Re: One or two new channels coming to Freesat.
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.
I suppose they could have gone FTV as opposed to subscription, but they would have had to pay for encryption as opposed to getting a cut of the Sky subs.
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