SD : Sky Discovery (potential) switch-off (technical)

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

It looks like Sky are going to lose these channels.

The following preparations have been made:

4461 11.836 H 27.5 5/6 DVB-S OPSK now showing a caption saying "Unfortunately Sky is not able to bring you this channel as the broadcaster has withdrawn it from the Sky platform".

The EPG info says "Programme is no longer available".

Good on SKY i say if discovery had only done this stunt here i might of believed Discovery however given that they've pulled the same crap in sweden. germany, romania,norway and usa let's see how dicovery do without their claimed 6 million a week viewers.
I hope BT do exactly the same if Discovery try this crap with them because they will i feel.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

It looks like Sky are going to lose these channels.

The following preparations have been made:

4461 11.836 H 27.5 5/6 DVB-S OPSK now showing a caption saying "Unfortunately Sky is not able to bring you this channel as the broadcaster has withdrawn it from the Sky platform".

The EPG info says "Programme is no longer available".

well my epg still showing all discovery programs right through to next monday and the caption on my screen still says "may" lose the channels ,so nothing definite yet

[denphone]

Originally Posted by martyh

well my epg still showing all discovery programs right through to next monday and the caption on my screen still says "may" lose the channels ,so nothing definite yet

Well Marty best to check early on Wednesday as if it has gone off there will be the same message on all of Discovery's channels.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by martyh

well my epg still showing all discovery programs right through to next monday and the caption on my screen still says "may" lose the channels ,so nothing definite yet

I suspect that customer facing information will continue to say this until the deadline.

[theone2k10]

Only just occured to me if Discovery do pull channels of sky the DMAX will be a vm exclusive channel.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

Only just occured to me if Discovery do pull channels of sky the DMAX will be a vm exclusive channel.

That will please some on here.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by denphone

That will please some on here.

tbh I don't think I'd notice if they'd gone. Less channels to flick through before deciding to go to sleep I suppose.

[Arthurgray50@blu]

I am nt technically minded. But.

Where do VM get there signals from. Say Sky have there Dishes pointing skywards.

So where is the main Sat station for VM. And do VM dishes point directly to Astra. As l was under the impression that VM signal cam via Sky dishes. That why VM were always fighting with Sky over channels.

Or do VM have talks with various companies ie Discovery to sort out deals.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

I am nt technically minded. But.

Where do VM get there signals from. Say Sky have there Dishes pointing skywards.

So where is the main Sat station for VM. And do VM dishes point directly to Astra. As l was under the impression that VM signal cam via Sky dishes. That why VM were always fighting with Sky over channels.

Or do VM have talks with various companies ie Discovery to sort out deals.

VM use seperate sattelites and negotiate their own deals.

[nodrogd]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

I am nt technically minded. But.

Where do VM get there signals from. Say Sky have there Dishes pointing skywards.

So where is the main Sat station for VM. And do VM dishes point directly to Astra. As l was under the impression that VM signal cam via Sky dishes. That why VM were always fighting with Sky over channels.

Or do VM have talks with various companies ie Discovery to sort out deals.

Some of us remember when cable first started & Discovery was recieved by the cable companies from Intelsat 27.5W. Eurosport was taken from Eutelsat Hotbird at 13E. There are still lower power distribution satellites up there, & it would actually be cheaper for broadcasters to uplink to these than general broadcast satellites like Astra. If you doubt VM's ability to still use them, take a look at post 7 of this thread.

VM only deal with Sky for the channels they own.

[RichardCoulter]

AIUI all of the Discovery channel feeds are now via fibre.

If no deal is reached, this is what Sky plan to show from 1/2/17:

https://s27.postimg.org/4kokftw5v/Sk....png?noredir=1

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Originally Posted by nodrogd

Some of us remember when cable first started & Discovery was recieved by the cable companies from Intelsat 27.5W. Eurosport was taken from Eutelsat Hotbird at 13E. There are still lower power distribution satellites up there, & it would actually be cheaper for broadcasters to uplink to these than general broadcast satellites like Astra. If you doubt VM's ability to still use them, take a look at post 7 of this thread.

VM only deal with Sky for the channels they own.

Wasn't Discovery formerly owned by United Artists and then Telewest??

I remember when they started on Astra analogue in 1993 and the Discovery Channel was only on from 4pm to midnight along with Bravo.

Later on they used the capacity to show TLC from 9am until 4pm.

This TLC was educational and eventually closed down and was nothing like the TLC that is on VM today!

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

AIUI all of the Discovery channel feeds are now via fibre.

If no deal is reached, this is what Sky plan to show from 1/2/17:

https://s27.postimg.org/4kokftw5v/Sk....png?noredir=1

---------- Post added at 22:58 ---------- Previous post was at 22:55 ----------



Wasn't Discovery formerly owned by United Artists and then Telewest??

I remember when they started on Astra analogue in 1993 and the Discovery Channel was only on from 4pm to midnight along with Bravo.

Later on they used the capacity to show TLC from 9am until 4pm.

This TLC was educational and eventually closed down and was nothing like the TLC that is on VM today!

If i was SKY i'd take Discoverys EPG slots from them too why should they keep them for if they ain't agreed anything.
Nat geo channels imo are leaps and bounds ahead of Discovery for quality content these days.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

If i was SKY i'd take Discoverys EPG slots from them too why should they keep them for if they ain't agreed anything.
Nat geo channels imo are leaps and bounds ahead of Discovery for quality content these days.

It's not clear who actually owns the Discovery EPG slots. It's generally accepted that Discovery own them apart from TLC which either of them may own.

Apparently, TLC resides in a slot that was previously recycled from a former Sky channel.

They will have to find a way of keeping their valuable SD EPG slots alive that conform to Sky rules; it's suspected that they may show temporary programming at various times of the day.

If not, Sky have created a generic 'channel' showing the slate that I posted earlier that they can point the various Discovery EPG slots to.

[denphone]

Peace talks fuel hopes Discovery will keep channels on Sky ahead of midnight showdown.

Read more at http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/articl...jLHHy4tSxSX.99

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by denphone

Peace talks fuel hopes Discovery will keep channels on Sky ahead of midnight showdown.

Read more at http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/articl...jLHHy4tSxSX.99

Tiny bit of wrong info there the #keepdiscovery wasn't started to encourage sky and discovery to keep the peace it was infact set up by Discovery to wrongly encourage sky customers to bombard skys customer service with calls.
Discovery are very lucky SKY still wish to hold talks and vice versa too.