When are the majority of south asian channels coming to sky stream

[HC1310]

When are entertainment south Asian channels migrating to sky stream

[TimmyBGood]

@HC1310 

That would be up to the individual channel owners, and they might well have other plans.

[MarkGoldsmith]

It's likely to be commercially unviable for a lot of smaller channels to broadcast on the Sky streaming platform.

Sky will likely have certain technical requirements that channels will need to met which may require financial investment and seeing how Sky are owned by Comcast and the US cable model requires broadcasters to pay carriage fees to appear on platforms it wouldn't surprise me if this is also the model for the streaming platform which is perhaps another blocker for the smaller channels.

[TimmyBGood]

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@MarkGoldsmith wrote:

the US cable model requires broadcasters to pay carriage fees to appear on platforms it wouldn't surprise me if this is also the model for the streaming platform which is perhaps another blocker for the smaller channels.

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That's trickier in the UK because of the requirement for regulated EPGs to provide a numbered slot for any legitimate channel which requests one: personally I'm unclear if that applies to Glass/Stream as it does on the Sky satellite platforms, Virgin, Everyone TV (Freesat/Freeview) and YouView.