14-06-2022, 06:29 PM
The difference with Sky Arts and Sky News in a free to air context is that they don’t cheapen the Sky brand they strengthen them and they show what Sky is capable of. Where as Pick and Challenge don’t and have never done that, as said they simply act a shop window for Sky as well as running cheap programmes.
Challenge is wall to wall repeats which does them fine, UKTV on the other hand is there to exploit commercial opportunities for the BBC. In all fairness to UKTV they’ve upped the amount of original content in the last few years and they seem satisfied with the number of channels they already have. Given they sold Good Food, Really and Home to Discovery they never sought to replace them.
And for what it’s worth some BBC game shows get rerun on Dave. That probably suits them fine.
Challenge is wall to wall repeats which does them fine, UKTV on the other hand is there to exploit commercial opportunities for the BBC. In all fairness to UKTV they’ve upped the amount of original content in the last few years and they seem satisfied with the number of channels they already have. Given they sold Good Food, Really and Home to Discovery they never sought to replace them.
And for what it’s worth some BBC game shows get rerun on Dave. That probably suits them fine.
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