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Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: Sky Sports Mix to launch on Virgin Media.
Virgin Media UK Sources has confirmed to Media Boy HQ that Sky Sports Mix and Sky Sports Mix HD will launch later this summer on Virgin Media UK.
8 channels to launch for the Rio Games.
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I think that Sky are feeling the effects of competition for sports subscribers, particularly in the UK.
Sky Sports News was originally on Freeview. I assumed that this was to be used as a shop window for their premium sports channels, so was surprised to see them take it off Freeview.
Moving back to the present day and Sky Sport News in Germany is shortly going to drop encryption on all platforms to enable them to showcase their premium sports channels!
In the UK, instead of making Sky Sports News FTA again, they have chosen to let lower level subscribers have access to actual content.
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COM7 is full, there's enough room for a few audio channels but that's about it. COM8 only has the QVC HD timeshares but Arqiva seems to have been reluctant to add other channels. Arqiva and the BBC have a new agreement to provide additional BBC RB channels on COM8 for the Olympic Games, so perhaps they are now starting to open up COM8 to other broadcasters. How much space remains on COM8 depends on how much space Arqiva has agreed to make available to the BBC.
There are several part-time slots available on the other COM multiplexes, if Viacom are only looking for EPG squatting slots, these would be ideal. They seem to be obtaining licences for +1 channels at the moment, if they have obtained extra capacity and want to operate full time channels, it would make sense to make VIVA and 5USA +1 full time rather than adding new services.
It's also possible that Arqiva could follow SDN's lead and squeeze an extra video channel onto COM5 and COM6 at the expense of video quality, maybe Viacom could be interested in one of these. It will be interesting to keep an eye on Viacom's moves on all platforms.
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Yes, it will be interesting to see what Viacom do.
Perhaps Arqiva didn't want to lease the capacity until the end of the Olympic Games all along, to ensure that there would be enough capacity for the TV streams??