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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney

Sky could lose £150m a year from plan to relax ad limits on UK’s free-to-air TV

The Sky logo on a sign outside its headquarters in Isleworth, London
Ad rules introduced in 1991 were designed to favour then fledgling pay-TV companies such as Sky. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The pay-TV provider Sky could lose as much as £150m a year in TV advertising revenue from proposals aimed at enabling the UK’s biggest free-to-air broadcasters to make more money and better compete with streaming services.

The broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, is reviewing historical rules that restrict the UK’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) – ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 – from running as many minutes of advertising on their main channels as rivals such as Sky are allowed.

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