Participant to shut down Pivot Network

[pattykay]

Go to your settings and change it to go to last watched channel in the settings. You can pick between last Channel, smart channel, or home screen when you turn on the box.

Does this work on the original Hopper?

 

[ChadT41]

Once it gets the CUI, yes.

 

[pattykay]

Once it gets the CUI, yes.

Which is when?

 

[navychop]

Any year now.




Sadly, it really does seem to be slated to descend upon us this month.

And if it does, and damages my OTA reception, I'll be speed buying a Channel Master DVR+ or something similar.

 

[ChadT41]

"SOON"

 

[zeebre12]

"SOON"

 

[zeebre12]

What happens to the channel slot when Pivot closes when it is not rebranded?, isnt it on quite a few providers, can a new channel buy the channel slot or what happens? What happened to Al Jazerra America when it closed, could Viceland not have bought the channel space rather than closing the successful H2?

 

[ChadT41]

A&E rebranded H2 as VICELAND. That has nothing to do with channel slots.

 

[MitchDeerfield]

No one wanted to buy Pivot, so it will disappear along with its channel slots.

 

[MikeD-C05]

The first and not the last ,of many niche channels that will be either going away or consolidated together in the future. The 90's expansion of hundreds of niche channels is now in reverse. I look for many of them to go away as skinny bundles, add on packs and full on ala cart starts becoming the norm , instead of the exception.

 

[MitchDeerfield]

It has nothing to do about being a "niche" channel. It is about being owned by a company that doesn't have other channels to leverage with. Viacom has several niche channels but they have so many mainstream channels that they can force Dish and others to bundle them all in.

Participant didn't own any other popular channels that they could use to pressure Dish or any other cable/sat company. Same thing with Ovation.

 

[KAB]

It has nothing to do about being a "niche" channel.

Of course it does. If your target "Niche" doesn't bite, not matter who owns you or not, you're out of business, or if owned by a larger media concern, "rebranded"...to die another day.

 

[MitchDeerfield]

You need to look at all the crazy niche chanels that Viacom, MTV and ESPN has, They literally have several channels that no one watches but they are bundled in. Not even counting Viceland which is also a niche network.

 

[KAB]

Well again, you missed the point...when you go in "alone" with a Niche channel, that nobody wants, you're dead. That was Pivot.

 

[ChadT41]

VICELAND is owned by A&E who rebranded H2... Almost all of A&E channels are niche channels, but they are niche channels that work, plus A&E has the leverage because of it.

 

[dare2be]

Well again, you missed the point...when you go in "alone" with a Niche channel, that nobody wants, you're dead. That was Pivot.

How did he miss the point? That's basically what he said in post #71. Unless you were talking to someone else.

 

[KAB]

How did he miss the point? That's basically what he said in post #71. Unless you were talking to someone else.

Read #70. Mike was correct about the nature of Nice channels.

 

[dare2be]

Read #70. Mike was correct about the nature of Nice channels.

They're both right. Mike's post about the future of niche channels is spot on, but still out in the future. The specific situation surrounding Pivot is because it didn't have backing of a larger owner, otherwise it might have just been re-branded as H2 was.

 

[STDog]

Rebranded or not, the channels go away.

Sometimes it happens before the rebranding which just removes the old name (H2 little resembled it's earlier self when renamed).

 

[MikeD-C05]

Of course it does. If your target "Niche" doesn't bite, not matter who owns you or not, you're out of business, or if owned by a larger media concern, "rebranded"...to die another day.

EXACTLY.