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<blockquote data-quote="geoffreys" data-source="post: 55104" data-attributes="member: 176167">That is correct, and they were free to do it because those (radio) channels were not 'constrained' as the result of 'Political decisions, with knock-on commercial decisions by SKY and BBC' as were and are the FTA channels.Copyright is not an issue in all this! Coverage is determined by licence conditions (BBC and/or SKY) and these are determined by the UK Government (as I say on political grounds). Every indication we have, both from within the industry and from outside experts/commentators is that BBC and ITV FTA TV channels will remain on the 2D spot beam. What is worrying to 'expatriate viewers of SKY' is how many more channels will move from 2A/2B to 2D!!?? We have already lost the Parliament channel and H&amp;L +1 channel. BBC Prime is available on Hotbird, but quite expensive, and there is no 'ITV Prime'!As a final final on all this SKY is not licenced for reception by subscribers outside of the UK. Anyone watching 2A, 2B, or 2D outside of UK is (technically) comitting an offence under UK law - not that it would be easy to prosecute them.GeoffCyprus - Land of Sun and Aphrodite.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="geoffreys, post: 55104, member: 176167"] That is correct, and they were free to do it because those (radio) channels were not 'constrained' as the result of 'Political decisions, with knock-on commercial decisions by SKY and BBC' as were and are the FTA channels. Copyright is not an issue in all this! Coverage is determined by licence conditions (BBC and/or SKY) and these are determined by the UK Government (as I say on political grounds). Every indication we have, both from within the industry and from outside experts/commentators is that BBC and ITV FTA TV channels will remain on the 2D spot beam. What is worrying to 'expatriate viewers of SKY' is how many more channels will move from 2A/2B to 2D!!?? We have already lost the Parliament channel and H&L +1 channel. BBC Prime is available on Hotbird, but quite expensive, and there is no 'ITV Prime'! As a final final on all this SKY is not licenced for reception by subscribers outside of the UK. Anyone watching 2A, 2B, or 2D outside of UK is (technically) comitting an offence under UK law - not that it would be easy to prosecute them. Geoff Cyprus - Land of Sun and Aphrodite. [/QUOTE]

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