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Subject: Re: rebroadcasting of BBC signal


Author:
Lew
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Date Posted: 20:27:10 12/12/03 Fri
In reply to: Ken 's message, "Re: rebroadcasting of BBC signal" on 12:43:17 12/12/03 Fri
 >No. Irish, Dutch and Belgian cable operators pay the
>BBC to clear the rights for retransmission of the
>signal that spills over. The Austrian cable operator
>that retransmits BBC1, 2 etc is doing so illegally
>because it hasn't paid the BBC anything.
>
>When I had cable in north London, I had RTL, and RAI
>Uno, which were taken off free to air satellite.
>Obviously everything is dubbed in German or Italian,
>so rights were less of an issue. However, ORF Austria
>and SRG Switzerland DO encrypt because they only have
>rights for those countries, whereas German
>broadcasters usually buy rights for Germany, Austria
>and Switzerland, though ARD and ZDF
>had trouble with the World Cup.
>
>In Gibraltar and Spain, nobody cared when the BBC was
>encrypted as part of the Sky package and nobody cares
>now. The government minister I spoke to in Gibraltar
>was so out of touch he didn't know the difference
>between BBC1 and BBC Prime!
>
>>>Yes but it is "legal"?
>>
>>Whoops! Wrong way round, should read: Yes but is it
>>"legal"
>>
>>Sorry for my cock-up!

But the whole point is that the BBC has been insisting for years that you can't have their programmes on the continent even if you pay for them because of the rights issue. And in Belgium BBC 1 and 2 come as part of the basic cable packages, so evidently the cable companies aren't paying that much for them.

The question really is what the BBC will want from the Austrians. Will they go up to them and say, "we demand that you pay us a fee like the Belgium cable operators," or will they say "we demand that you stop distributing our services".
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