UK TV SATELLITE ISSUES

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It might be better if the Portugal News concentrated on getting their facts right first - you cannot get Freeview outside of the UK.

More here - http://theportugalnews.com/news/expat-concern-over-loss-of-uk-satellite-tv/27331

Jayjan wrote:  mmmmmmmmm will the BBC take this publicity seriously http://theportugalnews.com/news/comment-bbc-why-dont-you-tell-us-if-we-are-going-to-be-cut-off/27332

There is no 'tell us if we are going to be cut off' argument relating to the reception of UK channels overseas.

BBC (especially), ITV etc have no remit to provide TV services outside of the UK. The fact that you can get them via satellite in Portugal and elsewhere for the last 20 years or so, with a small dish, is purely good fortune. Now they are moving to a new satellite, to improve service to the people who pay for it.

Your BBC TV here is free. Ex-pats pay no TV licence fee to UK authorities, which is the equivalent of about £3 a week. It would probably be illegal for the BBC to become a subscription service.

And it's been mentioned elsewhere, BBC and ITV make shedloads of money selling their programmes to foreign TV companies for re-broadcast.  A market that would be lost if they were to overtly broadcast overseas. There are copyright issues also.

If you have decent internet connection (I don't) and a bit of know how you can receive TV streams from almost anywhere.

(Is there a counter argument with foreigners living in the UK demanding that their domestic TV channels are available to them?)

cubsur wrote: There are copyright issues also.

The writing is on the wall - if BBC/ITV/C4 won't allow access to their respective iplayers in foreign countries, then it follows that sooner or later they won't allow access to their full TV schedules. They can't have one rule for the internet and another rule for satellite.

cubsur wrote: If you have decent internet connection (I don't) and a bit of know how you can receive TV streams from almost anywhere.

http://www.filmon.com/

Algarveaddick wrote: taking no account of how lack of UK TV will impact the tourist industry.

I don't think that the vast majority of tourists go on holiday to watch TV and the availability of UK TV is certainly not a main consideration when choosing a destination and/or resort. Lot's of other things come first.

Sure, it's probably a nice to have extra but in the overall scheme of things, for your average holidaymaker, it's not a must have.

And if all the major European sun & sea destinations no longer have UK TV, then Portugal & The Algarve will not be at a disadvantage.


Another report here -
http://www.algarveresident.com/0-50236/algarve/no-more-british-tv

It's a fact that many brits do indeed want UK telly when they go away. We were repeatedly asked if we had sky at the apartment during the years we rented out and did actually have one family not book because we didnt! 

DICEYUK wrote: Avril wrote: It's a fact that many brits do indeed want UK telly when they go away. We were repeatedly asked if we had sky at the apartment during the years we rented out and did actually have one family not book because we didnt!  Still, if you've only had one family refuse then that's not so bad. I can understand people watching a bit of UK TV while they're away, if it happens to be there, but only booking holidays in specific destinations that have UK TV, and avoiding others that don't, is pretty staggering.  As far as major sports events are concerned then you would have been hard pushed to find anywhere in the World that didn't have Euro 2012 or the Olympics on, as some people who were trying to avoid watching these events found out.

And in the future hard pushed to find a bar showing say England or any other team on a night Portugal were playing - such as the international breaks featuring numerous friendly matches.

I quite enjoyed the night England played Sweden - Germany played Holland - Italy played France watching all 3 in the Classic Bar - Old Town

Also - for reasons beyond me - I have witnessed tourists glued to the box in various bars watching X Factor!!!!

well said Perry. Majority of tourist that spend money are the Brits & the Irish. I think it will have a great impact on tourists in their holiday apartment/villa, especially when they have young kiddies to keep amused UK TV it  is a saviour. Folks  enjoying going out to a bar for the afternoon wanting to watch sports/footie  and can watch virtually any match or sport .Personally I don't watch any TV in the summer at my place when the sun is guaranteed  to shine but I do in the winter season months when it can be drab, rainy & cold & lets not forget we do get tourist spending long winter months on the Algarve, but will they come back when they find they can't get UK TV. Outlook isn't good at the moment.The times they are a changing

well hope so John, maybe we are reading too much into it at the mo, we will see, fingers crossed.But I for one will not be paying the price of a 3 metre dish if needed, very very expensive indeed.