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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Well I did see rumours in 2011 that The Jewellery Channel did only have an THREE year date to broadcast on Freeview when Sky sold Challenge slot on SDN to them on September 20th 2011.
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Perhaps, but it's quite possible that they could renew after 3 yrs. It's difficult to predict what their plans are with the short term contracts they have to rent out their overnight hours. Also the fact that they added an IPTV stream to cover the overnight hours, shortly before taking the broadcast slot back. I wonder if they even know what their plans are.
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Also I have also seen rumours that QUEST may move to QUEST +1 slot later this year (Info from DS Forum).
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I don't think that was so much a rumour as idle speculation. That sort of thing happens quite a lot on the DS Forum, they were predicting ITV4+1 would become a 24 hour service simply because of an error on the EPG listings.
On the platform as a whole, major broadcasters are probably in a more secure position than the minor broadcasters and shopping channels. Pay TV has also pretty much failed on terrestrial tv, as BT converts more users to fibre they will probably want to give up their streams sooner rather than later.