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Sky Digital Not accepting new Channels for 6 months!

  • 10-09-2004 11:45pm
    #1
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,550 ✭✭✭


    According to this story on Media Bullet.
    BSkyB rule out ITV3's launch on Sky Digital
    ITV's over-35s station, ITV3, will launch on 1st November - but only Freeview customers, less than a third of the total digital audience, will be able to tune in. ITV has yet to sort out a slot for the channel with cable giants NTL and Telewest and has been told by BSkyB there is no space for it on the Sky Digital satellite platform. The ITV chief executive, Charles Allen, said today he was still in negotiations with cable bosses but has yet to start talking to Sky about a satellite slot. "It will come on to Freeview, then move on to cable," he said. "We're happy to put it on Sky, but Sky are saying they can't put any new channels [on Sky Digital] for six months. The overall issue is when they can take it." Sky Digital, with over 200 channels on its electronic programme guide, is received by over 7 million homes, more than cable and Freeview put together. The limited distribution threatens to get the new channel, which is costing £12m a year, off to a slow start.

    is this related to the new epg and the fact we are getting software downloads to our boxes to enable more channels


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  • #2
    John R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,107 ✭✭✭John R


    Isn't there some rule about sky having to give access to the epg?
    If ITV had any sense (yes I know that is not likely) they would follow the BBC lead and go FTA. ITV1 shows almost no US programming and the stuff on ITV2 is pretty low rent so programme rights would not be a significant problem.


  • #3
    DMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    I don't understand what Sky are saying there, I saw that on Media Guardian, saying no new channels on the EPG for 6 months, and I was going, WTF?


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Politics.

    Marketing.

    There is space if Sky wants. They are bargaining to get as much money as possible.

    It is time the UK gov. stopped leaning Murdoch's way and ruled that Sky's pricing on EPG and Encryption is explotive.

    EPG and Encryption costs Sky nearly nothing. Yet Encryption "free" to a Sky Stable channel is more costly than Transponder to a non-Sky channel. EPG now costs nearly as much or more than actual carriage costs. Hence R. Caroline can be easily on a non-Sky box but "hidden" on a Sky Digibox.


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