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Originally Posted by Media Boy
or pay the BBC via Virgin Media £12.99 per month to watch all the BBC Channels (My phone says we pay the BBC £12.12.5 per month right now).
Or I love to see the BBC having an night on BBC One every year called ''BBC in Need''.  |
That's actually quite a good idea. It might allow the BBC to save on some administrative costs (pay TV operators will need subscriber management services anyway), help some customers to budget and stop some TV license fee evasion (especially since the decision to scrap the requirement of TV retailers to inform TVL whenever a TV is purchased.)
This could be applied to all pay TV operators. Incidentally, VM have the power to disconnect TV customers who are found not to be in possession of a valid TVL. Ironically, VM are not allowed to encrypt the BBC channels, so they would have to ensure that the box was physically removed!
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Originally Posted by Jameseh
Because Channel 4 and ITV can afford to run more HD channels because they're behind a paywall, BBC must make them available to every platform for free and pay for them to broadcast there.
Sky own the satellite and have more money than jesus so they're not particularly comparable.
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I thought that Channel 4 HD was now available FTA
Sky don't own the satellites that they use, they are actually owned by SES who lease transponders to, amongst other people, Sky.
http://www.ses.com/4232583/en