sky poker channel on freeview

OMahonyO

Is there any chance this could be done, it must be possible as I have freeview and can get sky3.  Surely you would be reaching a far wider audience, hance more traffic and rake etc.

Grimstar30

In Response to sky poker channel on freeview:

Is there any chance this could be done, it must be possible as I have freeview and can get sky3.  Surely you would be reaching a far wider audience, hance more traffic and rake etc.
Posted by OMahonyO

Great idea, but probably a lot more to it than that. Prob regulations about 'gambling channels' and a certain allocation of 'spare channels' also perhaps Sky only have X amount of channels to use on Freeview, and a poker channel probably is seen as too specialist.

JAG128

sky poker channel on freeview is a great idea ...... and as for it being to specialist , might i remind you that poker is the biggest new game to hit this country in years  :-)

NICON

I can't even begin to imagine the cost of adding a channel to freeview. As the current channel is subsidised by advertising and sky subscribers it works, however once you take it to free view i would imagine you would have to add a significant amount of viewers who then become users of sky poker to make it viable.

Tikay10

I'm afraid this is just not do-able, for all sorts of reasons.

NICON has pretty much summed it up.

paulwba

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE SKY REMEMBER THAT