Does Pay pay for the retransmission of FTA signals? Should it? Dr O’D takes a long view on this piece of minor but lucrative acrimony.
Free to air television and subscription television have been uneasy competitors for more than five decades.
And while the four UK services with public service responsibilities – the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 – have finally reached an accommodation with BSkyB TV for free carriage on their platform, Free TV Australia has included a proposal that Foxtel pay to carry the free to air services on subscription networks in Australia.
