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Sky & Discovery reach last-minute carriage deal in UK

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Sky and Discovery have reached a last-minute deal avoiding Discovery’s 12 channels going off from the platform on Wednesday.

Up until this evening, Discovery Channel, TLC, Eurosport, ID and Animal Planet were expected to bid adieu on Sky from 1st February. In a tweet by Discovery, the broadcaster said the channels will continue its carriage on Sky.

Sky confirmed the news via its website, “Great news, we can confirm that Sky will continue to carry the Discovery and Eurosport channels. This means you can still watch channels including: Animal Planet, Discovery HD, Discovery History, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Science, Discovery Shed, Discovery Turbo, DMAX, Eurosport1, Eurosport2, Investigation Discovery, TLC and Quest.”

The dispute erupted last week when Discovery threatened to pull of its channels from the Sky platform due to a payment row. At the time, Sky claimed Discovery wanted around £1b a year for its channels to stay on Sky. Meanwhile, Sky had said, “Sadly, we have now had to prepare for Discovery to take their channels away from Sky customers, as they have threatened to do. It is Discovery’s choice to do this, not ours. We never left the negotiating table and they haven’t come back to it since they made their threats public this week.”

This was one of the biggest public fall outs between UK broadcasters.