OK. That website that I use to find out my TV news has posted a new story about the latest twist in the Discovery / Sky dispute:
http://www.a516digital.com/2017/01/sky-says-no-to-1billion-discovery.html
£1 billion???!!!
No wonder Sky are willing to let Discovery walk! That is a serious amount of money, even for a company like Sky.
Sure, with the profits they are making, Sky could easily afford it. But, knowing Sky, they won't want to pay it themselves. So, they would pass it onto the subscribers. And they will leave en masse because the Sky subsription prices are already extortionate. And Sky's profits will fall dramatically.
So, I can't see Sky giving in. Discovery are going to have to lower their demands if they want to remain on Sky.
There is also a poll on that TV news site:
http://www.a516digital.com/2017/01/sky-v-discovery-should-sky-pay.html
And at the time I clicked "yes", the results were:
Yes - 35%
No - 65%
Why did I click "yes"? Well, apart from BT Sport for the MotoGP, the channels owned by Discovery Networks are the only channels on Sky that are ever watched in our house. So, without them, it would not be worth paying Sky's extortionate prices.
Other than that, we live on the channels from the Public Service Broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, RTÉ and TV3).
CaroLiza_fan
http://www.a516digital.com/2017/01/sky-says-no-to-1billion-discovery.html
£1 billion???!!!
No wonder Sky are willing to let Discovery walk! That is a serious amount of money, even for a company like Sky.
Sure, with the profits they are making, Sky could easily afford it. But, knowing Sky, they won't want to pay it themselves. So, they would pass it onto the subscribers. And they will leave en masse because the Sky subsription prices are already extortionate. And Sky's profits will fall dramatically.
So, I can't see Sky giving in. Discovery are going to have to lower their demands if they want to remain on Sky.
There is also a poll on that TV news site:
http://www.a516digital.com/2017/01/sky-v-discovery-should-sky-pay.html
And at the time I clicked "yes", the results were:
Yes - 35%
No - 65%
Why did I click "yes"? Well, apart from BT Sport for the MotoGP, the channels owned by Discovery Networks are the only channels on Sky that are ever watched in our house. So, without them, it would not be worth paying Sky's extortionate prices.
Other than that, we live on the channels from the Public Service Broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, RTÉ and TV3).
CaroLiza_fan