Sky / Discovery Dispute

Indeed, it doesn't look very professional, does it, for something that could be created in moments?


The data for the channel on the Now/Next banner is simply the standard "Programmes are no longer available" on repeating slots.

Is it even in HD?

Indeed… here it is aspect ratio corrected

The Nadal vs. Federer final was the most watched tennis match in Eurosport history.

2nd most watched Eurosport event ever.

— David Law (@DavidLawTennis) January 30, 2017

In the UK, 800,000 watched Federer vs. Nadal on Eurosport.

Second only to Murray finals. Shows his impact. 1.1 million last year for final.

— David Law (@DavidLawTennis) January 30, 2017

Federer vs. Nadal peaked at 11.6m in final set on Eurosport.

2nd to Russia vs Poland Olympic volleyball qualifier in Jan '08 (11.7m).

— David Law (@DavidLawTennis) January 30, 2017

No, it's not in HD. It's from a DVB -S transponder operated by Sky which is currently used for Challenge/+1/Ireland, Forces TV and the slides for the now defunct SBO channels which remain on the EPG.

Does it need to be in HD?

Looks like Sky are getting ready to switch the EPG to point to that channel once Discovery's channels disappear.

It will be interesting to see what happens. If the ball is in Discovery's court as Sky suggest then there should be a gap between the channels disappearing and that slide being shown.

I assume viewers will get:

(image from google)

http://bskyb.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/18052iF50BD2D34B857949?v=1.0

Turn over, and back, and then you will see the black withdrawn screen. Im sure that is what happened before when they changed frequency on a channel.

It depends how it happens. If Discovery stop broadcasts, Sky may well do as above and change to their single. Discovery may keep broadcasting, maybe just a promo on a loop instead and Sky will do nothing until they can.

I'm expecting something to go down like this:

Discovery Channel plays the Discovery Networks promo
Discovery ident plays
There is a technical problem with this channel
Black slide

You missed out DMAX...

That's not my channel. But given the content of the channel the user must be on here somewhere

FTA which is nice of them

3:20 on this video, E4 Slide on ITV digital when it went bust. At lease they added some purple!