First of all the EU should work on having public television from all EU countries available in all other countries. It is a travesty that you cannot watch Spanish public TV channels in Germany, or Dutch TV in Italy or Austrian TV in Belgium - etc.
This fragmentation has to stop, we cannot have Europe divided by greedy sports right holders. Public TV needs to be accessible for every EU citizen in every country.
Geoblocking within the EU has to stop completely, it starts with sports, then its movies, then series… Next thing you know someone has a special right to weather forecasts for Marseille between 6-10am and local news for Bratislava are only available with a 6-hour delay when animals are part of the story, …
To watch Flemish public TV news online, you have to login to your account (verified e mail address). Which is bad enough. If you want to watch it from abroad while not living in Belgium and using foreign IP, they ask you to login + “verify your identity” with your identity card or something like that. Goodbye VRT, I’ll watch other regions’ public news channels, stick yours up yours. Wankers. British, German, Dutch … all offer the basic news shows to everyone without any hurdles.
That’s interesting, we had the same discussion about European public broadcasting in a german speaking sub 2 days ago and someone wrote that their parents wanted to watch French TV in Germany and the only legal option was to get a satellite subscription from Wallonia.
Interesting indeed. I was only talking about public TV and only streaming on their website. Thread you’re talking about seems like it was a private channel situation? I thought this legal nonsense is one of the reasons the Tagesschau never shows soccer but only talks it, it’s to complicated and then they gotta put up the geofencing restrictions too.
First of all the EU should work on having public television from all EU countries available in all other countries. It is a travesty that you cannot watch Spanish public TV channels in Germany, or Dutch TV in Italy or Austrian TV in Belgium - etc.
This fragmentation has to stop, we cannot have Europe divided by greedy sports right holders. Public TV needs to be accessible for every EU citizen in every country.
You could always block sport only
Geoblocking within the EU has to stop completely, it starts with sports, then its movies, then series… Next thing you know someone has a special right to weather forecasts for Marseille between 6-10am and local news for Bratislava are only available with a 6-hour delay when animals are part of the story, …
To watch Flemish public TV news online, you have to login to your account (verified e mail address). Which is bad enough. If you want to watch it from abroad while not living in Belgium and using foreign IP, they ask you to login + “verify your identity” with your identity card or something like that. Goodbye VRT, I’ll watch other regions’ public news channels, stick yours up yours. Wankers. British, German, Dutch … all offer the basic news shows to everyone without any hurdles.
That’s interesting, we had the same discussion about European public broadcasting in a german speaking sub 2 days ago and someone wrote that their parents wanted to watch French TV in Germany and the only legal option was to get a satellite subscription from Wallonia.
Interesting indeed. I was only talking about public TV and only streaming on their website. Thread you’re talking about seems like it was a private channel situation? I thought this legal nonsense is one of the reasons the Tagesschau never shows soccer but only talks it, it’s to complicated and then they gotta put up the geofencing restrictions too.