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I have a question.
Why are mainline Austrian and Swiss German channels more open to Zweikanalton than German ones. ORF 1 is known to support it, meaning that blocks like Okidoki had the English audio track to Phineas and Ferb when Disney Channel didn’t.
Also, how does Pro7 Austria even exist when ORF airs most of its content?
Why are mainline Austrian and Swiss German channels more open to Zweikanalton than German ones. ORF 1 is known to support it, meaning that blocks like Okidoki had the English audio track to Phineas and Ferb when Disney Channel didn’t.
Also, how does Pro7 Austria even exist when ORF airs most of its content?
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If I get it correctly, it's because German channels on satellite are FTA, and they would have to pay more for the English audiotrack (and likely it would even be impossible to broadcast content in English there) due to rights since they occupy a quite important visible spot on Astra.
Which means, everyone or almost in Europe can catch these channels with a good dish, due to central European coverage area of Germany
Austrian and Swiss channels are for the most part encrypted, unless they are not sub-feeds of German channels broadcast FTA.
It is definitely not the only factor, but it is a central one.
Pro7 Austria come from a different company, while ORF comes from non-private public broadcasting one. ORF simply can't broadcast the same heavy amount of US content as a channel like Pro7 can
RandomMe
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And even the Austrian sub-feeds of commercial channels are encrypted
The only PSS1 channels that are available FTA are those of the ATV-Puls 4 ecosystem
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No because there's no DTT in Switzerland, they closed it in 2019
And when they had it it was two channels from the area you were plus the first channel from the other two. In German-speaking areas, two SRF channels plus RSI La 1 and RTS 1 for example
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I heard that the line-up is volatile and has over 100 channels. Volatile because it depends between states. I haven't found a concrete channel list.
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The BBC‘s new director general has announced plans to slash commissioning spend across its TV, radio, and news divisions by £80M ($107M) over the next two years.
Matt Brittin, the former Google executive, told staff in an email on Wednesday (full text below) that the savings plan will mean canceling shows and reviewing the BBC’s “broadcast TV channels and radio network portfolio as audiences move online.”
“The scale of savings requires tough choices, careful work and won’t all be ready at once. We are committed to letting you know as soon as we have plans in your area. All divisions will be making significant savings,” he said.
Brittin did not provide specifics, but said more details will be announced in the coming days. The efforts form part of wider BBC plans to slash costs by £500M ($670M) over the next three years, expanding on an existing target worth £1.5B.
A total of between 1,800 and 2,000 roles will be laid off across the British broadcaster in the coming months, contributing to a sense of gloom among the workforce.
Some 550 roles will be slashed in the BBC’s news and nations divisions, which Brittin said will help deliver £160M of savings. He added that 700 roles will close in the BBC’s corporate divisions.
“Reductions of this scale inevitably mean some compulsory redundancies, though we will work hard to avoid this wherever we can. Many divisions have already opened voluntary redundancy windows; more will be opening today,” he explained.
“We live in very uncertain times. Our audiences rely on us every day to keep them informed, entertained and equipped to make sense of the world. Making savings while fulfilling our mission means a doubly difficult time for everyone.”
The bigger picture behind the cuts is that 94% of the UK population use the BBC every month, but fewer than 80% pay the £180 annual licence fee.
The BBC is attempting to bridge this gap as part of negotiations with the government over a new royal charter, which is effectively the corporation’s operating agreement for the coming years.
deadline.com
Well, why not the parliament and the minister put plans for the broadcaster? Reconstruction must include all divisions such as the U& Channels; which needs to be ditched for good (if not merge or rename), regional services being split from BBC One, adverts added to the domestic channels (and skipping it for those online viewers who uses time-shifting on iPlayer), that current logo needs to be changed completely, and also the BBC Parliament channel gets replaced by “World”; which focuses completely on world affairs only and no UK news in it.
Matt Brittin, the former Google executive, told staff in an email on Wednesday (full text below) that the savings plan will mean canceling shows and reviewing the BBC’s “broadcast TV channels and radio network portfolio as audiences move online.”
“The scale of savings requires tough choices, careful work and won’t all be ready at once. We are committed to letting you know as soon as we have plans in your area. All divisions will be making significant savings,” he said.
Brittin did not provide specifics, but said more details will be announced in the coming days. The efforts form part of wider BBC plans to slash costs by £500M ($670M) over the next three years, expanding on an existing target worth £1.5B.
A total of between 1,800 and 2,000 roles will be laid off across the British broadcaster in the coming months, contributing to a sense of gloom among the workforce.
Some 550 roles will be slashed in the BBC’s news and nations divisions, which Brittin said will help deliver £160M of savings. He added that 700 roles will close in the BBC’s corporate divisions.
“Reductions of this scale inevitably mean some compulsory redundancies, though we will work hard to avoid this wherever we can. Many divisions have already opened voluntary redundancy windows; more will be opening today,” he explained.
“We live in very uncertain times. Our audiences rely on us every day to keep them informed, entertained and equipped to make sense of the world. Making savings while fulfilling our mission means a doubly difficult time for everyone.”
The bigger picture behind the cuts is that 94% of the UK population use the BBC every month, but fewer than 80% pay the £180 annual licence fee.
The BBC is attempting to bridge this gap as part of negotiations with the government over a new royal charter, which is effectively the corporation’s operating agreement for the coming years.
BBC To Cancel Shows & "Review" TV Networks As It Cuts Content Spend
The BBC's new director general has announced plans to slash commissioning spend across its TV, radio, and news divisions by £80M ($107M).
deadline.com
Well, why not the parliament and the minister put plans for the broadcaster? Reconstruction must include all divisions such as the U& Channels; which needs to be ditched for good (if not merge or rename), regional services being split from BBC One, adverts added to the domestic channels (and skipping it for those online viewers who uses time-shifting on iPlayer), that current logo needs to be changed completely, and also the BBC Parliament channel gets replaced by “World”; which focuses completely on world affairs only and no UK news in it.
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Ehm, "UKTV" (U& are the channels) is a commercial division of the BBC, and it goes very well, why do you want to shut it down?The BBC‘s new director general has announced plans to slash commissioning spend across its TV, radio, and news divisions by £80M ($107M) over the next two years.
Matt Brittin, the former Google executive, told staff in an email on Wednesday (full text below) that the savings plan will mean canceling shows and reviewing the BBC’s “broadcast TV channels and radio network portfolio as audiences move online.”
“The scale of savings requires tough choices, careful work and won’t all be ready at once. We are committed to letting you know as soon as we have plans in your area. All divisions will be making significant savings,” he said.
Brittin did not provide specifics, but said more details will be announced in the coming days. The efforts form part of wider BBC plans to slash costs by £500M ($670M) over the next three years, expanding on an existing target worth £1.5B.
A total of between 1,800 and 2,000 roles will be laid off across the British broadcaster in the coming months, contributing to a sense of gloom among the workforce.
Some 550 roles will be slashed in the BBC’s news and nations divisions, which Brittin said will help deliver £160M of savings. He added that 700 roles will close in the BBC’s corporate divisions.
“Reductions of this scale inevitably mean some compulsory redundancies, though we will work hard to avoid this wherever we can. Many divisions have already opened voluntary redundancy windows; more will be opening today,” he explained.
“We live in very uncertain times. Our audiences rely on us every day to keep them informed, entertained and equipped to make sense of the world. Making savings while fulfilling our mission means a doubly difficult time for everyone.”
The bigger picture behind the cuts is that 94% of the UK population use the BBC every month, but fewer than 80% pay the £180 annual licence fee.
The BBC is attempting to bridge this gap as part of negotiations with the government over a new royal charter, which is effectively the corporation’s operating agreement for the coming years.
BBC To Cancel Shows & "Review" TV Networks As It Cuts Content Spend
The BBC's new director general has announced plans to slash commissioning spend across its TV, radio, and news divisions by £80M ($107M).
Well, why not the parliament and the minister put plans for the broadcaster? Reconstruction must include all divisions such as the U& Channels; which needs to be ditched for good (if not merge or rename), regional services being split from BBC One, adverts added to the domestic channels (and skipping it for those online viewers who uses time-shifting on iPlayer), that current logo needs to be changed completely, and also the BBC Parliament channel gets replaced by “World”; which focuses completely on world affairs only and no UK news in it.
.They are also independent from the public arm of the BBC (but at the same, it helps even the public arm,due to cooperation), so they cause no harm.
Also, advertising on the BBC channels would cause a huge backlash, as well as being completely anachronistic, since advertising is worth a fraction of what it was
Other options also sound odd: regional services are core BBC services, they need to stay on BBC One, the current logo causes no harm, and the BBC Parliament channel replaced by world? Expensive and ultimately useless, especially when Parliament simulcasts a lot BBC News at "off" times
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Harm?!Ehm, "UKTV" (U& are the channels) is a commercial division of the BBC, and it goes very well, why do you want to shut it down?
They are also independent from the public arm of the BBC, so they cause no harm.
Also, advertising on the BBC channels would cause a huge backlash, as well as being completely anachronistic, since advertising is worth a fraction of what it was
Other options also sound odd: regional services are core BBC services, they need to stay on BBC One, the current logo causes no harm, and the BBC Parliament channel replaced by world? Expensive and ultimately useless, especially when Parliament simulcasts a lot BBC News at "off" times
No, I don’t say it’s harm, but the logo looks weird and awful, as they should make a new (and creative) logo away from the BBC block, and also the current one costs a lot of budget, and look at U&Eden how its programming look like after it became FTA. It’s no longer a nature channel. Parliamentary affairs should be on BBC News Channel instead, and UK affairs should get some more airing on the UK feed of BBC News, rather than just have Breakfast, Domestic News (at 1, 6, 10 O’clock News), and also UK breaking news, and no need for a parliament channel anymore.
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The BBC blocks are too iconic to go somewhere, I even dread to think what they could come up with, so they better stay. The graphics need some updates, but overall I think they are also fine, and are not the current priority, obviously.
U&Eden is such a minor channel is not an indicator of how UKTV currently works.
BBC Parliament I believe might still be need, even if Parliament sessions are more widely available via Internet, but parliament decisions affect everyone so everyone potentially must have access to the stations.
BBC News, especially since now is "BBC News and BBC World News", obviously wouldn't cover it thoroughly. It is also a relatively low cost channel now, now more than ever, since it simulcasts BBC News a lot
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It's also useful to have coverage of parliamentary proceedings with more calm. AR TV here in Portugal exists for the sole purpose of providing a neutral parliamentary channel.
U&Eden is the perfect example of a "third-rate" channel. No idea who even watches it (and if BBC even remembers to throw a bone to it) but its presence is still nice and wanted from me.
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