works well in China.
Easy-to-use apps are available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, and Amazon Fire Stick. One of the best things about this VPN is there’s no connection limit, so you can use it on as many devices as you like.
Pros:
Wide server network covering 100+ countries
Provides a secure, encrypted connection
Fast, reliable speeds
Kill switch on all platforms
Unlimited simultaneous connections
Cons:
Occasional slower server
BUDGET-FRIENDLY:Surfshark offers great value for money. It has an ample network of servers that are great at unblocking region-restricted content. Unlimited simultaneous connections and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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3. IPVanish
unblocks sky go italiaTested Aug 2024
IPVanish stands out for allowing you to connect as many devices as you want at once. Not only this, it has a dozen servers in Milan, Italy, so you can continue watching Sky Go Italia while traveling abroad. With this VPN, you can expect good, steady speeds as well as the ability to access Netflix US while traveling abroad.
Should you have any trouble with IPVanish, remember that a subscription includes 24/7 access to live chat and email support. With a zero-logs policy, this VPN offers strong privacy protection, which is further bolstered by 256-bit AES encryption. You’ll also find it has DNS leak protection and a kill switch feature.
Secure all of your devices simultaneously via the IPVanish apps for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and Amazon Fire TV. If you prefer, you can even set up IPVanish with your router, although this does require manual setup.
Pros:
Unlimited simultaneous devices per account
Works with both Sky Go Italia and Netflix US
Access to 24/7 support via live chat and email
Zero-logs policy so you can stay anonymous
Popular with Kodi users and torrenters
Cons:
No browser extensions are available
Headquartered in the US, which is a Five Eyes member
UNLIMITED DEVICES:IPVanish has a dozen servers in Italy and allows unlimited simultaneous connections. Good speeds for streaming and a high level of security thanks to encryption. 24/7 support. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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4. ExpressVPN
Unblocks Sky Go ItaliaTested Aug 2024
ExpressVPN is included in our list of Sky GO Italia VPNs because of its strong network that covers 100+ countries, including Italy. With the fast download speeds necessary for video streaming, ExpressVPN is an excellent choice for those who want to stream Sky Go Italia from overseas. We believe that ExpressVPN is one of the few services that have a proven track record of successful Sky Go access.
ExpressVPN’s 24/7 online support can guide you toward the best server selection if you face any hurdles. This service excels at bypassing VPN detection systems globally, including the formidable Great Firewall of China.
Security is another of ExpressVPN’s strengths. It uses 256-bit AES encryption for data and 4096-bit RSA encryption for session establishment, providing a secure internet connection for a variety of applications, including downloading. The VPN also features a ‘network lock’ or kill switch, which prevents your device’s applications from connecting to the internet if the VPN connection drops.
ExpressVPN is available for a wide array of platforms, including Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Amazon Fire TV, and Linux. You can also install the VPN on certain routers, covering all your home devices, such as gaming consoles and set-top boxes. ExpressVPN allows eight simultaneous connections and a router installation is counted as a single connection! We’re of the opinion that this feature-rich VPN is a top contender for accessing Sky Go Italia overseas.
Pros:
Operates servers in Cosenza & Milan, great for streaming Italian shows abroad
Reliably accesses Sky Go Italia
Fast enough to play HD video without buffering
Top-class security and privacy protection features
DNS leak protection is included with all VPN server configurations
Cons:
Not as cheap as some other services
Streaming servers aren’t labeled
RELIABLE CHOICE:ExpressVPN reliably unblocks Sky Go Italia as well as most other streaming services. Exceptional speeds for buffer-free HD viewing, along with total security and privacy. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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5. CyberGhost
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CyberGhost operates the largest server network in this list. In total, it has over 10,000 servers in 100+ countries, with over 200 of these located in Italy. Needless to say, this makes it easy to unblock Sky Go Italia regardless of your location. You can also expect absolutely no bandwidth throttling, as well as the ability to access Netflix US.
Once signed up with CyberGhost, you’ll be able to secure as many as seven devices simultaneously. This is one of the safest VPNs you can use thanks to its 256-bit AES encryption, protection from DNS leaks, and automatic kill switch. Note that CyberGhost also operates a strict no-logs policy and has 24/7 support should you have any questions.
CyberGhost provides apps for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV. Browser extensions are also available for Chrome and Firefox, and you can configure it manually to work with select routers.
Pros:
10,000+ servers worldwide (and over 200 in Italy)
Unlimited bandwidth
Live chat and email support available 24/7
Very strong security includes encryption and a no-logs policy
Cons:
Doesn’t work well in China
Lack of advanced options might frustrate power users
200+ SERVERS IN ITALY:CyberGhost has 10,000+ servers. Unlimited bandwidth and strong security with a strict no-logs policy. Can be used on up to seven devices at the same time. 45-day money-back guarantee.
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6. PrivateVPN
Unblocks Sky Go ItaliaTested Aug 2024
PrivateVPN has servers in over 60 countries, including Italy. It’s one of the fastest VPNs we’ve tested and unblocks pretty much every video streaming site you can throw at it, including Sky Go. This Sweden-based service has excellent English-speaking support staff available via live chat on the website during European office hours and via email at other times. And the support team can tell you the best server to choose to get into Sky Go Italia.
PrivateVPN offers each customer an allowance of ten simultaneous connections. You can install the PrivateVPN app on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire operating systems. The VPN can also be configured manually on some routers and on Linux.
Security features in the app include a kill switch and automatic wifi protection. 256-bit AES encryption, DNS leak protection, and a no-logs policy ensure no one can see your online activity. PrivateVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee to new subscribers.
Pros:
Operates servers in Arezzo and Milan that are geared for streaming
Gaining a solid reputation for unblocking geo-restricted content, including Sky Go Italia
Streaming speeds are good enough for HD
Cons:
Fewer servers to choose from than other providers higher on this list
Live support is not quite 24/7
GREAT SPEEDS:PrivateVPN is a good family choice. Unblocks Sky Go Italia and allows up to 10 devices on the same account. Small network of servers but fast connections. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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7. Private Internet Access
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Private Internet Access offers servers worldwide across more than 80 locations. This includes servers in Italy for unblocking and streaming Sky Go Italia. We’ve tested PIA’s speeds and found them to be as consistent as they are fast. You can expect unlimited bandwidth and, as a result, seamless streaming free from lag or buffering. You’ll also be able to connect all your devices at the same time.
When you connect to a PIA server, your internet traffic is 256-bit AES encrypted. There’s also protection from DNS leaks and a kill switch feature. Needless to say, this secures your streaming (and browsing) experience, particularly if you’re traveling abroad and using public wifi. Some VPNs log your data and sell it to third parties. This is certainly not the case with PIA, which operates a strict no-logs policy.
You can access PIA via apps for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux, and Amazon Fire TV. Chrome and Firefox browser extensions are also available to download. However, manual configuration is required if you want to use PIA with a router.
Pros:
Plenty of server locations, including Italy, for accessing Sky Go Italia
Unlimited bandwidth means you won’t suffer lag or buffering
Can be used on 10 devices at once via a single account
Cons:
Like many VPNs, it’s unable to bypass restrictions in China
Not many extras, such as Double VPN servers
NO BANDWIDTH THROTTLING:Private Internet Access offers servers in Italy and works with Sky Go Italia. Doesn’t throttle your bandwidth, so you can stream without interruption. Strict no-logs policy included. 30-day money-back guarantee.
Read our full Private Internet Access review.
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Testing methodology: How we found the best VPNs for streaming Sky Go Italia
We know how frustrating it can be to travel abroad and find you no longer have access to the services for which you pay. Sky Go Italia content becomes region-locked due to copyright and licensing restrictions. It’s for this reason that you need a VPN to stream Sky Go Italia online from anywhere. Below, we detail our methodology for finding the best VPNs for doing exactly this.
Servers in Italy: Let’s start with the obvious! A VPN must have servers in Italy in order to unblock Sky Go Italia. That’s because you need an Italian IP address in order to bypass restrictions. The more servers and IP addresses a VPN has in the country, the higher the chances you’ll be able to successfully unblock the platform.
Speed: Many VPNs had to be ruled out due to their slow server speeds. We found not only the fastest VPNs but those that include unlimited bandwidth so you can stream Sky Go Italia online as much as you like. This is important when traveling abroad when you may be using public wifi and suffering from slow connections.
Network size: It may be that you also want to stream the likes of Netflix US or BBC iPlayer. The VPNs recommended in this post provide servers in dozens of countries worldwide. This includes the likes of the US, UK, Australia, and Japan (and, of course, Italy!). Some have thousands of servers in total for even lower server loads.
Security: We know that traveling abroad comes with some security risks. This is certainly the case if you’re connecting to public wifi hotspots. To protect you from hackers and snoopers, the best VPNs for Sky Go Italia encrypt your data. Some even include Double VPN servers so you can have an extra layer of protection.
Privacy: A VPN should allow you to browse and stream anonymously. We’ve looked at some 140 VPN logging policies in order to find which VPNs best protect your privacy. Much of this comes down to whether they operate a strict no-logs policy. It also helps if a VPN provides an anonymous payment option such as Bitcoin.
Ease of use: While all of the above features are very important, that doesn’t mean a VPN should be complicated to use. We’ve looked for those that have user-friendly apps as well as 24/7 live chat and email support. In all cases, signup and setup shouldn’t take more than a few minutes, even if you’re a VPN novice!
Value for money: Some VPNs offer some or even all of the above but are simply too expensive. The best VPNs for watching Sky Go Italia offer the best value for money while still ticking all of the boxes. Better still, you can take advantage of a free trial or our VPN discount coupons to save even more off the price of a subscription.
In order to find out whether a VPN offers the above (and more), we need to test it for ourselves. In doing this, we can better provide you with the information you need to make an informed decision. Be sure to take a look at our VPN testing methodology for more information on our full process.
Accessing Sky Go Italia with a Free VPN
Now you know that a VPN can get you into Sky Go Italia, you may be wondering whether you can use a free VPN to do so. Well, you might be able to, but it’s unlikely. Sky Go Italia is one of the most difficult video streaming sites to gain access to from abroad. Netflix has the industry’s attention as a difficult access system to beat, but actually, the Sky Go platform is even harder to trick.
It takes a lot of work to get around regional restrictions, and not many companies have enough money to invest in the task. Many will tell you that no VPN can get into Netflix, which is not true. Almost none of them even mention Sky Go Italy because they know that they don’t stand a chance of getting you in from abroad. Very few reputable paid VPN services can get you into Sky Go Italia, which means no free VPN will be able to help you.
Plus, free VPNs don’t offer anywhere near the levels of security and protection that paid providers do. Plus, you might find yourself at risk of having your data stored and sold to a third party.
How to access Sky Go Italia
You are allowed to connect two devices simultaneously to the Sky Go Italia service. This is in addition to your set-top box at home. You do need to register with Sky Go Italia even though the service is free for Sky Italy subscribers.
On your first visit to the site, you need to set up a Sky ID. All you need to do in the ID creation field is enter your client code. This appears at the top of your Sky bill. If you don’t have Sky at home, the Sky Go website will lead you to a Sign-Up page to get a Sky dish installed.
The first time you log in to the service, the computer or mobile device that you are on automatically gets registered as an allowed device. When you log in to the service from another computer or smartphone, that will be registered as your second allowed device. So, be very careful about going around to a friend’s house or borrowing someone else’s tablet to access Sky Go Italia because their computer or mobile device will have the right to access Sky Go Italia through your account for the rest of the month.
You cannot deregister an allowed device. However, the registration lapses at the end of the month. So, remember to only access the service on two of your own devices at the beginning of each month. Otherwise, you will be locked out.
On macOS, iOS, and Android, you have to download an app to watch videos. On Windows computers, you have to watch through your browser. However, the video player of Sky Go Italy only works with Internet Explorer 11 and above.
Getting into Sky Go Italia is really quite complicated just because of the peculiar requirements over registered devices and the necessity of associating the service with your home Sky package. Trying to get into your Sky Go Italia account from outside of Italy makes everything even more complicated.
Remember, very few VPNs can get into Sky Go Italia. Try any of the VPNs in our list risk-free. All of them offer refund periods to allow you to give them a spin. Another Italian TV service that you can access over the Internet, thanks to a VPN is Rai. Enjoy your travels, but take comfort in being able to access TV from back in Italy, wherever you are, thanks to a VPN.
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We know how frustrating it can be when you can’t watch your favorite sports on Sky Go Italia due to geographic limitations, especially if you’re on vacation or working abroad. Despite having a subscription at home, access to streaming videos is restricted when you’re outside Italy. However, we’ve discovered that using a VPN can easily bypass these restrictions.
A VPN encrypts all internet traffic from your device and directs it through an intermediary server in a region of your choice. By connecting to an Italian VPN server, your actual IP address and location are masked, allowing you to access Sky Go Italia from anywhere and ensure a secure internet connection.
After extensive testing of different VPNs, we’ve selected the top options for accessing Sky Go Italia from any location. Our detailed analysis of each VPN will give you an in-depth perspective, but we’ve also summarized our top picks for those with limited time.
NordVPN Our top choice for Sky Go Italia. Operates a large network of servers that perform well with streaming. Unblocks Sky Go Italia and most other popular streaming sites. Comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
TIP In our testing we found that the cheapest NordVPN plan (Standard) works perfectly for streaming.
Surfshark Top budget recommendation. Expanding server network, great unblocking potential, and a true no-logs policy.
IPVanish Good speeds and allows unlimited simultaneous connections. Secures your data with high-end encryption.
ExpressVPN An extensive network of super-fast servers that are great for streaming. Unblocks most popular content. Excellent privacy and security.
CyberGhost 10,000+ servers globally (approximately 200 in Italy). Unlimited bandwidth and strong security. Use on up to seven devices. 24/7 support.
PrivateVPN Up and coming network that is growing in size. Servers geared for speed and reliability. Allows 10 simultaneous connections.
Private Internet Access Servers in over 80 locations, Italy included. Fast, unthrottled connections. No-logs VPN with unlimited simultaneous connections.
How to watch Sky Go Italia online abroad with a VPN
Even if you’ve never used a VPN before, getting one set up is a very easy process. Just follow our step-by-step instructions below, and you’ll be able to access all your favorite content while outside Italy.
Here’s how to watch Sky Go Italia online (from outside Italy):
Firstly, sign up with a suitable VPN provider that can access Sky Go Italia. We particularly recommend NordVPN (don’t forget to make the most of the free trial if you only need a VPN for a short time).
Next, download the appropriate VPN app for your device.
Launch the VPN and select a VPN server in Italy, then hit connect.
Open the Sky Go app (or your browser if you’re on a PC) on your registered device and log in.
You should now be able to access everything as normal!
If you’re finding any issues, try clearing your cookies and reloading the page, any further issues and you should contact your VPN’s customer support team for assistance.
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How we found the top Sky Go Italia VPNs
There are plenty of VPNs on the market, but unfortunately, not all of them provide the same level of service, and not all of them will be able to access Sky Go Italia from abroad. We’ve taken the guesswork out of VPN selection by only recommending those providers that meet the following criteria:
Multiple servers in Italy
Fast speeds for uninterrupted video streaming
Consistent ability to get around regional restrictions
Ability to mask VPN activity
Easy to use and good value for money
This is just an overview. You can read a more detailed description of how we selected the VPNs in this list later in this article. For now, let’s take a closer look at the ones that made our list.
Best VPNs for Sky Go Italia: at a glance
We’ve compared the most important features of the top VPNs here. Prefer to read the in-depth reviews? Start with NordVPN – our #1 choice for Sky Go Italia.
Best VPNs for Sky Go Italia
The following VPNs consistently impress us during our on-going real-world testing.
Here’s our list of the best VPNs to use with Sky Go Italia.
1. NordVPN
Aug 2024 Unblocks Sky Go ItaliaTested Aug 2024
NordVPN is our top choice for unblocking Sky Go Italia from anywhere. It has 60+ servers in Italy and approximately 6,000 servers in 100+ other countries. This is a great VPN for video streaming and reliably accesses some of the toughest services to get into from abroad, such as Sky Go Italia and Netflix. It has dedicated servers for streaming, and you can even ask the knowledgeable support team for the best server for Sky Go Italia. Plus, you get a simultaneous connection allowance of 10 with NordVPN.
Nord uses shared IP addresses, which means no one who tries to trace the users of a particular site could get back to you because lots of other people are using the same address at the same time. The mechanism that the company uses to map each response to each customer is called “network address translation.” This system acts as an excellent firewall because it makes it impossible for hackers to get to the real internet address of each customer. NordVPN also uses OpenVPN with a 256-bit AES encryption for data.
You can install the NordVPN app on Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices. If you have a Linux computer, you will have to configure the VPN manually. The same goes for routers. However, in both cases, you will find very precise instructions on the NordVPN website. You can just protect your browser with the NordVPN browser extension, available for Chrome and Firefox.
Pros:
Blazing fast speeds to stream HD content without interruptions
Operates over 60+ servers in Italy
Easily access Sky Go, Italia, RaiPlay, and Netflix Italy from abroad
Military-grade 256-bit encryption for great privacy
DNS leak protection comes built-in
Support staff are helpful and knowledgeable
Cons:
Server switching can be slow
BEST VPN FOR SKY GO ITALIA:NordVPN is our first choice. Amazing speeds and works well with Sky Go Italia. Allows up to 10 simultaneous connected devices. Great privacy and security credentials. A 30-day money-back guarantee makes it risk-free.
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2. Surfshark
Unblocks Sky Go ItaliaTested Aug 2024
Surfshark is a great low-cost provider that operates servers in 100+ countries. It pegs decent speeds and is adept at unblocking geo-restricted content from abroad. It works with notoriously tough sites, including multiple Netflix libraries, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video, so Sky Go should pose no issues, and you’ll be able to watch all your favorite home content while abroad. Surfshark also allows unlimited simultaneous connections, so it’s ideal for protecting the whole family.
Surfshark doesn’t disappoint on security, either. It offers 256-bit AES encryption, perfect forward secrecy, a kill switch in all apps, and protection against leaks. Extras include split tunneling, multi-hop VPN, and automatic wifi protection. Surfshark never retains connection logs, it allows torrenting, and it even works well in China.
Easy-to-use apps are available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, and Amazon Fire Stick. One of the best things about this VPN is there’s no connection limit, so you can use it on as many devices as you like.
Pros:
Wide server network covering 100+ countries
Provides a secure, encrypted connection
Fast, reliable speeds
Kill switch on all platforms
Unlimited simultaneous connections
Cons:
Occasional slower server
BUDGET-FRIENDLY:Surfshark offers great value for money. It has an ample network of servers that are great at unblocking region-restricted content. Unlimited simultaneous connections and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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3. IPVanish
unblocks sky go italiaTested Aug 2024
IPVanish stands out for allowing you to connect as many devices as you want at once. Not only this, it has a dozen servers in Milan, Italy, so you can continue watching Sky Go Italia while traveling abroad. With this VPN, you can expect good, steady speeds as well as the ability to access Netflix US while traveling abroad.
Should you have any trouble with IPVanish, remember that a subscription includes 24/7 access to live chat and email support. With a zero-logs policy, this VPN offers strong privacy protection, which is further bolstered by 256-bit AES encryption. You’ll also find it has DNS leak protection and a kill switch feature.
Secure all of your devices simultaneously via the IPVanish apps for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and Amazon Fire TV. If you prefer, you can even set up IPVanish with your router, although this does require manual setup.
Pros:
Unlimited simultaneous devices per account
Works with both Sky Go Italia and Netflix US
Access to 24/7 support via live chat and email
Zero-logs policy so you can stay anonymous
Popular with Kodi users and torrenters
Cons:
No browser extensions are available
Headquartered in the US, which is a Five Eyes member
UNLIMITED DEVICES:IPVanish has a dozen servers in Italy and allows unlimited simultaneous connections. Good speeds for streaming and a high level of security thanks to encryption. 24/7 support. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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4. ExpressVPN
Unblocks Sky Go ItaliaTested Aug 2024
ExpressVPN is included in our list of Sky GO Italia VPNs because of its strong network that covers 100+ countries, including Italy. With the fast download speeds necessary for video streaming, ExpressVPN is an excellent choice for those who want to stream Sky Go Italia from overseas. We believe that ExpressVPN is one of the few services that have a proven track record of successful Sky Go access.
ExpressVPN’s 24/7 online support can guide you toward the best server selection if you face any hurdles. This service excels at bypassing VPN detection systems globally, including the formidable Great Firewall of China.
Security is another of ExpressVPN’s strengths. It uses 256-bit AES encryption for data and 4096-bit RSA encryption for session establishment, providing a secure internet connection for a variety of applications, including downloading. The VPN also features a ‘network lock’ or kill switch, which prevents your device’s applications from connecting to the internet if the VPN connection drops.
ExpressVPN is available for a wide array of platforms, including Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Amazon Fire TV, and Linux. You can also install the VPN on certain routers, covering all your home devices, such as gaming consoles and set-top boxes. ExpressVPN allows eight simultaneous connections and a router installation is counted as a single connection! We’re of the opinion that this feature-rich VPN is a top contender for accessing Sky Go Italia overseas.
Pros:
Operates servers in Cosenza & Milan, great for streaming Italian shows abroad
Reliably accesses Sky Go Italia
Fast enough to play HD video without buffering
Top-class security and privacy protection features
DNS leak protection is included with all VPN server configurations
Cons:
Not as cheap as some other services
Streaming servers aren’t labeled
RELIABLE CHOICE:ExpressVPN reliably unblocks Sky Go Italia as well as most other streaming services. Exceptional speeds for buffer-free HD viewing, along with total security and privacy. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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5. CyberGhost
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CyberGhost operates the largest server network in this list. In total, it has over 10,000 servers in 100+ countries, with over 200 of these located in Italy. Needless to say, this makes it easy to unblock Sky Go Italia regardless of your location. You can also expect absolutely no bandwidth throttling, as well as the ability to access Netflix US.
Once signed up with CyberGhost, you’ll be able to secure as many as seven devices simultaneously. This is one of the safest VPNs you can use thanks to its 256-bit AES encryption, protection from DNS leaks, and automatic kill switch. Note that CyberGhost also operates a strict no-logs policy and has 24/7 support should you have any questions.
CyberGhost provides apps for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV. Browser extensions are also available for Chrome and Firefox, and you can configure it manually to work with select routers.
Pros:
10,000+ servers worldwide (and over 200 in Italy)
Unlimited bandwidth
Live chat and email support available 24/7
Very strong security includes encryption and a no-logs policy
Cons:
Doesn’t work well in China
Lack of advanced options might frustrate power users
200+ SERVERS IN ITALY:CyberGhost has 10,000+ servers. Unlimited bandwidth and strong security with a strict no-logs policy. Can be used on up to seven devices at the same time. 45-day money-back guarantee.
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6. PrivateVPN
Unblocks Sky Go ItaliaTested Aug 2024
PrivateVPN has servers in over 60 countries, including Italy. It’s one of the fastest VPNs we’ve tested and unblocks pretty much every video streaming site you can throw at it, including Sky Go. This Sweden-based service has excellent English-speaking support staff available via live chat on the website during European office hours and via email at other times. And the support team can tell you the best server to choose to get into Sky Go Italia.
PrivateVPN offers each customer an allowance of ten simultaneous connections. You can install the PrivateVPN app on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire operating systems. The VPN can also be configured manually on some routers and on Linux.
Security features in the app include a kill switch and automatic wifi protection. 256-bit AES encryption, DNS leak protection, and a no-logs policy ensure no one can see your online activity. PrivateVPN offers a 30-day money-back guarantee to new subscribers.
Pros:
Operates servers in Arezzo and Milan that are geared for streaming
Gaining a solid reputation for unblocking geo-restricted content, including Sky Go Italia
Streaming speeds are good enough for HD
Cons:
Fewer servers to choose from than other providers higher on this list
Live support is not quite 24/7
GREAT SPEEDS:PrivateVPN is a good family choice. Unblocks Sky Go Italia and allows up to 10 devices on the same account. Small network of servers but fast connections. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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7. Private Internet Access
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Private Internet Access offers servers worldwide across more than 80 locations. This includes servers in Italy for unblocking and streaming Sky Go Italia. We’ve tested PIA’s speeds and found them to be as consistent as they are fast. You can expect unlimited bandwidth and, as a result, seamless streaming free from lag or buffering. You’ll also be able to connect all your devices at the same time.
When you connect to a PIA server, your internet traffic is 256-bit AES encrypted. There’s also protection from DNS leaks and a kill switch feature. Needless to say, this secures your streaming (and browsing) experience, particularly if you’re traveling abroad and using public wifi. Some VPNs log your data and sell it to third parties. This is certainly not the case with PIA, which operates a strict no-logs policy.
You can access PIA via apps for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux, and Amazon Fire TV. Chrome and Firefox browser extensions are also available to download. However, manual configuration is required if you want to use PIA with a router.
Pros:
Plenty of server locations, including Italy, for accessing Sky Go Italia
Unlimited bandwidth means you won’t suffer lag or buffering
Can be used on 10 devices at once via a single account
Cons:
Like many VPNs, it’s unable to bypass restrictions in China
Not many extras, such as Double VPN servers
NO BANDWIDTH THROTTLING:Private Internet Access offers servers in Italy and works with Sky Go Italia. Doesn’t throttle your bandwidth, so you can stream without interruption. Strict no-logs policy included. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Testing methodology: How we found the best VPNs for streaming Sky Go Italia
We know how frustrating it can be to travel abroad and find you no longer have access to the services for which you pay. Sky Go Italia content becomes region-locked due to copyright and licensing restrictions. It’s for this reason that you need a VPN to stream Sky Go Italia online from anywhere. Below, we detail our methodology for finding the best VPNs for doing exactly this.
Servers in Italy: Let’s start with the obvious! A VPN must have servers in Italy in order to unblock Sky Go Italia. That’s because you need an Italian IP address in order to bypass restrictions. The more servers and IP addresses a VPN has in the country, the higher the chances you’ll be able to successfully unblock the platform.
Speed: Many VPNs had to be ruled out due to their slow server speeds. We found not only the fastest VPNs but those that include unlimited bandwidth so you can stream Sky Go Italia online as much as you like. This is important when traveling abroad when you may be using public wifi and suffering from slow connections.
Network size: It may be that you also want to stream the likes of Netflix US or BBC iPlayer. The VPNs recommended in this post provide servers in dozens of countries worldwide. This includes the likes of the US, UK, Australia, and Japan (and, of course, Italy!). Some have thousands of servers in total for even lower server loads.
Security: We know that traveling abroad comes with some security risks. This is certainly the case if you’re connecting to public wifi hotspots. To protect you from hackers and snoopers, the best VPNs for Sky Go Italia encrypt your data. Some even include Double VPN servers so you can have an extra layer of protection.
Privacy: A VPN should allow you to browse and stream anonymously. We’ve looked at some 140 VPN logging policies in order to find which VPNs best protect your privacy. Much of this comes down to whether they operate a strict no-logs policy. It also helps if a VPN provides an anonymous payment option such as Bitcoin.
Ease of use: While all of the above features are very important, that doesn’t mean a VPN should be complicated to use. We’ve looked for those that have user-friendly apps as well as 24/7 live chat and email support. In all cases, signup and setup shouldn’t take more than a few minutes, even if you’re a VPN novice!
Value for money: Some VPNs offer some or even all of the above but are simply too expensive. The best VPNs for watching Sky Go Italia offer the best value for money while still ticking all of the boxes. Better still, you can take advantage of a free trial or our VPN discount coupons to save even more off the price of a subscription.
In order to find out whether a VPN offers the above (and more), we need to test it for ourselves. In doing this, we can better provide you with the information you need to make an informed decision. Be sure to take a look at our VPN testing methodology for more information on our full process.
Accessing Sky Go Italia with a Free VPN
Now you know that a VPN can get you into Sky Go Italia, you may be wondering whether you can use a free VPN to do so. Well, you might be able to, but it’s unlikely. Sky Go Italia is one of the most difficult video streaming sites to gain access to from abroad. Netflix has the industry’s attention as a difficult access system to beat, but actually, the Sky Go platform is even harder to trick.
It takes a lot of work to get around regional restrictions, and not many companies have enough money to invest in the task. Many will tell you that no VPN can get into Netflix, which is not true. Almost none of them even mention Sky Go Italy because they know that they don’t stand a chance of getting you in from abroad. Very few reputable paid VPN services can get you into Sky Go Italia, which means no free VPN will be able to help you.
Plus, free VPNs don’t offer anywhere near the levels of security and protection that paid providers do. Plus, you might find yourself at risk of having your data stored and sold to a third party.
How to access Sky Go Italia
You are allowed to connect two devices simultaneously to the Sky Go Italia service. This is in addition to your set-top box at home. You do need to register with Sky Go Italia even though the service is free for Sky Italy subscribers.
On your first visit to the site, you need to set up a Sky ID. All you need to do in the ID creation field is enter your client code. This appears at the top of your Sky bill. If you don’t have Sky at home, the Sky Go website will lead you to a Sign-Up page to get a Sky dish installed.
The first time you log in to the service, the computer or mobile device that you are on automatically gets registered as an allowed device. When you log in to the service from another computer or smartphone, that will be registered as your second allowed device. So, be very careful about going around to a friend’s house or borrowing someone else’s tablet to access Sky Go Italia because their computer or mobile device will have the right to access Sky Go Italia through your account for the rest of the month.
You cannot deregister an allowed device. However, the registration lapses at the end of the month. So, remember to only access the service on two of your own devices at the beginning of each month. Otherwise, you will be locked out.
On macOS, iOS, and Android, you have to download an app to watch videos. On Windows computers, you have to watch through your browser. However, the video player of Sky Go Italy only works with Internet Explorer 11 and above.
Getting into Sky Go Italia is really quite complicated just because of the peculiar requirements over registered devices and the necessity of associating the service with your home Sky package. Trying to get into your Sky Go Italia account from outside of Italy makes everything even more complicated.
Remember, very few VPNs can get into Sky Go Italia. Try any of the VPNs in our list risk-free. All of them offer refund periods to allow you to give them a spin. Another Italian TV service that you can access over the Internet, thanks to a VPN is Rai. Enjoy your travels, but take comfort in being able to access TV from back in Italy, wherever you are, thanks to a VPN.
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Maps of night sky brightness in Italy
Artificial Night Sky Brightness (polluted areas)
Total night sky brightness (night sky luminosity)
Naked eye stellar visibility (stellar visibility)
Loss of naked eye limiting magnitude (polluted areas)
For the maps of other world countries see The Night Sky in the World o The First World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness.
The meanings of the maps is summarized in the following table:
The maps have been computed for standard clean atmosphere with aerosol clarity K=1(Garstang 1986, 1989), corresponding to a vertical extinction in photometrical V band of 0.33 mag at sea level (0.21 mag at 1000m o.s.l., 0.15 mag at 2000m o.s.l., horizontal visibility at sea level 26 km.). The map was obtained from data taken in 1996-1997 rescaled to 1998-1999 based on the fitting to observations of night sky brightness taken from the Earth surface. Each pixel is 30''x30'' in size in longitude/latitude projection, corresponding approximately to 0.9x0.6 km at a latitude of 45°N. Country boundaries are approximate. Mountain screening was neglected.
Artificial Night Sky Brightness
The maps of the artificial night sky brightness at zenith at sea level allow to compare levels of light pollution in the atmosphere, to recognize more and less polluted areas and to identify the more polluting districts and the bigger sources.
These maps are intended to show the levels of pollution in the atmosphere rather than the stellar visibility which is the aim of the other maps described afterwards. The assumption of sea level and standard clear atmospherical conditions allows to compare pollution of different areas, to recognize more polluting sources or darker areas (areas with less light in the atmosphere and not areas where you see better the stars) without be confused by the altitude effects.
However you do not see a big difference accounting for altitude (e.g. in correspondence of Mount Ekar, at the borders of the padana plane, rising from sea level to 1350 m of elevation the artificial sky brightness diminishes less than about 20% whereas color levels in our maps shows each one three times larger brightness than the previous one.)
These maps do not give information on the star visibility, however mainly polluted areas usually are at sea level, so very approximately we can say that the orange level in our standard scale indicates areas where the milky way is invisible or quite difficult to see by an average observer in normal clear nights. The red areas indicates zones where very approximately one hundredth of stars, or few more, is visible over 30 degrees of elevation. Blue border indicates artificial sky brightness over 10% than the natural brightness which is the definition of "light polluted sky". Yellow indicates an artificial sky brightness equal to the natural so that the total sky brightness is doubled.
Maps show the artificial sky brightness at the zenith in clean nights in V band, obtained by integration of the contributions produced by every surface area in the surroundings of the site. Each contribution is computed taking into account based on Garstang models the propagation in the atmosphere of the upward light flux emitted by the area and measured by the Operational Linescan System of US Air Force DMSP satellites. We account for extinction along light paths, double scattering of light from atmospheric molecules and aerosols, Earth curvature and aerosol content of the atmosphere.
Artificial Night Sky Brightness at sea level in Italy.
from The artificial night sky brightness mapped from DMSP Operational Linescan System measurements P. Cinzano (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova), F. Falchi (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova), C.D. Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder), Baugh K. (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 318, 641-657 (2000)
Colours correspond to ratios between the artificial sky brightness and the natural sky brightness (8.61 107 ph cm-2 s-1 sr-1 oppure 252 μcd/m2).
Total night sky brightness
The maps of the the total night sky brightness show the quality of the night sky in the territory. They usually are computed at zenith, accounting for the elevation and the natural sky brightness. In smaller-size maps we also account for screening by mountain and terrain elevation.
The elevation has effect on the natural sky brightness, on the artificial sky brightness and on the stellar extinction and is obtained from a digital elevation map (DEM). The natural sky brightness depends on the chosen direction of view and on the altitude and it is obtained with Garstang (1989) models which account for the light coming from the entire sky and scattered along the line of sight of the observer and for the given atmospherical conditions. The mountain screening is obtained evaluating the elevation of each pixel along the line which connect each site with each source and then computing the maximum screening angle from which we determine the fraction of the line of sight shielded.
Darker areas (white color) looks slightly larger in these maps than in maps of artificial night sky brightness. This is an apparent effect due to the large interval of our colour levels (0.5 mag/arcsec^2) which do not show where the artificial sky brightness is a fraction of the natural one.
Total night sky brightness in Italy.
from Naked eye star visibility and limiting magnitude mapped from DMSP-OLS satellite data, P. Cinzano ( Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova), F. Falchi (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova), C.D. Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 323, 34-46 (2001)
Levels correspond to total sky brightness of V mag/arcsec2:
Naked eye stellar visibility
The maps of the stellar visibility (naked eye limiting magnitude) show the capability of the population to see the stars. They usually are computed at zenith, accounting for the extinction of the star light in the atmosphere from the top of the atmosphere to the observer and the eye capability to detect point sources over a light background.
They are unsuitable to evaluate the light pollution of the atmosphere (artificial radiation density) because the elevation and extinction of the light confuse the behaviour. As an example, the mountains near the top of the image below could appear unpolluted because they show the same limiting magnitude than unpolluted zones of the sea at lover left corner. However the stellar extinction from an elevated site is less than from sea level and the number of particles and molecules which can scatter the artificial light is less too, so limiting magnitude and stellar visibility increase with elevation. In conclusion the similar limiting magnitude in the mountains and in the unpolluted areas of the sea means that the mountains are polluted SO MUCH that the stellar visibility there is comparable with the visibility from sea level.
As Blackwell (1946) and many other authors showed, the relation between limiting magnitude and sky brightness is not linear and, moreover, it is a statistical concept. A number of random factors affect eye measurements (Garstang 2000; Schaefer 1991) like the individual eye capability, the individual pupil size, the experience that makes the observer confident of a detection at a probability level different from another, the duration of the observation and so on. So we can predict only the star visibility by an average observer even if we account for many details (e.g. observer pupil diameter depending on the age; Stiles-Crawford effect (a decrease of the efficiency in detecting photons with the distance from the centre of the pupil); colour differences between the laboratory sources and the observed star; colour differences between the laboratory sources and the night sky; differences between the night vision curve and the V band in computing the stellar extinction.
The figure shows the centre of the statistical distribution of the naked eye limiting magnitude in Europe at the zenith for observers of average experience and capability, aged 40 years, with the eyes adapted to the dark, observing with both eyes the fainter star surely seen. As discussed from Schaefer (1991) expert amateur astronomers could be able to detect stars even one magnitude fainter if the sky luminosity allow a sufficient adaptment to dark.
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N aked eye stellar visibility in Italy.
from Naked eye star visibility and limiting magnitude mapped from DMSP-OLS satellite data, P. Cinzano (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova), F. Falchi (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova), C.D. Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 323, 34-46 (2001)
Levels correspond to V magnitudes:
Un cielo ben fruibile e che non penalizzi troppo l'osservazione astronomica è quello con magnitudine limite superiore a 5.5 mag, indicato nella mappa in blu, grigio e nero. Come si vede non esistono zone sul territorio italiano rappresentate in nero, esse si trovano su montagne poste in zone incontaminate. Anche le zone indicate in grigio e blu, con gli attuali tassi di crescita della brillanza artificiale, sono destinate a restringersi fino a sparire, a meno di sostanziali interventi legislativi correttivi.
The table below relates the limiting magnitude in V band to a qualitative judgement on the quality of the visible sky. It has no pretension of accuracy and it constitutes a risky judgement, but it could be useful to understand the meanings of the values in the caption above. It should be taken into account that any judgement is always subjective and that differences between an average observer and an expert one hold even here.
Loss of naked eye limiting magnitude
The maps of the loss of naked eye limiting magnitude show the loss of the capability of the population to see the stars. They are obtained simply by the difference between the map of the star visibility and a map of the same quantity evaluated assuming no light pollution in the area. The difference with the previous map is that in this case the effects of the light pollution are clearly visible but these maps are less useful to find the best observative sites.
Asbefore, the loss of lnaked eye limiting magnitudes are computed for observers of average experience and capability, aged 40 years, with the eyes adapted to the dark, observing with both eyes toward the zenith.
Figura 5. loss of naked eye limiting magnitude in Italy .
This map is copyright but may be reproduced by the press in articles citing the related research with the following credit/copyright statement: P. Cinzano (University of Padova), F. Falchi (University of Padova), C. D. Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder). Copyright 2001 ISTIL, Thiene. Reproduced from www.lightpollution.it.
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Sky Italia has acquired the co-exclusive rights to 3 matches per match day for a total of 114 Serie A games in the 2024/2029 seasons. The package also includes highlights of all 380 matches, archive rights for the current seasons, and exclusive rights to all Serie A matches for bars, hotels and other public venues.This acquisition strengthens Sky’s football offering and reaffirms Sky as the home of sport in Italy with over 20 sports on offer including motor sports, tennis, basketball and more. From the 2024/2025 season, Serie A will be featured on Sky, with three evenings of great Italian football: Saturdays at 8:45 p.m., Sundays at 6 p.m., and Mondays at 8:45 p.m. The package will also include four big matches for each season and includes a more favourable pick system, which will ensure that Sky broadcasts some of the most important matches for each round.All matches will also be available in ultra-high definition 4K and, with the highlights of all 380 matches, Sky Sports will also offer quality analysis with pre-match and post-match commentary and updates on Sky Sport 24.As for Sky Business customers in bars, hotels and other public venues, Sky will offer all Serie A matches on the Sky Sport Bar channels.Marzio Perrelli, Sport Executive Vice President at Sky Italia, said: “We have decided to increase our investment in Serie A to offer our subscribers a significantly greater number of top matches”.“From next season we will, in fact, have many more top matches between the big teams in Serie A, broadcasting at least 30 of the best 76 matches in the league. We will offer three great evenings of football that, together with exclusive Champions League matches, the entire Europa League, the Conference League, and Premier League and Bundesliga matches, will allow fans to experience, six evenings a week, the thrill of great national and international football”.From 2024, the top players in European football will be playing on Sky and NOW in Italy: from all 51 UEFA EURO 2024 matches to 527 European cup matches, with exclusive coverage of 185 of the 203 matches per season of the UEFA Champions League and all UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League matches, also thanks to Diretta Gol. Plus, the drama of the Premier League and Bundesliga, both of which are exclusive until the end of the 2024/2025 season.Sky will therefore continue to be the home of sport in Italy and guarantee the widest choice of sports in Italy with F1, MotoGP, tennis with Wimbledon, NBA basketball, rugby, golf and much more. All shown with passion and the editorial and technological quality of Sky Sports, which has always added value for our subscribers.
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Sky Italia has acquired the co-exclusive rights to 3 matches per match day for a total of 114 Serie A games in the 2024/2029 seasons. The package also includes highlights of all 380 matches, archive rights for the current seasons, and exclusive rights to all Serie A matches for bars, hotels and other public venues.
This acquisition strengthens Sky’s football offering and reaffirms Sky as the home of sport in Italy with over 20 sports on offer including motor sports, tennis, basketball and more.
From the 2024/2025 season, Serie A will be featured on Sky, with three evenings of great Italian football: Saturdays at 8:45 p.m., Sundays at 6 p.m., and Mondays at 8:45 p.m. The package will also include four big matches for each season and includes a more favourable pick system, which will ensure that Sky broadcasts some of the most important matches for each round.
All matches will also be available in ultra-high definition 4K and, with the highlights of all 380 matches, Sky Sports will also offer quality analysis with pre-match and post-match commentary and updates on Sky Sport 24.
As for Sky Business customers in bars, hotels and other public venues, Sky will offer all Serie A matches on the Sky Sport Bar channels.
Marzio Perrelli, Sport Executive Vice President at Sky Italia, said: “We have decided to increase our investment in Serie A to offer our subscribers a significantly greater number of top matches”.
“From next season we will, in fact, have many more top matches between the big teams in Serie A, broadcasting at least 30 of the best 76 matches in the league. We will offer three great evenings of football that, together with exclusive Champions League matches, the entire Europa League, the Conference League, and Premier League and Bundesliga matches, will allow fans to experience, six evenings a week, the thrill of great national and international football”.
From 2024, the top players in European football will be playing on Sky and NOW in Italy: from all 51 UEFA EURO 2024 matches to 527 European cup matches, with exclusive coverage of 185 of the 203 matches per season of the UEFA Champions League and all UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League matches, also thanks to Diretta Gol. Plus, the drama of the Premier League and Bundesliga, both of which are exclusive until the end of the 2024/2025 season.
Sky will therefore continue to be the home of sport in Italy and guarantee the widest choice of sports in Italy with F1, MotoGP, tennis with Wimbledon, NBA basketball, rugby, golf and much more. All shown with passion and the editorial and technological quality of Sky Sports, which has always added value for our subscribers.
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Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian satellite television platform owned by the American media conglomerate Comcast. Sky Italia also broadcasts three national free-to-air television channels: TV8, Cielo, and Sky TG24.
Pay TV services on the Sky Italia satellite platform are broadcast on the Hot Bird satellites at 13.0°E and are encrypted in NDS VideoGuard.
Sky Italia was founded on 31 July 2003 by the merger of TELE+ and Stream TV.[2]
On 28 June 2010, Sky Italia changed its brands and logos, making them identical to the BSkyB ones.
On 1 October 2010, Sky activated its first 3D channel, Sky Sport 3D, available without any extra cost to the Sport pack subscribers. The very first event Sky Sport 3D aired was the 2010 Ryder Cup. On 25 December 2010, Sky launched another 3D channel: Sky Cinema 3D, airing 3D movies, available for free for Cinema pack subscribers. These channels have been replaced by Sky 3D on 6 September 2011, then closed on 16 January 2018.
Tom Mockridge, the then head of Sky Italia, replaced Rebekah Brooks as chief executive of News International after she resigned on 15 July 2011.[3]
Andrea Zappia replaced Tom Mockridge as CEO on 1 August 2011.[4] On 7 October 2011 Sky Italia announced it reached the 5 million subscribers benchmark.
Following News Corporation's split into two on 28 June 2013, to create two separate companies, 21st Century Fox (the re-branded News Corporation), and the spin-off company New News Corp, the 100% stake held by News Corporation in Sky Italia was retained by the re-branded 21st Century Fox.
Following media speculation, on 12 May 2014 Sky Italia's sister company, BSkyB, confirmed it was in talks with its largest shareholder, 21st Century Fox, about acquiring 21st Century Fox's 57.4% stake in Sky Deutschland and its 100% stake in Sky Italia. The enlarged company would be likely to be called "Sky Europe" and will consolidate 21st Century Fox's European digital TV assets into one company.[5][6] The sale was announced on 25 July 2014, which was subject to regulatory and shareholder approval.[7] The acquisition was completed on 13 November.[8]
In 2016, Sky Italia created Vision Distribution, a film distribution venture with five Italian production companies: Wildside (owned by Fremantle), Cattleya (backed by ITV Studios), Lucisano Media Group, Palomar and Indiana Production. Since the beginning of August 2019, Universal Pictures, Sky's corporate cousin via NBCUniversal, handles theatrical distribution for Vision's releases in Italy.[9] On 20 January 2020, Vision launched their international sales arm, Vision Distribution International.[1]
Since October 2018, Sky Italia, as well as Sky UK, Sky Ireland and Sky Deutschland, is controlled by Comcast.
On 1 October 2019, Maximo Ibarra replaces Andrea Zappia as CEO. Maximo Ibarra, however, had already left Sky Italia on 30 June 2021.
On 16 June 2020, Sky Italia launched Sky Wifi, its ultra-broadband service.
On 6 September 2021 Andrea Duilio started as the new CEO of Sky Italia.
December: Miro Allione, Stream's CEO, stated that News Corp signed a preliminary deal with Telecom Italia to buy 80% of Stream, but the introduction of a bill limiting the acquisition of soccer pay TV rights has made the company reconsider its plans.[10]
April: 35% of Stream is acquired by News Corp.[11]
June: TELE+ is acquired by News Corp.[12]
March: the European Commission approves the merger between TELE+ and Stream TV.
31 July: Sky Italia is founded.
31 August: Sky TG24 is launched as a rolling news channel.
April: Sky Italia abandons SECA encryption system to switch to the NDS, managed by the News Corporation.
1 August: Sky launches weather news channel, Sky Meteo 24.
November: Sky's subscribers reach 3 million.
May: Sky Italia are awarded the broadcast rights to the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
November: Sky Italia launches the My Sky decoder with PVR functionality.
May: Sky launches its first high definition channels: Sky Cinema HD, Sky Sport HD, National Geographic Channel HD and Next:HD.
December: Sky's subscribers reach 4 million.
April: Fox airs the first TV drama created by an Italian pay television channel, Boris.
May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for Formula One for two and a half years.
May: Cooltoon anime programming is launched.
November: A selection of Sky channels become available via IPTV on Telecom Italia, Fastweb and Wind.
February: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
May: Sky launches My Sky HD.
30 August: Sky launches sports news channel, Sky Sport 24.
December: VAT on subscriptions is increased from 10% to 20%.
January: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the FIFA Confederations Cup and the Six Nations Championship.
April: Sky launches Sky Uno and Sky Primafila HD.
August: Sky increases its high-definition offering to 12 channels.
September: Sky announces the Sky Digital Key, a USB Key with terrestrial decoder functions.
December:
Sky On Demand service launches.
Sky launches free-to-air channel Cielo.
January: All Serie A matches begin transmitting in high-definition.
April: Sky launches three Sky Movies channels in high-definition, bringing the total number of HD channels to 25 channels.
June:
Sky changes its brand identity with a new logo, similar to that used by BSkyB.
Mondiali 1–4 launch for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
August: The number of high-definition channels reaches 36.
October: The 2010 Ryder Cup final is the first sports event to be broadcast in 3D.
November:
Sky's subscribers reach 4.8 million.
January: Avatar is the most watched film on Italian pay TV, with an audience of 1.3 million viewers.
February: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the 2011 Copa América, 2011 and 2012 Copa Sudamericana and 2012 Copa Libertadores.
March: Sky Cinema Passion and Sky Cinema Comedy launch.
May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for X Factor.
August: Sky launches Sky Go, an app which allows a number of Sky channels to be viewed on smartphones and tablets.
September: Sky launches Sky 3D, the first 3D channel in Italy.
October:
Sky's subscribers reach 5 million.
Sky Uno begins broadcasting in HD for the premiere of X Factor.
December:
Sky's HD channels reach 40 with the launch of Eurosport 2 HD.
February:
12 new HD channels are launched, Fox Life HD, Real Time HD, Extreme Sports Channel HD, ESPN America HD, Discovery Science HD, Discovery Travel & Living HD, History HD, Nat Geo Wild HD, Nat Geo Adventure HD, Gambero Rosso Channel HD, Disney Channel HD and MTV Live HD, bringing the total number of HD channels to 52.
Sky changes the operating system of My Sky HD.
March: Sky Go becomes free and is made available for PC, OS X, iPhone and Android.
May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Grand Prix motorcycle racing for the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 seasons of MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 series.
June:
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Formula One and its feeder series (GP2, GP3 and Porsche Supercup) for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons, with an option for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
The launch of Sky Arts is announced.
July:
Sky updates the On Demand service.
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the UEFA Champions League for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons.
Sky adds 12 extra channels for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
August: Sky's subscribers reach 4.9 million.
September:
Sky TG24 receives an on-screen rebrand.
Sky adds two more high definition channels: DeA Sapere HD and Disney XD HD.
October: Planet Kids, a new channel for kids, is launched.
November:
1: Sky Arts launches in HD, bringing the total number of HD channels to 58.
Sky Go is updated to include three more channels and Sky On Demand.
February: Sky's subscribers fall to 4.83 million.
March: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Bundesliga for two seasons. Sky launches the Sky Sport F1.
3 April: Cielo launches in HD.
May: Sky's subscribers fall to 4.78 million.
July: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for 2014 Winter Olympics, but transfers the rights for the 2016 Summer Olympics to RAI.
9 August: Fox Sports launches on Sky and Mediaset Premium, broadcasting the Premier League, the FA Cup, La Liga and Ligue 1.
September: Sky TG24 launches in high-definition, bringing the total number of HD channels to 63.
October: Classica and MTV launch in high-definition, bringing the total number of HD channels to 65.
November: Sky's subscribers fall to 4.76 million.
December: Sky Go launches on Windows Phone.
February: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for Italia's Got Talent and the UEFA Europa League for 3 seasons.
10 March: Sky Sport MotoGP launches.
9 April: Sky Atlantic launches, broadcasting American, Italian and European TV series.
August: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Lega Basket Serie A for 2 seasons.
December: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the Premier League for the 2016–17, 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons.
May: Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the EuroBasket 2017, EuroBasket Women 2017, 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup, EuroBasket Women 2019, EuroBasket 2021, AfroBasket 2021, AmeriBasket 2021, 2021 FIBA Asia Cup and EuroBasket Women 2021.
October:
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the NBA for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons.
Sky's subscribers rise to 4.67 million.
November: Cartoon Network HD is launched, bringing the number of HD channels to 66.
June:
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.
Sky are awarded the broadcast rights for the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League for the 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 season, and for the 2018, 2019 and 2020 UEFA Super Cup.
November: Sky launches Sky Q Platinum.
April: Mediaset Premium's cinema channels start broadcasting on Sky.
June: Mediaset Premium's TV series channels start broadcasting on Sky.
July: Channel logos became identical to the Sky UK ones. Sky launches Sky Q Black.
December: Sky's subscribers reach to 5,2 million.
February: Discovery Travel & Living and Animal Planet close.
July: Mediaset Premium's TV series channel Premium Joi close.
September: Sky launches Sky Q Fiber.
October: Disney XD, Disney in English, Fox Animation, Fox Comedy and Nat Geo People close.
May: Bike Channel, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Teennick, MTV Rocks and MTV Hits close.
July: Fox Life, Lei, Dove TV and Man-ga close.
September:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sky's subscribers fall to 4.6 million.
The logos became identical to the Sky UK ones.
December: GINX Esports TV close.
July: Fox Crime and Roma TV close and Sky Documentaries, Sky Investigation, Sky Nature and Sky Serie are launched.
January: Premium Action, Premium Stories, Premium Crime, Premium Cinema, Paramount Network and Spike close.
July: Fox closes.
October: National Geographic, National Geographic Wild and Baby TV close and Lazio Style Channel is upgraded to HD.
November: Crime & Investigation rebranded as Sky Crime.
Sky HD is the brand name of the HDTV service launched by Sky Italia on 20 April 2006 in Italy – during the 2006 FIFA World Cup – to enable high definition channels on Sky Italia to be viewed. The service requires the user to have a Sky Box HD (distributed by Sky Italia), and an HDTV with HDCP enabled.
A HD PVR decoder called My Sky HD was launched on 26 May 2008 (on 20 December 2008 was sold a particular edition designed by Fendi in favour of the international organisation Child Priority).
On 29 November 2017, Sky launched Sky Q Platinum, a set-top box enabled to view programmes in 4K HDR and to use the multiscreen wireless service.
On 2 July 2018, Sky launched Sky Q Black, a set-top box identical to the Sky Q Platinum which enables the 4K HDR service but not the multiscreen wireless.
Here are the channels available in HD:
TV 31 channels Sky TG24 HD, Rete 4 HD, Canale 5 HD, Italia 1 HD, Sky Uno HD, Sky Uno +1 HD, Sky Serie HD, Sky Serie +1 HD, Sky Atlantic HD, Sky Atlantic +1 HD, Sky Investigation HD, Sky Crime HD, Sky Arte HD, TV8 HD, Blaze HD, MTV HD, Classica HD, NOVE HD, 20 Mediaset HD, Cielo HD, 27 Twentyseven HD, Real Time HD, Giallo HD, DMAX HD, Eurosport 1 HD, Eurosport 2 HD, Horse TV HD, Gambero Rosso Channel HD, Food Network HD, Sky Nature HD, Sky Documentaries HD, Discovery Channel HD, Discovery Science HD, History HD, Motor Trend HD Cinema 11 channels Sky Cinema Uno HD, Sky Cinema Due HD, Sky Cinema Collection HD, Sky Cinema Family HD, Sky Cinema Action HD, Sky Cinema Suspense HD, Sky Cinema Romance HD, Sky Cinema Drama HD, Sky Cinema Comedy HD, Sky Cinema Uno +24 HD, Sky Cinema Due +24 HD Sport 10 channels Sky Sport 24 HD, Sky Sport Uno HD, Sky Sport Football HD, Sky Sport Arena HD, Sky Sport Collection HD, Sky Sport Tennis HD, Sky Sport NBA HD, Sky Sport F1 HD, Sky Sport MotoGP HD, Roma TV Calcio 11 channels Sky Sport 24 HD, Sky Sport Serie A HD, Sky Sport Football HD, Sky Sport HD (channels from 251 to 257), Lazio Style Channel Kids 1 channel Cartoon Network HD Primafila 7 channels Sky Primafila 1 HD, Sky Primafila 2 HD, Sky Primafila 4 HD, Sky Primafila 6 HD, Sky Primafila 8 HD, Sky Primafila 10 HD, Sky Primafila 12 HD Optional Channels 4 channels DAZN 1, DAZN 1+, Milan TV, Inter TV
31 July 2003 – 3 September 2006 4 September 2006 – 27 June 2010 28 June 2010 – 25 September 2013 26 September 2013 – 1 July 2018 2 July 2018 – 13 September 2020 in use from 14 September 2020
Sky Italia offers a range of channels that are grouped into:
Sky TV – Entertainment, TV series, Eurosport's sport, news, documentaries and music;
Entertainment plus – Adds Netflix to the Sky TV package;
Sky Cinema – Movies;
Sky Sport and Sky Calcio (Football) – Sports and football;
Sky Kids – cartoons.
Rai 1
Rai 2
Rai 3
Rete 4
Canale 5
Italia 1
La7
Sky Uno (Sky One, +1 available)
Sky Serie (+1 available)
Sky Atlantic (+1 available)
Sky Crime (+1 available)
Sky Arte (Sky Arts, +1 available)
TV8
Comedy Central (+1 available)
MTV
Classica
NOVE
20 Mediaset
Cielo
27 Twentyseven
La5
Real Time
Mediaset Extra
Giallo
TOPcrime
Sky Investigation (+1 available)
DMAX
Mediaset Italia 2
Eurosport 1
Eurosport 2
Horse TV
Gambero Rosso Channel
Food Network
HGTV
Sky TG24 (Sky News Italy)
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Sky Meteo 24 (Sky Weather 24)
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MTV Music
VH1
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National Geographic (+1 available)
Discovery Science
History (+1 available)
Sky Documentaries (+1 available)
Sky Nature (+1 available)
Focus
Motor Trend
Super!
K2
Frisbee
Rai Gulp HD
DeA Kids (+1 available)
Nick Jr. (+1 available)
Nickelodeon (+1 available)
Cartoon Network (+1 available)
Boomerang (+1 available)
DeA Junior
Sky Sport 24 (Sky Sports News)
Sky Sport Uno
Sky Sport Serie A
Sky Sport Football
Sky Sport Arena
Sky Sport Collection
Sky Sport NBA
Sky Sport F1
Sky Sport MotoGP
Lazio Style Channel
Sky Sport (channels from 251 to 263)
Sky Cinema Uno (+24 available)
Sky Cinema Due (+24 available)
Sky Cinema Collection
Sky Cinema Family
Sky Cinema Action
Sky Cinema Suspense
Sky Cinema Romance
Sky Cinema Drama
Sky Cinema Comedy
Iris
Cine34
Zona Dazn (channels from 214 to 218)
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As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m a proud SKY Italia subscriber, and I have a new TV show obsession: The Young Pope, written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino (the mastermind behind The Great Beauty/La Grande Bellezza, one of my favorite movies of all time) and starring Jude Law and Diane Keaton.
So, The Young Pope airs on Friday nights and what I so appreciate is that Sky shows two consecutive new episodes at a time, so it only takes five weeks to get through the entire series instead of ten. Jude Law plays the controversial Pius XIII, a wickedly handsome, 47 year-old American pope. Anyone who knows his or her papal history knows his name recalls the controversial Nazi-supporting Pope. The college of cardinals elected Pius XIII because they thought he was a spring chicken who could be their puppet, but boy were they ever wrong.
Now, I’m no TV critic, but I think the show is ingenious and showcases Sorrentino’s surreal Fellini-esque style, and Jude Law is just terrifyingly brilliant. At times, I’m convinced he’s a sociopath and other times I’m like, “Wait, he has feelings. He must just have a serious case of narcissism.” The lighting is beautiful…Law often radiates a white halo like glow. The wide-brim hats and sharp style recall Fellini’s Eight-and-a-Half/Otto e Mezzo and Juliet of the Spirits/Giulietta degli Spiriti, the latter of which is my favorite from the late and great Federico. The stunning scenery will make you want to get to Rome stat.
Even though the show is airing here in Italy, it’s mostly in English, so it’s not helpful to my Italian. Cardinal Vioello, portrayed by Silvio Orlando (who looks so different in real life!), speaks with such a thick Neapolitan accent when conversing with some of his other mother tongue peers, that I can’t grasp a word so it’s for this reason I keep the Italian subtitles on as I watch. The show is surreal, dark, funny, clever and overall, a winning ingenious combination. Sorrentino and team are apparently at work on season two and I can’t wait for more.The Young Pope is coming to HBO in January, which means that Homeland fans will have two great shows at their disposal come 2017.
The too-perfect opening sequence features Devlin’s Watchtower and is made even better by a Caravaggio painting cameo. I really hope Jude Law wins an Emmy.
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San Vitale dates from the greatest period in Ravenna’s history, when it played a pivotal role in relations between East and West—Constantinople and Rome. The church reflects these very different cultural influences, particularly in its stunning mosaics, which are generally acknowledged as the finest in the Western world.
Situated in northeastern Italy, Ravenna came to the fore as the Roman Empire crumbled. In 402 Ravenna replaced Rome as the capital of the Western Empire, but by the end of the century the city was in the hands of the Ostrogoths. By 540 the situation had changed again, as the Byzantine emperor Justinian took control and made Ravenna the capital of his imperial rule in Italy. San Vitale was built against the backdrop of these upheavals. It was begun by Bishop Ecclesius in 526, during the Ostrogoth period, and was consecrated in 547, under the new regime. The building was funded privately, by a wealthy banker named Julianus Argentarius, and dedicated to the little-known St. Vitalis.
The church has an unusual octagonal layout, with an outer aisle and galleries. It combines Roman and Byzantine elements, although the influence of the latter is far greater. For this reason, it has been suggested that the plans were produced by a Latin architect who had trained in the East. The mosaics, which consist of biblical scenes and imperial portraits, also have a strong Byzantine flavour. The most famous sections are the two panels showing Justinian and his wife, Theodora, emphasizing the theocratic nature of their rule. Justinian is depicted in the company of 12 attendants—a subtle echo of Jesus Christ and the Apostles—and the royal couple present the vessels that will hold the bread and wine, the symbols of the Eucharist. (Iain Zaczek)
The first and oldest among the great patriarchal basilicas of Rome, St. John Lateran (San Giovanni in Laterano) rests on what used to be the palace of the Laterani family, whose members served as administrators to several emperors. About 311 it came into the emperor Constantine’s hands. He then gave it to the church, and in 313 the church hosted a council of bishops who met to declare the Donatist sect as heretics. From then on, the basilica was the centre of Christian life in the city, the residence of popes, and the cathedral of Rome.
The original church was probably not very large and was dedicated to Christ the Saviour. It has been rededicated twice—once in the 10th century to St. John the Baptist and again in the 12th century to St. John the Evangelist. In popular usage, these subsequent dedications have overtaken the original, though the church remains dedicated to Christ, like all patriarchal cathedrals. In 1309, when the seat of the papacy was moved to Avignon in France, the basilica began to decline. It was ravaged by fires in 1309 and 1361, and, although the structure was rebuilt, the original splendour of the building had been destroyed. Because of this, when the papacy returned to Rome, the Palace of the Vatican was constructed as the new papal seat.
In 1585 Pope Sixtus V ordered the basilica to be torn down and a replacement built—another in a long continuing line of refurbishments and rebuildings of this most important of cathedrals. Despite being bested in architectural terms by St. Peter’s, which holds most papal ceremonies thanks to its size and location within the Vatican’s walls, St. John Lateran remains the cathedral church of Rome and the official ecclesiastical seat of the pope, as bishop of Rome. Indeed, it is regarded by Roman Catholics as the mother church of the entire world. (Robin Elam Musumeci)
In 13th-century Florence the Dominican and Franciscan religious orders grew increasingly powerful and became major rivals. The Franciscans advocated a mystical, personal faith, while the Dominicans were more rational and philosophical. Each order’s churches reflected their rivalry.
The Franciscans built the Basilica of the Holy Cross (Basilica di Santa Croce) on the site of an earlier church—one that had supposedly been founded by St. Francis of Assisi himself. It is a massive building, laid out in a series of simple large rectangular shapes. Originally, the church was quite restrained in its internal and external decoration, but it now contains art by a number of famous painters and sculptors, including Giotto and Donatello.
The church also houses many famous graves, including that of Michelangelo, who, according to legend, wanted his tomb (designed by Giorgio Vasari) placed directly to the right of the church entrance so that the first thing he would see on Judgment Day was the dome of the Duomo through Santa Croce’s doors. Opposite Michelangelo is Galileo, buried there in 1737, 100 years after his death. Niccolò Machiavelli and Lorenzo Ghiberti lie inside the church, as does a tomb built for Dante, whom the Florentines had exiled from the city in 1301. The town of Ravenna, where Dante actually lies, refused to give back his body, so, consequently, the tomb in Santa Croce remains an empty monument to the great poet. (Robin Elam Musumeci)
Legend has it that in the early 9th century, two merchants, named Buono (“Good Man”) of Malamocco and Rustico (“Rustic”) of Torcello, stole the body of St. Mark from Alexandria in Egypt and carried it back to Venice. Rather than presenting their saintly burden to the head of the Venetian church, they gave the body to the head of the Venetian government, the doge, thereby connecting St. Mark forever to the state. The doge ordered the construction of a church to house the saintly remains, which were placed in a temporary shrine within the Doges’ Palace. A church was completed in 832 but was destroyed by fire in a rebellion in 976. It was later rebuilt, forming the basis of the present basilica, which was begun in 1063.
The new church became the official chapel of the doge and, by the 15th century, was joined to the Doges’ Palace. The church is immediately recognizable, with its main and subsidiary domes echoing the well-known form of earlier Byzantine churches and showing influences from Constantine’s Church of the Apostles in Constantinople. A mosaic over the far left portal of the basilica, depicting the interment of St. Mark’s body, gives an astonishingly accurate portrayal of what the church looked like in the 13th century, before the 15th-century addition of elaborate white Gothic cresting. Unlike the cathedrals of Florence and Milan, which at the end of the 13th century still stood open to the sky, St. Mark’s had been structurally complete for many years. Because of this, generations of artists and rulers had already worked a wealth of detail and narrative into the fabric of the church. Designated a cathedral in 1807, St. Mark’s Basilica stands at the head of one of the most famous European squares, presiding over this public and communal space and giving it a sense of religious and civic history rich in legend and glamour. (Robin Elam Musumeci)
The Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe is one of the best-preserved and most important early Christian churches in Italy. Like the church of San Vitale, it was erected with funds provided by the wealthy patron Julianus Argentarius following the commission of Bishop Ursicinus, and it was consecrated in 549 by the archbishop Maximian. Its construction took place during a period of major political upheavals in Europe: the fall of the western half of the Roman Empire in 476; the recapture of Italy from the rule of the occupying Goth tribes, carried out by the Eastern emperor Justinian between 535 and 552; and the Lombard invasion in 568. At that time, Ravenna was the capital town of the peninsula and therefore one of the main cities of Italy.
When it was built, the church stood close to the sea, at the Roman harbour of Classe. Because of subsequent marsh-draining, however, the waters retreated, and this marvelous building now stands proudly in the countryside of Ravenna. The church seems to have been built on the site of an important cemetery, attested by the imposing sarcophagi that are now displayed along the aisles of the church. It is dedicated to Sant’Apollinare, who was the first bishop of Ravenna and who was the first to convert the people of that area to Christianity. His relics were transported from this church to Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna in 856.
The church, which is constructed in brick, like the remarkable round bell tower next to it that is believed to date back to the 10th century, is divided into three naves by elegant columns of Greek marble. It also boasts impressive early medieval mosaics in the presbytery and in the apse, where the figure of Sant’Apollinare is set out on a mosaic depicting a delicate green meadow. These remarkable mosaics were made by unknown Byzantine artists and are of inestimable value. (Monica Corteletti)
The 13th-century priest St. Francis of Assisi made a huge impact on the medieval church. His decision to renounce his worldly goods and lead a simple life as a wandering preacher earned him immense respect and helped to counter the widely held belief that many priests were overly privileged and clearly corrupt and that the church was more interested in accumulating worldly wealth than in the spiritual well-being of its followers. Francis felt a special kinship with the poor, so it is ironic that he should have been buried in one of Italy’s most sumptuous churches.
Francis was so popular that he was canonized just two years after his death, before he had even received his official funeral. He had hoped to be buried in a pauper’s grave on the Colle del Inferno (Hill of Hell, so called because criminals were executed there), but he could never have envisaged that he would be honoured with an enormous double church—the Basilica di San Francesco. The Lower Basilica was completed in just two years (1228–30), although this speed may have been ill-advised, because the entire structure had to be underpinned in the 1470s. The dating of the Upper Basilica is less clear, but it was certainly completed by 1253 when both churches were consecrated together.
After Francis’s death, his body was held at the church of San Giorgio until it could be interred in the new foundation. Even then, the precise burial place was kept secret for fear that his relics would be stolen—a shocking reminder of the riches that the pilgrimage trade could generate. The saint’s remains were rediscovered only in 1818, when they were installed in a new crypt. The church, meanwhile, was lavishly decorated with frescoes by all the major artists of the day, including Giotto. (Iain Zaczek)
The Church of the Gesù (its full name is the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus) is the mother church of the Jesuits (also known as the Society of Jesus)—a Catholic religious order founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the mid-16th century. The church is the model for numerous other Jesuit churches across the world.
After two false starts in 1551 and 1554, because of legal and funding problems, construction of the church was finally begun in 1568, with funding provided by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The building was designed according to the requirements of the Council of Trent, which had sought to modernize and rationalize Catholicism after the Protestant Reformation had exposed the corrupt practices of the medieval church. As such, there is no narthex (lobby); instead, the entrance leads straight into the body of the church, with attention focused on the high altar.
There are 10 chapels in the church, including one dedicated to St. Ignatius, designed by Andrea Pozzo, which houses the saint’s tomb and a statue of the saint designed by Pierre le Gros the Younger. The interior of the church was originally relatively bare, until Giovanni Battista Gauli was commissioned to paint it; the main feature is the ceiling fresco, The Triumph of the Name of Jesus. The church is also home to the original depiction of Madonna della Strada (Our Lady of the Way), the patroness of the Jesuits. The painting is an anonymous late 15th-century work of the Roman school.
The Church of the Gesù is in many ways the symbol of the Catholic Reformation. It reflected the new trends in the built structure of the church and housed the most well-known order of this new brand of Catholicism, the Jesuits, who grew to be the largest order of the church. (Jacob Field)
The Piazza San Giovanni in Florence is home to three important buildings: the cathedral, the campanile, and the baptistery. The octagonal domed baptistery is covered in eye-catching green and white marble, and its interior is studded with breathtaking mosaics. It is most notable, however, for its three pairs of doors, which were created in the 14th and 15th centuries and decorated with sculptures depicting scenes from the life of the city’s patron saint, St. John the Baptist, and themes of salvation and baptism.
In 1322 the city’s powerful wool merchants, the Calimala Guild, decided that the old wooden east doors should be replaced with bronze. The replacement doors, which have since been repositioned as the south doors, are fine examples of Gothic craftsmanship. They were designed by Andrea Pisano and made by Venetian bronzesmith Leonardo d’Avanzo between 1330 and 1336. The casting involved making wax models that were covered with clay and baked. The wax would melt with the heat, leaving a hollow to be filled with the molten metal. The sculptures were then smoothed and engraved.
The Calimala Guild held a competition to replace Pisano’s east doors. The winner was the young Lorenzo Ghiberti, who beat architect and sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi into second place. Ghiberti’s doors, since moved to become today’s north doors, were made between 1403 and 1424. His work illustrates the shift to a Renaissance style with its use of perspective and dynamic human sculptures.
Today’s east doors, also commissioned by the Calimala Guild, were also made by Ghiberti, from 1425 to 1452. Ghiberti spent most of the rest of his life completing the new east doors. The gilded doors have become known as the Gates of Paradise, a name bestowed by Michelangelo in tribute to their beauty and because they mark the entrance to a place of baptism. (Carol King)
When the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore was built, it was the world’s largest church, able to house 30,000 worshippers and emblematic of Florence’s political and economic dominance.
Building work began on the cathedral in 1296, although it was not consecrated until 1436. Also known as the Duomo, or Florence Cathedral, it is notable for its stained-glass windows; its ornate green, red, and white marble facade; its collection of paintings and statuary by Renaissance masters; and its world-famous dome. The cathedral has also been the seat of the Council of Florence since 1439 and the place where religious reformer and instigator of the Bonfire of the Vanities, Girolamo Savonarola, preached. The cathedral has even witnessed murder. In 1478, as part of the Pazzi conspiracy, Giuliano di Piero de’ Medici, coruler of Florence, was stabbed and killed by men backed by his rivals the archbishop of Pisa and Pope Sixtus IV. His brother and coruler Lorenzo the Magnificent was also stabbed but escaped and later had the archbishop hanged.
The construction of the building—built on the site of the old cathedral of Santa Reparata—was overseen by several architects, beginning with Arnolfo di Cambio. In 1331 an institution was created to supervise the works, and in 1334 painter and architect Giotto was appointed as master builder, assisted by architect Andrea Pisano. After Giotto’s death in 1337, a number of architects took the lead, and plans were made to enlarge the original project and build a dome. In 1418 a competition was held to find a designer for the dome; it was won by sculptor and architect Filippo Brunelleschi. His innovative design was self-supporting, requiring no scaffolding. It was completed in 1436 and remains a masterpiece of ingenuity. (Carol King)
In 1386 work began on an extraordinary Gothic cathedral in central Milan. It was built on a site that had been home to several churches since the 5th century. The huge cathedral—second only to St. Peter’s as the largest church in Italy—shows the influence of northern European architecture on Italy at this period. Several of the architects and masons came from north of the Alps, although others were local men. The building reflects the contemporary tensions between north European Gothic and Italian Renaissance styles.
Construction was sporadic, with the initial work completed by about 1420. More work was begun in the late 15th century and continued for about a century. The 17th and 18th centuries saw even more construction, including the impressive Madonna’s spire. Before Napoleon’s coronation as king of Italy in 1805, he ordered the completion of the facade—work that went on into the 19th and 20th centuries. The architects were careful to respect the building’s Gothic origins.
Any visitor to Milan’s cathedral will be immediately struck by the size of the central nave, whose height is second to that of the choir of Beauvais in France. Other features of interest include the magnificent windows—fine examples of “flowery Gothic”—several altars, and the ornate sarcophagi of the church’s benefactors, including that of Marco Carelli, who donated 35,000 ducats in the 15th century. (Adrian Gilbert)
Monreale’s cathedral is commonly regarded as the most impressive monument left by the Norman kings who once ruled in Sicily. The building is a stunning testament to their sumptuous style and illustrates their attention to detail and ornamentation. Built by William II circa 1170, the building was originally no more than a church. However, Pope Lucius III elevated its status to that of a metropolitan cathedral in 1182, and it became the seat of the metropolitan archbishop of Sicily. Finally, in 1200, the archiepiscopal palace and monastic buildings were finished. When King William began construction of the cathedral, he had a number of objectives. Primarily, he wished to use it to establish himself as sovereign. He also wished to impress on his subjects his power and wealth and to suppress any thoughts of resistance. Finally, William hoped to use the cathedral to establish Roman Catholicism as the official religion of Sicily—an objective that he managed with some success. Irrespective of his motives, William produced an outstanding cathedral, much of which remains today.
The cathedral itself may seem relatively plain from the outside. Nevertheless, the visitor may begin to get some sense of the grandeur that lies inside from the imposing principal doorways. Designed in a curious mixture of Norman, Byzantine, and Arab styles, the doors are made of bronze and covered in rich carvings and coloured inlays. Inside, the structure of the cathedral is built around an impressive central nave and two smaller aisles. The walls are decorated with a cornucopia of meticulous panels and reliefs that depict various scenes from the Old and New testaments. The intricacy of the craftsmanship and the expense of the materials used in the cathedral offer a sense of the personal style and taste of the Norman kings who once held sway in Sicily. (Katarina Horrox)
Located on the Piazza della Rotonda, the Pantheon is remarkable for its dome, which is considered to be one of the greatest feats of Roman architecture—not least because it is still intact after two millennia, despite the building having been erected on marshy ground. Within the Pantheon is a large circular room with a granite and yellow marble floor and a hemispherical dome. The height of the rotunda to the top of the 142-foot (43.3-metre) dome exactly matches its diameter, creating a perfect hemisphere. Natural light enters via a circular opening—known as the Great Eye (Oculus)—at the apex of the dome.
The Pantheon was built about 120 CE by the emperor Hadrian on the site of a temple built by the Roman statesman and general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in 27 BCE. Agrippa’s building was destroyed by fire in 80 CE, but his name is written above the entrance of Hadrian’s elegant building, which was innovative in its day and reminiscent of Greek temples. “Pantheon” means “temple of all the gods,” and the building was originally dedicated to the planetary gods worshipped by the ancient Romans. The Byzantine emperor Phocas gave the building to Pope Boniface IV in 609, and it became the Christian church of Santa Maria ad Martyres. A column was erected in the Roman Forum in honour of Phocas’s gift.
Over the centuries, the building was pillaged and damaged, losing its gilded bronze roof tiles when the Byzantine emperor Constans II Pogonatus looted it in 663. Pope Urban VIII removed the bronze ceiling girders on the portico to make cannons for Castel Sant’Angelo as part of his plans to extend the fortifications of the papal fortress. The building has also been used as a tomb and houses two Italian kings as well as Renaissance painters and architects, including Raphael. (Carol King)
Rome may be most famous for the splendour of its imperial past, but it also played a key part in the development of Christianity. From its earliest days, Santa Maria Maggiore has maintained a central role in this process. Its original foundation reflected the growth of the cult of the Virgin Mary, and it has always been closely involved in the day-to-day administration of the Roman Catholic Church.
According to tradition, the church was originally founded about 356, after the Virgin appeared to the pope in a vision. Its precise site was indicated by a miraculous snowfall, occurring at the height of summer. This legend is commemorated each year in a special service, during which a shower of white flower petals is dropped from the dome. The present building dates from the following century (432–440). Its dedication to the Virgin was undoubtedly influenced by a crucial decision at the Council of Ephesus of 431, which confirmed that Mary was the mother of God (and not just Christ’s human aspect). The most important survival from this original building is a unique series of mosaics, executed in the old, imperial style, with the Virgin resembling a Roman empress.
Santa Maria is a basilica—an ancient architectural form that the Romans had used for public buildings and that the early Christians adapted for their churches. It is classified as a major basilica because it was, for centuries, the seat of the patriarch of Antioch—one of the highest-ranking officials in the Roman Catholic Church.
Over the years, there have been many additions. The bell tower is medieval, whereas the elegant facade was designed by Ferdinando Fuga and completed in 1743. There are also two notable chapels, the Sistine Chapel, built for Pope Sixtus V, and the Pauline Chapel, designed for Pope Paul V. (Iain Zaczek)
By the 15th century the city of Siena had ceded its commercial dominance to Florence but had become a major focus of artistic talent, boasting beautiful art and architecture by some of the greatest figures in the Italian art world. Many of these treasures still exist within the walls of the old town, and perhaps the most spectacular is the cathedral—a fine example of Gothic architecture, with a distinctive Tuscan-Italian spin.
The cathedral that stands today is essentially a 13th-century creation, although a Romanesque design was begun in the 12th century. Striped designs in black and white marble are a major feature, cladding various interior columns and walls. The cathedral’s facade, constructed in two main stages starting circa 1284, is particularly striking. Much of this was designed by the great Italian artist Giovanni Pisano, who also contributed expressive sculptural decoration that ranks among the finest on any cathedral facade. Between 1265 and 1268, Giovanni’s father, Nicola, created a richly carved octagonal marble pulpit for the cathedral, acknowledged as one of his best works. Other highlights include a bell tower; a dome topped by an elegant lantern; stunning marble floors with inlays by Domenico Beccafumi, among many others; sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo; a font whose carvings include work by Donatello and Lorenzo Ghiberti; and a stained-glass window based on 13th-century designs by Duccio—one of the earliest examples of Italian stained glass in existence. In the adjoining Piccolomini Library are vividly colored 16th-century frescoes by noted Umbrian artist Pinturicchio.
The cathedral has retained its importance over the years, with artistic additions and restorations made in subsequent centuries, including the bronze door in the facade, which was created in the 1950s. (Ann Kay)
Built between 1473 and 1484 for Pope Sixtus IV, the Sistine Chapel lies within Vatican City. Today it is the private papal chapel and the meeting place of the College of Cardinals when they assemble in conclave to elect a new pope. But what draws visitors in droves are the frescoes of the High Renaissance genius Michelangelo.
The barrel-vaulted ceiling of the chapel represents the apex of Michelangelo’s career, with the nine paintings that make up God’s Creation of the World, God’s Relationship with Mankind, and Mankind’s Fall from God’s Grace (1508–12) covering 8,610 square feet (800 square metres). Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint the fresco. Completing the task almost single-handedly, because the Florentine craftsmen assigned to help him did not meet his exacting standards, it was a feat of endurance for the artist, painting at a fast rate and working from scaffolding. The result is an unrivaled work of art that reinvented the depiction of the human form with the dynamic style of its more than 300 figures. So arduous was this mammoth undertaking that Michelangelo forswore painting for 23 years until he returned to the chapel to paint The Last Judgment (1535–41) on the wall behind the altar—this time for Pope Clement VII, although it was completed under the patronage of his successor Pope Paul III. The painting proved controversial at the time for its inclusion of naked male bodies, depicted complete with genitalia.
Although somewhat dwarfed by Michelangelo’s masterpieces, the walls of the chapel also contain significant works of art, such as Sandro Botticelli’s The Temptation of Christ (1482) and Domenico Ghirlandaio’s Christ Calling Peter and Andrew to their Apostleship (1483). On special occasions the chapel is also decorated with tapestries created by Raphael. (Carol King)
After St. Paul’s martyrdom about 62 CE, his followers built a shrine over his grave. In 324 Constantine ordered a small church to be built on the spot, but in 386 Theodosius demolished this church and began the construction of a much larger and more beautiful basilica. This was consecrated in 390, although the work was not completed until some 50 years later. St. Paul Outside the Walls (the name refers to its location outside the main city walls) is considered to be one of the five great ancient basilicas of Rome.
In 1823 a devastating fire destroyed the basilica. This was an appalling loss because, of all the Roman churches, this one had maintained its primitive character for 1,435 years. To restore the basilica, the viceroy of Egypt contributed alabaster pillars and the emperor of Russia sent costly lapis lazuli and malachite for the mosaics. A chronicle of the Benedictine monastery attached to the church mentions that, during the rebuilding, a large marble sarcophagus was found with the words “Paolo Apostolo Mart(yri)” (“To Paul the Apostle and Martyr”) on the top. Strangely, unlike other tombs found at that time, it was not mentioned in the excavation papers. Almost 200 years later, in 2006, archaeologists discovered perhaps this same sarcophagus under the altar, which may contain St. Paul’s remains. (Robin Elam Musumeci)
Lying within Vatican City, St. Peter’s Basilica is a centre of pilgrimage for Roman Catholics. The impressive 17th-century piazza of the vast church, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and its treasure trove of sculptures and paintings also make it of interest to art lovers.
The church stands on the site of Emperor Nero’s Circo Vaticano, and it is thought that St. Peter and fellow Christian martyrs were killed there between 64 and 67 CE. The apostle was buried in a grave next to the wall of the stadium; when the stadium was abandoned in 160, a small monument was built to mark the spot. Emperor Constantine ordered a basilica to be built on the site of the saint’s tomb in 315, and the church was consecrated in 326.
Pope Nicholas V ordered the reconstruction of the dilapidated church in the 15th century, but work began in earnest in 1506 when Pope Julius II commissioned architect Donato Bramante to design a new basilica. Based on a Greek cross plan with a central dome and four smaller domes, the new basilica was completed in 1626.
An aging Michelangelo took over the project in 1547 and designed the 390-foot- (119-metre-) high dome above the high altar that was constructed directly above St. Peter’s tomb. Architect Carlo Maderno succeeded Michelangelo in masterminding the job and altered the original plan to resemble a Latin cross by extending the nave toward the piazza. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the 95-foot- (29-metre-) high Baroque canopy that stands in the centre of the church; it was made using bronze taken from the Pantheon nearby. (Carol King)
Two centuries before building had begun on the first doge’s palace or traders haggled on the Rialto, there existed an established community out on a flat sandbank in the north of the Venetian lagoon: Torcello. Invading Huns and, later, Lombards had driven mainlanders to seek out safety on the lagoon islets during the 5th and 6th centuries, and the permanence and status of Torcello was confirmed when Bishop Mauro of Altino founded the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta here in 639. It is estimated that by the 16th century about 20,000 people lived on Torcello, but its decline had already begun—its silted-up canals and malarial swamps were being progressively abandoned for the growing city of Venice. The basilica, the adjacent church of Santa Fosca, and a few other surviving structures are the last remnants of a once-thriving island city.
The basilica’s original layout is largely intact and incorporates several early elements—the circular baptistery forming the entrance (rather than being set to one side as in later churches), the “diaconico” mosaics, and the restored altar table—but its crowning glory, so unexpected in this low-key location, are the mosaics. Extending across the western wall is a Crucifixion, a Resurrection, and, most dramatically, the Last Judgment, completed in the 13th century. Most emotive, though, is the glowing golden Virgin Mary above the apse at the eastern end: she is the Madonna Teoteca, the God-bearer, believed to have been the creation of Greek artists more than 700 years ago. Torcello’s simple beauty and artistry are a potent reminder of a time and a place when the church was as much a part of Byzantium as it was of Rome.
Today Torcello is, literally, in a backwater, but among its lonely marshlands it is still possible to catch a sense of the watery isolation out of which the city of Venice grew. (Caroline Ball)
Turin Cathedral, constructed in the 15th century, is most famous today for being the home of the Shroud of Turin. However, it was also the first major Renaissance building in the city.
The Shroud of Turin is one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most holy relics. Believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it bears the ghostly outline of the back and front of a man. The shroud passed into the hands of the house of Savoy, the rulers of Turin, in 1453. From 1357 it had been owned by a French knight called Geoffroi de Charny, and, although its provenance cannot be reliably traced before this date, it may well have been housed in several locations, including Jerusalem, Edessa, and Constantinople.
The shroud was brought to Turin Cathedral in 1578 and, since the 17th century, has had its own chapel, a fine and dramatic example of Baroque architecture. In 1988 the age of the shroud’s cloth was submitted to carbon dating, which placed it in the period 1260 to 1390. The Roman Catholic Church accepted the results but insists its authenticity has no bearing on its position as an object of veneration. In 1997 the chapel was damaged by fire, although, fortunately, a fireman was able to carry the shroud to safety. The shroud is rarely shown to the public. Regardless of the true nature of the shroud, it has been an object of devotion for centuries and remains an important relic for millions of Christians. (Jacob Field)
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You spend a lot of time on lifts on a ski holiday, and resorts are progressively realising that comfort and a short queuing times are important factors to skiers and boarders when gauging the enjoyment of their holiday. Lift systems are progressively becoming more elaborate and resorts are continually looking for new ways to form high-speed links between ski areas; the Vanoise Express in France (linking Peisey-Vallandry in the Les Arcs ski area to La Plagne) and new for this season is the Legends lift in Meribel which is a premium chairlift that has replaced the Plan de l'Homme and Roc de Fer lifts and decreased lift time to 4 minutes 40 seconds! The best bit are its heated seats!
Most common types of ski lifts
Chairlifts
A chairlift is probably what most people would picture if asked to think about a ski lift - it circles on a wire, the skier or boarder sits on it and then pulls down a safety rail to hold them in. They may seat from two to eight passengers and come in various degrees of complexity, from some of the more basic 'one speed' lifts (which the lift attendant will generally grab to limit the impact when it arrives - it's not as bad as it sounds, but you do need to be prepared!) to ultra-complex bubbles which have a hood to protect the passenger from the elements and, in the case of some of the more upmarket American resorts, even heated seats!
Gondolas
Gondolas are similar in operating style to chairlifts, in that they operate on a cable which circulates in one direction. They are enclosed cabins which seat anything from four to thirty people - the smaller ones have seats (and you store your skis or board in racks attached to the outside) and the larger ones are basically standing spaces, and you keep your equipment with you. Gondolas obviously protect you from bad weather - but conversely, are one of the first genres of lifts to be closed in high winds.
Cable Cars and Funiculars
Cable cars generally comprise two cabins which operate on a pulley system - i.e. one goes up when the other comes down. Again they can be affected by adverse wind conditions, and you often have to wait a few minutes for one to arrive. However they can carry a large number of passengers at one time - the Vanoise Express mentioned above can hold over 200 people on its 1.9km journey between the two lift stations, hanging around 340m above the valley floor.
Funiculars, or mountain railways, are generally the fastest means of transport. They run on rails - often underground - and comprise a number of carriages.
Drag Lifts
Drag lifts tow you along the path as you hold onto them - they are often operated in beginner areas (because the short distance travelled means it's not worth installing a chair lift) and come in various guises:
Button (or Poma) Lifts
Named after the company that manufactures them, button lifts are often used in beginner areas in France; the lift comprises a series of poles with button-shaped seats on the end that are suspended (via a spring arrangement) from a high-level moving cable; you put the seat between your legs, then hold on to it as it drags the button and you up the slope. Button lifts are also sometimes used in areas that may be too narrow or infrequently used for a chairlift to drag skiers up steep slopes (sometimes boarders and beginners are banned!) or to link across flat areas.
T-Bars
These operate on much the same principle as button lifts in that they drag you up the slope - the main difference is that two people take the lift at one time, and lean against a support like a large 'T' rather than a button.
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EXCLUSIVE: Sky Studios and Groenlandia are readying feature film director Sydney Sibilia’s first TV drama series. Someone Killed Spiderman – Accidentally Famous (working title) is for Sky Italia and is about a non-conformist teenager who becomes on half of successful musical duo 883.
The show first came to attention last year, and the package has now come together with Sky Studios and Banijay-owned Groenlandia co-producing the show.
It will be set in 1980s Italy and follow frustrated teenager Max, who meets future musical partner Mauro and goes on to reach stardom. It is inspired by the story of how Italian pop band 883 was formed and the title is the same as duo’s iconic first album.
Sibilia is creating, writing and producing through his Banijay-owned production house, Groenlandia, which recently launched Netflix drama Supersex. This marks a first television venture for the film director, whose features include Can Quit Whenever I Want and Rose Island.
Banijay Rights, the sales arm of Groenlandia’s parent company, Banijay, has international sales rights.
Synopsis reads: “In the late 1980s, in the small Italian town Pavia, teenager Max finds solace in comic books and American music, standing out as a non-conformist in a place there is nothing to be rebellious about. After neglecting high school to pursue friendships and punk nights, failure inevitably catches up with him. But this opens doors to a life-changing opportunity, transferring to a new high school where he crosses paths with Mauro. Music makes the pair inseparable.
“Thanks to Mauro’s driving force, Max embraces his musical talent and together they compose the first songs that will be produced by Claudio Cecchetto. But when success overwhelms them, the question arises: will Max and Mauro, despite their differences, manage to stick together?”
Directing alongside Sibilia are Francesco Ebbasta and Alice Filippi, with Francesco Agostini, with Chiara Laudani and Giorgio Nerone joining him as writers.
“Someone Killed Spiderman – Accidentally Famous will plunge viewers into youth culture from the 80s, weaving in a narrative of rebellion, friendship, and the pursuit of dreams,” said Sibilia. “For many of us it will be a nostalgic gallop into music that means so much, and for others, it is a stellar story of two friends who come together in a life-changing way. It is exciting to work on my first TV series with great partners like Sky Studios and Banijay Rights on board”.
Simon Cox, EVP Content & Acquisitions at Banijay Rights, added: “Sydney Sibilia is well-known for his ability to blend warmth and humour with poignant storytelling. There is something special about the content Groenlandia creates and with this drama viewers can expect a journey into the vibrant 1980s culture, cherished by audiences and broadcasters worldwide. Showcasing this title is testament to our commitment to bring this series to buyers from around the world.”
Sibilia runs Groenlandia alongside Matteo Rovere, who has to date led on TV productions. The company’s latest series, Supersex, made its international debut at Berlinale last month. It also produced Prime Video’s No Activity and Antonia, Sky’s Romulus and another Netflix show, The Law According to Lidia Poet. Recent films include El Paraiso, which screened at the Venice Film Festival last year, as well as Sheep Among Wolves and September.
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A seaside getaway, bathed in the light of a shining city... Sublime beaches, wonderful restaurants, and an abundance of nature and wildlife are but few of the elements painting the picture of Alexandroupoli, the first...
Astypalaia
Astypalaia is the island you may have never been to but you will always want to visit. Or even if you found yourself there, you didn't have time to get enough of it and definitely want to go back. Justifiably, since...
Athens
Athens … a city that needs no particular introductions! Being the capital city of Greece, Athens is a perennial attraction for visitors from all over the world: the "heart" of Greece, the birthplace of democracy...
Brussels
Despite their suggestive earnestness, due to its status as the seat of the European Parliament and the capital city of the European economy, Brussels also emits an atmosphere of childhood, carefreeness and humor...
Chania
Welcome to the enchanting Chania, one of the most attractive cities in Crete. There is evidence that Chania has always been among the most popular destinations in Greece. Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, Ottomans, all...
Chios
The island of Chios is located very close to Asia Minor, just 15 kilometers from the coast of Turkey and is the fifth largest island in the Aegean Sea. It is a very beautiful island that is still quite untouched by...
Corfu
Corfu is one of the most beautiful and romantic islands in the Ionian island chain, and also a worthy holder of the title of "Queen of the Ionian sea". From its verdant hills and stately manors, to its idyllic beaches...
Dusseldorf
Dusseldorf, a city in western Germany, is a different and charming tourist destination with a multifarious character and elegance. The city has an impressive historic center, filled with buildings characterized by...
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, one of Germany's largest cities, is a dynamic and sophisticated tourist destination. The enchanting mix of contrasts, from state-of-the-art glass skyscrapers to the beautiful medieval center and the...
Heraklion
Travel to Heraklion, the "metropolis" of Crete and capital city of the largest Greek island. This enchanting location, pure yet fully vibrant at the same time, is one of the most historical cities in the Mediterranean...
Kalymnos
Kalymnos is the fourth largest island of the Dodecanese and is surrounded by small, harsh rocky islets, other uninhabited and others, such as Pserimos and Telendos, with few houses, rooms to let, unique restaurants...
Karpathos
The second largest island in the Dodecanese, Karpathos, stands out for its charming contrasts - lush mountains and dozens of beaches, magical sea views and picturesque villages full of traditions, colours and customs...
Kastoria
The magnificent mansions built by wealthy merchants throughout the city are proof of its great prosperity, as it has developed a strong economic and cultural identity thanks to the fur industry. And like this, among...
Kefalonia
Ideally located in the heart of the Ionian Sea, Cephalonia has inspired many with its beauty and has been inextricably linked to the famous film ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"". Indeed, wherever you look, you will see...
Kos
Welcome to Kos, the second most popular island of the Dodecanese, famous for its historical landmarks, beautiful beaches and rich vegetation. Thanks to its extensive 5,000-year history, and incorporating the influence...
Kozani
A mountain town with a treasure library dating back centuries, vast fields with the precious Greek red saffron and a small ""Grand Canyon""... These are three reasons why your trip to northern Greece deserves to...
Kythera
Also known as Tsirigo since the Venetian occupation, Kythera is a hidden gem located between the Peloponnese and Crete. Kythera stands out for its medieval architecture, reminiscent of Mani, its remote beaches and its...
Larnaca
Whether you call it Larnaca or Scala, it is still a city that stands as one of Cyprus's true gems. Larnaca is the third largest city on the island, with a population of more than 75,000 residents. Discover Larnaca's...
Lemnos
Lemnos is one of the most beautiful islands on the northern edge of the Aegean. It is an incredible destination for those who wish to explore nature and enjoy the most relaxing holidays of their lives.
Leros
A small, authentic, unexplored island, located in the northern Dodecanese, Leros is a place that when you see it you will feel a different, unique aura that you will not be able to explain.
Lille
Lille is for France what Manchester is to England - the beating heart of the country's industry! So, keeping that in mind, welcome to the industrial center, the 10th most populated city, and the 4th largest...
London
A city with a unique personality, the most cosmopolitan metropolis in Europe with its own special character... If we wanted to talk about a truly multicultural city, it would definitely be London. The term “global...
Lyon
Lyon is the third largest French city and one of the most important urban centers in the whole of France. It is also the second most visited city after Paris and the capital city of French cuisine, home of a great...
Marseille
With its very busy harbor and its vibrant urban energy, Marseille is a homing beacon for visitors who seek a genuine tourist experience. This high-spirited cosmopolitan city is the oldest and second largest city in...
Milan
Charming and undoubtedly impressive, Milan is the richest and most elegant city in Italy - a perfect example of vintage romance that meets and blends with modern urban reality. In a country full of landscapes and...
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When you hear about Milos, the famous Venus certainly comes to mind. And not in vain, since the Goddess of beauty and love generously donated her beauty to the island of Milos and made it one of the most fairytale and...
Munich
It may not often be the first city that comes to mind when you think about travelling to Germany, but Munich is a magical destination with so much to do and see, that you wish you could extend your vacation to enjoy...
Mytilene
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Nantes
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An island atmosphere, centuries of history, delicious food and more beaches than you can imagine... This is Preveza waiting for you to discover!
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A $9 bn transaction cobbles a pay-TV empire stretching from Manchester to Munich to Milan, with a non-Murdoch at the helm.
Jeremy Darroch, 52, will oversee a $9 billion transaction uniting British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc with Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland AG. BSkyB will buy the shares from another Murdoch company, 21st Century Fox Inc. The purchase will create a media powerhouse that beams TV programs via cable and satellite to 20 million subscribers in five European countries.
Friday’s purchase is the culmination of years of deals to build the company, which doesn’t yet have an official name but that many in the industry are calling Sky Europe. In 2003, the Murdochs assembled satellite assets to build Sky Italia. Then beginning in 2008 the family made a series of investments that became Sky Deutschland.
"There’s so much public evidence of the long ambition to unite the Skys," said Claudio Aspesi, a media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in London. "James right now is looking brilliant, because he can point to success in creating value. He’s bringing all the cash out of Europe and monetizing investments some people had been skeptical about."
The big question is whether the Murdochs can achieve a long-standing goal of taking full ownership of BSkyB. In 2010, the family made a 7.8 billionpound ($13.2 billion) bid for the 61 per cent of the company it doesn’t own. That plan, though, fell apart after the phone-hacking scandal.
In 2011, The Guardian reported that Murdoch’s UK Sunday tabloid News of the World had hacked into the mobile phone of a murdered school girl. The ensuing furor forced Murdoch to shutter the News of the World and put the BSkyB plan on hold, while James Murdoch decamped for New York. He now serves as co- chief operating officer at Fox, the film and broadcast unit of Murdoch’s former News Corp., which split last year.
The senior Murdoch "knows he’s going to be unable to buy BSkyB in the foreseeable future after the difficulties last time around," said Roddy Davidson, an analyst at Westhouse Securities in London. Today’s transaction "doesn’t preclude him from trying to acquire BSkyB and the European assets once they’ve been brought together."
By selling Sky Italia and its 57 per cent stake in Sky Deutschland, Fox gets cash that it could use to increase the $80 billion offer Murdoch made for Time Warner Inc. in June. Though Time Warner rejected that bid, Fox is willing to raise its bid above the current $85 per share, a person familiar with the matter has said. Analysts have speculated that the Murdochs could also sell their 39 per cent stake in the expanded BSkyB to raise even more cash for Time Warner.
Fox declined to comment on whether it might sell its BSkyB shares. In a statement, Fox said it plans to disclose details of a new share-buyback authorization next month.
"The deal is great for Mr. Murdoch since now he can keep on pursuing the Time Warner deal and fulfill his old dream of becoming the single entrepreneur in the global media industry with the largest content breadth and depth," said Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffe, a business professor at Bocconi University in Milan.
Uniting Sky Europe was always part of the Murdochs’ plan for BSkyB, said Claire Enders, founder of Enders Analysis in London. The younger Murdoch hired Darroch from UK electronics retailer Dixon’s to work as BSkyB’s finance chief in 2004. James had just taken over BSkyB, and at the age of 30 was the youngest person to head a top-100 British company. In 2007, Murdoch promoted Darroch to chief executive officer of BSkyB.
"The goal was to take over the balance of BSkyB and roll it into a vehicle that would contain Italia and the Deutschland stake," Enders said. "This was how James was going to keep Darroch interested in the job -- with more territories, responsibilities and complexities."
The Sky Europe deal promotes Darroch to the top of a pan- European pay-TV empire, rivaling John Malone’s European cable powerhouse Liberty Global Plc. Just as important, it defuses a growing threat from BT Group Plc. The phone carrier has stepped up competition by offering free sports channels to broadband subscribers and winning the rights to major sporting events in recent years -- a strategy similar to the one Rupert Murdoch pursued when he founded BSkyB in 1990.
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Whether you have Italian roots or you simply love the way Italian names roll off the tongue, there are many choices of Italian names for your baby boy or girl. Much like the other Romance languages, Italian baby names may have originated in Latin, or they may be Latinized versions of names from other languages.
Traditionally, Italian parents choose their children's names based on the name of a grandparent, choosing names from the father's side of the family first and then from the mother's side.
Some Italians have also followed the tradition of naming their child after a patron saint. By knowing the Italian equivalent of a name, you can keep this tradition alive even if one side of your family isn't Italian. Or, you might choose a name with ancient Roman roots.
Popular Italian Baby Names for Girls
These names include those that are popular in Italy, as well as those with Ancient Roman or Latin roots.
Alessandra
Origin: Italian form of Greek Alexandra
Meaning: Defender of mankind
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Alessa, Sandra, Alexandra
Famous Namesakes: Model Alessandra Ambrósio, actress Alessandra Torresani, Italian politician Alessandra Mussolini
Peak Popularity: Alessandra has long been a popular name in Italy, though less so in recent years, reaching the 35th most popular in 2010. In the U.S. it has gained in popularity over the past two decades and ranked 368 in 2020.
Fun Fact: St. Alexandra, the Empress of Rome, was a noblewoman and the wife of Emperor Diocletian or Dacian, a Roman Prefect, who was secretly converted to Christianity and died a martyr in the year 303.
Alice
Origin: Old French, which was derived from German
Meaning: Noble type (German Adalheidis)
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Alicia, Alecia, Alisha, Alyce, Alys, Alise
Famous Namesakes: Writer Alice Walker, actress Alice Ghostley, St. Alice of Schaerbeek (feast day June 15 in her honor)
Peak Popularity: Alice has been a consistently popular girl's name in Italy for the past two decades, ranking 5th in 2019. In the U.S., it was in the top ten in 1906 and remained in the top 50 names through World War II before dropping slightly. Alice has had a resurgence since 2010 and was the 76th most popular in 2020.
Fun Fact: In Italian, the pronunciation of Alice is a-LEE-cheh.
Angelica
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Angelic
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Anjelica, Angelique, Angela, Angelina
Famous Namesakes: Actress Anjelica Huston, singer Angelica Hale
Peak Popularity: Angelica was most popular in the 1990s in the U.S., when it ranked near the top 100.
Fun Fact: The Catholic church has honored St. Angela Merici, an educator, as well as the Blessed Angelica of Milazzo and Blessed María Angélica Pérez.
Arianna
Origin: Italian
Meaning: Most holy
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Ariana, Ariadna, Ariadne
Famous Namesakes: Journalist and author Arianna Huffington, singer Ariana Grande
Peak Popularity: Arianna has long been popular in Italy, ranking in the top 25 over the past couple of decades. In the U.S., it entered the top 1,000 in 1982 and reached a high of 40 in 2014.
Fun Fact: Arianna comes from Ariadneof Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Minos who fell in love with Theseus and helped him escape the labyrinth. Abandoned by Theseus and left to die, she was rescued by Dionysus, the god of wine, revelry, and dance, whom she married and became immortal.
Aurora
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Dawn, luminous, dazzling
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Aurore
Famous Namesakes: Professional race car driver Aurora Straus, Harry Potter character Aurora Sinistra, and the late poet Aurora de Albornoz
Peak Popularity: Aurora was the second most popular girl name in Italy in 2019. It has surged in the U.S. since 2009 and ranked 36 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Aurora was the Roman goddess of morning.
Beatrice
Origin: Latin
Meaning: She who makes happy
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Beatrix, Beatriz, Bea, Trixie
Famous Namesakes: Author Beatrix Potter, actress Beatrice Straight, Princess Beatrice of York
Peak Popularity: Beatrice has long been popular in Italy and ranked 8 in 2019. In the U.S., it was popular early in the 20th century and then fell out of favor. It ranked 550 in 2020.
Fun Fact: The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (known simply as Dante) portrays Beatrice Portinari as his guide through paradise in "Divine Comedy," which was completed in 1320—a year before his death. Beatrice is also a main character in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."
Benedetta
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Blessed
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Bettina
Famous Namesakes: Italian actress and model Benedetta Barzini, Italian saint Blessed Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello
Peak Popularity: Benedetta has ranked in the top 50 girl names in Italy for over 20 years. It is not in the top 1,000 in the U.S.
Fun Fact: Benedetta is the female version of Benedictus, after St. Benedict who was the founder of the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino in the sixth century and is known as the father of monasticism in the West.
Bianca
Origin: Italian
Meaning: White, pure
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Blanca, Blanche
Famous Namesakes: Tennis player Bianca Andreescu, human rights advocate and former actress Bianca Jagger, singer Bianca Ryan
Peak Popularity: Bianca ranked 18 in Italy in 2019. In the U.S., it ranked 423 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Shakespeare liked the name Bianca well enough to give it to characters in both "Othello" and "Taming of the Shrew."
Camilla
Origin: Latin and possibly Etruscan
Meaning: Servant for the temple, free-born, noble
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Camille, Camila, Millie, Milly
Famous Namesakes: Actress Camilla Luddington, British Royal Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Peak Popularity: Camila has been popular in Italy for decades, and was at number 19 in 2019. In the U.S., it has new popularity and was at number 257 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Camillus was an ancient Roman first name, with Camilla being used by females. A legendary warrior maiden named Camilla was featured in the "Aeneid" by the Roman poet Virgil.
Carlotta
Origin: Italian
Meaning: Free man (from Charles)
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Carla, Carlota
Famous Namesakes: Journalist Carlotta Gall, actress Carlotta Monti, Empress Carlota of Mexico
Peak Popularity: Carlotta is usually in the top 50 names in Italy, but it rarely makes it into the top 1,000 in the U.S.
Fun Fact: Carlotta is the Italian version of Charlotte, which itself is the feminine version of Charles.
Carmen
Origin: Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Meaning: Ode, poem, or charm
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Carmel, Carmenta
Famous Namesakes: Actress and model Carmen Electra, singer Carmen Miranda
Peak Popularity: Carmen was most popular as a girl name in the U.S. in the 1960s.
Fun Fact: Carmen can be a unisex name, although it has less popularity as a boy name than as a girl name.
Caterina
Origin: Greek, Italian, Portuguese
Meaning: Pure
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Catherine, Katrina, Katarina, Tina
Famous Namesakes: Businesswoman Caterina Fake, Italian nun St. Catherine of Bologna, Italian noblewoman and queen of France Catherine (Caterina) de' Medici
Peak Popularity: Caterina has been in the top 50 girl names in Italy for the past 20 years. It is never in the top 1,000 in the U.S., where the English versions of Katherine or Catherine have always been preferred.
Fun Fact: Catherine (Caterina) de' Medici was known as the "mother of kings." An Italian noblewoman, she was the queen of France by marriage to King Henry II. Her sons became King Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III. She ruled France as regent from 1560 to 1574.
Chiara
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Bright, luminous, clear
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Clair, Claire, Clara, Clare, Kiara
Famous Namesakes: Actress Chiara Zanni, Italian physicist Chiara Nappi, St. Clare (Chiara) of Assisi (feast day is August 11 in her honor)
Peak Popularity: Chiara has been in the top 10 girl names in Italy for the past 20 years and was the second most popular in 2000 and 2001. It has never been in the top 1,000 girl names in the U.S., but the variants Claire and Clara are in the top 100 in recent years.
Fun Fact: In Italian, Chiara is pronounced KYA-ra.
Claudia
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Derived from Latin "claudus," meaning lame or crippled, but also an ancient Roman name for women in the patrician family
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Gladys, Claude
Famous Namesakes: First Lady Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson, Italian-Tunisian actress Claudia Cardinale, model Claudia Schiffer
Peak Popularity: Claudia reached number 181 in the 1980s in the U.S. In Italy, it was number 26 in 1999.
Fun Fact: Women of the noble Roman family Claudius would bear the name Claudia, including two mentioned in the New Testament. One was the wife of Pontius Pilate and the other was St. Claudia, an early convert to Christianity.
Drusilla
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Fruitful or dewy-eyed
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Dru, Druscilla, Cilla, Drusa
Famous Namesakes: Drusilla (daughter of Herod Agrippa), writer Drusilla Modjeska
Peak Popularity: Drusilla has always been a rare name in the U.S., reaching a high of 612 in 1886, and it is not in the top 1,000 today.
Fun Fact: Drusilla was used as a given name by members of the Claudia family in ancient Rome.
Elena
Origin: Greek, Italian, Spanish
Meaning: Torch or light
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Ellen, Lena, Helen
Famous Namesakes: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, tennis player Elena Vesnina
Peak Popularity: Elena was in the top 20 girl names in Italy from 2000 to 2011, and ranked at 27 in 2019. It is increasingly popular in the U.S., with a new high at 55 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Elena is the Italian version of Helen, who was the beautiful mythological daughter of Zeus and Leda. Helen of Troy was "the face that launched a thousand ships" and the cause of the Trojan War.
Eleonora
Origin: Greek, Italian
Meaning: Shining light
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Elinor, Eleanor, Eleanora, Ella, Nell, Lenora, Nora
Famous Namesakes: Holy Roman empress and queen of Bohemia Eleonora Gonzaga, Italian actress Eleonora Duse
Peak Popularity: Eleonora reached number 18 for girl names in Italy in 2002. It has not been in the top 1,000 in the U.S. for over a century. However, the English variant Eleanor is making a huge surge with a new high at 22 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Eleanor and its variants became popular throughout Europe in the 12th century as Eleanor of Aquitaine was first the queen of France by marriage to Louis VII and then queen of England by marriage to Henry II. She was the mother of King Richard the Lionheart and King John and ruled as regent when Richard went on the Third Crusade.
Elisa
Origin: Greek
Meaning: My God is a vow
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Eliza, Elsa, Lisa
Famous Namesakes: Actress Elisa Donovan, artist and designer Elisa Jimenez
Peak Popularity: Elisa is very popular in Italy, ranking 29th in 2019. In the U.S., it usually ranks about 500.
Fun Fact: Elisa is a form of Elisabeth and Elizabeth, used by the Italians as well as the Spanish, Portuguese, Germans, and English. In French, Elisa is Élise.
Emilia
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Rival or excel
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Emily
Famous Namesakes: Actress Emilia Clarke
Peak Popularity: Emilia is consistently popular in Italy, ranking in the top 200. In the U.S., it has skyrocketed in popularity in the past 10 years and had a new high at 40 in 2020. The variant Emily is at number 12.
Fun Fact: Emilia is a derivative of Aemilia, which comes from the Latin nomen Aemilius. Shakespeare liked the name Emilia so much that it is a character name in "Othello," "The Comedy of Errors," and "The Winter's Tale."
Emma
Origin: German
Meaning: Whole or universal
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Ema, Irma, Emily
Famous Namesakes: Actress Emma Stone, St. Emma (Hemma) of Gurk (feast day is April 19 in her honor)
Peak Popularity: Emma was the top girl name in the U.S. from 2014 to 2020 and in the top 10 in Italy since 2010, peaking at sixth place in 2019.
Fun Fact: Emma is hugely popular as a name in countries throughout Europe, North America, and South America.
Flavia
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Blonde, golden, yellow-haired
Famous Namesakes: Princess Flavia of Ruritania in "The Prisoner of Zenda," St. Flavia
Peak Popularity: Flavia ranked at number 56 in Italy in 2011, but it hasn't been in the top 1,000 in the U.S. since 1884.
Fun Fact: Flavius was an ancient Roman family name, carried by several Roman emperors including Constantine, the first Roman emperor who converted to Christianity.
Francesca
Origin: Latin, Italy
Meaning: Frenchman
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Frances, Franca, Francine, Fran, Franny
Famous Namesakes: Italian tennis player Francesca Schiavone, photographer Francesca Woodman, author Francesca Simon
Peak Popularity: Francesca is one of the most popular names in Italy, ranking in the top 30. In the U.S. it ranked 456 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Francesca appears as a character in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" and in Dante's "Inferno."
Gabriella
Origin: Hebrew (from Gabriel)
Meaning: Strength of God
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Gabriela, Gabriele, Gabriel, Gabi, Gabby
Famous Namesakes: Tennis player Gabriela Sabatini, politician Gabrielle (Gabby) Giffords, actress and model Gabriella Wilde
Peak Popularity: Gabriella has surged in popularity in the U.S. since the 1990s, with a high at number 33 in 2009 and 2010.
Fun Fact: Gabriella is the feminine version of Gabriel, an angel who appears in the Old Testament, New Testament, and Quran.
Gaia
Origin: Greek
Meaning: Earth
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Gaea
Famous Namesakes: Gaia in Greek mythology
Peak Popularity: Gaia is popular in Italy, ranking in the top 15 over the past two decades. It doesn't make the top 1,000 in the U.S.
Fun Fact: Gaia is the personification of the planet Earth in Greek mythology, the wife and mother of the sky god Uranus, and mother of the Titans and the Giants as well as the sea god Pontus.
Giada
Origin: Italian
Meaning: Jade or precious stone
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Jade, Jada, Jayda, Jayde
Famous Namesakes: Italian-American chef, writer, and television personality Giada de Laurentiis, Italian author Giada Trebeschi
Peak Popularity: Giada is very popular in Italy, ranking 10th in 2006. In the U.S., the name entered the top 1,000 in 2007 and ranks in the 700s to 900s until 2013.
Fun Fact: Giada is a departure from the Italian tradition of using saint names.
Ginevra
Origin: Welsh
Meaning: Fair one, white wave, blessed
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Guinevere, Ginny, Jennifer, Jenny
Famous Namesakes: Fictional character Ginevra "Ginny" Weasley in the Harry Potter series
Peak Popularity: Ginevra was the fourth most popular girl name in Italy in 2019. It has never been in the top 1,000 in the U.S., where the English version Jennifer is far more common.
Fun Fact: Ginevra is the Italian spelling for Geneva, and is also the Italian variation of Guinevere, the wife of the legendary King Arthur.
Gioia
Origin: Italian
Meaning: Joy
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Joy
Famous Namesakes: Italian-American singer Gioia Bruno, philanthropist Gioia Marconi Braga
Peak Popularity: Gioia is increasingly popular in Italy, reaching number 34 in 2019.
Fun Fact: Gioia is also the name of a weekly women's fashion magazine published in Milan, Italy.
Giorgia
Origin: Latin, from Greek
Meaning: Farmer, agriculturist
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Georgiana, Giorgina, Gina, Georgia
Famous Namesakes: Italian singer Giorgia Todrani, artist Georgia O'Keefe
Peak Popularity: Giorgia has been in the top 10 girl names in Italy for the past 20 years, reaching number seven in 2019. It has never been in the top 1,000 in the U.S., though the alternative spelling, Georgia, appears more frequently, ranking 176 in 2020.
Fun Fact: The name day for Giorgia is April 23, in memory of San Giorgio (George) di Lydda, martyred for failing to refuse his Christian faith.
Giovanna/Gianna/Gia
Origin: Italian
Meaning: God is gracious
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Gia, Gianna, Giannina, Giovannetta, Nina, Vanna
Famous Namesakes: Italian actress Gianna Maria Canale, Italian pediatrician and patron saint Gianna Beretta Molla
Peak Popularity: Gianna is the most popular variant in the U.S., ranking at a high of 12 in 2020, and Gia ranked 328 that year. In Italy, the popularity of Giovanna has slowly declined in the last 20 years.
Fun Fact: Giovanna was a popular name during the Italian Renaissance, ranking at 347 in 1427.
Giulia
Origin: Latin
Meaning: The gens Julia (Julius) was an ancient Roman patrician name, also means youthful
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Julia, Julie, Guiliana
Famous Namesakes: Italian-television entertainment reporter Giuliana Rancic, Olympic gymnast Giulia Steingruber
Peak Popularity: Giulia has often been the top girl name in Italy, and has been in the top five since 1999. It has never been in the top 1,000 in the U.S., but Julia has been perennially popular and has ranked in the top 100 for over a century.
Fun Fact: The feast day for Giulia is May 21, in memory of St. Julia the Virgin, martyred in Corsica for refusing to participate in a pagan ritual and put to death by crucifixion sometime around the year 303 (though the date is uncertain).
Ilaria
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Cheerful, merry
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Hilaria, Hilary, Hillary
Famous Namesakes: Italian fencer Ilaria Salvatori, Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi, Italian virologist and former politician Ilaria Capua
Peak Popularity: Ilaria was the 17th most popular girl name in Italy in 2000. It has never been in the top 1,000 in the U.S., where Hilary and Hillary are more common.
Fun Fact: St. Hilary (Hilarius) of Poitiers was a theologian in the fourth century.
Isabella
Origin: Hebrew, Spanish, Italian; Latin form of Isabel
Meaning: Pledged or devoted to God; derived from Hebrew "God is my oath"
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Isabel, Isabela, Isabelle, Izabella, Bella
Famous Namesakes: American-Italian actress Isabella Rossellini, Queen Isabel I of Castile
Peak Popularity: Isabel is perennially popular in Italy. In the U.S., Isabella has surged in popularity and ranked seventh in 2020.
Fun Fact: Bella and Isabella became popular names in the U.S. with the success of the Twilight young adult novels.
Lara
Origin: Latin, Greek, Russian
Meaning: Bright, talkative, citadel
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Larunda
Famous Namesakes: Actress Lara Flynn Boyle, journalist Lara Logan, fictional character Lara Croft
Peak Popularity: Lara is a popular name in Italy, ranking in the top 100 in for the last 20 years. While it stays in the top 1,000 in the U.S., it was most popular at 222 in 1969.
Fun Fact: Lara (Larunda) comes from the name of a Roman mythological water nymph who was overly talkative. She revealed Jupiter's affair to his wife Juno and he had her tongue removed. She had two children by the god Mercury.
Laura
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Laurel
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Lora, Lauretta, Loretta, Lorita
Famous Namesakes: Author Laura Ingalls Wilder, actress Laura Linney, former First Lady Laura Bush
Peak Popularity: Laura is a popular name in Italy, ranking in the top 50 in 2014. In the U.S., it was most popular in the 1970s, ranking as high as number 20, but it has since dropped to 357 in 2020.
Fun Fact: The Italian poet Petrarch penned sonnets of platonic love to Laura de Noves, the daughter of a knight.
Lelia
Origin: Latin, Greek, Italian
Meaning: Well spoken
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Laelia
Famous Namesakes: St. Lelia of Limerick, first female attorney in Massachusetts Lelia J. Robinson
Peak Popularity: Lelia was most popular in the U.S. the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Fun Fact: Laelius was an ancient Roman family name.
Livia
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Envious, blue
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Liv
Famous Namesakes: Author Livia Bitton-Jackson, Livia (wife of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus), Actress Liv Tyler
Peak Popularity: Livia was rare in the U.S. before 2004, and ranked 812 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Livius was a family name in ancient Rome, and women of the family would often be called Livia. It has a different origin than the name Olivia, although it sounds like a diminutive of it.
Luciana
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Light
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Lucinda, Lucy, Lucia, Luce
Famous Namesakes: Italian actress Luciana Paluzzi, Shakespearean character Luciana in "The Comedy of Errors"
Peak Popularity: Luciana was an uncommon name in the U.S., only showing up in the top 1,000 in the 1970s. It has resurged in recent years and was at 408 in 2020.
Fun Fact: This feminine name comes from Lucius, which was the most common Roman given name until the second century.
Ludovica
Origin: German
Meaning: Derived from Ludwig, which means famous warrior
Famous Namesakes: Italian Roman Catholic noblewoman Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, artist Ludovica Thornam
Peak Popularity: Ludovica was the 15th most popular girl name in Italy in 2019. It has never been in the top 1,000 in the U.S.
Fun Fact: Blessed Ludovica was known for her religious ecstasies and her service to the poor. Bernini created a memorable sculpture of her.
Luisa
Origin: Italian
Meaning: Derived from Ludwig, which means famous battle
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Luisella, Louisa
Famous Namesakes: Anglo-Italian journalist Luisa Baldini, actress Luisa Bradshaw-White
Peak Popularity: Luisa is popular in Italy, with a high rank of 101 in 1999. In the U.S. it just barely breaks into the top 1,000.
Fun Fact: "Luisa Miller" is an opera by Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi.
Margherita
Origin: Italian
Meaning: Daisy
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Margarita, Margaret, Greta, Rita
Famous Namesakes: Actress Greta Garbo, Italian astrophysicist and writer Margherita Hack
Peak Popularity: Margherita is among the top 50 names in Italy, and the variant Greta was the ninth most popular name in 2019. In the U.S., Margherita doesn't make the top 1,000 and Greta ranks 743 as of 2020.
Fun Fact: St. Margaret (Margherita) the Barefooted lived in 14th century Italy and walked barefooted to fit in with the poor and sick people she ministered to.
Martina
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Dedicated to the Roman god Mars
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Martine, Marta, Tina
Famous Namesakes: Tennis player Martina Navratilova, singer-songwriter Martina McBride
Peak Popularity: Martina was the top girl name in Italy in 1999 and 2002 and is usually in the top five. It is much rarer in the U.S. where it dropped out of the top 1,000 in 2001.
Fun Fact: St. Martina is a patron saint of Rome. She was martyred in 228.
Mia
Origin: Latin, Hebrew, Scandinavian, Italian
Meaning: My, mine, dear, darling, loved one
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Amalia, Amelia, or Maya. Mia is also from the same root as Mary, Marie, and Maria.
Famous Namesakes: Actress Mia Farrow, soccer player Mia Hamm, choreographer Mia Michaels
Peak Popularity: Mia has skyrocketed in popularity both in Italy and the U.S. since 2010. It ranked as the eighth most popular girl name in the U.S. in 2018.
Fun Fact: While Mia is regarded as a variation of Maria, the name also means "mine" in Italian.
Paola
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Small, humble
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Paula
Famous Namesakes: Queen Paola of Belgium, tennis player Paola Suárez
Peak Popularity: Paola is relatively popular in Italy, ranking 132 in 2019. In the U.S., it was most popular at number 302 in 2006.
Fun Fact: Paola is the Italian and Spanish feminine version of Paolo, or in English, Paul.
Priscilla
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Ancient, classic, primordial
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Prisca
Famous Namesakes: Actress Priscilla Presley, singer Priscilla Lane, philanthropist Priscilla Chan
Peak Popularity: Priscilla was most popular in the U.S. in the 1940s.
Fun Fact: Priscus was an ancient Roman family name, and women in the family would often be called Priscilla.
Sara
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: Lady, princess, noblewoman
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Sarah, Sarai, Sariah
Famous Namesakes: Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, actress Sara Gilbert, author Sara Paretsky
Peak Popularity: Sara was the number one most popular girl name in Italy in 2001. It peaked in the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s, dropping out of the top 100 in 2009. The variant Sarah was always more popular in the U.S. and was in the top 10 from 1978 to 2002.
Fun Fact: In the book of Genesis in the Old Testament, Sarah was the wife of Abraham and, as the mother of Isaac, was childless until she was 90 years old.
Serena
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Clear, tranquil, serene
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Sarina, Serina, Sabrina
Famous Namesakes: Tennis player Serena Williams, journalist Serena Altschul
Peak Popularity: Serena ranked in the top 50 girl names in Italy until 2016. In the U.S., it reached a high of 209 in 2000.
Fun Fact: During the late Western Roman Empire, Serena was a Christian noblewoman and niece of the Emperor Theodosius. She was wrongly accused for conspiring with the Visigoths and executed in 409.
Sofia
Origin: Greek
Meaning: Wisdom, skill
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Sophia, Sophie, Sofiya
Famous Namesakes: Filmmaker Sofia Coppola, Italian actress Sophia Loren (birth name Sofia), model Sofia Richie
Peak Popularity: Sofia was in the top 10 girl names in Italy from 2002 to 2019. It has been in the top 20 in the U.S. since 2011, but Sophia is even more popular, ranking first from 2011 to 2013.
Fun Fact: Sophia Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world in the 1960s. She is notable for winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in a non-English-speaking performance in "Two Women."
Valentina
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Strong, healthy
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Tina, Val
Famous Namesakes: Engineer and former cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, mixed martial artist Valentina Shevchenko
Peak Popularity: Valentina was as high as 11 in Italy in 1999. It is skyrocketing in popularity in the U.S. and had a new high at 73 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Valentinus is an ancient Roman cognomen, a third name which distinguished different branches of families.
Veronica
Origin: Latin
Meaning: She who brings victory; true image
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Veronika, Ronnie, Roni
Famous Namesakes: Actress Veronica Lake, singer Veronica Ballestrini
Peak Popularity: Veronica is in the top 100 names in Italy, and it had its peak in the top 100 in the U.S. in the 1970s and 80s.
Fun Fact: Although not depicted in the Bible, St. Veronica was said to have wiped the face of Jesus as he carried his cross to Golgotha. The image of his face was miraculously transferred to her veil. This is commemorated in the sixth station of the cross in the Catholic tradition, and identified with a marker in Jerusalem.
Viola
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Purple
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Violetta, Violeta, Violette, Violet
Famous Namesakes: Actress Viola Davis
Peak Popularity: Viola is very popular in Italy, reaching number 13 in 2012. In the U.S., it was most popular over a century ago, and fell out of the top 1,000 in 1973.
Fun Fact: Viola was a character in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."
Vittoria
Origin: Latin, Italian
Meaning: Victory, triumphant
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Victoria, Tori, Vicki, Vikki, Vicky
Famous Namesakes: Italian poet Vittoria Colonna, Grand Duchess of Tuscany Vittoria della Rovere
Peak Popularity: Vittoria has ranked in the top 20 girl names in Italy from 2012 to 2019. It has never ranked in the top 1,000 in the U.S. where the English form of Victoria is much more common.
Fun Fact: Victoria was the Roman goddess of victory, similar to the Greek goddess, Nike.
Popular Italian Baby Names for Boys
These names for boys are popular in Italy. Many have ancient Roman roots, while others are Italian versions of names from other languages.
Alessandro
Origin: Italian form of Latin Alexander and Greek Alexandros
Meaning: Defender of humankind
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Alex, Sandro, Alejandro
Famous Namesakes: Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi), Italian basketball player Alessandro "Sandro" Gamba
Peak Popularity: Alessandro has been in the top five boy names in Italy for more than 20 years. It is rarer in the U.S. and was at number 623 in 2020.
Fun Fact: The name day (onomastico) for Alessandro is August 26 in honor of the martyr St. Alexander, patron saint of Bergamo.
Alessio
Origin: Italian form of Latin Alexius and Greek Alexios
Meaning: Defender
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Alexis, Alexius, Alexei
Famous Namesakes: Italian soccer player Alessio Cerci
Peak Popularity: Alessio is a popular name in Italy, ranking as high as 14 in 1999. It has never been in the top 1,000 in the U.S.
Fun Fact: St. Alessio Falconieri came from a wealthy family in Florence and was one of the seven founders of the Servite Order, in which monks lived lives of poverty and penance.
Andrea
Origin: Greek
Meaning: Force, courage, bravery
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Andre, Andreas, Andrew, Andrei
Famous Namesakes: Italian painter Andrea del Verrocchio, Italian singer-songwriter Andrea Bocelli, physician Andrea Vesalius
Peak Popularity: Andrea is a top name for boys in Italy, ranking first in 2000 and fifth in 2019. In the U.S., it is only rarely used as a boy's name and instead ranks in the top 100 for girls.
Fun Fact: The feast day for Andrea is November 30 in honor of St. Andrew (Andreas) the Apostle.
Angelo
Origin: Latin, from Angelus
Meaning: Angel or messenger from God
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Angel, Anjel, Angiolo
Famous Namesakes: Italian soccer player Angelo Peruzzi, Italian astronomer Angelo Secci
Peak Popularity: Angelo ranked in the top 50 names for boys in Italy until 2017. In the U.S., it ranks around 300 with the more popular variant, Angelo, ranking around 70.
Fun Fact: The name day for Angelo is May 5 in honor of St. Angelus of Jerusalem.
Antonio
Origin: Etruscan, derived from Latin Antonius
Meaning: Ancient Roman family name
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Anthony, Tony, Anton, Antoni
Famous Namesakes: Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, actor Antonio Banderas, General Antonio López de Santa Anna
Peak Popularity: Antonio is in the top 20 boy names in Italy and was in the top 100 in the U.S. from 1972 to 2007.
Fun Fact: The most famous member of the Roman family of Antonius is Mark Antony who was a lover of Cleopatra. He ruled the Roman Empire in the triumvirate with Caesar Augustus and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.
Carlo
Origin: Italian, Spanish, German
Meaning: Man or free man (from Karl)
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Carl, Carlos, Charles
Famous Namesakes: Italian particle physicist Carlo Rubbia, Italian politician and 49th Prime Minister of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian-American mobster Carlo Gambino
Peak Popularity: Carlo ranks around the top 60 for boy names in Italy. In the U.S., it is less common, falling out of the top 1,000 in 2012, with the variant Carl being somewhat more popular.
Fun Fact: Carlo is the Italian version of Charles.
Carmine
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Poem, song, or garden
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Carmelo, Carmen, Carmelino
Famous Namesakes: Actor Carmine Giovinazzo, composer Carmine Coppola, comic book artist Carmine Infantino
Peak Popularity: Carmine is in the top 100 boy names in Italy. In the U.S., Carmine was most popular in the first half of the 20th century. It fell out of the top 1,000 in 2008.
Fun Fact: The pigment carmine is extracted from scale insects that grow on cacti. It is used as a natural food coloring and in lipstick.
Christian
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Follower of Christ
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Cristian, Cristiano
Famous Namesakes: Soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, actor Christian Bale, fashion designer Christian Dior
Peak Popularity: Christian ranks in the top 25 boy names in Italy, and peaked at 21 in the U.S. in 2006.
Fun Fact: Ten Danish kings have been named Christian.
Claudio
Origin: Latin
Meaning: From the patrician Roman family name "Claudius," meaning lame or crippled
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Claudius, Claude, Claudi
Famous Namesakes: Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, Italian conductor Claudio Abbado, soccer player Claudio Reyna
Peak Popularity: Claudio is in the top 100 names for boys in Italy. It is rarely seen in the U.S., only breaking the top 1,000 in the late 1960s into the early 80s.
Fun Fact: Shakespeare included characters named Claudio in "Measure for Measure" and "Much Ado About Nothing."
Cosimo
Origin: Greek
Meaning: Order, decency
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Cosmo, Cosma, Cosmas, Kosmas
Famous Namesakes: Italian merchant and prince Cosimo de Medici of Florence
Peak Popularity: Cosimo usually ranks near the top 100 in Italy. It is uncommon in the U.S.
Fun Fact: Saints Cosmas and Damian were brothers thought to be twins who were martyred in the fourth century. They are the patron saints of physicians.
Daniele
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: God is my judge
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Danilo, Daniel, Dan, Dannie, Danny
Famous Namesakes: Italian artist Daniele da Volterra, Italian soccer player Daniele De Rossi
Peak Popularity: Daniele is the most popular form of Daniel in Italy, ranking in the top 20 in the early 2000s. It is uncommon in the U.S. where Daniel was in the top 15 from 2000 to 2020.
Fun Fact: In the Bible, Daniel is best known for being thrown into the lion's den and surviving due to angelic intervention. The feast day for St. Daniel is July 21.
Davide
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: Beloved
Alternative Spellings & Variations: David, Dave, Davey, Davie, Davy
Famous Namesakes: Italian race car driver Davide Valsecchi
Peak Popularity: Davide has consistently ranked in the top 20 boy names in Italy from 2000 to 2019. It is uncommon in the U.S., where David is in the top 30 names instead.
Fun Fact: The feast day for Davide is December 29 in honor of King David, who wrote the Psalms and is considered an ancestor of Jesus.
Diego
Origin: Spanish, Greek, Latin
Meaning: Doctrine or teaching (Greek/Latin) or a form of Santiago (Spanish)
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Santiago, Sandiego
Famous Namesakes: Soccer player Diego Maradona, artist Diego Rivera, conquistador Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar
Peak Popularity: Diego was the 16th most popular boy name in Italy in 2019. In the U.S., it was uncommon until the 1960s when it started to climb. It was at a high of number 56 in 2006.
Fun Fact: The name day for Diego is that of St. Didacus Alcalá on November 13.
Domenico
Origin: Latin
Meaning: Of the Lord
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Dom Domenic, Domenick, Dominik, Domingo
Famous Namesakes: Italian painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian mathematician and astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-American businessman Domenico Canale
Peak Popularity: Domenico is in the top 50 names for boys in Italy. It is rare in the U.S. where Dominic is preferred and ranks in the top 100.
Fun Fact: The name Domenico was traditionally given to children born on Sunday.
Edoardo
Origin: Italian, from Old English Edward
Meaning: Rich guard
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Edward, Eduardo, Ed
Famous Namesakes: Italian director Edoardo Ponti (son of actress Sophia Loren), fencer Edoardo Mangiarotti
Peak Popularity: Edoardo was the 10th most popular boy name in Italy in 2019. It is uncommon in other countries. In the U.S., Edward is preferred, but it is becoming less popular, falling below the top 100 in 1998.
Fun Fact: The feast day for Blessed Bishop Edoardo Giuseppe Rosaz is May 3.
Elia
Origin: Hebrew, from Eliana and Elijah
Meaning: God has answered
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Elijah, Eliya, Elias, Ilias, Eli
Famous Namesakes: Director Elia Kazan, Italian cyclist Elia Viviani
Peak Popularity: Elia ranked 28 in Italy in 2019, but this form is rare in the U.S. where Elijah was the fourth most popular name in 2020.
Fun Fact: Elijah was one of the main prophets of the Old Testament. Rather than dying, he was carried to heaven on a chariot of fire.
Emanuele
Origin: Hebrew, from Emmanuel
Meaning: God is with us
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Manuel, Manuele, Emmanuel
Famous Namesakes: Former Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Italian racing driver Emanuele Pirro
Peak Popularity: Emanuele is consistently popular, ranking 33 in 2019 in Italy. It is rare in the U.S., where Emmanuel is more popular, ranking 150 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice and the heir to the last king of Italy Umberto II, was a contestant in the Italian version of "Dancing With the Stars."
Emiliano
Origin: Italian and Spanish, from Latin Aemilianus
Meaning: Rival
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Emil, Emilio
Famous Namesakes: Soccer player Emiliano Sala, Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata
Peak Popularity: Emiliano ranks in the top 200 in Italy. It is newly popular in the U.S. since 1997, and ranked at a new high of 175 in 2020. The variant, Emilio, ranked at 229 that same year.
Fun Fact: Emiliano comes from the ancient Roman cognomen Aemilianus.
Federico
Origin: From German, Friedrich
Meaning: Peaceful ruler
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Federigo, Fredo, Frederick, Fredric, Fred
Famous Namesakes: Poet Federico García Lorca, Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini
Peak Popularity: Federico consistently ranks in the top 15 boy names in Italy. It is uncommon in the U.S., where Frederick usually ranks around 500.
Fun Fact: Frederick was a common name for rulers of the Holy Roman Empire.
Filippo
Origin: From Greek, Philippos
Meaning: Friend of horses
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Phillip, Filip, Phil, Felipe
Famous Namesakes: Italian painter Fra Filippo Lippi, St. Philip Neri
Peak Popularity: Filippo consistently ranks in the top 25 boy names in Italy, and was popular during the Italian Renaissance. It is rare in the U.S., where Philip is preferred, but even that name has taken a dive to 451 in 2020.
Fun Fact: St. Philip was one of the 12 apostles in the New Testament. The feast day is celebrated on May 3 in the West.
Francesco
Origin: From Latin, Francis
Meaning: Free one
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Franco, Francis, Frans, Frank
Famous Namesakes: Italian sculptor Francesco Laurana, Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), St. Francis of Assisi
Peak Popularity: Francesco has been the top name for boys in Italy since 2001. It rarely breaks into the top 1,000 in the U.S.
Fun Fact: The name day for Francesco is October 4 in memory of Francis of Assisi, patron saint of Italy.
Gabriele/Gabriel
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: God is my strength or God's warrior
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Gabriel, Gabe, Gabi, Gavril
Famous Namesakes: Actor Gabriel Byrne, novelist Gabriel García Márquez
Peak Popularity: In Italy, Gabriele ranks in the top 10 boy names, while Gabriel is in the top 35. In the U.S., Gabriel peaked at 21 in 2010 and Gabriele is an uncommon name for boys.
Fun Fact: The feast day for Gabriele and Gabriel is September 29 in honor of St. Gabriel the Archangel.
Giacomo
Origin: From Latin, Jacobus
Meaning: The supplanter (Hebrew)
Alternative Spellings & Variations: James, Jacob
Famous Namesakes: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, Italian adventurer and author Giacomo Casanova
Peak Popularity: Giacomo ranks in the top 40 names in Italy, but it is rare elsewhere.
Fun Fact: Giacomo is an Italian name for James and Jacob. Two of the 12 apostles were named James.
Gioele
Origin: Latin, Greek, Hebrew
Meaning: Jehova is his God
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Joel
Famous Namesakes: Italian cyclist Gioele Bertolini
Peak Popularity: Gioele reached a new high of popularity in Italy at number 31 in 2018, and ranked 35 in 2019. It is rarely seen in other countries, but Joel ranks at 207 in the U.S.
Fun Fact: Joel is a prophet in the Christian Old Testament and Hebrew Bible.
Giorgio
Origin: Italian, from Greek
Meaning: Earth worker, farmer
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Gino, George, Giorgino
Famous Namesakes: Former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani, Italian soccer player Giorgio Chiellini, Italian composer Giorgio Moroder
Peak Popularity: Giorgio consistently ranks in the top 50 in Italy, and was popular during the Italian Renaissance. It is rare in the U.S., where George ranks in the top 150.
Fun Fact: St. George was a Roman soldier who was martyred in the early fourth century. Legends grew about him slaying a dragon, and he is often depicted in that endeavor in medieval art.
Giovanni
Origin: Hebrew and Italian
Meaning: God is gracious
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Gian, Gianni, Giannino, Nino, Vanni, John
Famous Namesakes: Actor Giovanni Ribisi, Italian painter Giovanni Bellini, Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace
Peak Popularity: Giovanni is consistently in the top 20 names in Italy. In the U.S., it has surged in popularity and ranked 120 in 2020. The variant Gianni had a new high at 354 that same year.
Fun Fact: Giovanni is the Italian version of John. The feast day for St. John the Baptist is celebrated on June 24.
Giulio
Origin: From Latin, Julius
Meaning: Roman family name meaning youth; origin unknown. It could come from the Roman god Jupiter, or it could be derived from the Greek "Joulus," meaning downy-bearded.
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Julius, Julio
Famous Namesakes: Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, Italian composer Giulio Romolo Caccini, Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar
Peak Popularity: Giulio usually ranks in the top 50 boy names in Italy. It is rare in the U.S.
Fun Fact: The Roman family Julius believed they were descendants from Aeneas, the son of Aphrodite and Anchises.
Giuseppe
Origin: Italian from Hebrew, Yosef (Joseph)
Meaning: God will add
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Joseph, Beppe, Peppe, Jose, Jo, Joe, Joey
Famous Namesakes: Italian military leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte
Peak Popularity: Giuseppe is consistently in the top 15 boy names in Italy. It is rare in the U.S., where Joseph is preferred and ranked 26 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Giuseppe is the Italian name for Joseph.
Jacopo
Origin: From Latin, Iacobus
Meaning: Follower of God; God has protected
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Jacob, Iacopo, Giacobbe, Giacomo, Lapo
Famous Namesakes: Italian painter Jacopo Tintoretto (Comin), Italian composer Jacopo Corsi, Italian author and archbishop Blessed Jacopo De Fazio (Jacobus da Varagine)
Peak Popularity: Jacopo ranks in the top 40 names for boys in Italy. It is rare elsewhere.
Fun Fact: Jacopo comes from the same root as Giacomo.
Leonardo
Origin: Italian
Meaning: Brave lion
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Leonard, Leo
Famous Namesakes: Italian polymath and Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Italian mathematician Leonardo Bonacci (Fibonacci of Pisa)
Peak Popularity: Leonardo had a new high at the number one most popular name in Italy in 2018. It has been rising sharply in the U.S. and broke into the top 100 in 2016.
Fun Fact: The feast day for Leonardo is November 6 in memory of St. Leonard of Noblac who died in the sixth century.
Lorenzo
Origin: Italian and Spanish from Latin, Laurentius
Meaning: Ancient Roman surname meaning from the laurel
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Enzo, Renzo, Loris, Laurence, Lawrence
Famous Namesakes: Italian statesman Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Ghiberti, actor Lorenzo Lamas
Peak Popularity: Lorenzo is in the top five names in Italy. In the U.S., it rose into the top 200 in 2017.
Fun Fact: St. Lawrence is the patron saint of cooks and comedians due to his quip while being roasted alive on a gridiron, "Turn me over, this side is done."
Luca
Origin: Italian from Greek, Loukas; possibly Latin, Lucus
Meaning: From Lucania in southern Italy; possibly "sacred wood"
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Lucas, Luc, Luke
Famous Namesakes: Italian sculptor Luca della Robbia
Peak Popularity: Luca was most popular in Italy at number five in 1999 and 25 in 2019. It is gaining popularity sharply in the U.S. and was at 67 in 2020, while Lucas ranked eighth most popular.
Fun Fact: St. Luke (also known as St. Luke the Evangelist) was a physician who traveled with the apostle Paul. He was the author of the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
Luigi
Origin: From German, Ludwig, and Latin, Ludovicus
Meaning: Famous warrior
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Lodovico, Ludovico, Gino, Luigino, Louis, Luis
Famous Namesakes: Italian novelist and dramatist Luigi Pirandello, Italian physician and physicist Luigi Galvani
Peak Popularity: Luigi is in the top 50 boy names in Italy. It has rarely been in the top 1,000 in the U.S.
Fun Fact: Luigi is one of the Mario Brothers in the Nintendo video game franchise.
Marco
Origin: Latin and Estrucan, from Marcus
Meaning: To harvest, also associated with Mars, the Roman god of war
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Marcus, Mark, Marko, Markus
Famous Namesakes: Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo, soccer player Marco Fabián, politician and U.S. senator Marco Rubio
Peak Popularity: Marco was in the top 10 names in Italy in the early 2000s and dropped to 23 in 2019. In the U.S., it ranks in the 300s and is decreasing in popularity.
Fun Fact: Mark is ascribed as the author of the second gospel and is the patron saint of Venice.
Mario
Origin: Latin, probably of Estrucan origin, from Marius
Meaning: Mars, the Roman god of war
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Marius
Famous Namesakes: Italian-American retired racing driver Mario Andretti, politician and former New York governor Mario Cuomo, actor and television host Mario Lopez
Peak Popularity: Mario was in the top 50 names in Italy until 2016. In the U.S., it was most popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
Fun Fact: Mario comes from the Roman family name Marius, held by the Roman general and consul Gaius Marius, among others.
Matteo
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: Gift of God
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Mateo, Matthew, Mathew, Matt
Famous Namesakes: Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci
Peak Popularity: Matteo has been in the top 10 boy names in Italy since the year 2000, and dropped to 11 in 2019. It is skyrocketing in popularity in the U.S., breaking into the top 200 in 2015. But the variant Mateo is even more popular, ranking with a new high of 20 in 2020.
Fun Fact: St. Matthew was a tax collector called to be one of the apostles and is ascribed the authorship of the first gospel in the New Testament.
Mattia
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: Gift of God
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Matthew, Mathew, Matt, Matthias, Matias, Mattheaus
Famous Namesakes: Italian soccer player Mattia De Sciglio
Peak Popularity: Mattia has been in the top 10 boy names in Italy since 2003, and was third most popular in 2015. It is rare in the U.S., but the Spanish version Matias ranked at 216 in 2020 and Matthias ranked at 435.
Fun Fact: Mattia comes from St. Matthias, the apostle called to replace Judas Iscariot.
Michele
Origin: Hebrew, Latin
Meaning: Who is like God
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Michael, Micheal, Mikael, Michal, Mike, Mick, Mickey, Miguel, Mikhail
Famous Namesakes: Italian businessman Michele Ferrero, Italian racing driver Michele Alboreto, banned Italian sports physician Michele Ferrari
Peak Popularity: Michele is in the top 30 names for boys in Italy. In the U.S., it is rarely used, with Michael being preferred.
Fun Fact: Michele Ferrero invented Nutella and developed a chocolate empire. He was the richest person in Italy and 20th richest worldwide when he died in 2015.
Nicola/Nicolo
Origin: Latin, from Greek, Nikolaos
Meaning: Victory of the people
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Niccolo, Nicolao, Nicolas, Nicholas, Nico, Niko
Famous Namesakes: Italian violinist Niccolo Paganini, Italian merchant and explorer Niccolo de Conti, Italian sculptor Nicola Pisano
Peak Popularity: In Italy, Nicolo ranks in the top 20 while Nicola is in the top 50 for boys. These names are rare in the U.S., with Nicola used mostly as a female name during the 1970s. Nicholas is the more popular form and was in the top ten in the early 2000s. It ranked in the top 100 in 2018.
Fun Fact: St. Nicholas, also known as the Wonderworker, is the patron saint of children, sailors, and merchants, among others.
Paolo
Origin: From Latin, Paulus
Meaning: Small or humble
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Paulus, Paul, Pablo
Famous Namesakes: Author Paulo Coelho de Souza, Former Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Italian painter and mathematician Paolo Uccello
Peak Popularity: Paolo ranked in the top 50 in popularity for boys in Italy until 2015. It is an uncommon name in the U.S., where Paul is preferred.
Fun Fact: Paulus was an ancient Roman family name. St. Paul (originally Saul of Tarsus) was a Jewish Roman citizen who adopted the name upon his conversion to Christianity.
Pasquale
Origin: From Latin, Paschalis
Meaning: Relating to Easter
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Pasqual, Pascal, Pasco, Pascale, Pasqualino, Lino
Famous Namesakes: Italian opera composer Pasquale Anfossi
Peak Popularity: Pasquale has ranked as high as 50 in Italy in 1999. It hasn't been in the top 1,000 in the U.S. since 1973.
Fun Fact: The root of Pasquale, paschalis, relates to the time around Easter and Passover. It might be given to a child born that time of year.
Pietro
Origin: From Greek, Petros
Meaning: Stone or rock
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Peter, Piero, Petrus, Pier, Pierre, Piotr
Famous Namesakes: Italian painter Pietro Perugino, Italian general and political leader Pietro Badoglio, Olympic sprinter Pietro Paolo Mennea
Peak Popularity: Pietro is in the top 25 names in Italy, but it is uncommon in the U.S., where Peter is preferred.
Fun Fact: Pietro is the Italian name for St. Peter, the apostle who is considered to be the first pope.
Riccardo
Origin: Germanic
Meaning: Brave; powerful or great leader
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Ricardo, Richard, Rich, Rick
Famous Namesakes: Actor Ricardo Montalbán, American-Italian astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi, Italian conductor Riccardo Muti
Peak Popularity: Riccardo was the ninth most popular name in Italy in 2019, but it is uncommon in the U.S. The variant Ricardo is more popular and had its high point in the 1990s.
Romeo
Origin: Italian, from Latin, Romaeus
Meaning: A pilgrim to Rome; from Rome; a Roman
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Roman, Roma, Romano
Famous Namesakes: Singer Romeo Santos
Peak Popularity: Romeo has surged in popularity in both Italy and the U.S. in recent years. It ranked 151 in Italy in 2019 and 377 in the U.S. in 2020.
Salvatore
Origin: From Latin
Meaning: Savior
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Sal, Salvador, Salvator, Salvo, Tory
Famous Namesakes: Medal of Honor recipient Salvatore Giunta, singer, actor, and politician Salvatore "Sonny" Bono, Italian shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo
Peak Popularity: Salvatore is in the top 40 boy names in Italy. It was most popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, breaking into the top 150.
Samuel/Samuele
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: Name of God
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Sam, Sammy, Sami, Ismaiel, Ismael, Ismail, Ishmael
Famous Namesakes: Politician and a leader of the Texas Revolution Sam Houston, actor Sam Shepard, novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett, singer Sam Cooke
Peak Popularity: Samuele and Samuel are both popular in Italy, but Samuele wins at number 20 for 2019 while Samuel was at number 41. Always in the top 50 in the U.S., Samuel reached a high of 21 from 2016 to 2018, which it has not seen since the late 1800s.
Simone
Origin: Hebrew; Greek
Meaning: God has heard or flat-nosed
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Simon, Simeon, Symeon, Shimon
Famous Namesakes: Italian painter Simone Martini, Italian tennis player Simone Bolelli
Peak Popularity: Simone was in the top 10 boy names in Italy from 1999 to 2006, and ranked at 26 in 2019. It is primarily a feminine name in the U.S.
Fun Fact: The name day for St. Simon the Zealot is October 28.
Stefano
Origin: Greek
Meaning: Crown or victorious
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Stephano, Stephen, Steven, Stevan, Stefan, Steffan, Esteban, Steve, Stefen, Stefon, Stephon, Stevon
Famous Namesakes: Italian fashion designer and co-founder of Dolce & Gabbana Stefano Gabbana, Italian Olympic marathoner Stefano Baldini, singer Stefano Langone
Peak Popularity: Stefano is in the top 50 boy names in Italy. It is rare in the U.S. where its equivalent Stephen was most popular in the late 1940s through the 1960s when it ranked in the top 25. Since 2000, it has dropped out of the top 100.
Fun Fact: Shakespeare included characters named Stephano in both "The Merchant of Venice" and "The Tempest."
Tommaso/Thomas
Origin: From Aramaic, Taóma
Meaning: Twin; equal to himself
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Tomas, Thom, Tommy, Toma, Tom
Famous Namesakes: Founding Father and third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, Italian theologian St. Thomas Aquinas, Olympic swimmer Tommaso D'Orsogna
Peak Popularity: Tommaso is in the top 10 boy names for Italy, with Thomas in the top 40. In the U.S., Tommaso is rare, with Thomas being preferred and entering the top 50 in 2016.
Fun Fact: The name day for Tommaso and Thomas is January 28 in honor of the philosopher and friar St. Thomas Aquinas (died 1274).
Valentino
Origin: From Latin, Valentinus
Meaning: Strong, healthy
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Tino, Val, Valenti, Valent, Valente, Valentin
Famous Namesakes: Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani, Italian actor Valentino Musetti, Italian motorcycle racer Valentino Rossi
Peak Popularity: Valentino ranks about 100 in Italy. It reached a new high in the U.S. at 619 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Valentinus was an ancient Roman family name. St. Valentine's feast day is February 14.
Vincenzo
Origin: Latin
Meaning: To conquer or win
Alternative Spellings & Variations: Vincente, Enzo, Vincent
Famous Namesakes: Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini, Italian cyclist Vincenzo Nibali, philanthropist and television personality Vincenzo Guzzo, Italian entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari
Peak Popularity: Vincenzo is in the top 40 names in Italy. It ranked at 736 in the U.S. in 2020. The variant Enzo is popular at number 173 in 2020.
Fun Fact: Vincentius was an ancient Roman family name. The name day for Vincenzo is January 22, for St. Vincent of Saragossa, who was martyred in the year 304.
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In an internal memo to employees, seen by news outlet Il Sole 24 Ore, Sky’s group chief executive Dana Strong announced Zappia would leave the company later this year to spend more time with his family in Italy after spending the last three years in London as chief executive Sky Europe.
The memo said Zappia would continue to serve as a non-executive director on the board of global eyewear company EssilorLuxottica and devote more time to his role as president of MCH Art Basel, the international live marketing company.
Strong added: “Andrea was a strong and inspiring leader and a brilliant ambassador of the Sky brand. His entrepreneurial spirit, drive to grow, and deep love for our business and people have shaped Sky for a long time.
“He has been a shining example of business integrity and a role model to many, leading complex organizations and maintaining a strong set of values. He will leave an indelible legacy here, thanks to his passion for the customer, for people, and for ideas and innovations.”
Zappia assumed his current role in 2019, and, in 2020, also became the broadcaster’s executive vice president and chief executive of new markets and new business, tasked with identifying and driving new growth opportunities beyond Sky’s existing markets and categories.
In 2003, he became one of the founders of Sky’s Italian arm when it was launched serving as director of marketing, promotions, and business development, before leading the Sky Italia sports channels. He then moved to Sky in the UK, before becoming chief executive of Sky Italia in 2011.
During his two decades at the company, he has been instrumental in several of Sky’s developments.
He led the development of Sky Showtime, Sky Italia’s partnership with American film and television production and distribution company Paramount, which launched across 15 European markets last year.
In 2021, he was instrumental in Sky’s acquisition of Neos, the basis of the company’s Sky Protect insurance product that will launch in the UK in the first quarter of this year. Last year, he led the development of Glass Syndication, the broadcaster’s smart TV product.
He also has overseen the company’s Sky Studio business, including its new film and television studio at Elstree, England due to open this year.
Before helping to build Sky Italia, Zappia worked as vice president of marketing and apparel at sportswear brand Fila and at luxury car brand Ferrari as a sales and marketing director. He also worked as a marketing manager for Procter and Gamble.
Sky Italia the country's top-tier Serie A soccer matches through a sharing deal with streaming service DAZN and last year landed rights to Serie B until 2024. Last year, the broadcaster secured rights to the country’s third-tier Serie C for the 2022-23 season.
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All 20 clubs and league executives met on Monday to discuss outside investment in Serie A’s media business, potentially from private equity firms or banks. According to Italian publication La Stampa, one media strategy could be to take a majority stake in the whole, or part, of Sky Italia - which is currently owned by Comcast.
Reuters has reported that a plan could include using financing from the organisations interested in Serie A’s media business, and that Serie A has made an “internal preliminary analysis” of what a move could look like.
This could allow the competition to launch a D2C offering in Italy. The next domestic rights cycle starts from 2024/25, with DAZN the main rights holder and Sky Italia airing three games-a-week currently. DAZN has come in for some criticism, with
Serie A chairman Lorenzo Casini, speaking to reporters after Monday’s meeting, said: “The proposals received from funds and banks were set out to the clubs who have given themselves time to evaluate the various options.”
He added on the Sky Italia links: “There is nothing concrete on the table at the moment.”
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The search for the ideal name for one's child can be likened to an exciting adventure, and every parent knows the significance of this gift. To aid you in this exciting endeavor, we've produced a list of 50 unusual boy names that start with the charming letter "C"; give your adorable son a dose of individuality right from the get-go by giving him a name that stands out from the crowd.
The rich history and profound significance of each name on our list are sure to captivate and motivate you. From time-honored favourites to cutting-edge newcomers, this thoughtfully curated collection has something for every taste and preference. Allow the names' calming syllables and profound meanings to guide you as you explore this list and choose a moniker for your precious little one.
Let's take off on this exciting adventure together and choose some names that are equal parts powerful, elegant, and alluring. Let's dive headfirst into the alluring sea of boys' names that start with the alluring letter "C"!
50 possible names to gift your precious newborn son
We've crafted a user-friendly table here to enrich your journey through these mesmerizing names. This handy assembly exhibits all the boys' names beginning with 'C' that we've spotlighted in our post. With just a single click, you can delve into the captivating narratives and deep meanings of each name!
Cadell Carrick Chaim Ciprian Connell Cael Carver Chance Clancy Conway Calder Casimir Chandler Claude Corbin Calix Caspian Channing Claudius Cordero Callan Cassian Chapman Clayton Cormac Calloway Cato Chase Clement Cosmo Calogero Cedric Chauncey Cliff Cullen Camden Celso Chesney Colby Culver Canaan Cerulean Chester Coleman Cypher Carmelo Cesar Cian Colm Cyrus
1. Cadell
The name Cadell has a rich history in Wales, where it was a name given to warriors. Derived from the Welsh word 'cad', which means 'battle', and 'ael', meaning 'hilt of a sword', it's a perfect choice for parents seeking a strong, bold name. The name Cadell reminds us of strength, bravery, and resilience, invoking images of historic Celtic warriors.
It has remained relatively uncommon, offering an intriguing choice for parents searching for unique names. Whether in historical Welsh lore or modern classrooms, Cadell is sure to stand out.
2. Cael
Cael is a captivating name of Gaelic origin, meaning "slender." This simplistic yet beautiful name is often associated with a mythical warrior in Irish folklore known for his strength and courage. It's a name that harmonizes tradition with modernity, capturing both an age-old narrative and contemporary brevity.
Cael is concise, powerful, and enchanting, evoking an air of mystery and allure. Its brevity lends a contemporary feel, while its roots keep it grounded in rich cultural history.
3. Calder
Calder is a name of Scottish origin that means "rocky water" or "stream". This strong and masculine name pays homage to the rugged landscapes of Scotland, where fast-flowing rivers carve their paths through ancient stones. The name Calder brings to mind images of nature's undeniable force and beauty, making it a compelling choice for parents who appreciate the great outdoors.
It's a distinctive and original name that embodies strength and determination. Like the running waters it represents, Calder is a name for a spirit that can't be stopped.
4. Calix
The name Calix is of Latin origin, meaning "chalice". This fascinating name has strong religious connotations, as in Christianity, the chalice is a symbol of the Last Supper and Jesus' sacrifice. Calix, with its connection to one of the most significant symbols of Christianity, offers a unique choice for families who want to honor their faith.
It's a name that is both spiritual and distinct, evoking an aura of serenity and respect. Calix combines grace, reverence, and history in just five letters.
5. Callan
Callan is a compelling name of Gaelic and Scottish origin meaning "rock" or "battle". The name brings to mind an image of someone strong, reliable, and steadfast, just like a rock amidst a storm. Callan, therefore, could be an ideal name for parents seeking something that denotes strength and resilience.
Despite its strong meaning, Callan retains a modern and smooth sound. It's a unique name with a robust significance, yet it still feels approachable and friendly.
6. Calloway
The English surname-turned-first-name Calloway means "pebbly place". It has a distinctive, yet melodious ring to it, bringing to mind rolling landscapes adorned with smooth, worn pebbles. This name is perfect for parents looking for a more unique choice with an elegant, rhythmic feel.
Calloway is a name that sings, dances, and reverberates with vitality. It's a great choice for those who appreciate both the poetry of nature and the rhythm of language.
7. Calogero
Calogero is a distinctive name of Italian origin, meaning "beautiful elder". Traditionally, this name has been popular in southern Italy and carries a strong connotation of respect and reverence for wisdom that comes with age. Calogero is rich with cultural heritage, providing an immediate link to Italy's vibrant history and the country's reverence for the older generation.
It's a powerful, distinctive name that's loaded with respect and love for wisdom and age. Calogero may be unusual, but its strong cultural roots make it a name to be remembered.
8. Camden
Camden is a gender-neutral name of Scottish origin, meaning "winding valley". The name Camden captures the peaceful serenity of the valleys of Scotland, where rivers meander and life moves at a slower pace. It's a name that evokes imagery of breathtaking landscapes and the calming whisper of a gentle breeze.
Camden is simple yet impactful, bringing together a sense of tranquility and strength. This name is perfect for parents seeking a name with a peaceful connotation and a touch of Scottish heritage.
9. Canaan
The name Canaan has roots in the Bible, where it was the name of a Promised Land. Canaan is of Hebrew origin and it means "land of reeds". The name carries a deep sense of spirituality and promise, symbolizing a place of prosperity and peace.
Canaan, as a name, instills a sense of hope, painting a picture of fertile lands and opportunities. With its rich biblical history, Canaan can be an ideal choice for parents seeking a name with religious significance and a promise of hope.
10. Carmelo
Carmelo is a beautiful name of Spanish and Italian origin, meaning "garden". In the Bible, Mount Carmel was known for its lush and fruitful vineyards, making Carmelo a symbol of abundance and fertility. The name Carmelo is rich in imagery and tradition, suggesting a landscape filled with beauty and prosperity.
Carmelo weaves together cultural richness, biblical history, and a hint of nature. It's a sophisticated name for those seeking a melodious sound combined with profound meaning.
11. Carrick
The name Carrick has a strong Celtic origin, meaning "rock". Originally a Scottish and Irish surname, it denotes a person who lived near a rock. Carrick combines strength and solidity, much like the geological feature it is named after.
It's a unique, sturdy name, often chosen for its rugged charm and representation of steadiness. With its strong Celtic roots, Carrick is a wonderful choice for parents looking for a name rich in heritage.
12. Carver
English in origin, the name Carver means "wood carver" or "sculptor". It was initially an occupational surname and has now gained popularity as a first name. This name symbolizes artistry, creativity, and craftsmanship, making it an attractive choice for parents seeking a name that echoes artistic talent.
Carver has a strong and masculine sound, yet it also conveys a sense of delicacy and detail, akin to the work of a true craftsman. It's an intriguing choice for those seeking a unique, resonant name with a strong link to craftsmanship.
13. Casimir
Casimir is a name of Polish origin, meaning "proclaimer of peace". It has a noble history, being borne by several kings of Poland. Casimir carries a deep sense of nobility, peace, and power, making it a compelling choice for parents looking for a distinguished, historic name.
It’s regal and commanding, while still being relatively unique in the contemporary naming world. Casimir is a perfect blend of historical grandeur and modern uniqueness.
14. Caspian
The name Caspian originates from the Caspian Sea, the world's largest inland body of water, located between Asia and Europe. This geographical name evokes images of expansive, mysterious waters and distant shores.
The name Caspian holds an air of adventure and exploration, making it a perfect choice for parents seeking a distinctive, adventurous name. This name, while uncommon, has a melodic sound that adds to its charm. The allure of the unknown and the romance of exploration are embodied in the name Caspian.
15. Cassian
Cassian is a Latin name, derived from 'Cassius', which means "hollow". The name has a rich history within the Christian faith, as it was borne by several saints throughout history. Cassian is a classic, yet unique name that holds an air of ancient wisdom and grace.
Despite its ancient origins, it sounds fresh and modern, offering an intriguing choice for parents seeking a blend of old-world charm and contemporary appeal. Cassian exudes a sense of calmness and profundity, ideal for a thoughtful, serene child.
16. Cato
Cato is a name of Latin origin, meaning "wise". It was a name borne by several significant figures in Roman history, including the philosopher and statesman, Cato the Elder. Cato is a succinct, strong name that carries with it an aura of wisdom and intelligence.
It's a classic name with a robust history, yet it remains refreshingly unique and sophisticated. Cato, with its timeless wisdom and simple elegance, is a truly captivating choice.
17. Cedric
The name Cedric has its roots in Old English, meaning "bounty". It was popularized by Sir Walter Scott in his novel "Ivanhoe". Cedric is a classic name that suggests abundance, prosperity, and wealth. It has a regal and timeless charm to it, possibly due to its literary connection.
Cedric, with its strong syllables and its hint of historical grandeur, can be a wonderful choice for parents seeking a traditional, yet distinctive name.
18. Celso
Celso is a name of Italian and Spanish origin, meaning "high" or "lofty". This name is often associated with the heights of accomplishment and aspiration, suggesting a person of great ambition. Celso is a powerful, evocative name that holds a sense of aspiration and grandeur.
It offers an ideal choice for parents looking for a name that suggests aspiration, ambition, and achieving great heights. With its resounding syllables and lofty meaning, Celso is a name that's bound to stand tall.
19. Cerulean
Cerulean is a unique name derived from the Latin word 'caeruleus', meaning "dark blue, or blue-green", often referring to the sky or sea. The name Cerulean brings to mind the vastness of the sky and the depth of the ocean, suggesting a sense of endless possibilities and a free spirit. As a name, Cerulean carries an artistic, almost poetic charm, painting pictures of blue horizons and serene landscapes. For parents seeking a name outside the traditional realm, offering a blend of creativity, freedom, and depth, Cerulean could be a fantastic choice.
20. Cesar
A famous name of Latin origin, Cesar is a name that carries the meaning “head of hair” or "long-haired". However, it's most often associated with Julius Caesar, the famous Roman general, making it synonymous with leadership and power. Cesar is a timeless, historic name that carries a sense of authority and command.
Despite its strong historical connotations, Cesar maintains a contemporary sound that fits well into the modern world. It's a distinctive choice for parents seeking a name that balances historical significance with modern appeal.
21. Chaim
Chaim is a traditional Hebrew name meaning "life" or "alive". The name carries a deep sense of vitality and spirit, symbolizing the life force in each one of us. Chaim is a powerful, resonant name with a strong connection to Jewish culture and heritage.
It's a choice that speaks to strength, perseverance, and the vibrancy of life itself. With its deep roots and potent meaning, Chaim stands as a compelling option for parents seeking a name with a vibrant cultural and life-affirming resonance.
22. Chance
The name Chance comes from the English word meaning "good fortune". As a name, it carries a sense of optimism, spontaneity, and unpredictability. Chance is a modern, charismatic choice that suggests a free-spirited, lucky individual.
The name is also frequently associated with risk-takers and adventurers, adding a layer of excitement to its usage. If you're seeking a unique name that's filled with hope and positivity, Chance could be the ideal pick.
23. Chandler
Originating from Old French, Chandler means "candle seller". Historically an occupational name, it has now evolved into a charming first name. It evokes imagery of craftsmen meticulously creating candles, a key element of life in earlier times.
Chandler, with its association with a humble, yet essential trade, could be an attractive choice for parents looking for a name with historical depth and a connection to craftsmanship. It's a name that feels both robust and gentle, blending a touch of the past with present-day appeal.
24. Channing
Channing is an English name, meaning "young wolf" or "people of Cana". This name combines elements of strength, represented by the wolf, with a sense of community and belonging, denoted by 'people of Cana'. It's a unique and charismatic name, radiating warmth and strength.
Whether drawing from the wild spirit of the wolf or the communal bonds of a people, Channing offers a name filled with rich imagery and profound significance. It is an uncommon choice that captures both the fierceness of individuality and the comfort of belonging.
25. Chapman
Chapman is an Old English name, originally a surname, meaning "merchant" or "trader". This name connects to a time when names were derived from occupations, tying it to historical roots. Chapman brings to mind the imagery of bustling marketplaces and skilled tradesmen.
It's a strong, distinctive name that speaks of resourcefulness and entrepreneurship. With its historical significance and solid sound, Chapman makes for a unique first name.
26. Chase
The name Chase is of French origin, meaning "to hunt". While it's commonly associated with a pursuit, it also suggests ambition, adventure, and an active spirit. It's a lively, dynamic name that embodies energy and determination.
Chase is a short, crisp name with a modern appeal that fits perfectly into the fast-paced, ambitious world of today. For parents seeking a name with zest and drive, Chase could be an exciting choice.
27. Chauncey
Chauncey is a name of French origin, meaning "chancellor". It has a dignified and formal tone to it, reminiscent of its origins in the halls of academia and governance. Chauncey, with its sophisticated sound and historical connotations, could be a perfect choice for parents seeking a name with a bit of pomp and circumstance.
It's a classic, strong name that carries an air of intelligence and respect. Despite being uncommon today, Chauncey has a timeless quality that never goes out of style.
28. Chesney
Chesney is another English name with roots in Old English, meaning "oak grove". It brings forth imagery of peaceful woods and the strength and longevity of the oak tree. Chesney combines a connection to nature with a sense of serenity and stability, making it an attractive choice for parents who value tranquility and nature.
It's a rare, melodious name that feels grounded and reassuring. Chesney resonates with the calm, enduring strength of an oak tree, offering a unique and serene choice.
29. Chester
The name Chester is of English origin, meaning "fortress" or "walled town". Historically used as a place name, Chester brings to mind the robustness and safety of a fortified town. It's a strong, sturdy name that suggests security and resilience.
Chester, with its strong consonants and clear vowels, is a choice that carries a sense of tradition, while remaining distinct in the modern naming landscape. Chester combines the solidity of a fortress with the comfort of a small town, resulting in a unique, endearing choice.
30. Cian
Cian is a name of Irish origin, meaning "ancient" or "enduring". It carries an air of wisdom and timelessness, linking the child to a rich tapestry of history and heritage. Cian is a short, crisp name that exudes a sense of strength and durability.
It's a popular choice among parents looking for a name with cultural depth and a strong, yet simple sound. With its roots deep in Irish soil, Cian is a timeless name that connects the past, present, and future.
31. Ciprian
Ciprian is a name of Romanian origin, derived from the Greek name "Kyprianos", meaning "from Cyprus". It carries with it a sense of Mediterranean warmth and charm. The name Ciprian is associated with Saint Ciprian, a bishop of Carthage, which adds a layer of religious significance.
It's a unique, rhythmic name that stands out with its exotic sound. If you're seeking a name with an international flair and rich cultural resonance, Ciprian could be an excellent choice.
32. Clancy
Clancy is a name of Irish origin, meaning "son of Flannchadh", which translates to "red warrior". This name combines a sense of valor with familial ties, making it unique and compelling. Clancy is a vibrant name, holding a blend of heritage, strength, and familial bonds.
While less common in the present day, Clancy holds a charm that's both timeless and memorable. It's a great pick for parents looking for a name that carries a sense of history, strength, and honor.
33. Claude
Claude is a classic French name, meaning "lame" or "crippled", but don't let the literal translation deter you. Many famous figures have carried this name, from artists to scholars, granting it an aura of sophistication and intellectual strength. Despite its ancient roots, Claude retains a timeless elegance, making it a sophisticated choice for parents looking for a classic name with a European touch.
It exudes a sense of dignity and class that transcends its historical origins. With its old-world charm and simple elegance, Claude is a timeless classic that never goes out of style.
34. Claudius
Similar to “Claude”, Claudius is a Latin name, meaning "lame" or "crippled". Despite its literal meaning, the name carries historical significance, having been borne by several Roman Emperors, notably Claudius I. The name Claudius holds a sense of power and authority, steeped in historical grandeur.
It is a strong, distinguished name, echoing the might of an ancient empire. Claudius is a compelling choice for parents seeking a name with historical weight and imperial grandeur.
35. Clayton
The name Clayton is of English origin, meaning "town on clay". It originated as a place name and evolved into a surname, and is now a popular first name. Clayton has a grounded, earthy feel to it, as it relates to the land, and suggests a stable and reliable person.
The name carries a natural, rustic charm, making it an appealing choice for parents seeking a solid, traditional name with a connection to nature. Clayton combines the strength of the earth with the warmth of a small town, making it an endearing choice.
36. Clement
Clement is a name of Latin origin, meaning "merciful" or "gentle". This name is often associated with kindness, peace, and understanding, reflecting its origins in the Latin "clemens". Clement is a serene and graceful name that carries a sense of compassion and harmony.
The name’s soothing sound and gentle meaning make it a wonderful choice for parents seeking a name that suggests peace and kindness. With its calming aura and timeless appeal, Clement is a name that exudes tranquility and grace.
37. Cliff
Cliff is an English name, meaning "slope". It's a straightforward, earthy name that evokes images of towering cliffs and vast landscapes. Cliff is a short, strong name that suggests a sense of resilience and steadfastness.
With its solid sound and rugged charm, it's an attractive choice for parents looking for a name that is both robust and easy to pronounce. Cliff's association with nature's strength and grandeur makes it a powerful, evocative choice.
38. Colby
Colby is a unisex English name meaning "coal town". It originally was a place name, then a surname, before transitioning into use as a first name. Colby carries a sense of charm and friendliness, making it an appealing choice for many parents.
With its smooth sound and friendly aura, Colby fits well in the modern naming landscape. If you're seeking a name that is both gentle and cheerful, Colby could be the ideal choice.
39. Coleman
The name Coleman comes from Irish roots, meaning "dove", symbolizing peace and purity. It carries a sense of tranquility and grace, as it connects to the dove, a universal symbol of peace. Coleman has a traditional, yet distinctive sound that gives it a timeless appeal.
It's a sturdy, elegant name that's well-suited to parents looking for a balance of strength and gentleness. Coleman, with its peaceful connotation and solid sound, stands as a serene yet strong choice.
40. Colm
Colm is a name of Irish origin, meaning "dove", much like Coleman. It is a popular name in Ireland, carrying with it the same connotations of peace and purity associated with the dove. Colm is a simple, crisp name that exudes a sense of tranquility and grace.
Despite its simplicity, it holds a profound meaning that can resonate deeply. If you're in search of a name that's straightforward, meaningful, and carries a serene vibe, Colm could be an excellent choice.
41. Connell
Connell is a name of Irish origin, meaning "strong as a wolf". It brings together power and nobility, embodied in the figure of the wolf. Connell is a robust, rhythmic name that resonates with strength and resilience.
For parents seeking a name that communicates might and tenacity, Connell is a compelling choice. With its roots in Irish soil and its strong meaning, Connell is a captivating pick.
42. Conway
The name Conway is of Celtic origin, meaning "holy water". It ties the child to the sanctity and life-giving power of water, symbolizing purity and life. Conway, with its serene sound and soothing meaning, is a charming choice for parents seeking a name that radiates tranquility and sanctity.
It's an uncommon name that offers a distinctive blend of spiritual significance and natural beauty. Conway is a gentle, flowing name with a deep spiritual resonance.
43. Corbin
Corbin is a name of French origin, meaning "raven". This name brings to mind the raven, a bird known for its intelligence and mystery, suggesting a person of deep wisdom and perhaps an intriguing, enigmatic personality. Corbin is a name that feels modern yet retains its historic roots, making it an attractive choice for parents seeking a unique name with a hint of mystery.
It's a strong, resonant name that captures the essence of intelligence and enigma found in its avian inspiration. Corbin is an intriguing choice that blends strength with a touch of mystery.
44. Cordero
The beautiful name Cordero comes from Spanish, meaning "lamb". This name carries a sense of gentleness and innocence, tying the child to the purity and peacefulness symbolized by the lamb. Cordero, with its soft sound and tender meaning, could be an appealing choice for parents seeking a name that radiates gentleness and peace.
It's a unique name that stands out with its Spanish roots and soothing resonance. If you're looking for a name that exudes warmth, tranquility, and tenderness, Cordero could be the ideal pick.
45. Cormac
Cormac is a name of Irish origin, meaning "charioteer". With its roots deep in Irish history and mythology, Cormac brings together elements of heroism, adventure, and skill. The name Cormac is robust and energetic, carrying the vitality and dynamism inherent in its meaning.
It's a powerful, vibrant name that fits well for a child with a spirited and adventurous personality. With its blend of historical resonance and lively energy, Cormac is a compelling choice.
46. Cosmo
Cosmo is a name of Greek origin, meaning "order”, “beauty”, or “universe". It connects the child with the grandeur of the cosmos and the ordered beauty of the universe. Cosmo, with its cosmic resonance and sense of harmony, is an unconventional choice that stands out in its novelty and depth.
It's a name that's both intriguing and inviting, sparking thoughts of the vast, awe-inspiring universe. For parents looking for a name with a broad, cosmic resonance, Cosmo is a captivating choice.
47. Cullen
Cullen is a name of Irish origin, meaning "holly tree". The name connects the child with nature, specifically the holly tree, which is associated with protection and winter festivities.
Cullen is a name that feels contemporary while still retaining a connection to nature and tradition. It's a soft, pleasing name that suggests resilience and festive joy. With its natural resonance and warm undertone, Cullen is a delightful choice.
48. Culver
Culver is an Old English name, meaning "dove". Like other names linked to the dove, Culver carries connotations of peace, purity, and gentleness. It's a unique name that blends a historic sound with a gentle meaning, making it an appealing choice for parents seeking a name that's both distinctive and harmonious.
Culver, with its serene undertones and calming sound, exudes tranquility and peace. If you're seeking a name that communicates peace and gentleness, Culver could be a suitable pick.
49. Cypher
The name Cypher comes from English, meaning "zero" or "a secret method of writing". As a name, Cypher suggests a sense of mystery, secrecy, and potential. It's a unique, modern choice that speaks to the hidden, the coded, and the unknown. The name is often associated with digital and mathematical contexts, giving it a cutting-edge appeal.
If you're looking for a name that is modern, distinctive, and carries a hint of mystery, Cypher could be an intriguing option.
50. Cyrus
Cyrus is a name of Persian origin, meaning "sun" or "throne". The name hails from antiquity, famously borne by Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire. It's a strong, regal name that carries connotations of leadership and power.
Cyrus, with its historic resonance and strong meaning, is a robust and distinguished choice for parents. With its regal undertone and bright meaning, Cyrus shines as a name that's both powerful and radiant.
Conclusion
We hope that our list of boy names starting with the letter "C" has encouraged your creativity and helped you narrow down the options for your beloved child. The deep meanings and fascinating histories behind each name provide inspiration for creating a one-of-a-kind identity for your child. Remember that the name you give your boy will play a vital role in his own story, whether your preference lies with the timeless classics or the cutting-edge trendsetters, much like choosing the best baby monitor app for your needs.
It's important to remember that finding your true identity begins with a name. We hope you'll pause to consider these names and let their meanings sink in. The ideal name often presents itself when you least expect it.
Best of luck to you on your naming journey, and we look forward to joining you on future naming adventures!
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LONDON AND MILAN – The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Sky Italia today announced a four-year broadcast and multiplatform partnership expansion that will see Sky Italia continue as the NBA’s exclusive broadcast partner and official website operator in Italy.
As part of the NBA’s most extensive partnership ever in Italy, Sky Italia will broadcast more than 300 live games each season, including a record 48 weekend primetime games as part of the league’s ‘NBA Saturdays’ and ‘NBA Sundays’ European primetime initiative.
The NBA’s 74th regular season tips off Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019 and concludes Wednesday, April 15, 2020. NBA games and programming will once again be available on Sky’s 24-hour dedicated NBA channel, Sky Sport NBA (channel 206) – including at least one live game per day, highlights and analysis.
Extensive video highlights, news, stats, scores, in-depth analysis and original digital content will continue to be available on sport.sky.it/nba, the official website of the NBA in Italy, enabling fans to stay connected to the game whenever, wherever they are.
“Sky Italia is one of our longest and most-valued partners in Europe,” said NBA EMEA Vice President, Global Media Distribution, Elsa Memmi. “With more access to live primetime games than ever before and extensive highlights available online there has never been a better time to be a NBA fan in Italy.”
“We are very pleased to announce the renewal of our relationship with the NBA for a further four years, and we are more than happy that the NBA has identified Sky as the best partner to enhance its brand once again,” said Executive Vice President Sky Sport, Marzio Perrelli. “Sky remains the point of reference for the many NBA fans in Italy and will ensure the usual exceptional coverage, with even more matches in primetime and an enhanced editorial quality. This is just great for NBA fans and for those who are getting into basketball. Sky is, once again, the home of sport.”
Opening-night rosters for the 2019-20 season are expected to feature three Italian players: Marco Belinelli of the San Antonio Spurs, Danilo Gallinari of the Oklahoma City Thunder, and Nicolò Melli, who is expected to make his NBA debut with the New Orleans Pelicans.
Sky Italia’s coverage will include an average of seven live games each week during the 2019-20 regular season including a record 48 games in primetime as part of the league’s NBA Saturdays’ and ‘NBA Sundays’ Europe-wide weekend primetime initiative. Additionally, Sky Italia will broadcast live back-to-back games on Christmas Day. Fans can also look forward to marquee year-round events including NBA All-Star, the NBA Playoffs, the NBA Conference Finals, The Finals and the NBA Draft.
Extensive NBA coverage can also be found across Sky’s social channels across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (@SkySportNBA), featuring exclusive content, news, in-depth analysis and live broadcasts with Sky’s NBA talent.
Fans in Italy can also visit Europe’s first NBA Store located at Corso Europa in Milan, with all the latest on-court and off-court apparel also available at NBAStore.eu.
Key ‘NBA Saturdays’ and ‘NBA Sundays’ European primetime games (see below for full schedule):
Week 1: The Miami Heat featuring Jimmy Butler take on Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks at 11pm CET on Saturday, Oct. 26. While the 2019 NBA Finalists the Golden State Warriors face off against the Oklahoma City Thunder at 8:30pm CET on Sunday, Oct. 27.
Week 2: 2019 No. 1 overall pick Zion Williamson and Italian Nicolò Melli make their European primetime debut with the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday, Nov. 2 as they take on Italian Danilo Gallinari and the Oklahoma City Thunder at 10pm CET.
Week 5: 2018-19 NBA Rookie of the Year Luka Dončić (Slovenia), Kristaps Porziņģis (Latvia) and the Dallas Mavericks visit James Harden, Russell Westbrook and the Houston Rockets on Sunday, Nov. 24 at 9:30pm CET.
Week 9: Marc Gasol (Spain) and the 2019 NBA Champion Toronto Raptors host the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday, Dec. 22 at 9:30pm CET.
Week 20: The new-look LA Clippers featuring Kawhi Leonard and Paul George host their cross-town rivals the Los Angeles Lakers featuring LeBron James and Anthony Davis on Sunday, March 8 at 8:30pm CET.
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Set up Starlink with just two steps. Instructions work in either order:
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We were born in 2005. Since then, we have been growing rapidly.
Now we are the fastest growing airline company in Greece. We even have an award for it from the International Airport of Athens (multiple times). We are a member of the IOGR Group of companies, a Group that boasts a vast experience in the areas of tourism and aviation.
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Sky Italia took to the stage at Dreamforce 2016 to share the results so far of its digital transformation journey, the key to which is a shift away from its ageing Siebel CRM systems and onto Salesforce and Vlocity services.
Jessica Twentyman detailed Sky Italia’s plans for the Salesforce and Vlocity implementation in early 2015, not long after the business had embarked on the project. Sky Italia also took the decision around the same time to digitise all of its field service activities and squeeze down costs by a fifth.
To that end, the firm selected ServiceMax for use by 1,500 field service personnel and partners, and 200 Sky Shop outlets, as outlined by Stuart Lauchlan.
Eighteen months later, Gabriele Scarponi, CIO at Sky Italia, was in attendance at Salesforce’s San Francisco bash, where he was able to flesh out the firm’s strategy and more importantly reveal whether the major IT project to replace Siebel with a Salesforce/Vlocity combination had borne results.
And the answer to that, happily for Scarponi, is yes.
As I explained in my previous article covering Telus’ experience of updating its legacy customer management system, telcos’ IT infrastructure is often based on disparate, outdated systems, which don’t give staff ready access to the information they need to best serve the modern customer.
Sky Italia faced similar problems around its old IT infrastructure, but also from newer economic pressures. Scarponi explained:
The downturn in Italy has put huge pressure on paid TV, which has become a discretionary spend during the last few years. We needed to improve our agility in how we served our customers and the type of proposition we needed to take to the market.
Moving away from its 13-year-old Siebel CRM system has allowed Sky Italia to meet these objectives. According to Scarponi, customer service and customer change order have proved the most important and the most challenging aspects of the project. He said:
The customer service pillar is now totally powered by Salesforce and Vlocity. We have managed to increase usability and simplify business processes. We are live with 3,500 agents, they’re now totally powered by Service Cloud and Vlocity.
The new technology has led to a 10.5 percent reduction in call time, equivalent to about 20 seconds shorter calls, along with a 20 percent decrease on the most common activities that service agents carry out.
Sky Italia is also enjoying a 12.5 percent increase in agent activity. Scarponi puts this down to agents having all the relevant customer information available on the first page. He explained:
Previously it required three clicks to display the same information. Now it’s zero as it’s automatically on display in the agent portal. The integrated knowledge base has also helped achieve these results. The old system had a different application for knowledge management, we have simplified this enormously.
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Now that Sky Italia has achieved such impressive results with its Service Cloud deployment, the next step is to focus on customer change order. The firm has started the project, which will use Salesforce and Vlocity, but it has not yet rolled anything out. When the service does become available next year, Scarponi expects agents will be able to take advantage of the platform to improve their up-selling capability and for better omni-channel support. He said:
We’ll be providing agents with a comprehensive customer view, to ensure fast access to additional details on the agent desktop. We will be able to take advantage of the change order platform to improve up-selling to the customer, sustain an increased margin, while easier product configuration will speed up time to market.
As well as the improvements in agent performance, Sky Italia has also reaped financial rewards. Scarponi revealed the organisation has saved 20 percent of recurring systems integration costs associated with application development and configuration. This is due to reducing the level of code customisation by relying on standardised features.
The telco has also made a huge saving of €1.8m thanks to no longer having to deal with Siebel release upgrades. Scarponi said:
Right now, we have managed eight seamless Salesforce upgrades without any extra cost. The move to Salesforce and Vlocity was based on needing to achieve greater process efficiency and maximise the one-click case resolution. We wanted more agility with faster time to market for our commercial offering, and we needed to create a unified customer experience across all channels.
While Sky Italia has clearly achieved these goals based on the statistics above, the firm also shared lessons it had learned from the process.
Be an early mover
Scarponi advised that the quicker you can move to update your legacy systems, the lower your risk:
We had the opportunity to be ahead and not have to react from pressure out of business requirements. We did this integration early and this means a lower risk than waiting for the complexity of the legacy to become an even bigger problem. So don’t wait too long when modernising legacy systems.
It’s not just about the technology
These projects shouldn’t be approached purely as a business transformation initiative. Scarponi urged firms to put the customer at the centre of any transformation:
It’s not just technology re-platforming, it’s about optimising the business processes. We found our users became much more interested in supporting the programme when they could see the efficiencies and improvements in business processes.
Data management
B2C implementations like Sky Italia’s involve a massive amount of disparate data in third-party systems, so Scarponi advised firms to have strong data governance in place:
Keep in mind the volume of data. Vlocity is a Salesforce preferred partner and they have taken care of scale and performance testing, which was very important for us. An industry-specialised data model is essential, as the more functionality you can get for your industry out of the box is key to a lower TCO, and the faster you can deliver value to the business and the customer.
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Pay-television giant Sky is to remain as a Premier League rights-holder in its major European markets until at least 2028, after striking a new deal in Italy.
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They crossed the Po River, and long before dusk, while the countryside still lay blanketed in summer torpor, the train squealed and sighed to a stop amid gently rolling farmland. Pino carried a blanket over his shoulder and climbed after Carletto to a low grassy hill above an orchard that faced southwest toward the city.
“Pino,” Mr. Beltramini said, “watch out, or there will be spider webs across your ears by morning.”
Mrs. Beltramini, a pretty, frail woman who always seemed to be suffering some malady or another, scolded weakly, “Why did you say that? You know I hate spiders.”
The fruit shop owner fought against a grin. “What are you talking about? I was just warning the boy about the dangers of sleeping with his head in the deep grass.”
His wife looked like she wanted to argue, but then she just waved him away, as if he were some bothersome fly.
Uncle Albert fished in a canvas bag for bread, wine, cheese, and dried salami. The Beltraminis broke out five ripe cantaloupes. Pino’s father sat in the grass next to his violin case, his arms wrapped around his knees and an enchanted look on his face.
“Isn’t it magnificent?” Michele said.
“What’s magnificent?” Uncle Albert said, looking around, puzzled.
“This place. How clean the air is. And the smells. No burning. No bomb stench. It seems so . . . I don’t know. Innocent?”
“Exactly,” Mrs. Beltramini said.
“Exactly what?” Mr. Beltramini said. “You walk a little too far here and it’s not so innocent. Cow shit and spiders and snakes and—”
Whop! Mrs. Beltramini backhand-slapped her husband’s arm. “You show no mercy, do you? Ever?”
“Hey, that hurt,” Mr. Beltramini protested through a smile.
“Good,” she said. “Now stop it, you. I didn’t get a wink of sleep with all that talk of spiders and snakes last night.”
Appearing unaccountably angry, Carletto got up and walked downhill toward the orchard. Pino noticed some girls down by the rock wall that surrounded the fruit grove. Not one of them was as beautiful as Anna. But maybe it was time to move on. He jogged downhill to catch up with Carletto, told him his plan, and they tried to artfully intercept the girls. Another group of boys beat them to it.
Pino looked at the sky and said, “I’m only asking for a little love.”
“I think you’d settle for a kiss,” Carletto said.
“I’d be happy with a smile.” Pino sighed.
The boys climbed over the wall and walked down rows of trees heavy with fruit. The peaches were not quite ripe, but the figs were. Some had already dropped, and they picked them up from the dirt, brushed them off, peeled the skin, and ate them.
Despite the rare treat of fresh fruit right off the tree in a time of rationing, Carletto seemed troubled. Pino said, “You okay?”
His best friend shook his head.
“What is it?” Pino asked.
“Just a feeling.”
“What?”
Carletto shrugged. “Like life isn’t going to turn out the way we think, that it’s going to go badly for us.”
“Why would you think that?”
“You never paid much attention in history class, did you? When big armies go to war, everything gets destroyed by the conqueror.”
“Not always. Saladin never sacked Jerusalem. See? I did pay attention in history class.”
“I don’t care,” Carletto said, angrier still. “It’s just this feeling that I get, and it won’t stop. It’s everywhere and . . .”
His friend choked up, and tears ran down his face while he fought for control.
“What’s going on with you?” Pino said.
Carletto cocked his head, as if peering at a painting he didn’t quite understand. His lips trembled as he said, “My mama’s really sick. It’s not good.”
“What’s that mean?”
“What do you think it means?” Carletto cried. “She’s gonna die.”
“Jesus,” Pino said. “Are you sure?”
“I heard my parents talking how she’d like her funeral to be.”
Pino thought of Mrs. Beltramini, and then Porzia. He thought about what it would be like to know his mother was going to die. A vast pit opened in his stomach.
“I’m sorry,” Pino said. “I really am. Your mama’s a great lady. She puts up with your papa, so she’s like a saint, and they say saints get their reward in heaven.”
Carletto laughed despite his sadness and wiped at his tears. “She is the only one who can put him in his place. But he should stop, you know? She’s sick, and he’s teasing her like that about snakes and spiders. It’s cruel. Like he doesn’t love her.”
“He loves your mama.”
“He doesn’t show it. It’s like he’s afraid to.”
They started to walk back. At the rock wall, they heard the strains of a violin.
. . .
Pino looked up the hill and saw his father tuning his violin and Mr. Beltramini standing there, sheet music in his hand. The golden light of sunset radiated off both men and the crowd around them.
“Oh no,” Carletto moaned. “Mother of God, no.”
Pino felt equal dismay. At times, Michele Lella could play brilliantly, but more often than not, Pino’s father would stutter his rhythm or squall through a section that demanded a smooth touch. And poor Mr. Beltramini had a voice that usually broke or went flat. It was excruciating to listen to either man because you could never relax. You knew some odd note was coming, and it could be so sour at times, it was, well, embarrassing.
Up on the hill, Pino’s father adjusted the position of his violin, a beautiful central Italian petite from the eighteenth century that Porzia had given him for Christmas ten years before. The instrument was Michele’s most treasured possession, and he held it lovingly as he brought it under his chin and jawbone and raised his bow.
Mr. Beltramini firmed his posture, arms held loosely at his side.
“There’s a train wreck about to happen,” Carletto said.
“I see it coming,” Pino said.
Pino’s father played the opening strains of the melody of “Nessun Dorma,” or “None Shall Sleep,” a soaring aria for tenor in the third act of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot. Because it was one of his father’s favorite pieces, Pino had listened to a recording performed by Toscanini and the full La Scala orchestra behind the powerful tenor Miguel Fleta, who sang the aria the night the opera debuted in the 1920s.
Fleta played Prince Calaf, a wealthy royal traveling anonymously in China, who falls in love with the beautiful but cold and bitchy Princess Turandot. The king has decreed that anyone who wishes to have the princess’s hand must first solve three riddles. Get one wrong, and the suitor dies a terrible death.
By the end of act 2, Calaf has answered all the riddles, but the princess still refuses to marry him. Calaf says that if she can figure out his real name before dawn he will leave, but if she can’t, she must willingly marry him.
The princess takes the game to a higher level, tells Calaf that if she finds his name before dawn, she’ll have his head. He agrees to the deal, and the princess decrees, “Nessun dorma, none shall sleep, until the suitor’s name is found.”
In the opera, Calaf’s aria comes with dawn approaching and the princess down on her luck. “Nessun Dorma” is a towering piece that builds and builds, demanding that the singer grow stronger, reveling in his love for the princess and surer of victory with every moment that ticks toward dawn.
Pino had thought it would take a full orchestra and a famous tenor like Fleta to create the aria’s emotional triumph. But his father and Mr. Beltramini’s version, stripped down to its tremulous melody and verse, was more powerful than he could have ever imagined.
When Michele played that night, a thick, honeyed voice called from his violin. And Mr. Beltramini had never been better. The rising notes and phrases all sounded to Pino like two improbable angels singing, one high through his father’s fingers, and one low in Mr. Beltramini’s throat, both more heavenly inspiration than skill.
“How are they doing this?” Carletto asked in wonder.
Pino had no idea of the source of his father’s virtuoso performance, but then he noticed that Mr. Beltramini was singing not to the crowd but to someone in the crowd, and he understood the source of the fruitman’s beautiful tone and loving key.
“Look at your papa,” Pino said.
Carletto strained up on his toes and saw that his father was singing the aria not to the crowd but to his dying wife, as if there were no one else but them in the world.
When the two men finished, the crowd on the hillside stood and clapped and whistled. Pino had tears in his eyes, too, because for the first time, he’d seen his father as heroic. Carletto had tears in his eyes for other, deeper reasons.
“You were fantastic,” Pino said to Michele later in the dark. “And ‘Nessun Dorma’ was the perfect choice.”
“For such a magnificent place, it was the only one we could think of,” his father said, seeming in awe of what he’d done. “And then we were swept up, just like the La Scala performers say, playing con smania, with passion.”
“I heard it, papa. We all did.”
Michele nodded, and sighed happily. “Now, get some sleep.”
Pino had kicked out a place for his hips and heels, and then taken off his shirt for a pillow and wrapped himself in the sheet he’d brought from home. Now he snuggled down, smelling the sweet grass, already drowsy.
He closed his eyes thinking about his father’s performance, and Mrs. Beltramini’s mysterious illness, and the way her joking husband had sung. He drifted off to sleep, wondering if he’d witnessed a miracle.
Several hours later, deep in his dreams, Pino was chasing Anna down the street when he heard distant thunder. He stopped, and she kept on, disappearing into the crowd. He wasn’t upset, but he wondered when the rain would fall, and what it would taste like on his tongue.
Carletto shook him awake. The moon was high overhead, casting a gunmetal-blue light on the hillside, and everyone on their feet looking to the west. Allied bombers were attacking Milan in waves, but there were no sightings of the planes or of the city from that distance, only flares and flashes on the horizon and the distant rumor of war.
. . .
A conversation with Mark Sullivan
Q: A self-described adventure nut, you’ve said you’re attracted to stories where characters are pushed to their limits and Pino Lella, the hero of Beneath a Scarlet Sky, is definitely one of these characters. He risked his life guiding Jews across the Alps into neutral Switzerland, then became a spy inside the German High Command. The unlikeliest of heroes, he witnessed unspeakable atrocities that pushed him to his limits. What made him able to do this? What set him apart from so many other people at that time?
A: I am interested in heroes who are pushed to their limits, forced to go beyond themselves, and Pino is certainly one of them.
After spending eleven years with this story, I came to believe that Pino was able to survive all these incredible situations because of his basic decency, his gratitude, and his love of life; because of his deep emotional intelligence; and due to his fundamental belief in the miracle of every moment, even the darkest ones, and in the promise of a better tomorrow, even when that promise was not warranted.
That philosophy, or internal compass, if you will, enabled Pino to go beyond who he was, to turn selfless in moments of crisis. He conquered the dangers in the winter Alps by focusing on the people he was saving, their emotions and longings. As a spy I think he believed overwhelmingly in the value of his mission, and he felt compelled to bear witness to the atrocities committed by Nazis in Italy.
Pino also extraordinarily young, and like any brash young man he rarely seemed to let doubt cloud his thinking, high in the Alps, or down in Milan in the presence of General Leyers. And, of course, Anna gave him strength.
Q: When you first talked to Pino in real life, he was reluctant to tell his story, believing he was more a coward than a hero. Yet, you convinced him to talk and ended up going to hear the story in Italy. Tell us about that.
A: The first time I called him from the states, he said he didn’t understand why I’d be interested in him. I told him that from what I knew of his story he was an uncommon hero. His voice changed and he told me he was more a coward than a hero. That only intrigued me more, and after several more calls he agreed to my coming to Italy to hear the story in person and in full.
When I first went to see him I stayed for three weeks. He was seventy-nine, and living in a decaying old villa in the beautiful town of Lesa on Lake Maggiore north of Milan. I lived in an apartment on the third floor of the villa with a view of red tile roofs, the water, and the Alps beyond.
Pino was raised fluent in Italian, French, and English. He’d also lived in California for more than thirty years, so there was no need for an interpreter.
We talked for hours in his drawing room which was filled with old tapestries, and paintings, a grand piano, and the mementos of a long, fascinating life. Hours, days and then weeks went by as I listened to him summon up the past.
But by the time I got to Pino, more than six decades had passed. Memories change and fade with time. And a tortured conscious mind will block out traumatic events, bury them in the subconscious, or shade them so the victim can look at them from a tremendous distance, and with little emotion.
He was evasive at times. He had a self-deprecating nature and often downplayed his role and the dangers he faced. I often had to press him to just describe what happened versus filtering it through his meanings. Then the deeper story began to surface.
We laughed. We cried. We became friends.
It ended up being one of the most emotional and rewarding experiences of my life.
Q: Throughout the war, while others watched and feared, Pino risked and acted without regard for his own life. Yet as selfless as he was, in the moment that mattered most, he put life before love. Tell us about that, and if he’s been able to move past it.
As I listened to the story, I, too, was struck at how intrepid and selfless he’d been.
In the Alps, at 17, Pino guided Jews from the Catholic boy’s school in the dead of winter over the Alps into Switzerland, sometimes putting people on his back and skiing them to safety. Later, when he became the driver to a powerful Nazi general, and so a spy, he risked his life again and again to get information to the partisan resistance and to the Allies.
Because he wore the German uniform, Pino was thought a traitor by many people who did not understand his role as a spy, including his own brother. He got through the isolation through his love affair with Anna, the maid of the mistress to the Nazi general Pino drove for.
Anna is six years his senior, a woman with a mysterious past, but she becomes Pino’s confidante and his lover. Anna is his refuge, one of the few places he can turn to for sanity and hope for a future beyond the war.
But, as you mentioned, there comes a moment late in the book, and in the war, when chaos and anarchy is reigning in Milan, and Pino is forced to choose between life and love.
That scene is the emotional crucible of the novel, and one I had to pry out of him more than 60 years later.
When he reluctantly and vaguely first described the scene to me, Pino showed distinct discomfort, and claimed he never saw the event personally, that he was told about it by the old concierge with the thick glasses, and that it took place somewhere in the streets of central Milan. He was rattled even by that admission, wept briefly, and then stared off for a long time.
He asked if we could talk about other things. We did, but as that afternoon wore on into night, normally-cheerful Pino became dark and agitated. He asked to rest until morning.
Late that evening, from my apartment upstairs I heard him playing piano, a stormy and thunderous piece that I did not recognize. The next morning, he looked exhausted and said he had not slept well. The morning after that he looked ruined, and told me he’d suffered repeated nightmares of the event as an eyewitness.
His descriptions of the nightmare version were incredibly detailed, and recounting it crushed him physically and mentally.
He sobbed to me, “I said nothing. I did nothing.”
Pino’s anguish was so raw and palpable, it rocked me to my core. I did the only thing I could, and went to hold the old man while he poured out his grief and torment.
In the novel, the reader gets the dream version of Pino’s terrible dilemma because I believe the dream version is closer to the truth of what actually occurred to him during the sinister last days of the war in Italy, and I wanted the reader to travel the same gut-wrenching road.
Did Pino move past that moment and the war?
If you were to gauge that by the way he acted on a day-to-day basis during our reliving of his life at seventeen and eighteen, and in the subsequent decade I spent research, I’d say yes, absolutely. Pino was and is one of the most cheerful, considerate, and giving people I’ve ever met.
But the morning he described the nightmare to me was an entirely different story. He looked like he’d seen a ghost and been cast in a bitter trance. I will never forget his expression as long as I live.
Q: You have a background as an investigative journalist for both newspaper and magazines, why didn’t you tell this story as straight narrative non-fiction?
A: That was the original intent, but after years of trying to dig up the documented, fully-corroborated story, I threw up my hands.
So many other characters had died before I heard about Pino Lella, and the Nazis had burned so many documents surrounding his story that even after ten years of research I had to make informed assumptions in the narrative.
Once I surrendered to that, I knew I was in the realm of historical fiction and writing a novel. I gave in to it and adjusted by switching obligations.
The obligations of the non-fiction writer and the novelists are different. The former must hew to the documented facts and eye-witness accounts. The latter should dig for a deeper, emotional truth.
I went in that direction, and am glad I did.
Q: The book is dedicated, in part, to “Robert Dehlendorf, who heard the tale first, and rescued me.” On the way to the dinner party where you learned about Pino Lella, you contemplated suicide and “prayed for a story, something greater than myself, a project I could get lost in.” You were saved by that story. What saved Pino? Tell us about your friendship and what Pino has meant to you.
A: January of 2006 was a terrible time for me. My brother had drunk himself to death the prior June. My mother had drunk herself into brain damage. I’d written a book no one liked and was involved in a lingering business dispute.
That day I realized darkly that my insurance policies were more valuable than my life and potential in the future. During a snow storm, I seriously considered driving into a bridge abutment on an interstate freeway near my home, but I was saved by thoughts of my wife and sons. I was as shaken as I’ve ever been, and did indeed pray for a story.
Believe it or not, that very night at a dinner party I was forced to attend by my sick wife in Bozeman, Montana of all places, I heard the first snippets of Pino Lella’s tale. Larry Minkoff, a fellow writer, told me he’d heard a little about Pino, and his story, but wasn’t going to pursue it.
Minkoff introduced me to Bob Dehlendorf. Dehlendorf had been successful on Wall Street before moving out west and buying the ranch where Robert Redford shot the “Horse Whisperer”. He also owned a small ski area in California and was fascinated by World War II.
In the late 1990s, Dehlendorf was on an extended vacation in Italy when he met Pino by chance. Dehlendorf was a few years younger, but they bonded. After several days, Dehlendorf asked Pino about his experiences during the war.
Pino had never told anyone, but felt like it was time, and started telling him about Father Re and the escapes, and the Nazi general he’d driven for.
Dehlendorf was stunned. How had the story never been told?
That was my reaction as well, and that was enough to get me on a plane to Italy.
Over the course of those first three weeks, as Pino opened up more and more, I experienced his deep pain and marveled at his ability to go on after being so depressed and traumatized he too had contemplated suicide. I had to comfort him repeatedly during the course of his long recounting, and I was moved again and again.
During that time, and apart from the details of his war story, Pino taught me about life and his values and the many, many joys he’d been blessed with after handing over General Leyers to U.S. Paratroopers on the last day of the war. It made me realize how much I’d put in jeopardy even thinking about suicide.
I had a great, loving wife, and two remarkable sons. I had an amazing story to tell. I had a new and dear friend. I was more than lucky. Leaving Italy that first time, I felt blessed to be alive.
I went home a different person, grateful for every moment, no matter how flawed, and determined to honor and tell Pino’s story to as many people as possible.
I just never thought it would take that long.
Q: You spent almost nine years researching this story, hampered, in part, by a kind of collective amnesia concerning Italy and Italians during WWII, and the widespread burning of Nazi documents as the war ground to a close. The Nazi occupation of Italy and the underground railroad formed to save the Italian Jews have received little attention. Why have historians taken to calling Italy “The Forgotten Front”?
A: It did take me an awful a long time to dig up the details that surrounded Pino’s story. Remember I was trying to write this as non-fiction, and I wanted to nail the factual narrative.
Over the years and between projects, I spent weeks in the Nazi War Archives in Berlin and Friedrichsburg, Germany and in the U.S. Archives in Maryland. I went back to Italy twice more, and to Germany a second and third time. All along the way, I was hampered by the burning of Nazi documents in the last days of the war, especially by Organization Todt.
The OT, as it was known, was like a combination of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Quartermasters Corps. The OT built fortifications across Italy and Europe. The OT manufactured or stole everything the German military needed, from cannons to uniforms, from ammunition to food. It did so on every front of the European theater by using slaves. Millions of them.
Every time Hitler invaded a new country, he took every able-bodied male and called them “forced workers”. These slaves fortified the Russian Front. They built the western wall of pill boxes, tank traps, and artillery emplacements that U.S. soldiers faced on D-Day. They built the Green and Gothic battle lines in Italy. They even built the concentration camps.
The Germans were fanatical record keepers, but by the time Italy was freed there was very little left describing the OT and the million plus slaves believed to have toiled for the Nazis during the occupation. This was true everywhere I looked. It is estimated that as many as eleven million people were forced to work for the OT across Europe, and yet the documents still in existence about a vital part of Hitler’s war machine would fill less than three filing cabinets.
As you mentioned, there was and is a collective amnesia concerning Italy and Italians in WWII. It’s due in part to the savagery that so many Italians like Pino Lella witnessed in the last days of the conflict. Northern Italy descended into anarchy, and public revenge killings were widespread. It was so bad that many brave partisan fighters shut their mouths and never spoke of what they saw as the Nazis fled toward the Austrian border.
One old partisan told me they were young and wanted to forget those terrible times. “No one talks about the war in Italy,” he said. “So no one remembers.”
I also think historians have tended to ignore Italy because General Eisenhower decided to pull multiple divisions out of Italy in the late spring of 1944 to bolster the fight for France. After liberating Rome in June of that year, the progress of the weakened Allied forces remaining in Italy ground to a virtual halt. And the focus of journalists, historians, and novelists turned largely to the drama of D Day and its aftermath.
I think that worked in my favor to a certain extent. WWII Italy felt overlooked and unexamined, which made it even more exciting for me as I worked on the book. I realized very early on, for example, that in addition to Pino’s story I could tell the broader history of the fight for what Winston Churchill called “the soft underbelly of Europe.”
Q: Despite some tolerated revenge killings in the immediate aftermath of the war, Italian authorities conducted relatively few trials of collaborators. General Leyers, who by his own admission sat at the left hand of the Fuhrer, and who was arguably the second-most powerful man in Italy during the last two years of World War II, was among those never prosecuted. Explain the “Missing Italian Nuremberg,” and how General Leyers literally got away with murder.
A: That story is another reason war-time Italy has not received its due attention.
For almost two years after the end of the conflict, Allied prosecutors prepared cases against prominent Fascists and Nazis accused of war crimes in Italy. One of those Germans held awaiting trial was the man Pino drove for: Major General Hans Leyers, who ran the OT in Italy and answered directly to Adolf Hitler.
It’s hard to underestimate Leyers’ power. His formal title was Generalbevollmächtigter fur Reichsminister für Rüstung und Kriegsproduktion für Italien. It translates as ‘Plenipotentiary to the Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production in Italy.’
By his title, he was a “plenipotentiary’, which meant he acted with full authority of Reichsminister Albert Speer. In reality he acted with the full authority of Hitler.
What Hitler and his generals wanted, Leyers built, manufactured, or stole. Like the master builders of Egypt’s Pharaohs, he did it with slaves. Pino drove for Leyers, and witnessed the vast armies of forced workers under the general’s total command. He saw men worked to death and brutally treated by Leyers’ men.
But the general was never tried, and was released from a POW camp outside Innsbruck, Austria twenty-three months after the war’s end. For years, I had no idea why.
Then, in interviews I conducted in Germany in 2016, Leyers’ daughter, his former religious minister, and his former aide told me that the general was released after testifying in secret against Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect, the head of the entire OT, and the only member of the Fuhrer’s inner circle to escape the hangman’s noose at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg.
Speer was ultimately sentenced to twenty years in Spandau Prison for taking slaves. The minister and Leyers’ aide also claimed that Leyers had presented prosecutors with evidence that he’d helped Jews and Catholics who’d been in mortal danger in Italy under Nazi occupation. The truth is a little more complicated.
By the spring of 1947, the world was growing weary of the war crimes trials, and wanted to move on. Communism had gained a foothold in Italy, and the Allies began to fear that conducting open trials against Nazis and Fascists might turn the country more toward Russian influence. With little fanfare, the plans for an Italian Nuremberg were dropped. The trials never happened.
The crimes and the charges were buried. Leyers and other men responsible for atrocities were set free, and subsequent generations of Italians were left with little shared memories of what exactly had happened in northern Italy during the war.
Q: Why didn’t Pino Lella talk about his experiences for more than sixty years? Is that unusual?
A: It’s not unusual. As I researched the book I found that heroes and tragic victims of the Italian battlefront were commonplace, and often intentionally unheralded or un-mourned.
Pino and many, many others who survived the war in Italy blocked out their experiences. They, like Pino, witnessed men and women at their most noble and at their most savage. They, like Pino rose to challenge after challenge, responded, and in victory and in tragedy promptly buried their memories, and told no one.
In my experience older Italians don’t talk freely about the war. To younger generations it’s as if it never happened. One old partisan fighter I interviewed told me that when he reluctantly went to a high school in Milan recently at the request of a history teacher to talk about the war, the students laughed at him. They said the things he’d seen could never have happened.
And it wasn’t just Italians.
As I relate late in the book, the father of one of my close childhood friends was in the U.S. Army and fought in Italy. Peter never talked about the war, and would deflect questions about his service. After he died, my friend was rummaging through his dad’s attic and found a box that contained a silver star for valor and a citation for Peter’s acts of selfless bravery at Monte Casino, one of the most brutal battles of World War II, on any front. Like Pino, he’d told no one.
Q: In real life and in the book, Pino was surrounded by brave, talented people who accomplished great things during, and after, the war. Tells us about Pino’s family and friends who became national heroes, “Righteous Among Nations,” fashion designers, racecar drivers, and even a saint.
A: Not quite a saint. Ildefonso Schuster, the Cardinal of Milan during and after the war, worked to save the city and the Jews under Nazi occupation. He knew about and encouraged the Catholic underground railroad that formed to get Jews out of Italy, many of them over the Alps in the winter of 1943-44. After Cardinal Schuster’s death, the future Pope John Paul II took up Schuster’s cause for sainthood and beatified him. Schuster’s blessed body lies in a crystal case beneath the Duomo cathedral in central Milan.
Father Luigi Re ran Casa Alpina, the Catholic boys school high in Italy’s northern mountains where Jews and other refugees gathered before making the brutal climb to Switzerland. Father Re organized the escapes. Pino, his brother, Mimo, and other boys were the guides. For selflessly risking his own life again and again, Father Re was recognized by Yad Vashem, the Israeli World Holocaust remembrance center as among the ‘Righteous Among Nations.” He is buried on the side of the mountain above the old school site.
Father Giovanni Barbareschi, a confidante of Cardinal Schuster, and the forger for the underground railroad was also recognized as among the Righteous Among Nations for his role in helping Jews escape Italy. Barbareschi, Re, and other priests and nuns, and ordinary Catholics risked their own lives repeatedly to save others, which helps explain why 41,000 of the estimated 49,000 Jews living in Italy before the invasion managed to survive.
Pino’s parents and extended family were in the fashion business in Milan. His mother and father designed and manufactured high-end purses. His aunt and uncle designed and manufactured fine leather goods sold all over the world. The Lellas and the Albanese family were also part of the resistance movement that sprang up soon after the Nazis invaded and set up Depose Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini in a puppet government in September of 1943. The Lellas were active in promoting Milan as a global center of fashion until the day they died.
Pino’s younger brother, Mimo, was cited for heroism after the war for standing down a company of Nazi soldiers and placing them under arrest at the age of sixteen. He went on to found Lella Sport, a company which manufactured ski- and athletic-wear.
Pino’s cousin, Licia Albanese, fled to America before the invasion, and spent the rest of her long career as a soprano singing leads at the New York Metropolitan Opera under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. She died in 2014.
Alberta Ascari, who taught Pino to drive, lived his childhood dreams and became an Italian national hero. Driving for Ferrari, Ascari was World Grand Prix Champion twice. He died during a practice run on the Monza track in 1954. Fifty thousand people showed up for his funeral at the Duomo. He is considered one of the greatest race car drivers of all time.
U.S. Army Major Frank Knebel returned to California and became a newspaper publisher. When he died he left behind cryptic notes about wanting to write an account of “great intrigue” that unfolded in Milan in the last days of the war. He never did.
Carletto Beltramini, became a salesman for Alfa Romeo, lived all over Europe, and was a close friend of Pino Lella’s until the day he died.
Major General Hans Leyers moved to the small German town of Eischweiller upon being released from POW camp after the war crimes charges were dropped. Leyers had a great deal of wealth, but its source remains unclear. He and his wife had the money to restore a manor house on a large estate she inherited. He built a church and ran the estate until his death in 1983. As Leyers had predicted to Pino during the war, he had done well for himself before Hitler, during Hitler, and after Hitler.
Pino Lella is 91, and still lives on Lake Maggiore where he can see north to the Alps.
Q: You’ve said that global bestselling author James Patterson, your co-author on the Private series, “gave you a master class in commercial fiction.” What are some of the lessons he taught you, and how have they changed your writing life?
A: Mr. Patterson did give me a master class in commercial fiction. I’d written ten novels before he asked me to collaborate with him, and I thought I knew what I was doing.
I didn’t. Not really.
For the most part I’d winged it in my earlier works of fiction, writing draft after draft before the real story appeared. Patterson believed in thinking out the plot up front.
I struggled a bit, but soon came around to his way of thinking, which was essentially that novel writing was like house building. You have to be an architect first, and design the layout and frame before you start thinking about anything else.
Patterson also taught me that we were entertainers not educators, and that our stories were driven by suspense and mystery, but focused on emotion. He really hammered that into me, and I think my writing’s improved vastly because of it.
Beneath a Scarlet Sky is an epic tale told on a sprawling canvas, but I tried to stay aware of the pace of the story at all times. I did it by remaining focused on the emotions that radiated off Pino when he first told me his story.
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The renewal, confirmed late last week, will see Sky Italia continue to exclusively cover the 20-team EPL until the end of the 2027-28 campaign.
The current deal between the broadcaster and the league (also for three years) runs through 2024-25.
There will be coverage of (up to) all 10 matches per round, live on both Sky’s linear channels and via the Now streaming service, as well as pre and post-match analysis, and the Premier League Remix highlights show.
Feature-style programming, such as the Premier League Stories segment, will also be aired.
The current tie-up between Sky Italia and the EPL is worth, GlobalData (Sportcal) has estimated, $35 million per year, and was unveiled in May 2022.
Before that, Sky Italia also covered EPL action during the 2019-22 cycle.
That agreement, however, only included a maximum of seven live EPL games being shown every week, meaning this new extension also represents an expansion of the tie-up.
Marzio Perrelli, executive vice president of sport at Sky Italia, has said: “We are happy to announce this agreement with the Premier League, which will remain a fundamental pillar of Sky Sport's offering in the coming seasons.”
Prominent Italian players currently competing in the EPL include Arsenal’s Jorginho, Tottenham Hotspur’s Destiny Udogie, and Aston Villa’s Nicolò Zaniolo.
The broadcaster’s German counterpart, Sky Deutschland, has already announced a similar extension through 2027-28 (exclusive in Germany and Austria, and non-exclusive in Switzerland), with that deal made public in early February.
Sky’s UK branch is the main domestic broadcaster for the league (alongside TNT Sports), in a deal struck late last year and worth £6.7 billion ($8.45 billion) for the 2025-26 to 2028-29 cycle.
Sky Italia, meanwhile, is also a domestic rights partner of Italy’s Serie A through 2028-29. That deal gives the network live coverage rights to co-broadcast three games per week, with DAZN holding rights to all matches.
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Pompeii and Herculaneum were flourishing resorts on the coast of Italy until Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., burying the cities’ ruins under tons of ash and rock.
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Where Is Pompeii?
Located on the west coast of Italy along the shores of the Bay of Naples—south of the modern-day city of Naples—ancient Greek settlers made Pompeii part of the Hellenistic sphere in the 8th century B.C. An independent-minded town, Pompeii fell under the influence of Rome in the 2nd century B.C., and eventually the Bay of Naples became an attraction for wealthy vacationers from Rome who relished the Campania coastline.
By the turn of the first century A.D., the town of Pompeii, located about five miles from Mount Vesuvius, was a flourishing resort for the most distinguished citizens of the Roman Empire. Elegant houses and elaborate villas—many filled with exquisite artworks and sparkling fountains—lined the paved streets.
Much of the city’s wealth derived from its rich volcanic soil—the region was a center for olives, grapes and other crops, and wine from Pompeii was enjoyed in some of Rome’s most fashionable houses.
Tourists, townspeople and enslaved people bustled in and out of small factories and artisans’ shops, taverns, cafes, brothels and bathhouses. People gathered in the 20,000-seat arena and lounged in the open-air squares and marketplaces.
On the eve of the fateful eruption in 79 A.D., scholars estimate that there were about 12,000 people living in Pompeii and almost as many in the surrounding region.
Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius did not form overnight, of course. Vesuvius is part of the Campanian volcanic arc that stretches along the convergence of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates on the Italian peninsula—it been erupting for thousands of years.
Sometime around 1995 B.C., for example, an unusually violent eruption (known today as the “Avellino eruption”) shot millions of tons of superheated lava, ash and rocks about 22 miles into the sky. That Bronze Age catastrophe destroyed almost every village, house and farm within 15 miles of the mountain.
Villagers around the volcano had long learned to live with their volatile neighbor. Even after a massive earthquake struck the Campania region in 63 A.D.—a quake that, scientists now understand, offered a warning rumble of the disaster to come—people still flocked to the shores of the Bay of Naples, and Pompeii grew more crowded every year.
Pompeii Eruption
Sixteen years after that telltale earthquake, in either August or October of 79 A.D., a number of small earthquakes rocked the Pompeii region. The people there shrugged off the temblors since they “were not particularly alarming because they are frequent in Campania,” according to the writer and eyewitness Pliny the Younger.
Then, shortly after noon on that fateful day, Mount Vesuvius erupted again. The blast sent a plume of ash, rock and scorching-hot volcanic gases so high into the sky that people could see it for hundreds of miles around.
Pliny the Younger, who watched the eruption from across the Bay of Naples, compared this “cloud of unusual size and appearance” to a pine tree that “rose to a great height on a sort of trunk and then split off into branches.” (Today, geologists refer to this type of volcanic blast as a “Plinean eruption.”)
As it cooled, this tower of debris drifted to earth: first the fine-grained ash, then the lightweight chunks of pumice and other rocks. It was terrifying—“I believed I was perishing with the world,” Pliny wrote, “and the world with me”—but it was not yet lethal: Most Pompeiians had plenty of time to flee, and many did.
Herculaneum and Pompeii
For those who stayed behind in Pompeii, Herculaneum and other towns, conditions soon grew much worse. As more and more ash fell, it clogged the air, making it difficult to breathe. Buildings collapsed under overloaded roofs, but still some people remained in the city, now covered under several feet of ash.
Then, on the morning of the following day, a “pyroclastic flow”—a 100-miles-per-hour blast of superheated gas and pulverized rock—poured down the side of the mountain and vaporized everything and everyone in its path.
By the time the Vesuvius eruption sputtered to an end on the second day of the eruption, Pompeii was buried under millions of tons of volcanic ash.
Some people drifted back to town in search of lost relatives or belongings, but there was virtually nothing left to find. Pompeii, along with the neighboring town of Herculaneum and a number of villas in the area, was abandoned for centuries.
Pompeii Bodies
About 2,000 Pompeiians died in the city, but the eruption in total killed up to 16,000 people in Pompeii, Herculaneum and other towns and villages in the region.
Bodies of men, women, children and animals were frozen right where they’d fallen—many of the bodies uncovered later were still clutching valuable household objects they’d hoped to carry safely out of the city. Some bodies were found with their arms poignantly wrapped around children or other loved ones.
Later archaeologists even uncovered jars of preserved fruit and loaves of bread. Most of the city’s buildings were intact, and everyday objects and household goods still littered the streets. The powdery volcanic ash that buried Pompeii had proved to be an excellent preservative.
Pompeii Exhibit
Pompeii remained mostly untouched until 1748, when a group of explorers looking for ancient artifacts arrived in Campania and began to dig. They found that the ashes had acted as a marvelous preservative: Underneath all that dust, Pompeii was almost exactly as it had been almost 2,000 years before.
Many scholars cite the excavation of Pompeii as an influence in the neo-Classical revival of the 18th century. Europe’s wealthiest and most fashionable families displayed art and reproductions of objects from the ruins, and drawings of Pompeii’s buildings helped shape the architectural trends of the era.
For example, wealthy British families often built “Etruscan rooms” that mimicked those in Pompeiian villas. Today, many of the preserved artworks, frescoes and other artifacts are on exhibit at the Pompeii Antiquarium, located among the city’s ruins.
The excavation of Pompeii that has been going on for almost three centuries continues today, and the entire site has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Scholars and tourists remain just as fascinated by the city’s eerie ruins—and the artifacts and bodies buried on that fateful day over 2,000 years ago—as they were in the 18th century.
“Many disasters have befallen the world,” wrote the German philosopher-poet Goethe, after touring Pompeii’s ruins in the 1780s, “but few have brought posterity so much joy.”
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The pay-TV broadcaster's current deal concludes at the end of the 2024-25 campaign.
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The heavyweight Sky Italia pay-TV broadcaster has unveiled an extension to its exclusive rights deal covering English soccer’s top-tier Premier League (EPL) for another three seasons.
The renewal, confirmed late last week, will see Sky Italia continue to exclusively cover the 20-team EPL until the end of the 2027-28 campaign.
The current deal between the broadcaster and the league (also for three years) runs through 2024-25.
There will be coverage of (up to) all 10 matches per round, live on both Sky’s linear channels and via the Now streaming service, as well as pre and post-match analysis, and the Premier League Remix highlights show.
Feature-style programming, such as the Premier League Stories segment, will also be aired.
The current tie-up between Sky Italia and the EPL is worth, GlobalData (Sportcal) has estimated, $35 million per year, and was unveiled in May 2022.
Before that, Sky Italia also covered EPL action during the 2019-22 cycle.
That agreement, however, only included a maximum of seven live EPL games being shown every week, meaning this new extension also represents an expansion of the tie-up.
Marzio Perrelli, executive vice president of sport at Sky Italia, has said: “We are happy to announce this agreement with the Premier League, which will remain a fundamental pillar of Sky Sport's offering in the coming seasons.”
Prominent Italian players currently competing in the EPL include Arsenal’s Jorginho, Tottenham Hotspur’s Destiny Udogie, and Aston Villa’s Nicolò Zaniolo.
The broadcaster’s German counterpart, Sky Deutschland, has already announced a similar extension through 2027-28 (exclusive in Germany and Austria, and non-exclusive in Switzerland), with that deal made public in early February.
Sky’s UK branch is the main domestic broadcaster for the league (alongside TNT Sports), in a deal struck late last year and worth £6.7 billion ($8.45 billion) for the 2025-26 to 2028-29 cycle.
Sky Italia, meanwhile, is also a domestic rights partner of Italy’s Serie A through 2028-29. That deal gives the network live coverage rights to co-broadcast three games per week, with DAZN holding rights to all matches.
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“Most Italians don’t know they have the right to go to the beach for free,” says Manuela Salvi, planting her umbrella in the sand of a private beach club in Gaeta, a small seaside town in central Italy. “They are used to paying to go to the seaside. And if we don’t make our voices heard, the institutions will think we’re fine with it.”
Behind her, another 30 people are preparing to do the same. They are all members of Mare Libero (Free Sea), the association that since 2019 has swarmed beaches with protesters in an effort to reclaim the space. They want to make Italy’s beaches free to access or at least allocated to beach operators through a transparent bidding process.
The European Commission has long criticised Italy’s beach concession renewal system in which state-owned licences are automatically handed down through families of beach operators who use them to run members-only beach clubs or charge for sun loungers and umbrellas. This system of “keeping it in the family” is illegal, according to EU law, which states longstanding beach concessionaires should compete with new operators.
In April, the country’s top court ruled Italy’s automatic renewal of beach concessions invalid and a public tendering process for beach concessions, which cover almost half of the country’s estimated 4,900 miles (7,900km) of coastline, will now happen next year. Those running the concessions are so incensed they plan to strike this week.
For now though, Italy’s coastline remains lined with long stretches of private beaches crowded with people tanning on loungers, playing sports and eating ice-cream.
“I have spent almost every summer of my life in the same beach club and my mother has done the same for 25 years,” says Mare Libero’s Margherita Welyam.
Welyam’s biggest role as a protester is cultural. “In regions where beaches are more privatised, people believe this is the only way they can experience the beach, and it’s an expensive one,” she says. “My mother used to pay about €3,000 to rent the same cabin, lounger and umbrella for three months.”
Along the Italian coastline, there are more than 12,000 beach resorts, with daily prices for two loungers and an umbrella averaging €30-35 (£25-30) and reaching up to €700 in the more exclusive places.
“Sea access is problematic in southern Italy too,” says Klarissa Pica, another activist. In Naples, data from Mare Libero shows that only 5% of the beaches are free from private ownership, concessions or pollution. The few free beaches, such as Posillipo in Naples, require booking and have limited access. Other beaches that are free to use, such as Bagnoli in Naples and San Giovanni a Teduccio in Naples, are often polluted and theoretically off-limits for swimming but are still used due to a lack of alternatives.
Riccardo Di Luna, head of the association of concessionaires of Serapo, one of the biggest beaches in Gaeta, says that as long as the government doesn’t stop him and fellow owners from running their businesses, they will continue to open their beach clubs every morning. “But I’m worried about the future,” he says. “I still believe our job is important, as we provide lifeguarding, beach cleaning and other services.”
On Friday, beach concessionaires will strike, opening up at 9.30am instead of 7.30am, to demand government action for legislative clarity. In a press release, the Italian Beach Concessionaires’ Union said: “It should be clear to everyone that there is a real and concrete risk of losing jobs and businesses, and that help from the government is needed now or it will be useless.” If no response is received, the strike will be repeated on August 19 and August 29, with possibly more drastic closures.
When Mare Libero activists staged their own protest and planted their beach umbrellas, Di Luna alerted the local coastguard. Ultimately, there were no consequences for the protesters.
In June, however, 12 activists, including the secretary of the libertarian party Italian Radicals, Matteo Hallissey, were charged with participating in an unauthorised protest after one of their actions at Papeete Beach, a renowned beach club on the Adriatic coast. Despite this, activists continue to target regular and luxury beach clubs, such as Twiga, the upmarket establishment where Daniela Santanché, Italy’s tourism minister, was once a shareholder.
In Italy, the connections between beach concessions and politics run deep. Mare Libero’s activists from Liguria, a northern region where nearly 70% of the beaches are private and some towns have reached 100% privatisation, are particularly aware of this. “This beach has become a symbol of our resistance against the privatisation of our few remaining free beaches,” says Stefano Salvetti, the local coordinator, referring to Punta dell’Olmo, a small public beach a few kilometres from Genoa that is under threat of being privatised.
“These cultural and political barriers must be dismantled through transparent tenders with fair fees,” says Salvetti. According to the latest report from Italy’s court of auditors, between 2016 and 2020, the state collected an average of €101.7m a year which went to the general coffers, while each beach-based business generated an average revenue of about €260,000.
“Municipalities could use these funds to provide lifeguards and toilets on public beaches. Just a few kilometres away in France, this is already the norm. It can be here too,” he says.
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A volcano is a feature in Earthâs crust where molten rock is squeezed out onto the Earthâs surface. This molten rock is called magma when it is beneath the surface and lava when it erupts, or flows out, from a volcano. Along with lava, volcanoes also release gases, ash, and, solid rock.
Volcanoes come in many different shapes and sizes but are most commonly cone-shaped hills or mountains. They are found throughout the world, forming ridges deep below the sea surface and mountains that are thousands of meters high. About 1,900 volcanoes on Earth are considered active, meaning they show some level of occasional activity and are likely to erupt again. Many others are dormant volcanoes, showing no current signs of exploding but likely to become active at some point in the future. Others are considered extinct.
Volcanoes are incredibly powerful agents of change. Eruptions can create new landforms, but can also destroy everything in their path. About 350 million people (or about one out of every 20 people in the world) live within the âdanger rangeâ of an active volcano. Volcanologists closely monitor volcanoes so they can better predict impending eruptions and prepare nearby populations for potential volcanic hazards that could endanger their safety.
Plate Tectonics
Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earthâs tectonic plates. These plates are huge slabs of Earthâs crust and upper mantle, which fit together like pieces of a puzzle. These plates are not fixed, but are constantly moving at a very slow rate. They move only a few centimeters per year. Sometimes, the plates collide with one another or move apart. Volcanoes are most common in these geologically active boundaries.
The two types of plate boundaries that are most likely to produce volcanic activity are divergent plate boundaries and convergent plate boundaries.
Divergent Plate BoundariesÂ
At a divergent boundary, tectonic plates move apart from one another. They never really separate because magma continuously moves up from the mantle into this boundary, building new plate material on both sides of the plate boundary.
The Atlantic Ocean is home to a divergent plate boundary, a place called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Here, the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are moving in opposite directions. Along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, hot magma swells upward and becomes part of the North American and Eurasian plates. The upward movement and eventual cooling of this buoyant magma creates high ridges on the ocean floor. These ridges are interconnected, forming a continuous volcanic mountain range nearly 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles)âthe longest in the world.
Another divergent plate boundary is the East Pacific Rise, which separates the massive Pacific plate from the Nazca, Cocos, and North American plates.
Vents and fractures (also called fissures) in these mid-ocean ridges allow magma and gases to escape into the ocean. This submarine volcanic activity accounts for roughly 75 percent of the average annual volume of magma that reaches Earthâs crust. Most submarine volcanoes are found on ridges thousands of meters below the ocean surface.
Some ocean ridges reach the ocean surface and create landforms. The island of Iceland is a part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The diverging Eurasian and North American plates caused the eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull (in 2010) and Bardarbunga (in 2014). These eruptions were preceded by significant rifting and cracking on the ground surface, which are also emblematic of diverging plate movement.
Of course, divergent plate boundaries also exist on land. The East African Rift is an example of a single tectonic plate being ripped in two. Along the Horn of Africa, the African plate is tearing itself into what is sometimes called the Nubian plate (to the west, including most of the current African plate) and the Somali plate (to the east, including the Horn of Africa and the western Indian Ocean). Along this divergent plate boundary are volcanoes such as Mount Nyiragongo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mount Kilimanjaro, in Kenya.
Convergent Plate Boundaries
At a convergent plate boundary, tectonic plates move toward one another and collide. Oftentimes, this collision forces the denser plate edge to subduct, or sink beneath the plate edge that is less dense. These subduction zones can create deep trenches. As the denser plate edge moves downward, the pressure and temperature surrounding it increases, which causes changes to the plate that melt the mantle above, and the melted rock rises through the plate, sometimes reaching its surface as part of a volcano. Over millions of years, the rising magma can create a series of volcanoes known as a volcanic arc.
The majority of volcanic arcs can be found in the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped string of about 425 volcanoes that edges the Pacific Ocean. If you were to drain the water out of the Pacific Ocean, you would see a series of deep canyons (trenches) running parallel to corresponding volcanic islands and mountain ranges. The Aleutian Islands, stretching from the U.S. state of Alaska to Russia in the Bering Sea, for instance, run parallel to the Aleutian Trench, formed as the Pacific plate subducts under the North American plate. The Aleutian Islands have 27 of the United Statesâ 65 historically active volcanoes.
The mighty Andes Mountains of South America run parallel to the Peru-Chile Trench. These mountains are continually built up as the Nazca plate subducts under the South American plate. The Andes Mountains include the worldâs highest active volcano, Nevados Ojos del Salado, which rises to 6,879 meters (over 22,500 feet) along the Chile-Argentina border.Â
Hot Spots
For many years, scientists have been trying to explain why some volcanoes exist thousands of kilometers away from tectonic plate boundaries.
The dominant theory, framed by Canadian geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson in 1963, states that these volcanoes are created by exceptionally hot areas fixed deep below Earthâs mantle. These hot spots are able to independently melt the tectonic plate above them, creating magma that erupts onto the top of the plate.
In hot spots beneath the ocean, the tectonic activity creates a volcanic mound. Over millions of years, volcanic mounds can grow until they reach sea level and create a volcanic island. The volcanic island moves as part of its tectonic plate. The hot spot stays put, however. As the volcano moves farther from the hot spot, it goes extinct and eventually erodes back into the ocean. A new and active volcano develops over the hot spot, creating a continuous cycle of volcanismâand a string of volcanic islands tracing the tectonic plateâs movement over time.
For Wilson and many scientists, the best example of hot spot volcanism is the Hawaiian Islands. Experts think this volcanic chain of islands has been forming for at least 70 million years over a hot spot underneath the Pacific plate. Of all the inhabited Hawaiian Islands, Kauai is located farthest from the presumed hot spot and has the most eroded and oldest volcanic rocks, dated at 5.5 million years. Meanwhile, on the âBig Islandâ of the U.S. state of Hawaiâiâstill fueled by the hot spotâthe oldest rocks are less than 0.7 million years old and volcanic activity continues to create new land.
Hot spots can also create terrestrial volcanoes. The Yellowstone Supervolcano, for instance, sits over a hot spot in the middle of the North American plate, with a series of ancient calderas stretching across southern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. The Yellowstone hot spot fuels the geysers, hot springs, and other geologic activity at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States.
While some data seem to prove Wilsonâs hot spot theory, more recent scientific studies suggest that these hot spots may be found at more shallow depths in the planet's mantle and may migrate slowly over geologic time rather than stay fixed in the same spot.
Principal Types of VolcanoesÂ
While volcanoes come in a variety of shapes and sizes, they all share a few key characteristics. All volcanoes are connected to a reservoir of molten rock, called a magma chamber, below the surface of Earth. When pressure inside the chamber builds up, the buoyant magma travels out a surface vent or series of vents, through a central interior pipe or series of pipes. These eruptions, which vary in size, material, and explosiveness, create different types of volcanoes.
StratovolcanoesÂ
Stratovolcanoes are some of the most easily recognizable and imposing volcanoes, with steep, conic peaks rising up to several thousand meters above the landscape. Also known as composite volcanoes, they are made up of layers of lava, volcanic ash, and fragmented rocks. These layers are built up over time as the volcano erupts through a vent or group of vents at the summitâs crater.
Mount Rainier is an impressive stratovolcano that rises 4,392 meters (14,410 feet) above sea level just south of the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington. Over the past half million years, Mount Rainier has produced a series of alternating lava eruptions and debris eruptions. These eruptions have given Mount Rainier the classic layered structure and conic shape of a composite volcano. The volcanoâs peak has also been carved down by a series of glaciers, giving it a craggy and rugged shape.
Volcan de Fuego and Acatenango are a pair of stratovolcanoes that stand more than 3,700 meters (12,000 feet) above sea level near Antigua, Guatemala. While the volcanoes are considered twins because of their similar shape and size, they are made of different types of lava and have distinct eruption histories. While Acatenango erupts infrequently today, Fuego is considered to be the most active volcano in Central America, erupting more than 60 times since 1524.
Shield VolcanoesÂ
Shield volcanoes are built almost exclusively of lava, which flows out in all directions during an eruption. These flows, made of highly fluid basalt lava, spread over great distances and cool in thin layers. Over time, the layers build up and create a gently sloping dome that looks like a warriorâs shield. While they are not as eye-catching as their steep stratovolcano cousins, shield volcanoes are often much larger in volume because of their broad, expansive structure.
Shield volcanoes make up the entirety of the Hawaiian Islands. The Kilauea and Mauna Loa shield volcanoes, located on the âBig Islandâ of Hawaiâi, rise from the ocean floor more than 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) below sea level. The summit of Mauna Loa stands at 4,168 meters (13,677 feet) above sea level and more than 8,500 meters (28,000 feet) above the ocean floor, making it the worldâs largest active volcanoâand, by some accounts, the worldâs tallest mountain. The smaller volcano, Kilauea, has been erupting continuously since 1983, making it one of the worldâs most active volcanoes.Â
The Galapagos Islands are also made up of a series of shield volcanoes. Isabela and Fernandina islands have flatter tops than other shield volcanoes because lava erupts from fissures around their tops and along ridges at their bases. As a result, the volcanoes rise at the top and grow outward at the bottomâbut not in the middle, making them look like an âinverted soup bowl.â
Pyroclastic Cones
Pyroclastic cones are the most prolific type of volcano on Earth. They can develop as part of stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, or independently. Also known as cinder cones, they form after violent eruptions blow lava into the air. In the atmosphere, the lava fragments solidify and fall as âcindersâ around a singular vent. Often formed from a single eruption or short series of eruptions, pyroclastic cones only stand at heights of tens of meters to hundreds of meters.
ParÃcutin, Mexico, is a unique pyroclastic cone. It was the first volcano to be studied for its entire life cycle. Emerging from a cornfield in 1943, ParÃcutinâs explosive eruptions caused it to reach 80 percent of its height of 424 meters (1,391 feet) during its first year of activity. In that time, lava and ash buried the nearby town of San Juan. Over the next eight years, ParÃcutin built the remainder of its coneâand then went quiet. Geologists learned a great deal about the evolution of volcanoes in ParÃcutinâs short, nine-year life.
Lava Domes
Lava domes are like shield volcanoes in that they are built entirely of lava. This lava, however, is too thick and sticky to move great distances. It just piles up around the volcano vent. Lava domes are often found on the summit or flanks of a volcano, but they can also develop independently. Like pyroclastic cones, they only reach a few hundred meters, as they are formed during singular eruptions or slow lava releases.
One of the most iconic lava domes developed after the devastating 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique. For almost a year, a lava dome grew out of a summit crater created from the eruption, reaching a height of more than 300 meters (1,000 feet). Known as the Tower of Pelée, the obelisk-shaped structure was twice the height of the Washington Monument. It ultimately collapsed into a pile of rubble after 11 months of growth.
Other Important Volcanic FeaturesÂ
Calderas
Some volcanoes experience such large, explosive eruptions that they release most of the material in their magma chamber. This causes the land around the erupting vent or vents to collapse inwardly, creating circular depressions called calderas. Depending on their intensity and duration, volcanic eruptions can create calderas as much as 100 kilometers wide.
Crater Lake, Oregon, United States, is in a caldera about 10 kilometers (six miles) wide. Crater Lakeâs caldera resulted from an eruption that occurred more than 7,000 years ago. The volcano's magma chamber collapsed, then filled with water from rain and snow, creating the lake. Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States.Â
Deception Island, located off the coast of Antarctica, experienced a violent eruption roughly 10,000 years ago. The volcano summit collapsed, forming a caldera seven kilometers (4.4 miles) wide and flooded with seawater. The caldera gives Deception Island its horseshoe shape, which opens to the sea through a narrow channel. Deception Islandâs unique geologic structure makes it one of the only places in the world where ocean vessels can sail directly into an active volcano.
Craters
Much like calderas, craters are depressions left after a volcano experiences a large eruption. While calderas are formed by the collapse of material inside a volcano, craters are formed as materials explode out from a volcano. Craters are usually much smaller than calderas, only extending to a maximum of about one kilometer (0.62 mile) in diameter.
Many volcanoes have multiple craters caused by different eruptions. The Maly Semiachik volcano, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia, has six craters at its summit. The youngest of these craters, Troitsky, filled in with water and snowmelt, creating a lake 140 meters (459 feet) deep. The lake is highly acidic, as volcanic gases continue to be released into the water from the active volcano below.
Lava lakes are also found in volcanic craters. Erta Ale, a volcano in Ethiopia, has a lava lake in its summit crater. Lava lakes are where magma has bubbled up to the surface and pooled in a crater. Volcanologists can fly over Erta Aleâs summit crater to see how the lava lake is behaving and predict future behavior.
Types of Volcanic Eruptions
Volcanic eruptions are as diverse as volcanoes themselvesâwhich is to say, very diverse! Some of the ways volcanologists have classified these eruptions are based on the heights they reach, the types of materials they eject, and the explosiveness of these ejections.
HawaiianÂ
Hawaiian eruptions are the calmest eruption type. They are characterized by steady lava eruptions known as lava fountains or fire fountains. Lava fountains are able to reach heights of up to two kilometers (1.2 miles). The highly fluid lava associated with Hawaiian eruptions flows easily away from the volcano summit, often creating fiery rivers and lakes of lava within depressions on the surrounding landscape.
These eruptions are named after the Hawaiian Islands, where they most often occur. Kilauea, which has been erupting continuously since 1983, has produced lava flows covering more than 100 square kilometers (37 square miles) on the island of Hawaiâi. These flows continuously destroy houses and communities in their path, while also adding new coastline to the island.Â
StrombolianÂ
Strombolian eruptions are characterized by short-lived outbursts of lava rather than steady fountaining. The lava is thicker and has a higher gas content than that of Hawaiian eruptions. Large gas bubbles rise from the magma chamber, pushing the pasty lava upward until the bubbles explode at the summit vent. These explosions can reach heights up to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) although most donât go higher than a few hundred meters into the air.
Strombolian eruptions are named after the Mediterranean island of Stromboli, Italy. Considered by many to be the most active volcano on Earth, Stromboli has been erupting almost continuously for 2,000 years. The islandâs eruptions are almost always Strombolian in nature: Small gas explosions eject blobs of lava into the air a couple of times per hour.Â
Vulcanian
Vulcanian eruptions are short-lived but much more explosive than Strombolian eruptions. Very thick lava causes gas pressure to build up in the magma chamber. When this pressure is finally released it creates canon-like explosions that can travel faster than 350 meters per second (800 miles per hour). Lava, rock, and ash are propelled up to 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in the air, although most eruption columns are between five and 10 kilometers high. These plumes of material have the ability to drift moderate distances away from the eruption site.
The 2013 vulcanian eruption of Sakurajima, on the island of Kyushu, Japan, covered the nearby city of Kagoshima in a thick coat of ash.
Plinian
Reaching as high as 50 kilometers (35 miles) in the atmosphere, Plinian eruptions are the largest of all eruption types. Much like vulcanian eruptions, they eject materials at speeds of hundreds of meters per second. Plinian eruptions, however, are more sustained than the coughing fits of vulcanian eruptions. These consistent eruptions result from the volcanoâs magma and growing gas bubbles rising at a similar velocity.
Plinian eruptions are the most destructive type of eruption. They release a deadly mixture of lava, ash, and volcanic rocks such as scoria and pumice, which can fall kilometers away from the eruption site. They are also characterized by pyroclastic flow, a fluid mixture of fragmented materials and extremely hot, toxic gases.
In 79 C.E., a series of Plinian eruptions from Mount Vesuvius buried the nearby Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum (in what is today Italy). The cities and their 13,000 inhabitants were buried in volcanic ash and rock. Rainfall mixed with the ash and created a concrete-like substance that preserved the city for thousands of years.
Surtseyan
Surtseyan eruptions occur where magma or lava interacts with water, most often when an undersea volcano reaches the ocean surface. Another term for this sort of interaction is a phreatomagmatic eruption. When heated rapidly by lava, water flashes to steam and expands violently, creating the most explosive of all eruption types. This aggressive interaction between water and heat is able to fragment lava into very fine grains of ash that can reach heights of 20 kilometers (12.4 miles).
Tongaâs islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha'apai are actually the tops of a single, large underwater volcano. In 2009, the volcano erupted for several days, causing steam and ash to explode from the water to altitudes of five kilometers (3.1 miles). While the eruptions killed all signs of wildlife on and around the islands, it also added hundreds of square meters of land to Hunga Haâapai.
Volcanic Hazards
Volcanoes are some of Earthâs most potent natural hazards and agents of change. They release enormous amounts of energy and material, engaging natural processes that can modify landscapes at a local, regional, and even global scale.
Many volcanic materials and processes pose a threat to human, animal, and other ecological communities.Â
Volcanic Gas
Volcanoes regularly release volcanic gases that can be dangerous at concentrated levels. Carbon dioxide and fluorine can collect in soil or volcanic ash, causing crop failure, animal death and deformity, and human illness.
Volcanic eruptions can also release massive amounts of sulfur dioxide, which rises into the stratosphere. There, it reflects incoming solar radiation while absorbing outgoing land radiation, leading to a cooling of Earthâs temperature.
In extreme cases, these âvolcanic wintersâ can cause crop failures and drastically affect weather. The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, Indonesia, cooled the average global temperature by as much as 3° Celsius (5.4° Fahrenheit), causing the âyear without a summer.â
Landslides and Lahars
The enormous energy of volcanic eruptions can cause large landslides that move at speeds of more than 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour). Mount St. Helens, Washington, is a stratovolcano that had an explosive Plinian eruption in 1980. The eruption produced the largest landslide in recorded history, covering a 36-kilometer (14-mile) area of land with ash and rocks. Reaching speeds of 50 to 80 meters (165 to 260 feet) per second, the landslide had enough power to surge over a ridge 400 meters (1,312 feet) high.
Landslides can mix with surrounding rivers, ice, snow, or rain to produce watery mixtures called lahars. This mixture of water, rock, and debris creates a sludge that can obliterate almost anything in its path. The 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia, caused small lahars of rock, ash, and melted snow to flow down into the surrounding river valleys. The lahars gained momentum and size as they traveled the riverbeds, ultimately destroying more than 5,000 homes and killing more than 23,000 people.
Pyroclastic Flows
Explosive eruptions sometimes produce pyroclastic flows, a mixture of hot rock fragments and toxic gases that move almost like a liquid out and away from the volcano. Reaching speeds greater than 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) and temperatures between 200-700° Celsius (392-1292° Fahrenheit), pyroclastic flows knock down, shatter, bury, or burn anything in their path.
Pyroclastic flows are responsible for the haunting figures from Pompeii and Herculaneum, Italy. While many scientists thought residents of Pompeii suffocated to death from volcanic gases released during Mount Vesuviusâ eruption in 79 C.E., new studies suggest that they actually died from extreme heat produced by the volcanoâs pyroclastic flow.Â
Volcanologist Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo and the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology recently discovered that the pyroclastic flow that reached Pompeii produced temperatures of up to 300° Celsius (570° Fahrenheit). These extreme temperatures are able to kill people in a fraction of a second, causing them to spasm in contorted postures like those found among the plaster casts of Vesuviusâ victims.
Volcanic AshÂ
Huge plumes of volcanic ash can spread over large areas of the sky, turning daylight into complete darkness and inhibiting air traffic. (During the eruption of Icelandâs Eyjafjallajökull in 2011, flights to and from Northern Europe were suspended for more than a week.) Volcanic ash conducts electricity when wet and can contain concentrated levels of toxic materials, posing threats to humans that come in close contact with it on land.
The 1994 double eruption of Vulcan and Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea covered the nearby city of Rabaul in a layer of ash up to 75 centimeters (about two feet) deep. Rains turned the ash into a cement-like substance that was heavy enough to collapse 80 percent of the buildings in the city.
Volcanic Monitoring and Research
Volcanic hazards can be incredibly dangerous to human life. In the United States alone, 54 volcanoes are a very high or high threat to public safety. By closely monitoring volcanic activity, volcanologists can warn people of impending eruptions. While these warnings are not exact predictions, they do provide communities with the valuable time they need to protect themselves against volcanic hazards and ensure their safety.
Volcanologists predict volcanic activity by taking real-time measurements and comparing them against what happened in the past. They use a variety of instruments and technologies to monitor temperatures, gas emissions, water levels, ground movements, and changes in the landscape. These measurements paint a clear portrait of a volcanoâs current state, which volcanologists then interpret against historical data. Volcanologists issue eruption warnings when these measurements stray far from the norm or mirror those that preceded a historic eruption.
Different countries use different systems to issue eruption warnings to the public. All of these systems categorize their alerts based on the probability and severity of an impending eruption. Typical volcanic behavior is often represented by the number 1 or the color green, while an imminent and potentially destructive eruption is typically represented by the number 4 or the color red.
A number of international organizations lead the way in volcanic monitoring and research, providing invaluable information to scientists, volcanologists, and the public alike. The Smithsonian Institutionâs Global Volcanism Program documents current activity for all the volcanoes on the planet through publicly available data, reports, and images. The program also keeps the worldâs only archive of volcanic activity from the last 10,000 years.
As part of the UN International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earthâs Interior (IAVCEI) created a list of 16 "Decade Volcanoes" to study because of the high risk they pose to public safety. Mount Nyiragongo in Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, is dangerously close to the city of Goma. Its 2002 eruption killed 50 people and forced roughly 450,000 people to evacuate their communities. The Santa MarÃa Volcano, which sits right above the city of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, has been continuously erupting since 2003. The Decade Volcanoes program has brought together geologists, volcanologists, and government officials to closely study these volcanoes and create risk-mitigation plans for potential eruptions.
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As a first step, Sky Italia transcoded its entire back catalog into high definition in only a few weeks. This was a major technical challenge. Processing high-definition content takes longer and demands four times more CPU than standard-definition video, meaning that Sky Italia needed to add resources to its on-premises infrastructure in order to meet its deadlines. To do that, Sky Italia teamed up with Google Cloud Partner Go Reply to develop a solution for integrating its hybrid transcoder into Google Cloud.
“We had to transcode all our assets to the new bit-rate set optimizing costs and time. This wasn’t possible using only our existing on-premises infrastructure,” says Gabriele Ubertini, Director of Technology Engineering and Innovation at Sky Italia. “With Compute Engine, we could spin up new instances so quickly that managing our peak transcoding workload became a no-brainer. No extra capex, no time wasted. And by using Custom Machine Types, we could optimize the configurations of VMs to our real needs.”
Transcoding old video content while keeping up with new content produced every day can put a strain on a broadcaster’s infrastructure. With more than 5,000 video assets to be transcoded to HD on tight deadlines, Sky Italia had to source new transcoding capacity in addition to its existing on-premises servers. Rather than purchase and install extra hardware, the team looked for a cost-effective solution that met stringent internal security requirements. Together with Go Reply, Sky Italia conceived a public cloud and on-premises hybrid HD transcoder and benchmarked a range of potential cloud providers. They decided to take advantage of Google Cloud preemptible VMs—highly affordable, short-lived compute instances that could handle the batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads that Sky Italia needed.
Preemptible VMs offer the same machine types and options as regular compute instances and last for up to 24 hours. Working with Custom Machine Types, which respond rapidly to peaks in demand without the need for overprovisioning, and a custom orchestrator that manages the whole process, Sky Italia has been able to efficiently manage costs for savings up to 80 percent.
“Google offered us direct peering services between its infrastructure and the Sky data center,” says Ubertini. “Google preemptible virtual machines reduced our VM spending, but we needed a way to manage the moments when they might be unavailable. With Go Reply, we created an orchestration layer that let us use preemptible VMs and normal instances together and easily recover from preemptible VM shutdowns.”
Instead of taking months, the hybrid transcoder processed the entire Sky Italia archive in just one week. On a day-by-day basis, the time required to catalog new video assets has also been significantly reduced. Taking the hybrid approach a step further, Sky Italia looked to the cloud to help manage the spikes in traffic coming at different times of the day and for special events. Video processing request volume can vary widely based on when new series are aired, when soccer matches are being played, or simply by day of the week. While the cloud offers virtually unlimited scalability to handle peaks and valleys as they arise, Sky Italia opted for a hybrid approach, keeping the baseline on-premises and scaling to the cloud as traffic requires. This solution offers on-demand, highly efficient scaling with reduced lead time for delivering VOD assets with high signal quality. At the same time, costs are kept well under control.
Scoring a win for the business by moving software-defined encoding to the cloud
The TV business is competitive, with new providers and new offers continually entering the market. Sky Italia has a market advantage by providing its subscribers with premium sports content in HD—especially soccer—as part of the traditional, set-top box subscription. But more and more subscribers are moving from TV decoders to the company’s mobile Sky Go and streaming NowTV services, which allow users to watch on computers, mobile devices, and smart TVs. The product team saw that it could help Sky Italia stay competitive on mobile by converting its premium soccer streams to HD. With the COVID-19 crisis adding uncertainty as to when the 2020/2021 Series A season would actually begin, they brought this idea to Gandino. He immediately saw that his team would need to move very quickly so that the business would be ready whenever the season started. In fact, by the time they got to work, the starting date had been announced, and they had less than two months to get the technology ready for the business to take it to market.
Gandino explains, “We were asked to upscale our sports channels from SD to HD on NowTV and Sky Go mobile devices. Over the past two years, we’ve developed a solution that leverages Kubernetes to support our encoding stack. We created a software-defined encoding framework that allows us to deploy this encoding stack in the cloud, on-premises, wherever we want. After receiving this time-sensitive request from the business, we knew the only way to be able to deliver the project in time was to do it in the cloud.”
Gandino’s team had two technical challenges to consider when defining the project. Sky Italia offers two types of sports channels to subscribers—linear channels that are available 24/7 and “pop-up” channels that are available for specific events. Working with Google Cloud engineers, his team decided to use VPNs to accommodate Sky Italia’s ingest to the cloud. Encoding the linear channels for the cloud was a straightforward solution, since the encoding stack was already in production on-premises using Kubernetes. Gandino says, “We process the same content in exactly the same way, twice basically, just to be able to provide better resilience to our customers.” The encoding stack is then deployed into two availability zones, and the streams flow to the encoding stacks. Then the channels are fed back to the content delivery network and delivered to viewers.
“On-premises, when we experience a failure on the main encoders, it takes a few seconds for the backup encoders to kick in. As a result, mobile customers see a few seconds of black screen. Now, with the Google Cloud encoding solution, the switch is seamless because we already have a copy available and ready to deliver,” adds Gandino.
Sky Italia took a different approach for the pop-up channels, which only go live for specific sports events. In order not to waste cloud and license resources for channels that were only live for special events, Gandino and his team developed an orchestrator that essentially creates those channels ad hoc when an event goes live. “We create the channel, we consume the feed, and we deliver it back on-premises only when there is an event. This is done to save money on Google Cloud consumption and software licenses,” says Gandino. Sky Italia not only met the deadline but also is saving about 90 percent of the cost of a traditional channel by creating pop-ups for special events, all while delivering HD quality to viewers.
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Sky Italia is one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies and the largest pay TV provider in Italy. One of the biggest draws to the service is “X-Factor,” the award-winning TV music competition. A key part of the show is that the home viewing audience votes for their favorite performers, with the results tabulated […]
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Sky Italia is one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies and the largest pay TV provider in Italy. One of the biggest draws to the service is “X-Factor,” the award-winning TV music competition. A key part of the show is that the home viewing audience votes for their favorite performers, with the results tabulated and shared during live broadcasts. Given that viewer interactivity is the foundation of the experience, the technology driving the voting platform is mission-critical.
For 12 years, Sky Italia had outsourced its voting platform to a third party, which delivered a solution that was robust, well-tested, and reliable, but was a black box. So, given the criticality of voting for the TV show, in 2021, the team behind it began to explore the idea of taking the voting platform in-house to improve performance, lower costs, and re-architect it for use cases beyond “X-Factor.” The massive audience and social media echo would put Sky Italia’s voting platform under the spotlight, so the new platform had to deliver robust performance, fault tolerance, and low latency.
“We wanted to have a more generic platform, focused enough for ‘X-Factor’ but extensible enough to handle other use cases,” said Nicola Cremaschini, Principal Technical Architect of Digital Properties, Sky Italia. “In addition, in 2022, the TV show introduced temporary rankings on stage with the audience in near-real time. We had a very short time to get our platform ready to support ‘X-Factor’ live events.”
With Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed services, Sky Italia was able to re-platform in just six months. It launched for the first episode of “X-Factor” season 2022, handling millions of votes per session while adhering to competition rules and providing near-real time ranking. Best of all, it delivered better performance and reduced costs by 84 percent compared to the previous single-purpose outsourced “X-Factor” voting platform.
What the voting platform needed to handle
Each season Sky Italia delivers seven live “X-Factor” shows, one per week. Each includes three voting sessions. Votes start when the host from the live stage opens the session, and viewers from home can vote for their favorite performers before they even sing. Viewers can vote up to 10 times during the live show. The voting platform has to identify which votes are coming from each device.
For the 2022 season of “X-Factor,” Sky Italia introduced near real-time results sharing, in which the host shares the temporary ranking onstage with the audience while voting is still in progress, beside opening and closing results onstage as usual. This meant the platform also had to open and close the voting system in near real-time. Closed sessions are checked live by a notary who documents the voting results, with vote accuracy and quick responsiveness top priorities.
The new voting solution also needed to support three existing channels— the “X-Factor” websites, mobile apps (Android and iOs), and Decoder and Glass. Voters needed to be able to use the authentication service leveraged on Amazon Cognito for support in social logins and via the Sky Ad login. It was also essential that the voting platform kept the interface the same as it was when it was designed 12 years ago, as the API was essentially fixed due to the massive task that would have been required to change set-top boxes across the country.
Under the hood
To support the architecture of the new voting platform Sky Italia uses AWS Fargate to manage underlying infrastructure and Containers to host the voting application, AWS Lambda to run code for applications without provisioning or managing servers, Amazon SQS for managed message queuing, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to stream data coming into the vote services as events in Sky’s ranking system, and Amazon DynamoDB to deliver single-digit millisecond performance at scale.
Trial by fire
After getting approval of their proposed new voting platform architecture in May 2022, Cremaschini and his team set to work with an exceedingly tight deadline, aiming to go live for the first episode of the new season in October. They drove a series of pre-season tests with the goal of doubling the best-ever “X-Factor” live performance, which was 10M votes, set in 2020.
Cremaschini said, “For the first live show, we had to be sure that the platform wouldn’t crash under the votes of real traffic. In July, we performed a huge amount of vote tests and did even better than our goal. We reached 60 million votes in about 10 minutes, which averaged 75,000 votes per second.”
The focus of the tests was anticipating the special “X-Factor” voting session called Tilt, where two contestants have 10 minutes to present their talent. All voting happens in that time period, so the sessions go from zero to thousands of votes per second at the start and end of the session.
But, as Cremaschini discovered, “The value of time is relative. Sixty seconds was a very good result for aggregating millions of votes, but for a live TV show, it’s an eternity. It’s absolutely not acceptable. Between the season’s first and second episodes, we had to fine-tune the configuration of services involved in ranking aggregation to reduce the time required to aggregate the last votes.”
Not only did the team reduce the vote aggregation delay from 60 seconds to less than 10. Over the course of the first season, they also made platform adjustments to align information between the back office and email sent for final ranking, enable back-office ranking updates with auto-refresh capabilities, adjust near-real-time dashboards and filter for ranking visualization, tune the API for cost optimizations, and optimize API performance to reduce latency. Considering that “X-Factor” is a live weekly show, every improvement had to be performed, tested, and certified in three to four working days.
Mission accomplished
The new AWS-powered voting platform delivered the results it needed to, enabling 18 polls across all live sessions (standard and Tilt), facilitating 20M votes overall across the seven live sessions, and handling 5.7M total votes over the final live session. The platform realized a performance of 400K votes/minute at peak. Additionally, analyzing the data captured by the voting platform provided insights that helped the show adjust and build on its success, such as 47-50 percent of votes come from Decoder, 47-50 percent from the mobile app, less than 3 percent from the website, and that users tend to run out of votes sooner than expected.
The performance boost, ease of setup/tear-down, and cost savings made the project an overwhelming success. “By insourcing and re-architecting the platform to managed services, we reduced our costs by 84 percent,” said Cremaschini. “We love AWS for that! Our latency is very good under a huge load (142ms latency at p95 under ~56k votes/second and ~100k RPS). We were able to support near real-time ranking for the first time. That wasn’t possible without AWS. And, before insourcing, we needed days to set up our platform. With the adoption of AWS-managed services, we were able to evolve architecture between episodes with zero operations required to handle the platform. That makes it easy for us to quickly evolve the platform for other use cases.”
“It’s exactly what we set out to do,” he concluded.
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