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More than 2 million people now have Freesat, the free-to-air satellite TV service, the company has said. The company also claimed that 47% of its users had defected from BSkyB, cementing Freesat's position as the fastest growing TV platform in the UK.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14820044
... and yet part-owner ITV is still nobbling the service by withholding the HD versions of ITV2, 3 and 4.
Even so, this is an encouraging sign that a significant number of people see satellite as the way forward for receiving free-to-air TV, especially as Freesat's own studies suggest that they pick up a lot of viewers who are cancelling their Sky subscriptions. It looks as if people want to keep using the dish rather than reverting to a terrestrial aerial.