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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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. |
Update: ITV Encore has been broadcasting FTA for brief periods, hopefully this is an indication that it isn't closing and that Sky want to kick it out of the Sub Club early.
This would pave the way for it to join VM (and other platforms).
Now if only Sky Atlantic viewing figures would plummet
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Originally Posted by theone2k10
This is SKY we're on about common sense and SKY tend not to go hand in hand.
Also comical is skysports mix is now in the entertainment section on SKY.
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I'd have thought that this would be against their own EPG rules too. Also, if this move is deemed to be 'Fair, reasonable and non discriminatory', what's to stop a channel like Eurosport moving down its EPG slot to a more desirable place in the entertainment section of the EPG!?