Sky cancelling legacy TV subscriptions in October 2024
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Customers who still have an older subscription and use a non-HD box will have their subscriptions cancelled in October.
- Withdrawal of Sky’s own channels from SD boxes this month leaves receivers with access to very few channels.
- Sky continues to urge affected viewers to make the switch to Sky Q or Sky Stream.
Sky has confirmed that anyone still using an older box will have their subscriptions cancelled in a final step to discontinue any support for its first generation receivers.
As previously reported, Sky began to withdraw channels from older boxes this summer. Then Sky confirmed it would discontinue all of its own channels from SD boxes by the end of August.
This leaves older boxes only able to access a small selection of non-Sky owned subscriptions channels, like Comedy Central (Paramount), Cartoon Network (WBD), GOLD (UKTV) and a small number of free-to-air channels. Sky will now cancel all remaining legacy subscriptions. Anyone who doesn’t upgrade in time will lose access to any remaining channels on their October billing date.