Discovery-Sky dispute (Now resolved)

http://www.seenit.co.uk/discovery-threatens-to-pull-channels-from-sky-in-carriage-dispute/


Sky viewers could soon see Discovery’s portfolio of 12 channels – including
Discovery, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, DMAX, Home and Health and Discovery Turbo – vanish from their EPGs after the two broadcasters failed to reach agreement on a new carriage deal.

In a statement issued on Wednesday night, Discovery says talks to agree a new deal with the UK’s largest pay-TV brand “have reached an impasse” and accuses Sky of using “its dominant market position” to avoid paying a fair price for its channels and content.

According to Discovery, the firm is now paid less than it was 10 years ago, despite the fact that Sky households are paying much more than they did in 2007.

Responding to Discovery’s comments, Sky has accused the channel owner of making “completely unrealistic” demands from it and other pay-TV providers and claimed falling interest in Discovery’s linear-only channels meant it had been “overpaying Discovery for years”.

Surely SKY would have done something before now if this were actually the case

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Discovery has reassured BT and Virgin Media customers that they will continue to have access to the channels as it has separate long-term agreements in place with those brands

Interesting piece - is this what happens when the only game in satellite town
is SKY or is this what happens when SKY's biggest spend, football rights, has gone through the roof in the last decade.