Motors Tv

[Bazile]

I see that 'Motors TV' has disappeared off the TV again

What's going on ?

[Buenchico]

Broadcasters have to pay to access Freeview (which is owned jointly by the BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 4 and the transmitter company, Arqiva), as well as for the actual content that they transmit. If the additional advertising revenue they get from broadcasting on Freeview doesn't meet those costs, they simply cease using that platform:
https://uk.motorstv.com/get-motors-tv

[douglas9401]

447 on Sky is 'unavailable' too.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Probably gone bust then.

Commercial broadcasters generally operate on a shoestring budget. With many advertisers switching their expenditure from TV to web advertising (especially via social media), at a time when there are far more commercial companies than there used to be, each broadcaster only has very limited income. (The 'real terms' advertising revenue that ITV gets had fallen by over 90% since the days when there were just four channels on air).

[Bazile]

To be honest , i've always wondered how they can afford to broadcast all that multitude of different motoring events

[Bazile]

make that ' could afford '

[Bazile]

damn and double damn - where am i going to watch such a vast amount of different motor sport competitions .

I refuse to give sky anymore of my hard earned folding

[piggynose]

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