ITV-BBC streaming service Britbox has so far failed in its attempts to get carriage on Sky Q.
The £5.99 per month service was launched in November by the public broadcasters as the UK’s answer to Netflix with a library of classic UK content including Downton Abbey, Cold Feet, Broadchurch and Fawlty Towers.
In a story first reported in the Sunday Times, Sky has not completely ruled out the idea of an agreement, an immediate deal is seen as “highly unlikely”.
The Comcast-owned paycaster already offers its 10 million subscribers catch-up con tent from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. In recent weeks it has signed a new deal with Five and agreed with Britbox’s junior partner BBC to carry the latest version of iPlayer.
Britbox has signed agreements with Freeview Play and YouView, in which the PSBs are leading partners, and the mobile network EE.
However, an agreement with both Sky and cable network Virgin Media has so far been elusive.
In a statement, Britbox told Broadband TV News: “We are looking forward to extending the number of partners we have to enable Britbox to get to more and more homes.”
