[Spencer]

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.

Sky’s rule that any channel on the EPG must carry a minimum amount of programming could make this tricky. We could see a BBC Three closure situation in which they run a few programmes in the middle of the night to make this possible.