[gottago]

So the Great TV channel along with Great Movies remains free to air on Freeview, but they decided to leave Freesat - why? I contacted Freesat and they told me it wasn't their choice for the channels to leave and from what their PR team told me, Freesat was given very little notice.

Why leave one free platform, but remain on one, which is not uniform, as the full Freeview service isn't easily received around the country - I don't see the sense in their decision - Freesat must have been charging high rate for the EPG slots?

Freesat charges channels to appear on its EPG whereas I don't think there's any such cost on Freeview. Ultimately Freesat has the fewest users of all platforms whereas Freeview has the most so if they're looking to cut costs they might as well cut paying the service that brings them the lowest audience.