What TV channels do I get with Sky Stream TV?

Dan Howdle • January 30th, 2025

Sky Stream

Sky Stream is slowly eating into the decades-long dominance of satellite as the primary means to receive Sky TV. Receiving Sky TV over the internet is just less fuss, less mess, far easier to install, will take up less space wherever you watch TV, and you won't need a (some would say) ugly satellite dish on the side of your home.

Sky has also recently split its TV offering into two package levels: Sky TV Ultimate and Sky TV Essentials, with Sky TV Ultimate comprising everything Sky Stream did prior to the split, and Sky TV Essentials representing a cheaper, more basic version with a cut-down channels list that still includes gems like Sky Atlantic, but misses out on Sky's wider entertainment channel selection.

In this guide...

Key feature comparison

First, let's take a look at the two Sky Stream package levels side-by-side.

Feature Sky Stream Ultimate TV Sky Stream Essentials TV
TV channels 140+ 100+
Contract length 24 months, 30-day rolling 24 months, 30-day rolling
Sky Atlantic Yes Yes
Sky Box Sets Yes No
Other Sky Entertainment channels Yes No
Prices from £22 per month £15 per month

Sky Stream Ultimate TV channels list

So as not to present you with a wall of channel names, and because when people want to know what's included they'll tend to be checking if you are going to get one or maybe two specific channels, we've separated our Sky Stream Ultimate TV channels list into multiple sections to make the ones that are important to you easier to find.

Sky channels

This list comprises all of the Sky-branded, in-house channels you'll get with Sky Stream Entertainment:

Sky Arts Sky Atlantic Sky Challenge Sky Comedy
Sky Crime Sky Documentaries Sky History Sky History 2
Sky Max Sky Nature Sky Replay Sky Sci-Fi
Sky Showcase Sky Sports Mix Sky Sports News Sky Sports Racing
Sky Witness
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Terrestrial and regional live channels

This list comprises all of the traditional terrestrial channels and their variants that you'll get with Sky Stream Entertainment:

BBC One BBC Two BBC Three BBC Four
BBC ALBA BBC News BBC Parliament BBC Scotland
CBBC CBeebies BBC One Northern Ireland BBC One Scotland
BBC One Wales BBC One Channel Islands BBC One East BBC One East Midlands
BBC One London BBC One North East & Cumbria BBC One North West BBC One East Yorks & Lincs
BBC One South BBC One South East BBC One South West BBC One West
BBC One West Midlands BBC One Yorkshire RTÉ One RTÉ Two
RTÉ Junior ITV1/STV/UTV ITV2 ITV3
ITV4 ITVBe CiTV Channel 4
E4 E4 Extra Film4 More4
4seven 4Music Channel 5 5ACTION
5SELECT 5STAR 5 USA
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Other entertainment and Freeview channels

This list comprises entertainment channels that aren't traditionally served via terrestrial television, many or which are 'Freeview' channels:

alibi Animal Planet BLAZE CBS Reality
Challenge Comedy Central Comedy Xtra Crime + Investigation
Dave Discovery Discovery Turbo Discovery History
Discovery Science DMAX Drama E! Entertainment
Eden Eurosport 1 Eurosport 2 Food Network
Ginx eSports TV GOLD GREAT! tv GREAT! romance
GREAT! movies GREAT! action HGTV HorrorXtra
ID LEGEND Movies24 Movies24+
National Geographic National Geographic Wild PBS America Pick
Quest Quest Red Really RealityXtra
Sky Replay Smithsonian S4/C TLC
Together TV W YESTERDAY

Music channels

This list comprises all the music-dedicated channels you will receive with Sky Stream Entertainment:

B4U Music Kerrang! KISS Magic
MTV MTV Music MTV Hits MTV 80s
MTV 90s The Box 4Music

Kids channels

This list comprises all kids-focused channels you will receive as standard on Sky Stream Entertainment:

CBBC CBeebies CiTV RTÉ Junior
POP Tiny POP POP Max

Shopping channels

This short list comprises the shopping channels you will receive as part of a subscription to Sky Stream Entertainment:

QVC HD QVC Style HD QVC Beauty HD QVC Extra HD

Asian and international channels

This list comprises all international and Asian channels you'll get with Sky Stream Entertainment as standard:

B4U Movies B4U Music Colors Colors Gujarati
Colors Rishtey FoodXP Geo News Geo TV
HUM Masala HUM Europe PTC Punjabi Sky News Arabia
Sony MAX Sony MAX2 Sony SAB Sony TV
Utsav Bharat Utsav Gold Utsav Plus Zee Cinema
Zee TV Cúla4 (Irish Gaelic) Aaj Tak

Please note that Sky regularly swaps out the odd channel here and there. New channels appear a few times a year, and some disappear. These lists were correct at the time of writing, but to view any recent updates or changes, you can visit Sky's website where it has regularly updated list of what's in and what's out. Also note that in the following list you may see some channels listed twice, as they fit the description of more than one heading. Again, this is simply so that you can easily find the channels you're looking for.

Sky Stream Essentials TV channels list

You'll notice here that Sky Stream Essentials TV is a rather chopped down list. Important channels like Sky Atlantic are present and correct, while many other Sky Entertainment channels like Sky Max, Sky Comedy, Sky History and so on are MIA. Carefully consider what you get here before determining if it's worth the money saved plumping for the cheaper package.

Sky channels

This list comprises all of the Sky-branded, in-house channels you'll get with Sky Stream Essentials:

Sky Atlantic Sky Arts Sky Mix Sky Sports News
Sky Sports Racing Sky Sports Mix Sky News UK Sky News Arabia

Terrestrial and regional live channels

This list comprises all of the traditional terrestrial channels and their variants that you'll get with Sky Stream Essentials:

BBC One BBC Two BBC Three BBC Four
ITV1/STV/UTV Channel 4/S4C Channel 5 BBC ALBA
BBC Scotland BBC News BBC Parliament CBBC
CBeebies RTÉ One (NI only) RTÉ Two (NI only) RTÉ Junior (NI only)

Entertainment channels

This list comprises entertainment channels that aren't traditionally served via terrestrial television:

Dave W Drama Discovery
TLC Animal Planet ID Discovery Turbo
Discovery History Discovery Science Quest Really
Quest Red DMAX HGTV Food Network
LEGEND LEGEND XTRA GREAT! tv BLAZE
PBS America Together TV Challenge Yesterday
Eden TRUE CRIME TRUE CRIME XTRA

Movies and music channels

This list comprises movie and music channels included in Sky Stream Essentials:

Film4 GREAT! movies GREAT! action GREAT! romance
Clubland TV NOW 70s NOW 80s NOW 90s
NOW ROCK

Shopping channels

This list comprises shopping channels included in Sky Stream Essentials:

QVC QVC Style QVC Beauty QVC Extra

International and news channels

This list comprises international and news channels included in Sky Stream Essentials:

CNBC Bloomberg CNN International GB News
Euronews NDTV World France 24 Music India
Aaj Tak HUM Masala HUM Europe Geo News
Geo TV PTC Punjabi

Add-on channel packs available for Sky Stream

The Ultimate and Essentials channels lists should be viewed as the beginning or base layer of what you can actually subscribe to. On top of both, Sky makes available a number of channel packs you can bolt on at extra cost to suit your needs. Let's take a look at those.

Sky Kids add-on

If you choose to add on the Sky Kids pack, you'll additionally receive the following channels:

BabyTV Boomerang Cartoonito Cartoon Network
Nick Jr. Nick Jr. Too Nickelodeon Nicktoons
Sky Kids

TNT Sports add-on

TNT Sports is one of the more expensive add-ons for Sky Stream. Sport is expensive, there's no way around it. Here are the channels you get if you subscribe via Sky Stream.

TNT Sports 1 TNT Sports 2 TNT Sports 3 TNT Sports 4
TNT Ultimate

Sky Sports add-on

If you add on Sky Sports – which again won't be cheap – you'll get every Sky Sports channel. So:

Sky Sports Arena Sky Sports Cricket Sky Sports F1 Sky Sports Football
Sky Sports Golf Sky Sports Main Event Sky Sports Main Event Ultra HDR Sky Sports NFL
Sky Sports Premier League

Sky Cinema add-on

If you choose to add on the Sky Cinema pack to your Sky Stream subscription, you'll additionally receive all Sky Cinema channels:

Sky Action Sky Animation Sky Comedy Sky Drama HD
Sky Family Sky Greats Sky Hits Sky Premiere
Sky Sci-Fi Horror Sky Select Sky Thriller

Pay-per-view

Yes. Sky Stream will still provide you access to pay-per-view via:

Sky Sports Box Office TNT Sports Box Office

Channels you can't get on Sky Stream

Sky has binned off a bunch of channels when it made the switch from Sky Q to Sky Stream. Fortunately, it's nothing most people will miss.

There are no +1 channels on Sky Stream

With everything on catch-up, one might argue that there is simply no need for +1 channels on Sky's new digital streamning service, and likewise no need to record your own shows. Sky Stream doesn't allow you to record your favourite shows onto the device, instead providing a 'Playlist' feature with which you can mark the shows you want to watch later, and then stream them at your convenience. Truth is there is simply no need for +1 channels on Sky Stream, because rewinding live TV by an hour or more is something you can do yourself with the remote.

Channels you can't get on Sky Stream Ultimate or Essential

Most of those that are missing won't bother anyone. They're either small, niche or both. However, there are some notable omissions. For example, you won't be able to get any channels that require an additional subscription specifically to said channel. So, for now, you won't be able to watch MUTV, LFCTV, BoxNation and so on.

Here's a complete list of channels you won't be able to watch on Sky Stream Entertainment, which include many sport, religious, shopping, and international channels. Adult channels are also not available on Sky Stream for now, but we won't list those here:

BoxNation FreeSports LaLiga TV LFCTV
MUTV Viaplay Sports 1 Viaplay Sports 2 Racing TV
SportStuff Movies ROK TalkingPictures
TCM 92 News A1TV –
Aastha Ahlebait TV Ahlulbayt TV Akaal Channel
ARY Digital ATN Bangla UK Brit Asia TV British Muslim
Channel 44 CHSTV ColorsCineplex Deen TV
Dunya News Eman Channel Hidayat TV ImamHussein3
iON TV IQRA Bangla IQRA TV Iran International HD
Islam Channel Islam Channel Urdu Islam TV Kanshi TV
Madani Channel MATV National MTA1 World NEO News
New Vision TV Noor TV NTV PCNE Chinese
Pitaara Politics Punjab PTV Global Sangat
Sanskar Sikh Channel Siraj TV Takbeer TV
TV One Al Jazeera Arirang TV HD Arise News
Channels 24 NHZ World RTE News TRT World
TVC News WION HD DAYSTAR HD Dunamis TV
EWTN Catholic Faith UK Faith World TV GOD Channel
Good News TV Inspiration TV KICC TV LoveWorld HD
New Media HD Revelation SonLife TBN UK
Word Network Best Direct Craft Extra (now called Shop Extra) Create&CraftHD
Cruise1st.tv Direct Store TV Gems TV High Street TV 1
High Street TV 2 High Street TV 3 High Street TV 4 HobbyMaker
Ideal Extra (channel closed) Ideal World HD (channel closed) JewelleryMaker JML Direct
Shop Extra (previously Craft Extra) Thane TJC TJC Beauty
TV Warehouse

Netflix and Sky Box Sets on Sky Stream Ultimate TV and Sky Stream Essentials TV

Of course, live channels are not the only game in town when you subscribe to Sky Stream. You'll get the Entertainment channels we've outlined in this guide, sure. But depending on whether you choose Sky Stream Ultimate TV or Sky Stream Essentials TV, what you get in terms of on-demand content will differ.

Sky Box Sets on Sky Stream

Despite the lengthy lists in this guide, no. No, we're not going to list out every show you can watch on Sky Box Sets. Not only would the list be longer than China's Great Wall, the content changes daily, meaning any list we could formulate would be quickly out of date.

With Sky Stream Ultimate TV, you get full access to Sky Box Sets, which includes most of Sky’s best historic shows from all of its Sky-branded entertainment channels, including Sky Atlantic. That means a lot of HBO and Sky Original content, such as Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Succession, and many more.

With Sky Stream Essentials TV, Sky Box Sets is not included, meaning you won't get access to this extensive on-demand library. You will still have access to some catch-up content through Sky Entertainment channels, but you won’t be able to binge-watch full series from Sky’s historic catalogue.

Netflix on Sky Stream

The main things you need to know about Netflix on Sky Stream depend on which package you choose:

  • Netflix Standard (No Ads) with Sky Stream Ultimate TV – This allows you to watch on two devices simultaneously in Full HD
  • Netflix Basic with Ads with Sky Stream Essentials TV – This version includes ads and allows streaming in Full HD on one device
  • You won't get money off your existing Netflix subscription – The Netflix subscription included with your Sky Stream package cannot be deducted from an existing Netflix account (unlike Virgin Media's Netflix bundles).
  • But you can use your existing account, then upgrade – You can link your existing Netflix account to the Sky subscription and upgrade to a higher tier by paying the difference
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