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Originally Posted by Chad
BT Sports was on the EPG for around 2 months before it launched.
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Originally Posted by ocav
Because it was advertising to customers to add BT Sport and how to do it? It wasn't in testing.
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Yes, barker channels are different to test transmissions. Sky are very strict about removing channels from the EPG that have problems eg only showing a testcard.
Having said that, when I was with Sky many years ago, I was shocked at the unwatchable quality of some of the african channels. The picture was all over the place!
I would have thought that all platforms would have had a minimum broadcast quality threshold.
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Originally Posted by jj20x
Perhaps the funding was arranged for a fixed period, as with the fees for appearing on the Sky EPG. Although Radio Caroline is still available FTA on satellite it isn't in the Freesat EPG and is no longer available on the Sky EPG.
The carriage arrangements on cable in Ireland could have been a legacy arrangement, considering that Ronan O'Rahilly, the founder of Radio Caroline is actually Irish. Speculation, I know, but things are often done in less conventional ways in Ireland.
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You could well be right
