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Free satellite TV services (i.e. not pay-TV) in Europe take the form of either free-to-air (FTA) or free-to-view (FTV) broadcasts. Free-to-air services are transmitted in the clear without encryption and can be received by anyone with a suitable receiving dish antenna and DVB -compliant receiver.
"Free" variants are free-to-air (FTA) and free-to-view (FTV); however, FTV services are normally encrypted and decryption cards either come as part of an initial subscription to a pay television bouquet – in other words, an offer of pay-TV channels – or can be purchased for a one-time cost. FTA and FTV systems may still have selective access.
Early pay TV broadcasts in countries such as the United States used standard over-the-air transmitters; many restrictions applied as anti-siphoning laws were enacted to prevent broadcasters of scrambled signals from engaging in activities to harm the development of standard free-to-air commercial broadcasting. Scrambled signals were limited to ...
Pay-TV with the channels Prime Star, Prime Action, Prime Fezztival, Prime Family, Prime Series, Sporting 1–8, Sporting Golf: Dutch: Telenet cable network in Flanders and Brussels (Prime Star, Sporting 1 & Sporting 2 in HD)
A la carte pay television (from the French à la carte, "from the menu"), also known as pick-and-pay, [1] is a pricing model for pay television services in which customers subscribe to individual television channels. This approach contrasts with the prevailing bundling model, where channels are grouped into packages offered on an all-or-nothing ...
List of European television stations is a list of television stations which are notable in Europe. Notability refers to them being the dominant stations within their ...
The overall market share of DBS satellite services in 2004 was 21.4% of all TV homes, however this highly varies from country to country. For example, in Germany, with many free-to-air TV-stations, DBS market share is almost 40%, and in Belgium and the Netherlands, it's only about 7%, due to the widespread cable networks with exclusive content.
Despite their efforts, pay TV did not receive regulatory approval until several years later. Telemeter's unsuccessful attempt to introduce a pay-TV service in Montreal highlights the company's innovative approach to the television industry and its pioneering efforts to expand the availability of subscription television services to viewers.