It’s looking that way! Bye bye 7food network.
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With Seven announcing that it has signed a deal to stream Fuel TV content, it’s likely they will do the same with Food Network content.
Is this an indication of 7 plus becoming a major streaming player?
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With cooking shows and extreme sport?? I doubt it…
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Sounds like it’s only the start though. I can imagine a lot of channels that you now see on pay tv, looking for a new home on streaming services.
With Foxtel asleep at the wheel and spending big money on propping up its ailing pay tv business, 7plus could sneak in there with a future way of doing business.
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So is this it for 7Food?
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Have noticed Seven have started to heavily promote 7Plus exclusive dramas - not sure whether that’s just because they don’t have much else to promote at this time of the year or perhaps an indicator that they are/will be ramping up the service.
About the streaming channels, 7Plus already offers quite a few of them (Olympic/Outdoor Channel & the Pac-12 Network) so I’m not surprised they’re expanding their offering with the new Fuel TV deal
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Didn’t Seven announce at their upfronts that 7mate will soon be a fulltime HD channel?
Presuming that the HD simulcast of Seven’s main channel will remain intact (you’d hope so - SBS and more recently Nine have proven that it’s quite possible for a network to run two MPEG4 HD channels), I wouldn’t be overly surprised if 7Food Network’s space on the multiplex gets sacrificed for 7mateHD.
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Any evidence to suggest that it’s going? Can you back up your statement?
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Its really none of his business what 7food Networks future is to even hint at it i, it’s pretty disgusting. SBS, you are doing a good job at being little tiny winy babies.
I’ll give it credit for the SBS World Movies channel and Viceland, but it’s a gateway to porn. 
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It is imminent. 7mate can’t go HD (at a decent bitrate) without dropping 7food Network first:
You’ve previously had a go at people on here who are paid customers for criticising Foxtel, and yet here you are complaining about SBS, a product which you pay for (in part at least, as a taxpayer). Bit illogical, no?
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we had a massive discussion about this at the time of the Seven 2020 vision thing.
For 7mate to go HD Seven have to find at least 3.5Mbits from somewhere …
Ok they dump 7 mate SD that gives then about 2.5Mbits they still need 1Mbits, they have about 0.7Mbits spare,dumping 7food to 7plus gives them that extra bandwidth needed.
That or 7 SD (which is still around as the primary channel) gets switched off and they can still have 7food if they re-work the mux to fit MPEG2 signal.
If 7food goes to 7plus that is fine with me.
Just on 7plus, plese Seven make every channel HEVC 1080p/AAC audio, and don’t give me the excuse that people wont be able to view, every HTML5 browser can easily do it.
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Other than the comments from SBS upfronts and the news that 7mate is going HD, no.
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It’s been rating a little better lately, one night got nearly 2% (7flix has hit low 1% some nights lately) and Gordon Ramsay made the Top 5 key demos the other day.
But that really is just clutching at straws.
7food are running out their first run content as they wind down the channel.
Only Hell’s Kitchen USA is first run and this season finishes in 2 weeks
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Ramsay is now shown on 7Flix. So it seems clear that he’s moved over for the imminent shut-down of this channel.
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Seven have put so much investment into promos for this channel as well, as the expense of their other channels. Wasted.
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while I take your point, that’s the same with any risk.
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This blurb from Seven’s press release today (announcing the return of Sonia Kruger) manages to omit 7food from its list of 7 branded channels
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racing.com is also omitted but presumably it is staying on-air.
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I did specially mention “7 branded” channels. Racing is a datacast channel and is a joint venture with Racing Victoria
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