1986: Are You Ready For Satellite TV? | The Money Programme | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

Brian Widlake,Valerie Singleton and Paul Burden report on the use of satellites to provide direct television signals to British homes. Currently, satellite television provides programming for a mere 5,000 homes across Britain. That looks likely to change, however, with BSB - British Satellite Broadcasting - aquiring the franchise to provide high-powered satelitte transmissions, direct to televisions in Britain from 1990. BSB - a consortium led by Granada, Anglia, Virgin, Amstrad, Pearson and ITN - has vast experience in television, electronics and publishing. Can it finally make satellite television a mass market proposition? Just what will it take to make this a success with the British public? Clip taken from The Money Programme, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 14 December, 1986. You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - https://www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive?... You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive