For many of us, home is mostly wherever work or leisure takes us. But can we truly be happy abroad if we are cut off from our native culture and language? Live TV remains the prime medium to spread culture and keep us connected and integrated with society.
Local cable providers offer local TV and little more.
Pirates or hackers illegally run many of those services.
Old-school, expensive technology which can be tricky to install and is immobile.
Local cable providers offer local TV and little more.
Pirates or hackers illegally run many of those services.
Old-school, expensive technology which can be tricky to install and is immobile.
The future of TV is here; accessible 24/7, via any number of devices. But many public broadcasters feel threatened by free-to-air TV and are doing their best to make this process more complicated. A policy that’s not only counter-productive but also goes against the spirit of the law. Expats’ and travellers’ needs are being neglected.
Public channels are made available to you as FTA, short for Free-to-air. But unfortunately, free does not mean free. There is FTA via cable, over-the-air (radio waves) and over-the-satellite provided by public broadcasters, typically funded with taxpayer money, government funding and advertising so that you can watch it free. After all, we just want our TV.
After 15 years, I had had enough. I stopped accepting that the industry could continue ignoring the 250 million-strong expat community. Live streaming is declining, losing market share to the Amazon Primes and Netflixes of this world, so why do broadcasters not embrace cooperations with partners that can help them and us?
You could get unlimited access to public channels from your device(s).
You would not have to worry whether an app is legal or that pirates could steal your data.
Free To Air broadcasting would flourish, so it could remain free to receive, as it was intended.
It’s free. All we ask for is one minute of your time to join us. Because united, we are strong.
Free-to-Air Collective is an organization created to protect the interests of TV viewers and advocate for our rights to access communication channels independent of governmental or commercial control. The FTA Collective is monitoring legislation procedures and implementation of laws and regulations related to production, distribution, management and broadcast of audio-visual content.
We stand for the freedom to information and cultural diversity, protection of both viewer’s and right-holders’ rights, and cultural production independent of corporate interests and limitations. It is as simple as that.
All people have the right to language and cultural diversity. This includes respect for people’s pursuit of cultural development, and to express themselves and have access to information in their own language beyond one’s home country. It means we are fighting for your right to access public television channels from your home country wherever you are in the world.
You can join the fight for our cause by:
Greetings, fellow viewers!
Welcome to the Free-To-Air Collective – a new organization created to protect your right to access public TV for free via phone, laptop, tablet, or orbiting space station! Wherever you are in the world – or the wider universe – you have a right to access broadcasts from your home nation’s public channels broadcasted as an FTA satellite.
Public broadcasters are trying to cope with a decline in viewers, people watching live TV and those accessing TV via apps provided by pirates. This needs to stop if we wish to preserve our highly-valued TV.
