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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I must admit that I found it strange that Discovery appeared to indicate that it wouldn’t abandon its TV channels. This flies in the face of the general trend, so I’m not at all surprised that they have now said their content will only be on the streamer in future.
If there is a Discovery channel left on Freeview, it will probably just be a showcase channel promoting content on Discovery+. I think they want to draw everyone into the streamer - they don’t want to dilute their audience by keeping the TV channels going.
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This is exactly what their proposals said in the document I saw a few years ago.
I forgot to add that he also said that the process will start properly* at the beginning of next year. From January, they will be showing
all new content on Discovery+ first and that every linear channel will be showing reruns only.
He also mentioned a 'First on Discovery+' thing. I think that this will be a new marketing tagine from January, but that's just my supposition.
*Some new series of programmes that used to be on the linear channels have actually already been put onto Discovery+.
The ViacomCBS channels are safe for at least the next 4.5 years.
If your daughter uses streaming services on her Sky Q box, Sky Peacock and HayU will be built into SkyQ, similar to how they are presented on Now TV, but Paramount+ won't be.
Whether Paramount+ would be available for free to Sky Cinema customers on Now TV was my main concern. It will be made available on the devices that have now been discontinued, but it won't be free.
I wonder why all these new streamers are using a + at the end of their name?