[opendtv] Re: News: Sealed bids for Freeview channel
- From: "Alan Roberts" <roberts.mugswell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:55:18 -0000
Far more relevant, is that it shows what happens when a service is launched
and people like it so well that they adopt it quickly. No arguments about
how it should work, whether it will work, what coding system it should
use....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "OpenDTV Mail List" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:35 AM
Subject: [opendtv] News: Sealed bids for Freeview channel
> Via Advanced-Television.com
>
>
> Hmmmm...
>
>
> I have often written about the decoupling of content and carriage;
> about the creation of a REAL marketplace for carriage, where content
> creators compete for bandwidth, paying market driven rates.
>
> Looks like Freeview is getting dangerously close to what I have
> envisioned, although the companies that now operate The UK DTTB
> service are in BOTH the content creation and distribution businesses.
>
> With limited channel capacity, companies are now bidding for the
> right to program a channel on the Freeview system.
>
> I love what happens when the marketplace is allowed to work!
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
> Sealed bids for Freeview channel
>
> UK's ITV and Channel 4, are facing a bid battle over a new Freeview
> channel amid rising demand on the digital television platform. Both
> companies are considering multi-million pound offers for the channel,
> which is being sold by Crown Castle. Sealed bids, due next week, may
> also be submitted by US networks ABC and NBC.
>
> More than 4.2m households have switched to Freeview since the
> service was launched in October 2002, backed by the BBC, British Sky
> Broadcasting and Crown Castle UK. ITV and Channel 4 declined to
> discuss their bids. But ITV, which already operates ITV 2, ITV 3 and
> ITV News on the platform, said: "Capacity on Freeview is in very
> short supply, and we need to make sure we can take advantage of
> capacity that becomes available."
>
>
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