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Skylife TV to drop Discovery Channel after June 30
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Yaya



Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:54 am    Post subject: Skylife TV to drop Discovery Channel after June 30 Reply with quote

For those subscribing to Skylife TV, the satellite TV carrier will drop Discovery Channel from July 1. Discovery HD will be kept.

Yeah, this SUCKS!
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FDNY



Joined: 27 Sep 2010

PostPosted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think 99% of foreigners in Korea download anything they want to watch anyway. So not really a big disaster.
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Yaya



Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 3:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've heard that Skylife is undergoing internal strife and such, but damn, they should've kept Discovery Channel.

This SUCKS.
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seoulsucker



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff

PostPosted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 4:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If Skylife Discovery channel is the Koreanized version that I get with C&M, you're better off without it. The Korean documentaries are just god awful.
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Yaya



Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, the Discovery Channel on Skylife is the ASIAN edition but well, it hasn't been great lately.
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Weigookin74



Joined: 26 Oct 2009

PostPosted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yaya wrote:
No, the Discovery Channel on Skylife is the ASIAN edition but well, it hasn't been great lately.


Tha asian and korean version is different. The asian version will be in english, while the korean version will use a lot more korean.
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Weigookin74



Joined: 26 Oct 2009

PostPosted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

personally, the cable networks should play both networks for all specialty channels. history, nat geo, discovery, etc. that way koreans and foriegners would both be happy. but common sense is not always prevelant here.
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nicwr2002



Joined: 17 Aug 2011

PostPosted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to love watching Discovery, History, Nat Geo, but they've all degraded into reality television. I'm not sure what Duck Dynasty has to do with history...
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Who's Your Daddy?



Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Weigookin74 wrote:
personally, the cable networks should play both networks for all specialty channels. history, nat geo, discovery, etc. that way koreans and foriegners would both be happy. but common sense is not always prevelant here.


There are so few English speaking people here watching TV channels I'm amazed we get as many English channels as we do. My TV has Bloomberg in English. I wonder how many people are watching that (besides me)? I'd guess a few hundred. I can't see how they make any money from offering that.
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Yaya



Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 2:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Weigookin74 wrote:
personally, the cable networks should play both networks for all specialty channels. history, nat geo, discovery, etc. that way koreans and foriegners would both be happy. but common sense is not always prevelant here.


The foreigner market is still minuscule compared to that for Koreans, but Korea does wanna be a "hub" yet has fewer international channels than Thailand and the Phils.
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le-paul



Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre

PostPosted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh dear, ill really miss those shows that are about possessions and real life ghosts. Oh, and of course the ones that seem to be mostly made up on the spot by the writers.y Sad
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