I think it's only around 500k a year. So to cover costs that's only around 10k a week needed in advertising. This must be possible or stratos wouldn't be able to have run so long.
What is it Freeview does again? They don't provide either the medium or the content, and that doesn't leave very much at all. Why would any intending broadcaster want to pay them any money whatsoever? Just to be able to use the "Freeview" brand?
I keep thinking I've missed some huge point, but then I think about "The Emperor's New Clothes".
So, seriously - what service does Freeview actually provide?
That 500k was just for kordia transmission costs. My guess is that joining freeview would require a cost for channel numbering. There's some advantage in having a shared platform as far as receiver compatibility and ease of use goes. A broadcaster could go it alone but would miss out by not being automatically tuned in on approved boxes.
Tvnz have the rights to BBC news, so only they could do that I think. What about a channel with a mix of nhk world Japan, al jazeera English and Australia network? Still can't see how ads can cover the costs though.
hdinsider: Tvnz have the rights to BBC news, so only they could do that I think. What about a channel with a mix of nhk world Japan, al jazeera English and Australia network? Still can't see how ads can cover the costs though.
Most of the good content , other operators probably already have the rights for. There is little competition in that area. It would make more sense to become an online broadcaster wouldn't it? I mean that is the way things are heading.
hdinsider: That 500k was just for kordia transmission costs. My guess is that joining freeview would require a cost for channel numbering. There's some advantage in having a shared platform as far as receiver compatibility and ease of use goes. A broadcaster could go it alone but would miss out by not being automatically tuned in on approved boxes.
Have you actually read the guide on the Freeview website that is listed above? I'm assuming you haven't because it lists the actual costs in there - there is no need to speculate.
SteveON: I would love to have the bbc news channel on freeview. Best of all its 24/7 inexpensive to repeat and has add slots.
BBC World is available FTA now from Intelsat 5. You'll need a dish of about 90 cm, a C band LNB, and a satellite decoder. I haven't done it myself as I didn't think the incremental cost (a much more expensive multiswitch) was worth it for me. Still, of you want it, it's there.
Hi SBiddle, sorry I didn't follow the link. Wow, nice that they put that up. So of that's what freeview charge, I still would think Kordia also charge to be in their mux too and there would be different rates for dtt or dth or both. I wish they had some rules in there about getting the aspect ratios correct. Especially in the case of TV9.
mm1352000: Regarding BBC: doesn't Sky also provide this channel? And further, aren't Igloo going to have it starting in the middle of the year.
Both will be pay though. You can get it free on satellite as per above can't you, so why pay when it is free.
I guess what I was wondering more about was who actually has the rights to the channel/content (?). In other words, who would actually have the ability to put the channel on-air if money wasn't an object.
In a similar way, I wonder about some of the shows TVNZ and TV 3 broadcast - for example River Monsters and I Shouldn't Be Alive from Animal Planet, which Sky also broadcasts and Igloo will soon broadcast. How does that work?
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