Exempel på pay-per-view

• I cannot understand why the first 10 or 12 operators which are to receive franchises before legislation are to be denied the advantages of pay-per-view.

• Breaches have been rare and the only difficulties of which we are aware have involved events shown on pay-per-view terms.

• By the time video libraries are built up, the video tape recorders will be the perfect "pay-per-view".

• If pay-per-view is to be introduced, how, despite his bland assurances, will the interests of viewers outside the pay-per-view areas be maintained?

• In considering the case for pay-per-view, football must be sure that it is not alienating its core audience.

• In seeking to protect the interests of viewers, will the cable authority have a duty to exclude party political broadcasts from pay-per-view events?

• First, it provides that listed events may not be shown on cable television on a pay-per-view basis.

• That becomes a central question when we envisage that sporting bodies, owners of stadiums and cable companies will wish to produce pay-per-view programmes.

• I have referred to the principal reasons why pay-per-view is not prevalent in sports broadcasting at the moment.

• Given those uncertainties, we need to come to a balanced view on the subject of pay-per-view services for all sports—not just for football.

• Moreover, there are many ways in which "pay-per-view" can be valuable to the cable companies without damaging the off-air companies.

• It is now possible individually to address every receiver by signal, and the receivers will know whether the licence—the pay-per-view, if one likes—has been paid.

• In other words, the wider the availability of pay-per-view the greater the variety of programming provided on cable will be.

• I should add—and this may perhaps reassure my noble friend—that we are talking here only about pay-per-view and not about other forms of pay television.

• The event would be broadcast against pay-per-view only if it itself has been broadcast before.