Telmicro Levante television broadcasts

[Lee G]

Does anyone know whats going on with Telemicro. I have just tried flicking through several of my favorite chanels and found them gone.

These include the history chanel, sky 1 ( not good with lost just retuning on Sundays), discovery and the sky movies chanels.

[Lee G]

This does not good at present.

There is an article in one of the news papers about Sky shutting off the broadcast to Telemicro. With Telemicro saying they are in negotiations with Sky to renew the contract.

Sky also stated in the same article they only broadcast their service to the UK and Ireland

Plus the new message on some of the TV chanels thanking people for not phoning with enquiries as to whats going on.

[Lee G]

Blatantly nicked from another forum.

We have been installing Satellite systems along the Costa Blanca for 15 years which I believe makes us the longest serving British managed Satellite installation Company on the Costa Blanca.

In light of the recent developments we will not be installing any more re-broadcast systems,this has been a dificult decision to make but we believe the time has come to put clients interests ahead of short term commercial gain,and in our considered opinion advising clients to install Re-broadcast systems is not a viable option.

With the removal of Sky Channels the only decent content left are the BBC,ITV,C4/5 programs,these are free to air or free to view if you have a big enough dish to receive them,however rebroadcasting of these channels for gain is considered an act of piracy and copywrite theft unless you have agreements to re-broadcast,our Lawyer in the UK has contacted BBC and Channel 4,and they have stated that nobody in Spain has the rights to re-broadcast their content and they will take legal measures to prevent any unauthorised re-broadcast of their content,ITV and C5 were unable to comment but promised to reply soon.

Further investigation into why Sky was pulled from re-broadcasters not just here but in the Northern Costa Blanca revealed that action was taken by Canal Digital and that all the Companies involved had known about this for some time,their main complaints were over the showing of Football and films for which they had paid the rights to show in Spain,as BBC,ITV and Channel5 show live football,I believe that Canal Digital will not be happy with just the removal of Sky Channels and there is the possibilty of a second wave calling for the removal of all channels that show football or movies for which Canal Digital have paid the rights.

Another concern is that of the frequencies being used by rebroadcast companies to deliver their programs,most rebroadcasters will claim to have licenses to broadcast etc but the reality is they only have CMT registrations,there are no available licenses to rebroadcast,all broadcast licenses were sold on a national level for millions of euros. A large chunk of the 2GHz band has been sold to Telecos for mobile internet and 3G services,and we forsee problems for rebroadcasters using these frequencies without licenses.Some rebroadcasters use the 10Ghz band,the only licenses permitted in this band are for specific point to point links,with each link having its own license,therefore the only legal way for a rebroadcaster to use this frequency band would be to have a license for every client,not really viable as each license can cost several thousand euros !

In conclusion our opinion is that rebroadcast systems have an uncertain future and extra costs are likely to occur for changing reception equipment,and good program content is likely to be lost due to unauthorised distribution,our advise whether on an individual or collective basis is to get you own dish and secure future viewing.

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