27-01-2017 6:42 - edited 27-01-2017 6:46
According to Radio Times, we are going to be losing access to the Discovery Channel within a month, how will we be compensated if this happens? As I'm guessing we should get a replacement channel to take its place http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-01-26/discovery-uk-is-threatening-to-pull-its-channels-from-sky-...
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01-02-2017 1:57
Discovery is staying now they've made a new deal with sky... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sky-keep-discovery-eurosport-tv-9733601
26-01-2017 12:07
I guess that if you really want Discovery there is always TV Player Plus on Amazon Fire Sticks. Free trial for a month then £5.99/month. The whole dispute may have blown over by then.
Interesting to see this development. Discovery/Eurosport are making a pretty bold step. Will be interesting to see how determined they are given that the bulk of their UK income most likely comes from their Sky agreement. ITV seem to be developing their paywall with Box Office on the way. I suspect the big Virgin/Sky bundles will soon disintegrate and there will be numerous packages from varied media companies. Sadly if it goes the way of sport, it will mean three or four subscriptions instead of one ;-(
26-01-2017 13:29
I'd rather have nat geo than discovery definitely not the history channel. Maybe syfy.
26-01-2017 13:38
Nat Geo would be good to have instead of disovery
26-01-2017 15:12
I'd rather they used the money saved to keep box sets like GoT, Walking Dead, Westworld etc. permanently on.
I would have thought that Discovery/Eurosport would have had a hub like Netflix/HBONow for all of their channels before taking this action. Well a better one than TV Player.
26-01-2017 15:46
@Anonymous User wrote:
I would have thought that Discovery/Eurosport would have had a hub like Netflix/HBONow for all of their channels before taking this action. Well a better one than TV Player.
@Anonymous User Eurosport have their own player, which is currently £5.99 for a day pass or 12 months for £19.99 (£59.99 from Feb 1). I believe you can cast from it too?
26-01-2017 7:23
26-01-2017 8:03
Think if Discovery does leave, Now tv needs to be competitive with what it hopefully puts in the entertainment pass.May even be the case in the long term as since Now tv launched there have been new services from the likes of Tv player,Bt & Talktalk which have cheap channel packages.
Have noticed in press release that the owners of Discovery mention Sky do not want to pay more due to overpaying for football.But dont mention that via Eurosport they need more money due to what they spent on the Olympics and that they have had this row with Talktalk and left and also on other platforms abroad.
26-01-2017 16:21
Hi now that the discovery channel is being removed can we please add the hallmark channel to now tv.
that would complete my viewing
26-01-2017 16:50
26-01-2017 17:23