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Originally Posted by jfman
If that was your argument, held consistently, for the best part of the last 15 years debate over the word “linear” wouldn’t have been necessary at all. It’s inconsistent with points you’ve previously made about savings to be made by organising a TV schedule and broadcasting according to it.
Once again you’ve got so close to the point of the Green Paper, yet missed the point entirely. State subsidy is required to push people - 1.5 million households - off DTT. Not to maintain it.
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Actually there won't be a state subsidy as the government's green paper says “No assumption should be made at this stage that public funding will be available to support a transition.”
So, who will pay? Mainly the PSBs (BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) as they are actively pushing Freely (through their membership of Everyone TV), have their own apps (BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Channel 4, 5) and do not want to continue paying for both this streaming distribution and broadcast distribution (mainly Arqiva for DTT with much more modest costs for satellite and Virgin Media's cable). And I'd expect some others to chip in, e.g. ISPs expanding their social tariffs or pushing existing social tariffs harder.