[gunner45]

All broadcasters (Virgin Media, Sky, PSBs) are moving to IPTV, meaning fewer broadcast channels - which will cost more per channel even if Arqiva makes cost savings like halving the six multiplexers to just three as fixed costs of the transmitter network (the "towers") are largely static. The big boys like the PSBs can afford to pay Arqiva's carriage fees but higher fees will kill the little channels. And these little channels like Rewind TV and music cannot just pivot to FAST as they won't have the rights for streaming (broadcast rights rarely enable streaming rights as well) - and even then they'd have to persuade the likes of Samsung to do the hosting. The brutal reality is that these channels will just disappear as even being on YouTube is no answer if you don't have the digital streaming rights.