12-02-2023, 11:50 AM
(12-02-2023, 08:25 AM)Charles Wrote: It's a longshot, but I wish they would change the streaming policy with the new channel to make it more accessible. In the US, BBC World News requires a cable subscription and is not available on YouTube like Sky News, Al Jazeera, and many others.
I may be wrong here, but I think this might be part of the original distribution deals with cable giants like Comcast and Verizon. US cable deals used to be quite exclusive, certainly in the past. I don’t know when the contracts were signed exactly, but there’s a good chance there’s a stipulation forbidding the BBC from offering the signal OTT in the US.