AIUI all of the Discovery channel feeds are now via fibre.
If no deal is reached, this is what Sky plan to show from 1/2/17:
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Originally Posted by nodrogd
Some of us remember when cable first started & Discovery was recieved by the cable companies from Intelsat 27.5W. Eurosport was taken from Eutelsat Hotbird at 13E. There are still lower power distribution satellites up there, & it would actually be cheaper for broadcasters to uplink to these than general broadcast satellites like Astra. If you doubt VM's ability to still use them, take a look at post 7 of this thread.
VM only deal with Sky for the channels they own.
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Wasn't Discovery formerly owned by United Artists and then Telewest??
I remember when they started on Astra analogue in 1993 and the Discovery Channel was only on from 4pm to midnight along with Bravo.
Later on they used the capacity to show TLC from 9am until 4pm.
This TLC was educational and eventually closed down and was nothing like the TLC that is on VM today!