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Originally Posted by DaMac
The big post about sky isn't entirley true though is it, i seem to remember a company calld BSB that looked like they could more than give sky a run for their money even back then untill $murdoch decided they was too dangerous and the company's ended up merging (Yeaah right) despite a lot of people at BSB's best efforts to keep the wolf from the door, they eventually was trampled all over.. by the government as well and became BSkyB, otherwise known as Sky TV.  |
BSB had the satellite frequency licences for UK broadcast and was the 'official' satellite broadcaster for Britain. Unfortunately the whole spectrum flog-off was fundamentally flawed - there was nothing to stop Sky from bidding for spectrum allocated to other European countries. Sky won the rights to satellite broadcast spectrum allocated, IIRC, to Luxembourg, and promptly started using it to broadcast its services to the UK instead.
It cut the bottom right out of BSB's market, especially as that company was using a bandwidth-intensive means of broadcast that severely limited the number of channels it could offer. While BSB and Sky were both loss-making concerns at the time of the 'merger', BSB was losing twice as much as Sky.