There are growing rumours that that Sky News HD will launch on April 6, once the UK General Election is called.
This speculation has been further fuelled by Sky News moving operations to Studio B from 30 March so that final preparation can take place in the main newsroom. This has also been fueled by the use of "green screen / chromakey" backgrounds for the channel over the Easter weekend - suggesting changes are happening.
Sky News HD will be available to customers of the Sky+HD service, but there's no word on whether it will be available on freesat. I'll going to stick my neck out and say 'no chance'.
It is anticipated that the channel will launch on Sky channel 517.
UPDATE: 6th April
Martin Stanford (Sky News Presenter) on Twitter re Sky News HD...
"not my call! but weeks rather than days away I think.... "
"no, not today! still loads of work to do; lighting to tweak and so on..."
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