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Originally Posted by LostintheNW
Ok I accept your point about channels paying sky to shove them on the satellites, but seeing as NTL get their programs from the same satellites (as we were informed when we got cable installed many years ago when it was nice and friendly C&W!) how come they don't carry them? there are loads of freebie channels on sky and yes they maybe crap but it would be nice to have the choice to watch them or not - anyways this is going OT and I don't wanna do that!
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NTL do indeed source the majority of their programmes from the satellite feed.
But they still have to receive the programme, regig it from DVB-S to DVB-C, multiplex it, and send it down the cable to your house. Now not only does the equiptment to do all this cost money to maintain, and the engineers looking after it need their fat salaries paying
, but there's also limited space available on dcab. If NTL put a (satellite) FTA channel on the list, it goes in place of one that could potentially pay for an EPG spot.
It's not all black and white.