16-07-2023, 12:13 PM
(12-07-2023, 11:07 PM)JayCasey Wrote: Another of Sky News’ abandoning ship… what do Comcast actually have in mind for the channel when the funding ends??
Interestingly a tabloid had an article today about Sky as a whole today, I won't link to it, but it does not look good for Sky at least based on this article. According to this article, they (Comcast) wish to offload Sky Germany, have billions in debts with payments due in the next 12 months, and mass job losses are on the way. This is Sky as a whole, how it will impact Sky News remains to be seen, but I suspect there will be an impact of significance. But they promised to keep it funded for 10 years from purchase. Beyond that, I suspect it will be either merged and turned into a secondary channel, or closed with the news operation retained for NBC purposes. As kind of happened with Aljazeera recently, but very different structure and size.