I am curious how the switch off will happen, if it does. Will they remove the channels from the EPG, or will the signal be switched off or a placeholder shown?
I am curious how the switch off will happen, if it does. Will they remove the channels from the EPG, or will the signal be switched off or a placeholder shown?
I'm not sure what will happen as they haven't confirmed a time for them leaving. This is what Discovery have said:
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From 1st February, 13 channels of our channels may disappear from Sky and NOW TV.
They haven't confirmed a date or time. Theoretically, they could all be replaced with a placeholder at random times (although it is unlikely). I predict there will either be a generic placeholder slide at a random time, or it will just disappear. Hopefully like Plus in 2004 but with Discovery branding.
I am curious how the switch off will happen, if it does. Will they remove the channels from the EPG, or will the signal be switched off or a placeholder shown?
It wouldn't surprise me if Sky throws the decision back to Discovery. They could say we will continue to broadcast the channels under the terms that Sky propose, meaning that it'd be the decision of Discovery to continue to broadcast or not. That'd be a real twist in the tale.
If Dixit happens I can't see them leaving the platform surely they're just offer their channels in a standalone package on the platform.
If they leave the EPG when if they do sort something out they'll have lost their EPG positions. I really think Sky are in the stronger position here and they might just Discovery go as a lesson for others.
"We have worked really hard for more than a year to get a deal done for our customers with Discovery, so we are disappointed with their misleading claims and aggressive actions. We now feel it’s time to set the record straight. Because despite our differences, we love Discovery too."
"We were prepared to pay a fair price for the Discovery and Eurosport channels and invest more in those channels to make them even better for our customers. We have offered hundreds of millions of pounds to Discovery, a $12bn American business, but that wasn’t enough. They asked the Sky Group to pay close to £1bn for their portfolio of channels, many of which are in decline."
"Sadly, we have now had to prepare for Discovery to take their channels away from Sky customers, as they have threatened to do. It is Discovery’s choice to do this, not ours. We never left the negotiating table and they haven’t come back to it since they made their threats public this week."
"Sky doesn’t boot channels off our platform. If Discovery don’t want their channels to disappear, as their public campaign suggests, they could have made arrangement to stay on Sky, including free to air with advertising funding or with their own subscription, but they’ve chosen not to do so."
"Our commitment to our customers is this: We will spend every penny that we were going to pay to Discovery on more and better content that our customers value. This will come from sources around the globe and home grown shows and documentaries from the UK. We will continue to offer customers a huge range of content including hundreds of shows from The History Channel, National Geographic, PBS, Sky Arts and Sky Atlantic, along with more amazing sport on Sky Sports Mix, available to all our customers."
"We hope our customers understand that we have been working on their behalf and will always do that. We thank them for their support."
