Talk:Free-to-air

message: It 's all religious programming and government channels.  Who watches?  no one.  Potential government kickback subsidy program.  --65.26.106.15 (talk) 07:18, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why so many bad useless channels on FTA? 

message: I thought 'free-to-air' meant something like 'free-to-rebroadcast' What is the origin of this term, and what does 'air' mean? Morwen - Talk 15:10, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Early 1990's satellite television jargon, now mainstream, and being made more so by the new Freesat announcement in the UK today. "Air" refers to the tranmission method - unencrypted radio waves, be they UHF, DTT UHF or EHF satellite. --Kiand 15:13, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

text: Seconded! For example, the line in the introduction "Most authorized FTA retailers list free to air channel guides and content available in North America for free to air use." is incomprehensible to me: what is an "authorized FTA retailer"? Who authorizes? And the term free-to-air definitely includes terrestrial in UK - in fact would be assumed by most to refer to terrestrial unless otherwise qualified, the term over-the-air not being used at all. G6JPG (talk) 06:07, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: HOw can they give TV for free??? Why doesnt everyone do it then??
Realg187 18:53, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  SO not all channels are there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Realg187 (talk • contribs) 19:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It depends on what sattelite you are getting the feed from.  Most people nowadays buy the programmable FTA boxes, which can be programmed to steal Dish Network feeds.  This is illegal, but they do get all Dish signals (for as long as the security algorythms are able to be hacked).  But people with "Big Dish" systems normally use them to get free legal transmissions.  There are hundreds of sattelites you can use FTA with, not just the Dish ones.  And even Dish has some feeds that are unscrambled, and are available for anybody to watch legally.  Mushrom 16:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

text: There does seem to be a fair amount of overlap between this article and FTA receiver (satellite) or over-the-air programming (terrestrial). Individual satellite programme availability is also somewhat of a moving target, at least in North America, as many individual channels go to incompatible formats, go to encryption or go dark. The supposed third-party software to decode pay-TV is largely dead, due to smart-card swaps by providers, although there is still one scheme (Internet Key Sharing) still extant. That much is addressed in the FTA receiver article but doesn't belong on this page as all of the programming which has been siphoned away by the pay-TV providers is by definition no longer FTA. In some cases, specific programmes which had been watched free terrestrially for years (such as the old Bugs Bunny cartoons) are no longer free as they've been siphoned away by the cartoon networks or other pay specialty channels. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 17:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free TV 

message: The opening paragraph states, correctly: 
Free-to-air (FTA) television (TV) and radio broadcasts are sent unencrypted and may be received via any suitable receiver.
Hence, ordinary terrestrial network television is FTA. Most sections of the article reflect this understanding. For instance, the Australian section includes the six terrestrial television networks as FTA, and the European section deals with the matter similarly.
Confusingly, the section on North America only deals with satellite FTA. If this article were written consistently, it would include ABC, NBC etc as FTA broadcasters.
Ordinary Person (talk) 08:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Free-to-Air refers to free unencrypted channels receive via satellite. Not according to the introduction. Ordinary Person (talk) 15:01, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The focus on satellite FTA in the North America section

message: As it is this article is very misleading. Whole sections completely ignore terrestrial broadcasting. In the UK Freeview is a FTA broadcast as it unencrypted. It also implies that Satellite TV is the only method available in Ireland.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.49.45 (talk) 09:37, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The intro claims "FTA is sometimes delivered by satellite television, but in various parts of the world free-to-air television channels are broadcast unencrypted on UHF or VHF bands" but much of the content of this page centres on Ku-band DVB satellite. Perhaps a decision needs to be made whether to cover free-to-air satellite as the topic of this page and the FTA receiver page (pushing terrestrial digital and analogue to over-the-air programming) or whether to attempt to balance this page to cover both sat and terrestrial? I'd consider a hat-note to refer to OTA for terrestrial TV, but it's not clear whether the topic is within or outside of the scope of this page. --66.102.80.212 (talk) 17:10, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The focus on satellite FTA in the Europe section

message: Legally, it is a copyright offence to export the decryption cards to neighbouring countries in order to watch Austrian TV there.
Surely this is complete nonsense. Austria is an EU member state is it not ?  86.112.94.153 (talk) 18:27, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It is an important point. Many channels will have a mix of locally produced programmes and syndicated programming from US and elsewhere. The programmes that end up free to air via satellite are generally those locally produced. The channel would only have the rights for its local market so exporting decryption cards is not supposed to be done. Jmccormac (talk) 18:44, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Grey market

message: This was placed by Rickstaebler on the main page.  I've moved it here. 73.254.89.137 (talk) 05:53, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from article space to talk page 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: not moved. Consensus against a move. (closed by non-admin page mover)  feminist (talk) wear a mask, you stupid bastards 07:14, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That doesn't address my WP:NOUN concern, "Nouns and noun phrases are normally preferred over titles using other parts of speech". "Free-to-air" and "Free-to-view" are adjectives. I'm more than happy to keep the existing titles as . 85.238.91.38 (talk) 04:32, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 29 September 2020 

message: This reticle starts by saying that free to air TV does not require a subscription, or other ongoing cost, to watch. Then, in the  UK section it lists a number of channels. In the UK it is an offence to watch live TV without a licence - this is an ongoing cost. The article should clarify the point about ongoing cost, or it should remove the terrestrial channels in the UK section. 80.42.92.160 (talk) 07:31, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK Terrestrial TV is not free to air by this article's definition 

message: "Free-to-air television" is a more specific name and objectivley fits better Equalwidth (C) 07:20, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Was there any discussion about this move? The article includes radio, so I don't see this move as an improvement. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 10:23, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You can make follow-up discussions on my talk page's Move talk section. Equalwidth (C) 10:26, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Move proposals are ALWAYS discussed on article talk pages (as above). See WP:MOVE and related pages. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 11:01, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This discussion is not for a move proposal Equalwidth (C) 11:04, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: As I understand it, you have moved the article without prior discussion - is that correct? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 12:01, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes Equalwidth (C) 13:34, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Do not ever do that again. You don't understand how anything works. — Smuckola(talk) 09:15, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved