Anyone for Freeview? Free versus pay television.

Economist (US), The, September, 2005

Free-to-air broadcasters are ganging up on their old enemy, BSkyB

AT A biennial television conference last week in Cambridge, James Murdoch, son of Rupert, worked himself into a temper. On a panel with Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, and Charles Allen, chief executive of ITV, he hit out at the BBC's plans for a broadband service, quarrelled with Mr Allen and berated the government for its plan to switch the country to digital television.

James Murdoch has reason to be angry. Providers of TV free at the point of delivery--the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five--are waging an increasingly aggressive campaign against pay TV, especially BSkyB, the company Mr Murdoch runs.

"Free television and pay television have co-existed until now, but...

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