Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
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Old 09-09-2014, 13:32   #1811
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3
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Originally Posted by cj136uk View Post
The BBC just won't disappear! BBC1/2/3/4 and the radio services are available across europe, either pay tv or free via freesat. Radio is available all over the world.

No one knows what will happen in the negotiations. But for commercial and funding reasons, the BBC does not want to loose £320 millions in license fee money.
One proposal, which you partly talked about was the SBS proposal, hive off BBC Scotland services, keep/buy in the best network programming, as they do in Ireland (the programmes air at exactly the same time!). The rest of the schedule is made in Scotland or imported.

The BBC could remain, have a presence via BBC Scotland/SBS like the S4C model

BBC can't just disappear, there is freesat and as I already stated commercial funding reasons meaning the BBC just won't let 5 million viewers or listeners go.
But if Scotland becomes independent, the analogy with SC4, which broadcasts within the UK, is not correct.

I cannot see a Scottish Government being happy for a legal requirement to be maintained that its citizens who use a TV must pay a foreign organisation or face legal action. Presumably, therefore, either the Scottish Government will collect and pay the BBC or there would be some form of subscription.

I'm not sure how they would deal with the Freesat issue, though!
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