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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 11147" data-attributes="member: 175235"><p>The are many reasons, </p><p></p><p>Firstly say the BBC buys the rights to show a film 3 times. It airs it for the first time on all regions on a Friday night. Supposing BBC1 England news is 5 mins longer than the Scottish news and the Welsh have no news at all (no offence meant, just an example ;) ). That means three start times just tens of minutes apart. If all the BBC regions were available to all that means you could choose to watch it at any of the start times. Wola – the BBC has just ‘spent’ its treble viewing rights. By regionally blocking the channels you can (officially) only watch it in your geographical region, hence it would only count as one viewing. (Yes I know there is analogue terrestrial overspill at region boarders, but that’s the reasoning)</p><p></p><p>Well that’s one aspect of it, the second being rights to football etc. as you can imagine BBC1 Scot at the moment only has the rights to show the footie in Scotland etc etc.</p><p></p><p>Thirdly, why do you expect to see all regions? You pay (you are supposed to pay) for a TV licence, this has an address on it, it is that address that you are allowed to use a TV in, so if it is in the south of England why should you be able to see BBC1 Scotland? (Yes I know the licence also covers portable battery powered TV’s and you could take one to Scotland and watch BBC1 Scot there. But you could also take it to Outer Mongolia and (perhaps?) use it there, yet you don’t hear many people calling for Outer Mongolian TV to be freely available in the UK)</p><p></p><p>On the bright side the BBC has recently said that it is working on all BBC1 regions being available across the UK. On the down side they would be blocked when there were no rights to show the programme in other regions. – so no footie, just Reporting Scotland.</p><p></p><p>This came out longer than expected for some reason.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 11147, member: 175235"] The are many reasons, Firstly say the BBC buys the rights to show a film 3 times. It airs it for the first time on all regions on a Friday night. Supposing BBC1 England news is 5 mins longer than the Scottish news and the Welsh have no news at all (no offence meant, just an example ;) ). That means three start times just tens of minutes apart. If all the BBC regions were available to all that means you could choose to watch it at any of the start times. Wola – the BBC has just ‘spent’ its treble viewing rights. By regionally blocking the channels you can (officially) only watch it in your geographical region, hence it would only count as one viewing. (Yes I know there is analogue terrestrial overspill at region boarders, but that’s the reasoning) Well that’s one aspect of it, the second being rights to football etc. as you can imagine BBC1 Scot at the moment only has the rights to show the footie in Scotland etc etc. Thirdly, why do you expect to see all regions? You pay (you are supposed to pay) for a TV licence, this has an address on it, it is that address that you are allowed to use a TV in, so if it is in the south of England why should you be able to see BBC1 Scotland? (Yes I know the licence also covers portable battery powered TV’s and you could take one to Scotland and watch BBC1 Scot there. But you could also take it to Outer Mongolia and (perhaps?) use it there, yet you don’t hear many people calling for Outer Mongolian TV to be freely available in the UK) On the bright side the BBC has recently said that it is working on all BBC1 regions being available across the UK. On the down side they would be blocked when there were no rights to show the programme in other regions. – so no footie, just Reporting Scotland. This came out longer than expected for some reason. [/QUOTE]
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