Thread: SD Sky Discovery (potential) switch-off (technical)
View Single Post
Old 01-02-2017, 09:09   #92
OLD BOY
Rise above the players
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Wokingham
Services: 2 V6 with 360 software, ITVX, 4+, Prime, Netflix, Apple+, Disney+, Paramount+, Discovery+
Posts: 15,191
OLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronze
OLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronzeOLD BOY is cast in bronze
Re: Sky Discovery (potential) switch-off (technical)
I was confused about the PBS America deal, but this clarifies it..

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/sky-...al-1201974511/

Stephen van Rooyen, CEO of Sky for the UK and Ireland, meanwhile, made a point of noting that Sky also struck a new deal with PBS America to provide similar lifestyle, nature, science and documentary programming that Discovery channels carry.

---------- Post added at 08:09 ---------- Previous post was at 07:53 ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
The deal settled upon appears to involve Sky paying the lower carriage costs that they wanted, but with some other tweaks eg Sky taking back the TLC slot and putting Pick on there and more freedom for Discovery to run their business as they see fit.

Apparently, Pick is moving to 125, Challenge to 152 and TLC to 145.

Both parties are claiming victory, so I suspect, to reflect the fact that Discovery are being paid less than what they wanted, Sky have agreed to allow Discovery to have the increased control and flexibility that has been mentioned.

I suspect that this involves allowing them to make some of their channels FTA and have a suspicion that this is how UKTV managed to get Really, Drama and Yesterday onto Freesat.

As part of their contingency plans, Sky threw some money at PBS America to make some documentary programmes, which Sky, Freesat and Virgin Media customers will all be able to enjoy
I hope you are right about that last bit, Richard. The scope of the agreement with PBS America is not yet clear and it may only impact on Sky satellite subscribers. Watch this space...
OLD BOY is offline