About Sky
Sky plc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home entertainment and communications company in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It retails television, broadband, and telephony services to residential customers, as well as commercial customers, such as offices, retail outlets, hotels, pubs, and clubs; and operates WiFi network across the UK and Europe that provides Internet access to WiFi enabled smart phones, laptops, and entertainment devices. The company also operates various television channels, such as Sky 1, Sky living, Sky Atlantic, Sky arts, Sky 3D, Sky movies, Sky sports, Sky news, Comedy Central, Watch, Gold, Alibi, and Fox, as well as Discovery, Disney, and National Geographic; and offers access to 195 pay television channels, including 134 Sky distributed channels and 32 sky channels, as well as approximately 300 free-to-air television and radio channels. In addition, it offers various services, such as Sky+, Sky HD, Sky Multiscreen, On Demand, Sky Go, Sky Go Extra, Sky Box Office, Sky Store, and NOW TV. Further, the company wholesales Sky Channels to other providers selling advertising on Sky and partner channels; offers a range of betting and gaming services under the Sky Bet, Sky Poker, Sky Vegas, and Sky Bingo brands; sells third party television programs; and sells and installs set-top boxes. As of June 30, 2014, it had 11.5 million customers. The company was formerly known as British Sky Broadcasting Group plc and changed its name to Sky plc in November 2014. Sky plc was incorporated in 1988 and is based in Isleworth, the United Kingdom.