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Originally Posted by Media Boy
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Media Boy Sources say Discovery WILL close channels down and move to only on Discovey + but only at the end of existing contracts - which still have few years to run out. Unless Discovery buy themselves out of the contracts.
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Yup. A few years ago I was privy to a document that showed that eventually the plan was for Discovery to only have one linear channel to showcase their online content.
I can't believe that they'd close their linear FTA channels though, as these rely on eyeballs seeing ads for their revenue.
Eurosport wasn't mentioned in this document, so I've no idea about that.
Maybe giving Sky customers free Discovery + was a way of buying themselves out of the carriage contract through recompense? But surely it would have been better to have given their customers this free year after the removal of the linear Discovery channels to enable them to continue receiving the programming at no extra cost for a further year. Giving it to them now simply duplicates what they already get in the vast majority of cases.