SKY TV and broadband customers are set for a price rise.

The change, which customers were expected to be notified of on Thursday, will affect millions across the UK.

The price hike will not come into force until April 1, with changes for talk customers kicking in a month later.

Sky say the price increase will see an average rise of 5.1%, or £3.50 a month.

However, not all products are increasing – Sky Sports, Sky Go, Sky Box Sets, Sky HD, Sky Voicemail, Talk International, in-contract Sky Cinema and Sky Kids will not be increasing in price.

Among the most notable changes are:

• Sky Cinema is increasing by £1 from £10 to £11 (if a customer is already in-contract, it won’t increase)

• Sky Entertainment is increasing by £2 from £20 to £22

• Sky Broadband will increase by £1, across all packages

• Sky Fibre Broadband will increase by £2 across all packages

• Sky Q Multiscreen is increasing by £1 from £12 to £13

• Sky Talk Evening and Weekends will increase by £1 from £4 to £5

• Sky Talk Anytime will increase by £2 from £8 to £10

A spokesman for Sky said: “We try to keep costs down and provide greater choice for our customers to pick the package that best suits them.

"We know price increases are never welcome, but we hope customers can see that our innovation, great content and our industry leading customer service provide good value.”