Sky and Discovery channels, what's going on?
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According to this report http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/01/25/dis... Discovery Channel are planning to pull all their programs from Sky, just turned over to 520 and got a banner on the screen warning of this, and this is the link from the on screen prompt http://keepdiscovery.co.uk/ anybody know any more?
Edited by Jazoli on Wednesday 25th January 20:39
If they all stopped spending so much on sport coverage then it wouldn't be an issue. I can't believe the price they pay for sport is good value so they have nobody to blame but themselves.
As ever it's the viewers that suffer again, either with higher costs (regardless of them watching sport) or in the case channels and shows being dropped.
As ever it's the viewers that suffer again, either with higher costs (regardless of them watching sport) or in the case channels and shows being dropped.
ks, that's Eurosport gone. 
Eurosport have an offer until the end of the month on the player app, a years subscription for £20 rather than £60.
http://uk.eurosportplayer.com/subscription/pass.sh...
I used the day pass for last years Le Mans and it worked really well using Chromecast to beam it to the telly.
http://uk.eurosportplayer.com/subscription/pass.sh...
I used the day pass for last years Le Mans and it worked really well using Chromecast to beam it to the telly.
I'm another one that only really watches sky f1 and discovery channels. Will not be happy and will be looking to cancel my contract if this is the case. Really pissed off at the moment as I'm sure others are. I thought long and hard before renewing and will definitely be looking towards virgin next. Especially if channels are cut off. Will we get a refund for while the channels are blank, Fat chance of that!!! 
I wouldn't do anything until the channel actually goes - wouldn't be surprised to see a very last minute deal between the two.
The channels are an important part of Sky's packages, plus the Sky customers make up the majority of those channels viewers. Could Discovery afford to lose over half the UK viewers - imagine the impact on advertising revenue.
Sky reporting a 17% drop in viewing figures for those channels over the past few years. Presumably that's because they've mainly become reality TV channels?
Seems like Discovery want Sky to pay more because they'll have the Olympics (bid a billion for the rights), but Sky are saying they don't particularly add that much value.
The channels are an important part of Sky's packages, plus the Sky customers make up the majority of those channels viewers. Could Discovery afford to lose over half the UK viewers - imagine the impact on advertising revenue.
Sky reporting a 17% drop in viewing figures for those channels over the past few years. Presumably that's because they've mainly become reality TV channels?
Seems like Discovery want Sky to pay more because they'll have the Olympics (bid a billion for the rights), but Sky are saying they don't particularly add that much value.
rscott said:
I wouldn't do anything until the channel actually goes - wouldn't be surprised to see a very last minute deal between the two.
The channels are an important part of Sky's packages, plus the Sky customers make up the majority of those channels viewers. Could Discovery afford to lose over half the UK viewers - imagine the impact on advertising revenue.
Sky reporting a 17% drop in viewing figures for those channels over the past few years. Presumably that's because they've mainly become reality TV channels?
Seems like Discovery want Sky to pay more because they'll have the Olympics (bid a billion for the rights), but Sky are saying they don't particularly add that much value.
Considering that the Olympics are a 'grade 1' event according to OFCOM so must be shown on FTA TV and the BBC signed up the rights from Discovery Networks either last year or in 2015 it's a non-starter.The channels are an important part of Sky's packages, plus the Sky customers make up the majority of those channels viewers. Could Discovery afford to lose over half the UK viewers - imagine the impact on advertising revenue.
Sky reporting a 17% drop in viewing figures for those channels over the past few years. Presumably that's because they've mainly become reality TV channels?
Seems like Discovery want Sky to pay more because they'll have the Olympics (bid a billion for the rights), but Sky are saying they don't particularly add that much value.
Was nearly a year ago actually. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/35473371
As someone posted above, I wouldn't panic yet. As Discovery have paid so much for the Olympics rights, at some point they are really going to need the income from Sky so a deal must be likely. Reading the Telegraph report, German TV have the same issue, so someone is going to have to give in and it's Discovery who've made the outlay on the Olympics that they are going to need to cover.
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