Brian Widlake,Valerie Singleton and Paul Burden report on the use of satellites to provide direct television signals to British homes. Currently, satellite television provides programming for a mere 5,000 homes across Britain. That looks likely to change, however, with BSB – British Satellite Broadcasting – aquiring the franchise to provide high-powered satelitte transmissions, direct to televisions in Britain from 1990.
BSB – a consortium led by Granada, Anglia, Virgin, Amstrad, Pearson and ITN – has vast experience in television, electronics and publishing. Can it finally make satellite television a mass market proposition? Just what will it take to make this a success with the British public?
Clip taken from The Money Programme, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 14 December, 1986.
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