Paramount Network UK promoted as 5Spike closes
Paramount Network UK is taking 5Spike's EPG place on multiple platforms, including Freeview, as 5Spike closes.
The video on the tweets shows content of the type that is currently on 5Spike, so I would interpret that as a merger of the channels. https://twitter.com/paramountnetuk/s...78201710092290 https://twitter.com/5spiketv/status/1205778201768710144 Looks like a cost cutting measure as there is no indication that anything is happening to the 5Spike space i.e. for a new channel. There isn't a Spike brand in US anymore, it closed over a year ago and was replaced by a completely different type of channel as I recall. |
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If it will be broadcasting a mixture of shows from both the current Paramount UK and 5Spike, as the video promo suggests, then it is pretty much a merger. Much like Good Food shows being put on Food Network after Discovery got control of Good Food recently, and subsequently closed it. The old Food Network shows are still there, just mixed with GF shows in the new schedule. And the Director of Programming at Channel 5 recently got his job expanded. https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2019...of-programmes/ |
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C5's Ben Frow only very recently got put in charge of other UK bits of Viacom, and that's the parts before CBS came back into the picture. https://tbivision.com/2019/11/28/cha...ontent-budget/ The CBS channels in Europe are co-owned with AMC Networks International. Oddly Smithsonian Channel UK does seem to be have same ownership as the US one. Odd because Smithsonian Channel is run in conjunction with Blue Ant Media in many countries. https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019...onal-presence/ However I think the main problem is the channel licensee needs to be the same to enable it. On the DTT part of the Ofcom website: Paramount Network's Licensee Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/ra...untnetwork.htm And Smithsonian Channel's Licensee is SNI/SI Networks LLC http://static.ofcom.org.uk/static/ra...ianchannel.htm Rules involving ownership have stopped certain things happening on Freeview before. It's quite possible Smithsonian Channel will end up with one of the 3 full slots (ex-E4+1, ex-TBN or ex-5Spike), but if they do end up with 5Spike's slot it will be up to Arqiva. I think C5 would have to give up the slot for Smithsonian to simply have a chance get it, because they are still legally separate entities in UK. And C5 haven't said they are giving up the slot. If they aren't, the only obvious internal channel choices to take the 5Spike slot are 5Star+1, 5USA+1 and Paramount Network +1 as they all have C5 as their licensee. |
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