[Technologist]

A bit of an off-topic question, but why BBC domestic channels are being carried in Dutch cable operators and satellite transponders?

The BBC services have been in the Low Countries cable system since the 1980s at least .. they were received off air from Dover ....by the Calais relay and the fed by land line to the head ends .
The BBC got lots of money for this ..but very nearly lost it when the SE region was formed as the local news was not London !!. Thus Dover not CP had the largest number of viewers fur quite a few years

But the digital age meant that the head ends could recieve DSAT London andthus all BBC domestic tv but not news channel and the radio services are now available in the Low Countries on cable .
(I thing Swiss was a similar idea in digital age) and even more money goes to BBC worldwide

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