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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
It's actually cheaper for broadcasters to have streaming apps on VM than live cable channels and cheaper to have IPTV channels on Freeview than to have conventional terrestrial channels.
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Not when you factor in the costs of hiring datacenter / CDN capability which is an ongoing cost which increases the more data you ship - i.e. the more viewers you get the more your overheads increase.
The cost of streaming The Night Manager or even Corrie in HD to the same audiences they get on TV would be huge.
In contrast, while terrestrial capacity is expensive it and DSAT capacity cost the same whether 1 person is watching or 20 million.