0 a system for watching television in which people pay for the particular programmes that they watch: --
pay-per-view television/channels
1 a system for watching television in which people pay for the particular programmes that they watch: --
In addition to showing live games there will be pay-per-view, and a deal offering Saturday night highlights.
pay-per-view television
The event would be broadcast against pay-per-view only if it itself has been broadcast before.
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.
In other words, the wider the availability of pay-per-view the greater the variety of programming provided on cable will be.
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.
Moreover, there are many ways in which "pay-per-view" can be valuable to the cable companies without damaging the off-air companies.
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.
I have referred to the principal reasons why pay-per-view is not prevalent in sports broadcasting at the moment.
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.
