Originally Posted by mseven*:
“The way channels go on to digital platforms (such as homechoice, sky, cable, freeview) is that the channel or company that owns the channel chooses to put the channel on that platform and pays the platform to list the channel on it's EPG (electronic programme guide), with sky there are more channels that are not listed on the EPG which you can watch although most of them are test transmissions or channels waiting to get on to the EPG. For sky a channel pays about £70,000 for a free to view channel to be listed.
If you want a channel to be on homechoice the best thing to do is contact the company who owns the channel as most channels probably dont see the point of paying Homechoice to list their channel and only have it broadcast to a small amount of people in London. If you contact Homechoice about a channel you want to see all they can really do is tell the channel they have had requests for the channel to be on homechoice, if you contact the channel they will directly get your request and it may convince them more than homechoice telling them X amount of people requested the channel”
“The way channels go on to digital platforms (such as homechoice, sky, cable, freeview) is that the channel or company that owns the channel chooses to put the channel on that platform and pays the platform to list the channel on it's EPG (electronic programme guide), with sky there are more channels that are not listed on the EPG which you can watch although most of them are test transmissions or channels waiting to get on to the EPG. For sky a channel pays about £70,000 for a free to view channel to be listed.
If you want a channel to be on homechoice the best thing to do is contact the company who owns the channel as most channels probably dont see the point of paying Homechoice to list their channel and only have it broadcast to a small amount of people in London. If you contact Homechoice about a channel you want to see all they can really do is tell the channel they have had requests for the channel to be on homechoice, if you contact the channel they will directly get your request and it may convince them more than homechoice telling them X amount of people requested the channel”
I didnt realise this is how it work, thinking more that HC paid channels to their content etc. Hmmmm....maybe an email to Living TV wouldnt harm then!
