[interestednovice]

I wonder whether, on the date of the closure as announced above, they will actually cut the stream or will they simply replace it with a full-screen last chance caption for a few weeks?

We think they have the transponder until February, so that would make the most sense. Make all the SD feeds all caption, all the time.

I have also been thinking about the BBC Red Button HD feed. We know that the BBC have one regional variation of BBC One on Sky capacity currently, as they couldn’t fit it into their own transponders. We also know that Nighlight will end and they will hand back the Nighlight transponder. Lately, they have been pushing iPlayer delivery of Red Button content a lot more. Once Nightlight is no more, any laggards will have been forced to upgrade to modern Freesat and Sky boxes. So will the BBC then close RB HD and force satellite viewers to stream that content via iPlayer? If they did, they could move the “extra” BBC One HD region to their own capacity and no longer need to pay Sky to rent an extra stream.

A possible clue to this is that there isn’t a listing for BBC RB HD on Sky Stream, if I recall correctly.