EMPIRE BUILDING

摘要

The big risk for the future of radio is that control over the transition from analogue to digital listening will become bogged down in commercial empire building. There's terrestrial Freeview, which is part owned by Sky. Then there's Freesat from Sky, which rivals the official BBC/ITV Freesat satellite service. Freesat admits its receivers are designed not to make it easy to get non-Freesat programmes. Virgin Cable is a law unto itself.rnMeanwhile, the BBC, ITV, C4 and Five, and Sky, all promote themselves, solo. So do the manufacturers.