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Bananaman_007 · 26-01-2014, 18:27

My trail of thought is why rush this deal if they did not need to? The fact it was concluded 12 months early to me singnals that a serious bid will be coming in.

I would not say that Discovery were friendly with Sky, in fact maybe the opposite after what happened with the launch of Quest. A friendd of a friend was working at Discovery at the time and the reason Quest launched 5 months late was due to Sky enforcing a contract, stating that Discovery was not allow to screen its content on FTA TV until 3 years after its broadcast on pay tv. The original plan for Quest was different to what we got.

Discovery launch all their channels on the Sky platform because it is the biggest and advert revenue plays a big part so they have to be on the biggest platform.

However the links between LG and Discovery could make for an interesting future.

26-01-2014, 18:27	#6
Bananaman_007 Inactive Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 267	Re: Discovery take over Eurosport My trail of thought is why rush this deal if they did not need to? The fact it was concluded 12 months early to me singnals that a serious bid will be coming in. I would not say that Discovery were friendly with Sky, in fact maybe the opposite after what happened with the launch of Quest. A friendd of a friend was working at Discovery at the time and the reason Quest launched 5 months late was due to Sky enforcing a contract, stating that Discovery was not allow to screen its content on FTA TV until 3 years after its broadcast on pay tv. The original plan for Quest was different to what we got. Discovery launch all their channels on the Sky platform because it is the biggest and advert revenue plays a big part so they have to be on the biggest platform. However the links between LG and Discovery could make for an interesting future.