The end of Freeview

According to Cordbusters, Freeview is planned to end on one of two dates.

https://www.cordbusters.co.uk/govern...freeview-gone/

Freeview could be switched off when the current broadcasting licences expire on December 31, 2034, or it could be given a time-limited extension to December 31, 2044.

The government apparently prefers the earlier date.

[Jaymoss]

Free aerial TV, the way millions of us have watched for over two decades, is being lined up for retirement in favour of telly delivered over your broadband.


soon as I read that the post lost all credibility and I could no longer read it. Over 2 decades more like 9 decades (BBC started broadcasting TV in 1936 1 hour in the afternoon and 1 hour in the evening )

[Carth]

It's happening to almost everything, one basket + all the eggs.

The Internet is fast becoming the sole provider of everything you want and need . . . thank goodness it's not prone to occasional screw ups and down time

That ‘news’ article could have been written by OB himself.

It’s full of confirmation bias (as well as affiliate links), and you only have to go a few paragraphs down to establish that el gov has merely published a green paper. Even when one of these contains a preferred option, the whole point of a green paper is to start a high-level discussion around general concepts. If they had a workable plan to actually end Freeview in 2034 it would be in a white paper, and even that is somewhere short of a bill for discussion and passing as an Act of Parliament.