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Originally Posted by nomadking
How much money would be saved? They still have the cost of making the programmes. More peak time internet demand is going to cause problems.
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One major cost will be carriage. I shouldn't think for a second that Sky, Virgin and the companies that transmit Freeview carry the BBC's channels (beyond 1 and 2 which I believe they are required to carry) for free.
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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit
the the companies that seem to keep adding crap channels do not seem to be worrying to much about that economic formula. I would welcome a cull of the crap channels as well as dropping the tv licence.
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So would I welcome a cull of the crap channels. The problem is that introducing a small channel that serves maybe 5-600,000 viewers will not adversely affect the market. Introduce a channel that with it's more popular broadcasts can count nearly half the country as viewers, and that impact will be significant.