Free TV Alliance

In particular the Free TV Alliance intends to establish 'common service approaches, open source specifications and preferred technologies that work across all products in all markets'.

A package of free-to-air and free-to-view Italian-language channels available on national TV networks, owned by a consortium of Italian communications companies including RAI.

The formation of the Free TV Alliance was announced at the 2014 IBC broadcasting show in Amsterdam on September 12, 2014 as a partnership between Freesat, Fransat and Tivù Sat.

[4] Free satellite TV services (i.e. not pay-TV) in Europe take the form of either free-to-air (FTA) or free-to-view (FTV) broadcasts.

And the same principle applies to HD+: the annual cost ... is a service fee ... which is related to the reception of the offer and not to specific content, parts or packages of the offer.”[6]