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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
VisionTV is a portal for other channels, not a channel. Portals might be treated differently than channels directly on the EPG.
So that poses two questions:
1) What do the channels who use the likes of VisionTV's services need license-wise?
2) What do the channels on Freeview's streaming section that aren't portals need?
E.g.. FailArmy, SonLife, Arise News
You may be correct MB, but VisionTV isn't the type of service I was talking about, so might be different license-wise.
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VisionTV needs a licence because it sends data over the DTT network for its portal. The services streaming on it don't need a licence at all, so an interesting loophole for channels denied a traditional licence by the regulator or the DCMS. If the streaming service operates their own portal or links to it with MHEG / hbbTV scripts, they would need a DTAS licence to transmit the data.