Wouldn it be better to drop the radio stations on Freeview and add more television channels in their place?
A radio station only takes up a tiny fraction of the bandwidth required for a television channel. A good analogy is the comparison of the relative capacities of audio CD’s (700MB) and video DVD’s (4.2GB). Even if all the radio stations were taken off Freeview, the amount of space would probably not be sufficient for a single additional television channel. With DAB in the UK being technically unfit for purpose and the cost of DAB radios being scandalously high, there seems a very good argument for retaining the radio channels on Freeview. Text services also take up very little bandwidth, probably no more than that of a radio channel at most.
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