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Originally Posted by SonicMaster
Ratings-wise since its removal from Freeview and Freesat, the Travel Channel is dead in the water.
The latest audience share stats:
Travel Channel 0.02%
Travel Channel +1 0%
Travel Channel in the US has become a mainly paranormal TV channel, called Trvl.
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Travel Channel was often around the 0.32% mark before they made DMAX FTA and swapped it with Travel Channel on Freeview and Freesat. Immediately Travel Channel went down to those low levels it is now, so you can put that plunge down simply to that reduction in its distribution.
DMAX was a 0.03% channel before it went FTA and it has been hovering about the 0.30% mark until the 0.41% for the last available month, in August.
So what Discovery did basically pretty much swapped the ratings. But it has a wider remit so should appeal to a wider demographic, so the rating potential is higher in then long run, which was likely why they did it.
Given the Travel Channel ratings plunge was self inflicted they could maybe get it back by reinstating it to Freeview, using one of the 2 vacated Sony spaces that haven't been filled yet. Those spaces weren't available when they made the swap.
I hope they don't copy the US version.
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
If Travel Channel is axe Discovery may then launch an +1 hour channel for Really (If Discovery keep it) or Discovery Shed.
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An idea Really may become Eurosport News and also launch on Freeview using Really slot if Discovery axe Really.
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Given Discovery Shed has been put at the end of the Sky entertainment section and wasn't moved up in the recent Discovery EPG shuffle up that happened after Good Food was demoted to alongside it, and it's ratings are the same as Travel Channel (a 0.02% in August) why would they give it a +1 version? Travel Channel was shuffled up the Sky EPG when Good Food was demoted, Shed wasn't. That suggests Shed is more likely to be axed than Travel Channel.
Given Really has much better ratings than most of their channels, a 0.70% in August, I think it's more likely to get a +1.
Eurosport News was axed in January 2018, I can't see them bringing it back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurosport_News