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Post by London Calling Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:46 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/15/bravo-channel-one-bdkyb



BSkyB is to close Bravo and general entertainment station Channel One, putting more than 50 jobs at risk, as part of the integration of Living TV Group.

BSkyB has decided to focus on the Living TV channel portfolio, which will see a 25% boost to its programming budget, and the gameshow and quiz channel Challenge.

Living TV Group, which is home to shows including Grey's Anatomy, Britain's Next Top Model and Sons of Anarchy, currently employs 110 staff. There will be just 58 roles after integration, but it is understood that there are a significant number of positions potentially available in other parts of the BSkyB operation.

BSkyB is understood to have decided to jettison Bravo, which launched as a cable channel in 1985, because it reaches a similar demographic to Sky1 but is not believed to have the same brand equity or reach.

BSkyB is backing Living TV because, outside of sport, it is second only to Sky1 in popularity among its basic pay-TV channels. BSkyB has failed to target the female market as successfully as Living TV, which has a two-year deal with Katie Price. Sky closed its own attempt to target a female audience, Sky Real Lives, earlier this year.

It was decided that Channel One, which was rebranded from Virgin 1 in August following BSkyB's acquisition of Living TV Group for £160m in July, was too similar to Sky3, which it sits alongside as a free-to-air channel on Freeview.

BSkyB intends to "redeploy" the channels' programming, with pay-TV shows moving to other Sky channels and free-to-air fare mostly moving to Sky3.

Bravo is home to shows including Spartacus, Dog the Bounty Hunter and Sons of Anarchy. Spin-off channel Bravo 2 will also disappear. BSkyB has not said what it intends to do with the channel slot.

Challenge will move free-to-air in Channel One's slot, which will effectively double its audience reach, as BSkyB looks to grow its presence in quizzes and gameshows. There are longer-term possibilities of tie-ups with Sky Bet.

Staff have been informed of the integration plans this afternoon with all staff, including the Living TV Group managing director, Jonathan Webb, under review.

The review has been carried out by Sophie Turner Laing, the managing director of entertainment, news and broadcast operations at BSkyB.

"Content is at the heart of Sky's strategy," she said. "Living is already one of the best pay-TV channels around and is obviously a great fit with our existing channels like Sky1. There is so much potential for further development and we intend to increase on-screen investment in Living by around a quarter as part of our expanded channel portfolio. This is a big part of our plans to bring customers great content from channel brands that really cut through."

BSkyB moved quickly to announce the integration of Living TV Group after being given final clearance by the Office of Fair Trading only yesterday.

The Living TV Group integration adds to what is expected to be a major revamp of BSkyB's entertainment programming after the broadcaster struck a five-year £150m deal for the exclusive UK rights to the entire HBO catalogue of shows including The Wire, True Blood and The Sopranos.






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Let's hope that Strikeforce and BAMMA get picked up on some Sky Channels then. Wouldnt be that surprising if they did, Sky already has UCMMA (which is shit), Knuckle Up (presentation is shit but fights are okay and that awful Cage Fighter program with Dave O' Donnell so it's about time they got some proper MMA on. + they are going to be showing TUF 12 in the UK starting from the 21st.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11979_6374407,00.html

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Post by Fletch Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:52 pm

Fucks sake. YOO EFF SEE everywhere.... at least ESPN snapped up the UFC events, so I don't have to deal with more than 2 TapouT wearing cocks out of every 10 lads in the 18-36 demographic.

I used to love Bravo... they showed UFC for free.... then around 07 or 08 it all changed.

I wish Sky picked up JMMA, or M-1 Global
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Post by Rufus The Wrecking Ball Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:18 am

i know sky have the M-1 Challenge show on the extreme sports channel during the night. all i want to know is what channel i can watch strikeforce on now and pray that we get some JMMA Union Jack of GB
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Post by mrjamescortez Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:00 am

Strikeforce is on bravo usually 2 days after the show has been aired live. Bit shitty but atleast epsn plays all the UFC main events
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Post by ARRUABARRENA Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:36 am

This could be a real interesting turn of events for mma in the UK and in general for Strikeforce because we all know how well Sky hype and market their product. I doubt that Sky will take Strikeforce but if TUF pulls decent ratings then Sky will hopefully launch more mma programming on SKY 4. I mean Sky 4 is basically fishing, watersports and Aerobics OZ style (no disrespect) if they were to turn it into an alternative sports channel or in general combat sports channel and throw it's large boxing program with mma could get a real help in being pushed to the UK masses. I have yet to find a Brit that doesn't enjoy watching a fight.

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