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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
The price would go up if you were able to pick individual pay channels. The price is kept down by packaging them into larger groups.
The Freeview-available channels don't get a cut of the subscription fee. The subscription also pays for rental/maintenance of the equipment, it's not all going toward channels.
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That assumes that you would select the same channels as you were currently getting.
When you analyse the channels you actually watch, there would be a huge number that you could dispense with.
In addition to the free terrestrial channels, I would only choose the half a dozen Sky HD channels, the documentary/nature channels, TLC HD and Quest Red (for my wife), Virgin UHD Channel and the Sky Cinema HD channels. You can't tell me there would not be a saving if I didn't have the Sky and BT sports channels or that huge number of remaining channels that I would no longer have access to.
At least with the streamers, you can pick those that offer you the stuff you actually want to see. Quite a big saving, too, compared with the cost of TV channels.