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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
From what I can gather, the more modern satellites have been a major contributor to this change.
The older satellites covered a large area, but the new ones can have spot beams to only serve a certain area eg the UK.
If they hadn't of scrambled their signals prior to now, UKTV would have had to pay for pan European rights for their programmes.
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This may be the case, but as the number of fully FTA channels on satellite has numbered in the hundreds since well before Freesat even came on the scene, you have to wonder why the prospect of rights payments was uniquely challenging to UKTV. They don't screen anything that might demand a premium for European broadcast, such as sport or movies.