Sky's decision to continue to invest in Arts with a second arts channel, Sky Arts 2 is both surprising and welcome.
At the same time as the BBC seems willing to spend licence fee money on everything that the commercial sector already supplies - such as local news and entertainment - and precious little on the worthy stuff that Lord Reith would have wanted it to go on, Sky is filling in the gaps.
I have to admit that Sky Arts is not necessarily my idea of an interesting view, but it is to some people and it's shameful that the commercial sector is the one that is now providing it because either the BBC can't or won't. Sky News is also a vastly superior service to the BBc's alternative.
Given that this week research was released showing that less than half the population are happy paying the licence fee, the Sky subscription is looking increasingly like much better value.
