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£STG 6.6 million a megabit

L1011 · 2005-11-10 19:00:31

Is what the new, and quite probably -last- slot on Freeview till the switch off seems to be going to cost to acquire Per year Assuming its a 1.5Mbit-averaging-due-to-stat.-muxing slot, which, as its squeezed out of the reamaining space on a multiplex by tweaking compression, it probably is, this means whichever of the…

10-11-2005 7:00pm

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Is what the new, and quite probably -last- slot on Freeview till the switch off seems to be going to cost to acquire

Per year

Assuming its a 1.5Mbit-averaging-due-to-stat.-muxing slot, which, as its squeezed out of the reamaining space on a multiplex by tweaking compression, it probably is, this means whichever of the TWELVE bidders gets it will be spending 6.6 million a megabit a year

Thats more than Eircom wanted for transatlantic in 1995 dammit

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#2 10-11-2005 8:30pm

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What are all those crappy shoppy channels paying ?

If its anything like the figure youre quoting its scary that there are enough suckers* out there buying their crap to make running a shopping channel a viable proposition :eek:

* And we let people like this VOTE :rolleyes:

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