Key facts about The Bigger Picture

Our television service offers one of the most advanced parental control systems available.
Our broadband customers receive free child protection software for life.
In 2007 we offered 429,000 hours of subtitling a year across our channels, as well as 26,000 hours of audio described programmes.
We are committed to encouraging responsible gambling, a commitment reflected in our award of the GamCare kitemark.
We have a dedicated Accessibility Service team of 80 specifically trained advisors who take over 4,500 calls every week.
We provide key information about our services in different formats such as Braille, Audio CD and large print.

We offer 36 hours of arts programming every single day through Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 2 with the best of the best shown on Sky Arts HD.
We've just launched a fourth arts channel - from later this year, you'll be able to catch everything available on our standard definition channels on Sky Arts 1 HD and Sky Arts 2 HD.
These four arts channels are the UK’s only television channels dedicated to all areas of the arts.
We have partnerships with English National Ballet, the Hay Festival and leading public arts company, Artichoke.
Sky Arts made TV history in February when it broadcast Jonathan Miller’s La Bohème live from the London Colisuem. The opera was simulcast on three channels – Sky Arts 2 and Sky Arts HD broadcast the opera, while Sky Arts 1 broadcast all the action backstage as it unfolded.
You can apply to stand on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square this summer as part of Antony Gormley’s ‘One and Other’ at www.oneandother.co.uk

Sky has a multi-million pound agreement with British Cycling to increase participation in cycling from grassroots to elite.
Sky is creating a professional British road cycling team, to be managed by Dave Brailsford CBE, with an aim to creating the first British winner of the Tour de France within five years and inspiring people of all ages and abilities to get on their bikes.
50,000 people enjoyed a day out cycling through a traffic-free London as part of Sky Sports London Freewheel.
Sky Sports Living for Sport, which we run with the Youth Sports Trust, has helped over 17,000 young people reach their potential already and intends to help 30,000 more in the years to come. To find out how your school can get involved click here.
Over 13,000 cricket coaches have been trained through the England and Wales Cricket Board’s Coach Education Programme, sponsored by Sky Sports.

Sky’s carbon footprint in 2007/08 was 53,701 tonnes of CO2.
We’ve reduced our carbon emissions by 16%, on a like-for-like basis in the last four years.
The world’s first auto standby for set top boxes is set to save our customers an estimated
£20 million a year on their energy bills by switching off their boxes automatically when they aren’t in use.
Hundreds of primary schools are learning more about how to reduce food waste with Appetite for Action, the programme we run with Global Action Plan, the practical environmental charity.
Last year we refurbished or recycled 830,409 set top boxes and routers.
We reduced the energy use of the last series of Gladiators by 35%.

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