Re: ITV Encore.
A trusted source says that it was a four year deal with Sky..
Sky approached ITV and offered to pay for carriage and half of playout costs in return for making it an encrypted Sky exclusive with a revenue sharing agreement.
It's not doing too well at all with regards to viewing figures. It's been speculated that it will become FTA, close or become available to other platforms when the deal expires next June.
Did the promised new programming ever materialise? If not, maybe ITV were pulling a fast one at Skys expense
Home and Dave are the latest channels to become FTA on satellite, I wonder if VM will move these down to the M/Player packs, or if they will do as they seem to be doing and putting channels available on Freeview into the M+/Mix packages??
Those with access to Freesat who are unable to get these channels via their VM package will be able to receive Dave on channel 157 and Home on channel 166 from 1/8/17.