@Timelord2018 wrote:
@Marlu-Nyu wrote:
It would make sense to close Sky Max and replace it with Sky One, and then rebrand Sky Mix to Sky Showcase. Sky Showcase, in my eyes, should be showcasing what Sky has to offer, give people a movie once a week from Sky Cinema, major news from Sky News and sports events from Sky Sports. Think of like the old "free to view" weekends that Sky offered many years ago, but as a channel
And if they wanted, show the first episodes of popular shows on Netflix, Discovery+, Disney+, Comedy Central, subscription Sky channels, Blaze, Nat Geo, Discovery channels, UKTV channels, etc. to get people to get these services and channels through Sky.
Show the first episode of e.g. The Last of Us on this new free-to-air Sky Showcase, and have the rest of the series on subscription channel Sky Atlantic. Make it like an advertisement channel for what Sky has available instead of a channel nobody watches with cops and border controls. That's not even what Sky offers as a whole.
They can't just do what you suggested when they don't operate the channels or services, Blaze is a free to air channel.
The Last Of Us isn't the best example isn't a exclusive subscription driver for Sky anymore (none of remaining HBO programming left is) will be on HBO Max app in March which will be available from around £5.99 outside of Sky, also Sky rights to season 1 exipre in a year.
This is ultimately the reason why Sky Atlantic is in Sky Stream Essential TV and their other Pay channels and others are not
Sky One channel can do the same thing anyway that Sky Showcase did, although I suspect they more likely to show previous seasons on Sky Sci-Fi aswell now,,
I believe they are testing a pub/commercial version of Sky Max....
I've noticed that you frequently respond to nearly all of my posts, and the tone is often critical regardless of context. I would appreciate it if you could refrain from replying to my posts in future.
Additionally, I will address your points for consistency:
"They can't just do what you suggested when they don't operate the channels or services, Blaze is a free to air channel."
Hence why this is a suggestion, an opinion on what I think Sky should do. I know Blaze is free-to-air, that's not my point. The new Sky Showcase I suggested would showcase all content from all channels that Sky operate, subscription and free channels too. In regard to the streaming services, there is already a current contract with all of these if they are available on Sky. Sky could update their contract to allow a programme of the streaming service's choice to be shown, but only the first episode.
"The Last Of Us isn't the best example isn't a exclusive subscription [...] Sky rights to season 1 [expire] in a year."
As it stands right now on 24 January, The Last of Us is on Sky Atlantic and no-one can see into the future if Sky will get to keep it or it being available on HBO Max only. I suspect that Sky will probably get to keep some programming, maybe due to contracts. For example, it's possible that Sky has the rights for all current and further series of The Last of Us. The Last of Us was just an example of a programme that Sky has right now, with a various amount of other programming one could use instead. Regarding the 1 year expiry, they could renew it, depending on the success/failure of HBO Max.
"This is ultimately the reason why Sky Atlantic is in Sky Stream Essential TV and their other Pay channels and others are not"
All channels on Sky Stream are subscription based. The idea would be that the Sky Showcase would be on Freeview, Freesat, Virgin Media, eir TV, etc. The new Sky Showcase would be mostly for these customers to encourage them to switch or, at the very least, consider it. The programming from Sky Cinema and Sky Sports would encourage current Sky customers to upgrade to these packs too.
"Sky One channel can do the same thing anyway that Sky Showcase did, although I suspect they more likely to show previous seasons on Sky Sci-Fi [as well] now. I believe they are testing a pub/commercial version of Sky Max...."
These are irrelevant to my point.
