If you have a standard sky box and wanted to terminate the contract, but still receive freesat channels, I understand you have to call Sky for a viewing card that costs about £20 is that correct?
And if you go down this route, will you be able to watch Sky Sports News? If not, is there another way of having a non subscription service that includes Sky Sports News?
Freesat receivers are free to air receivers that allow you to watch the free to air channels - ie the channels that require no sky card.
You can watch the same freesat FTA channels on a sky box - just remove the sky card from your sky box.
You do need a freesatfromsky card to receive the Free to View channels on satellite - which are Five Fiver Five USA, Sky 3, Viva, Liverpool FC TV, and a few ITV1 regions and a irish version of channel 4.
You do not need a viewing card for all UK BBC channels, many ITV1,2,3,4 channels, all UK versions of C4.
(you have not needed a viewing card for BBC channels for at least 6 years now!)
Sky Sports News on satellite is only available with a sky "news and events" subscription. There is no other way via satllite to receive it for free as it is a subscription Tv channel.
Sky Sports News is, however, free to air, on the UK Freeview service. Freeview is only available in the UK as it is transmitted form the land based TV mast like Emly Moor and Crystal Palace. You cannot get Freeview in Spain.