Thread: General Sky changing its Sports Channel
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Old 30-06-2017, 11:10   #27
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Re: Sky changing its Sports Channel
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Originally Posted by Chad View Post
SKY Sports Mix will continue to operate and could be used as an overflow channel for clashing fixtures. I suspect they will also offer a red button service for each dedicated channel.
Yes, I get that, but (and this is not shooting the messenger, it's shooting the message)...

Sky Sports Mix is a FTA channel, supposedly for tempting non-subscribers with selected stuff.

Red-button is great for when there's genuine overflow, it's not a substitute for putting particular games/matches/events on a proper HD-broadcast channel. Currently numbered channels mean that 6 live events can be "broadcast" simultaneously plus F1.

That doesn't seem to be the case anymore - it also occurred to me last night about how European rugby weekends will be handled, I think the current BT/Sky share certainly has some time to run yet. It's not uncommon for those to spill across 2 Sky channels at the same time.
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