Sky removing Discovery Packages
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Oh look what a surprise NOT !!!
The biggest dead cert of this year so far.
This was such a foregone conclusion, there was not a hope in hell that Discovery would go through with their threats, as they would almost definitely have been signing their death warrant.
The company would have been dead and buried in less than a week had they not agreed to Sky's offer.
The biggest dead cert of this year so far.
This was such a foregone conclusion, there was not a hope in hell that Discovery would go through with their threats, as they would almost definitely have been signing their death warrant.
The company would have been dead and buried in less than a week had they not agreed to Sky's offer.
He's so god damn awful at gold mining, starts to do decent in a area... so leaves and does terrible. So goes back to first area and has a good year, the very next year decides to leave again lol.
All I can think is they are getting paid good money to try different back drops to make the show appeal more.
We were told that Discovery accepted the very same offer that was on the table last week when they walked out.
Yes, you were told by your employer what they want people to hear. Discovery's people are saying the deal was altered in their favour, but I am sure some actual facts will surface eventually rather then just the face saving we have going on at the moment.
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Good job i managed to wangle 40% on sat morning then 
. (Contract not over till march).
. (Contract not over till march).
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I managed to use this to cancel!.... Nextflix, prime, ******** from now on
No piracy talk please
No piracy talk please
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I'm not paying any more !!
Andi.
The variety pack is going up by £2.25 from 1st March. I got that letter the same day I found out that Discovery was going before they came back again although they never went anywhere.
According to BBC news report Sky wants to cut its operating costs so offering providers less money than before. Discovery said no chance and asked for more money than before. Sky finally relented and gave Discovery what they wanted.
So Discovery told the BBC they got a deal that was "meaningfully better than our former agreement and their proposal".
And Stephen van Rooyen, CEO of Sky UK and Ireland said to Reuters
"The deal has been concluded on the right terms after Discovery accepted the proposal we gave them over a week ago,"
I think I would tend to believe Sky as they had nothing to loose over this, whereas had Discovery actually gone and pulled their channels and lost possibly up to 10 +million viewers, then they would have lost an awful lot more than Sky would.
So I would think Discovery will have relented and accepted what Sky proposed, and are now trying to save face by saying Sky actually offered more.
And Stephen van Rooyen, CEO of Sky UK and Ireland said to Reuters
"The deal has been concluded on the right terms after Discovery accepted the proposal we gave them over a week ago,"
I think I would tend to believe Sky as they had nothing to loose over this, whereas had Discovery actually gone and pulled their channels and lost possibly up to 10 +million viewers, then they would have lost an awful lot more than Sky would.
So I would think Discovery will have relented and accepted what Sky proposed, and are now trying to save face by saying Sky actually offered more.
Other than customers.
But how many customers would actually have left because of it and would the lost revenue have been more than the savings from not having to pay Discovery?
Sky would never have noticed the few customers/revenue they have/ might have lost had Discovery actually pulled their channels.
However Discovery would definitely have noticed the potential 22 million customers throughout Europe that would have been unable to get their channels through Sky.
Not to mention any lost revenue from advertisers pulling their contracts with Discovery, because Discovery were not completing their half of the contract by getting x million viewers for the advertiser.
Then why not let them go? Clearly this was in both their interests otherwise Sky wouldn't have entered into negotiations in the first place. Sky wants to dominate, they wouldn't want to lose a bundle of very popular channels which would be available on competing services.