Makes sense tbh, I’m with you on the whole live start, it diminishes the point of having anything live on Sky Open.
Sell it to who lol
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This will start 2026.
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I guess thats unlikely in this climate.
The free to air coverage will probably be live for the first 5 mins and get peppered with ads. Free to air TV is hopeless at covering sports now,
I suspect they’ll be the last owner of the “licence” (for want of a better term). We’ve already got WBD who barely take any interest in the channels it owns.
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As in the broadcast frequency? You’re probably right, given they’re trying to shorten the next period for AM and FM licenses.
Sky have been sitting on that TV license, leaving it unutilised since the failure of Igloo. Normally if you’ve got it, you’ve got to use it or lose it. I imagine the only reason they are allowed to sit on it like that is because of some sneaky govt. deal when they handed in their five analogue licenses for one digital (thus making the transition easier).
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Yeah that’s the one ha
The Big Bang Theory and its spin-off, Young Sheldon, also available on Max via Sky and Neon while Young Sheldon itself can be streamed on Disney+. In addition, several non-Disney shows and movies (e.g. Gilmore Girls, The Rookie, Dance Moms, Grease, Mean Girls etc) are also available for streaming on Disney+.
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TV3’s future is under certain as their owners WBD makes some global changes.
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Who is going to buying TV3? Is it gotta be Stuff NZ, Sky, Paramount Global, NBCUniversal or could be Seven Network Australia. Will find out.
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I’d like to see Paramount ANZ buy it out and use it similar to 10 in Australia.
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After the experience of WBD, I don’t think an international buyer would be ideal especially since we have no local content rules like they do in Australia. It would be another bare bones operation if Paramount acquired Three but then again a local buyer could be worse, imagine if a certain Canadian billionaire got his hands on it…
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It would have to be for a very cheap price. WB have damaged this network.
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Sky should probably take a crack at it, they already have a healthy relationship with WBD, and I’d imagine Three is still a much stronger brand and channel placing than Sky Open ever was. It’d be appealing to them, especially without the economics of running the full in-house newsroom it had during its last sale.
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Sky would probably the only viable option to take Three over. Maybe have Three and use Sky Open to focus on selected sports on Free to Air delayed.
I don’t see any other international media company that would want to take on any more media assets especially one that is performing badly unfortunately.
Sky would probably be the only one to have content that could probably give a chance of revival to the channel but I think the writing is on the wall for Three.
They’ve lost most of the shows that brought them eyeballs and cut most of the locally produced content, why would any one want to turn and watch Three now?
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You’d think that if a sale to Sky actually went through, the existing contract to outsource Three’s news production to Stuff would likely be expanded to cover some form of news on Sky Open as well—effectively making Stuff the new Newshub.
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Why would you think that.
Because I just can’t see Sky terminating an existing contract after acquisition in order to staff or produce their own bulletins.