[Stooky Bill]

I'm a bit confused how BFBS worked then.

Did the link from London to Germany send just live programmes to be shown on the BFBS TV channel which was based there? Or from then on was the channel based in the UK and the whole channel sent down the circuit to Germany?

All very different to today, their channels are all based at Arqiva in Chalfont and use satellite distribution. There's a large and heavily encrypted transponder on Eutelsat 10 for this part of the world. Heavily encrypted presumably mainly because they carry some Sky Sports channels