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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Sky2 did broadcast Sky Poker for an hour late at night some years back.
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This was on a non Sky channel though, as all but the premium Sky channels had been removed at that time.
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Originally Posted by BexTech
They are FTA on satellite, the only revenue Sky would get is the small charge it makes for the EPG number on Sky boxes, Freesat also charge a small fee for an EPG number on their boxes, for standard satellite boxes they create their own EPG list.
These channels have to pay the satellite owners (Astra or Eutelsat) for capacity and an uplink provider etc.
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True, I would imagine that Sky do make a profit on this arrangement though.
I have received a telephone message to say that the two minor channels "launched" in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but were quickly removed as they were only testing and affected channels100 and 999 which disappeared from the EPG.
I'd bet that (my hunch only) that they were WRN and RTE. Despite the unification of the EPG for some time now, these channels have been allowed to continue in ex Telewest areas only.
I would think that if they were not going to be added to ex NTL areas at some point, they would have been dumped by now as they are the only remaining anomolies.