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Originally Posted by jfman
And I thought any day now they’d switch off the lights on freeview.
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It's still the biggest platform, it'll be a managed decline from here though as habits and technology change it'll likely whittle down to a select number of core services. I'd imagine it'll be a handful of Live Events channels and Showcase channels eventually keeping the PSBs company, but it could take some time.
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It's
possible that this mysterious consortium is made up of interested parties who want to quicken the changeover, thinking it'll serve several purposes
1) the upheaval will force people to adopt streaming faster as they'll be frustrated by losing several channels all of a sudden by the change.
2) they want their Showcase channels to be HD and the HD-capable DTT broadcast space required wasn't showing signs of materialising anytime soon.
The consortium could include Arqiva who recently sold up their interest in the company that run Freeview and were said to be unhappy at the direction things were going. Arqiva run COM5 and COM6 currently, so they might have teamed up to exert some control by having a say in the Commercial multiplex they don't run.
Just some guesswork, maybe completely wrong.
