FREESAT IS OVER

Satellite television has been a staple for decades, but has the time finally come for the medium, in particular, for FREESAT, to come to an end...? As the UK broadcasters desperately aim to move to a internet based model, can FreeSat and satellite TV at large survive?

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[AdamMartyn]

Thank you all for tuning in! My apologies for the click-baity title and thumbnail, unfortunately to get any sort of proper boost in the algorithm when publishing new videos, this is the way the game works now on YouTube, and on the Internet generally 😂 but regardless, I hope you enjoyed the video!

[iangrice]

What a great idea, let's put everything on the Internet, so if it goes down everything is down

[simonclowes]

My mum is on Freesat as she has no other choice. Internet in her village is awful, and due to lay of the land there is no aerial signal so Freeview is out of the question. The end of Freesat will be the end of TV for my mum. She has a TV with Freesat built in to make it easier for her to operate.

[SophiaSmith]

I live in small village, I’ve recently got Sky, but my net keeps crashing and the Sky Goes wrong, due to where I live the internet goes 3 or 4 times a day

[MartinFarrell]

My flat only has a satellite dish so had to use freesat when the council removed the aerial. It was moved as they were doing some renovations but didn't re-install it. I did call them about it but they had no plan to put it back up.

[simoncreesuk]

We use Freesat on our main TV in the lounge because it carries way more HD channels than Freeview. Also the picture quality of those HD channels is slightly better than the same ones that are on Freeview due to higher bandwidth and bitrate being available. It costs way less to carry a channel on satellite than on terrestrial due to the fact that terrestrial requires dozens on transmission towers to cover most of the country, whereas satellite can get almost everywhere as long as there is a line of sight view with just the one satellite beam. It would make sense to keep satellite ( Freesat) going longest due to it's lower costs and huge coverage even in rural areas. I think it would be a mistake to put all TV and radio broadcasting on Internet distribution only in case of outages - either technical failure or even hostilities.

[CJFSs]

It’s just a rumour, why title the video in the way *2007-2024* as if it’s been confirmed, it’s just clickbait.

[AshfordMTB]

Another option could be to shift UK channels (maybe just core channels) to 19.2 Deg E. SES are sending up ASTRA 1P this year, and 1Q in 2026.
As far as I am aware, mainland Europe do not have plans for a 100% DVB-I TV channel service. This could allow Freesat to operate for a good few years to come.

Depending on the capacity of these satellites, it could allow Freesat and Sky to operate for for quite some time via satellite.

Obviously this would need engineer visits to people's homes to realign viewers dishes.

Bear in mind that Freesat is not the only way that people can receive free UK channels via satellite. There are a lot of people using a generic satellite receiver or an old sky box to obtain such channels. I don't know if these numbers are captured anywhere?

In reality, I actually don't think Astra 28.2 E will be going anywhere, and I would imagine that they will be sending up at least one replacement set. The fleet currently serves the UK and a big chunk of mainland Europe for TV and SES Satellite Broadband.

[industrialmonk]

As a carer internet is not going to work for vulnerable people who need care. I no of a number of people who cannot use internet & would be extremely handycapt by the removal of sat/terrestrial tv.

[michaelleiper]

The issue is people with terrible internet connections.

Yes, there is satellite internet, for people on a small island in the Outer Hebrides without a phone connection, but that's far from free. Worse, if you're in a city like London, there isn't availability because there's a maximum number of connections that can be handled in an area by a satellite, so if you have a bad line (and therefore shitty internet), you'll be stuffed.

[ep]

The broadcasters want everybody on streaming, meaning the customer is paying for the delivery (through their isp bill).

If satallite is ended - no more payment to SES.

The customer will be paying a good chunk of the delivery method.

[robincurwood]

What a load of garbage. We rely on freesat as there is a bloody big hill between my house and the transmitter! So not a reliable source for tv reception. I'm against paying subscriptions, so put up with adds.

[profnostalgia_UK]

Rural and coastal areas are still behind with broadband availability. The town of Filey suffers from a lack of superfast Internet and digital TV signals are also poor so we have no option but yo use satellite. Freesat is a godsend.

[GrumpyOldGamer]

I live in rural NE Scotland, with no fibre availability, the local telephone exchange only supplies a dozen households. I can get 125mbps mobile internet via EE though, but it regularly goes down for several hours or more, it's pretty weather sensitive.
So we use Freesat as the main way of viewing free to air channels, as that only goes down during stormy weather. Hopefully it stays around for a while yet.

[leajtick]

Freesat has LOADS of niche and international channels compared to Freeview so itll be interesting to see if they can get migrated over to Freely!

[truckerallikatuk]

The sattelite companies have very little costs to keep it in place. The company runs many more sats than the ones doing UK TV, they have to manage those, and the extra cost to manage 3 more is minimal. What they won't do is replace them when they're ready to be retired. If the TV companies are willing to keep paying, they'll stay up until they die.

[UkSkin]

I can receive freeview and freesat and choose to use freesat because the picture quality seems better and there's more channels

[pinball]

So dumb to put all your eggs in the Internet basket. Just as dumb as going paperless and hoping there is no solar flare or EMP event to destroy all HDs and PCBs. Contingency and backup is the issue.

[richardbutler]

The mystery is how many Freesat boxes and TV’s are active in the Rep of Ireland using overspill satellite 📡 signals. If they get cut off, any alternative solution is likely to exclude them and that is likely going to create an issue in Ireland as a lot of people like UK television plus itv and channel 5 channels are not officially offered by paid tv alternatives.

[tgheretford]

The same situation is going to apply to radio. If the television broadcasters pull out of broadcasting, they won't be able to afford picking up the tab for the broadcasting infrastructure and radio will go online only too. Terrestrial and satellite broadcasting, TV and radio, could be gone in a decade on financial grounds with the mobile phone networks taking up the UHF and VHF spectrum and I'm sure Elon Musk would take interest in the spectrum vacated by satellite for Starlink.