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We request that all UK television listings should be made freely available under similar terms to the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons License.





By releasing television schedule details into the public domain many web sites will be able to integrate this information into their content, creating a tighter convergence between the web and television which will benefit advertisers, broadcasters, webmasters and importantly, the viewing/surfing/consuming public.





Currently anyone publishing TV listings in the UK is required by law under the 1990 Broadcasting Act to pay a royalty to the relevant broadcasters. BDS collects this royalty for the broadcasters (BBC, ITVA and Channel 4). More information regarding BDS can be found here, http://www.bds.tv/





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    • its just rude not to the swines!!!
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    • Since ITV have prevented bleb.org from using their listings, ITV has been off my TV radar.
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    • I do not watch channels without free listings
  • Earle M
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    • Absolutely! See also http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ for more on Free Data issues.
  • Dean L
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    • Dont you make enough money as it is? Its only a bloody TV guide
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    • We Pay too much for BBC already,with no opt out option.
  • Terence S
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    • We're not going to visit the tv stations' own websites for info, so it is in their interests to advertise their programs to us via wonderful sites like bleb.org! Make it free, you foolish people
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    • ITV -stop being so stupid!
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    • lifes hard enough..dont make it harder
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    • commercial idiocy not to be free
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