This year, the pay TV broadcaster Sky has already discontinued some channels. At the end of September there will be another one.
The selection of available TV channels on Sky is constantly changing. Some are added, others are deleted. At the end of last year it hit the children’s channel “Junior” and “E! Entertainment”. This year the provider has also removed channels from the program, including “NatGeo” and “NatGeo Wild”. A popular comedy channel is now number 5 on Sky’s cut list.
The “Sky Comedy” channel will disappear at the end of September
The provider announced its departure from “Sky Comedy” in the spring. However, there was no exact date for the shutdown at the time. Now it is clear: on the night of September 26th to 27th, Sky will finally take its comedy channel off the network.
The channel is an exclusive offer that has been available via the pay-TV provider since April 2021. The launch of “Sky Comedy” was part of a major entertainment offensive that also included the launch of “Sky Crime” – TECHBOOK reported.
Sky explained to TECHBOOK that the channel was switched off with a lack of interest among viewers. “The media usage behavior of our viewers has changed significantly, and they primarily watch comedy content flexibly on demand via Sky Q or WOW. As a result, we are discontinuing the linear comedy channel,” said a Sky spokeswoman.
Sky refers fans of comedy content to alternative linear offers such as “Sky 1” and “Sky Atlantic” or to access via stream. Here you will find popular series such as “Ghosts”, “Young Rock”, “Superstore”, “The Goldbergs”, “The Conners” as well as German-language productions such as “Tschugger” and “Pastewka”. You can also stream your own productions like “Quatsch Comedy Club” and HBO titles like “Leave it, Larry!”, “Silicon Valley” and “Entourage” there in the future.
Already the fifth station shutdown in 2023
As already mentioned, “Sky Comedy” is the fifth channel that Sky is switching off this year. After “NatGeo” and “NatGeo Wild” in January, the pay-TV provider also separated from the two documentary channels “Spiegel Geschichte” and “Curiosity TV” at the end of June. The latter was formerly known as “Spiegel TV Geschichte”, but was renamed in the summer of 2021 when the US company Curiosity took over shares in Spiegel TV Geschichte und Wissen GmbH & Co. KG.
At the time, Sky explained the move to TECHBOOK by saying that it was focusing heavily on the wishes of customers and regularly adjusting the selection of channels accordingly. In both cases, Sky referred customers to alternatives. On the one hand, this was the existing documentary offering, above all the in-house channel “Sky Documentaries” and, on the other hand, the partner station “History Channel”.