- While there is a Sky Sports Main Event Ultra HDR I now have 4 UHD Sky Sports channels in VM: Sky Sports Main Event UHD, Sky Sports UHD F1, Sky Sports UHD 1 and Sky Sports UHD 2 so the last 3 seem missing
The extra UHD channels are hidden in the 900s on Sky Stream (the usual access is via red button on an event, I believe, but you also manually type the numbers into the remote).
- All the 9 Eurosport HD channels and their UHD channel seems missing
I can only assume Sky didn't want to provide transponder space or pay specifically for them (or something) as they were all on Sky for the Tokyo Olympics. Sky customers do still get the content, as they get Discovery+ free anyway (well, except people still on non-Q sat boxes) so they still get the content but it's only via IP and the app even on Sky Q (but with no UHD...).
- Premier Sports is unavailable Sky Stream and Sky Glass
- Racing TV is unavailable Sky Stream and Sky Glass
- LaLiga TV is unavailable Sky Stream and Sky Glass
Presumably all rights things. Racing TV is sold/marketed by Sky though so a confusing lack there.
Premier Sports (and LaLigaTV) is sold in the UK directly by Premier Sports and activated by viewing card number (Sky sub is not actually required at all). Sky Stream doesn't allow for third-party channel sales like the satelite platform so not much can happen there until they decide to move towards an app, or well via Sky... Similarly TNT Sports customers who pay TNT directly (or those paying via BT/EE) cannot get the channels added onto Sky Stream unless they change to pay Sky directly.
In Ireland Premier Sports is on Sky Stream as it's sold directly by Sky in a single pack (along with TNT).
Maybe the issue here is that the Sky Sports + huge Premier Legue TV rights marriage is not sustainable anymore? Will Sky be able to transition all the Satellite TV customers into Stream/Glass customers? With so many streaming services is the TV bundling model dead? Or are we going to see a rebundling move among the streaming services?
I think the determination for a full IP move will be commercial customers. Sky Q and 4K only launched last year for businesses, up to then they still issued Sky HD boxes, and the vast majority of business customers still have those - although it is quicker to move over as there are far fewer business customers in the UK than residental obviously. HD has been off for years for businesses for example. Additionally both Premier Sports and TNT Sport are sold directly to businesses only via viewing card number and who knows where the IP move might be. The Prime Premier Leauge games were also sold to businesses via TNT on the Sky satelite platform too, not IP.
With Sky Sports+ starting I'm not sure how this will impact things, as not sure if some of those extra feeds might be IP only?