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Originally Posted by David R

But I don't see how beaming the stream from the house or beaming the stream from a recorded shopping channel loop is any different in cost, surely its just a flick of a switch. The big brother program is being filmed and produced 24 hours a day and those are costs which are already a given.

I'm sure the actual viewing figures on 5* are much higher than they would be if teleshopping was on and surely potential revenue is dictated by how many eyes are watching which is the way is has been for half a century.

Teleshopping isin't live. Channel 5 are just popping a tape in the machine [or more than likely opening a file on a computer and clicking play but that doesn't sound as romantic].

Putting a live show to TV is another matter entirely. It costs a lot more. It's not just 'flicking a switch' it's sending stuff to mother****ing space and then sending it back to planet Earth. Live as it happens.

Yeah the stream is running at Elstree all the time but it's just going straight to hard disk to be edited for a highlights show.

If the live stream was earning more revenue than airing prerecorded footage - be it Teleshopping on 5* or Gilmour Girls on Channel 4 - then I'm sure these networks would be giving us the feed. After all they want to make money.

But they're not. They stopped.