Just out of curiosity what of you think Freeview in UK,could work in USA?

[N5XZS]

What's your impressions on UK's Freeview FTA Ku band services, could it work after the silly mergers between Directv and Dish Network?

Would it take a bite out of overkill pay TV services?🙂🤞

I am sure all of us are sick of pay TV madness!

Maybe start our own FTA satellite service, a nice rebellion way to say against monopoly pay TV ecosystem!?😎👍

Let me know what you think.

Here's UK's Freeview link...

Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free

Freeview is the biggest TV platform in the UK, used in 18 million homes and giving access to 95% of the nation’s most popular shows, for free.

www.freeview.co.uk

 

[Keith Brannen]

Freeview is by OTA antenna, Freesat is by Ku dish:

https://www.freesat.co.uk/

Satellite channels:

Astra 2E/2F/2G at 28.3°E - LyngSat

Neither would work here, too many extremely greedy companies, including all the OTA channels. Whether something like that might have worked 20-30 years ago, is hard to say, but, again, unlikely (that's what cable and satellite services were for). Now with the constant buyout and consolidation into huge monopolies, and squeezing out the last dime from re-broadcasters and consumers, sadly, its too big of a mess for something like these services to actually benefit consumers.

 

[N5XZS]

Yes, should have posted Freesat instead of Freeview!😛

But nevertheless, it's still a good idea to have USA, version of Freesat, Pluto style formats.🙂👍

 

[N5XZS]

Interesting to see couple birds Astra covering from low as 10.7 all the way up to 12.750 GHz!

Quite a spread out, and as I have yet to see closest version what we have in NA regions for various bird bundled together and covering all the Ku band frequencys 10.7 to 12.750 GHz...😎👍