[Keith]

With the nightlight service closure announced for Freesat I wonder if the BBC might look to do something similar on Freeview. With the BBC channels now being available in HD there's an opportunity to do something similar, perhaps in phases. Perhaps the first phase being to replace the BBC One English regions with a single feed, which may provide some cost savings. Then depending on spare capacity English regional radio stations could move to PSB3, allowing PSB1 to be nation variations only.

I guess with Freeview a lot will depend on what happens at the WRC-23 (20th Nov to 15th Dec). If they vote not to protect the Freeview frequencies beyond 2030 then it'll greatly affect things. According to www.broadbandtvnews.com  it looks like the EU's position for protecting it "but mobile is added on a secondary level, next to PMSE". If this does get agreed it'll allow more time for DVB-I to be built into TVs as standard, and allow time for people to naturally replace their TVs for ones which support this spec.