[Keith]

Sky making significant lay offs, mainly in 'engineering' as streaming services become more popular.

www.lbc.co.uk 

Though it says about the operations department and engineers, the article seems to suggest it's the installation teams rather than broadcast engineers

I wouldn't be too surprised if the eventual successor to Sky Q is designed to work with either internet or satellite input. Maybe even using the satellite input as a fallback for when there's poor or no internet connectivity.

That way they can still offer a service to those who live in remote locations where internet is currently limited, whilst futureproofing the devices for if they decide to move more services to IP only. Given that Sky Q was launched in 2016 I imagine that some of the earlier devices may be nearing end of life, as well as quite a bit having changed since then. Worth noting that Sky Q boxes do apparently have an ethernet and Wi-Fi connections.

I wouldn't be too surprised if between now and 2028 some of the services currently available on satellite start to move to being delivered by IP only, to save on satellite costs. I imagine they'll want to migrate any remaining Sky+ (SD and HD) customers, and get them onto either Sky Stream or Sky Q. In terms of channels axing +1 channels on satellite will probably be coming soon, possibly still allowing them to be received via IP delivery.