[jfman]

That’s all pretty much an opinion piece you have linked to that carries no more weight than a forum post from anyone here.

You have given a single example of a poster being offered a decent discount, and cite a number of smaller discounts and one off payments. However there are other factors - how many would get discounts anyway by routinely threatening to cancel, rather than genuine strong feeling over UKTV.

Your assertion of this having massive consequences based on a handful of forum posts is no more valid than me claiming the other three and a half million subscribers are happy.

The subscriber numbers and ARPU figures stood up in the Sky Basics dispute over genuinely compelling and unique content. There’s no way it’ll take a hit over a handful of freeview channels and repeats. No matter how strongly you feel - you seem to be making most noise about it - even you haven’t cancelled.