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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 20156" data-attributes="member: 174998">In the Netherlands, cable subscribers pay next to nothing for BBC1 &amp; BBC2. It's there in every package across the entire country (which is now 95% cabled), and even the full package only costs a few pounds per month. In fact, we also get BBC-World which even the British don't. And BBC-Prime is now in the standard Satellite package. So the message is clear: if any Brits want more BBC, they should move abroad...The BBC reception in NL has an interesting history. It was established originally by some enterprising souls setting up a large antenna on the coast and simply piping it inland. That was in the days before TV companies worried too much about such things. BBC did later negotiate some kind of deal to make it official, but they get virtually nothing from it. It was more a token thing because they recognised they can't stop it. I don't think there are any laws governing the reception of unencrypted signals. In the rest of Europe it's a perfectly normal for at least border areas to be sharing each others' terrestrial signals.There are periodic murmurings about this changing. Many industry observers think that eventually BBC will have to be removed from cable, but for the time being BBC seems not too bothered. By the way, we Dutch pay an obligatory TV &amp; Radio licence fee which is quite high, and since a few years ago collected as part of our income tax (so it's impossible to avoid paying - even if you don't have a TV or radio). But none of the revenue from that goes to the BBC.2old</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 20156, member: 174998"] In the Netherlands, cable subscribers pay next to nothing for BBC1 & BBC2. It's there in every package across the entire country (which is now 95% cabled), and even the full package only costs a few pounds per month. In fact, we also get BBC-World which even the British don't. And BBC-Prime is now in the standard Satellite package. So the message is clear: if any Brits want more BBC, they should move abroad... The BBC reception in NL has an interesting history. It was established originally by some enterprising souls setting up a large antenna on the coast and simply piping it inland. That was in the days before TV companies worried too much about such things. BBC did later negotiate some kind of deal to make it official, but they get virtually nothing from it. It was more a token thing because they recognised they can't stop it. I don't think there are any laws governing the reception of unencrypted signals. In the rest of Europe it's a perfectly normal for at least border areas to be sharing each others' terrestrial signals. There are periodic murmurings about this changing. Many industry observers think that eventually BBC will have to be removed from cable, but for the time being BBC seems not too bothered. By the way, we Dutch pay an obligatory TV & Radio licence fee which is quite high, and since a few years ago collected as part of our income tax (so it's impossible to avoid paying - even if you don't have a TV or radio). But none of the revenue from that goes to the BBC. 2old [/QUOTE]

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