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[โ€“] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[โ€“] freebee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thatโ€™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.

[โ€“] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

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.

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