Transmissions that can be received without a subscription or a decoder.
Television (and radio) services funded by licence fee or advertising and delivered free to the viewers (and listeners). Contrast with pay tv.
Free-to-air (FTA) is a term used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). The term usually refers to delivery by satellite television, but in various parts of the world where encrypted digital terrestrial and UHF television channels exist, it can also be applied to those systems.
Television channels that do not charge the viewer. Money comes from advertisers.
Channels that are transmitted clear so that they do not require either a contract or a viewing card to receive them.
TV channels broadcast by various means but offered free to end-users, who do not have to pay any subscription in order to receive them
Free-to-air (FTA) is a term used to describe television (TV) and radio broadcasts which are broadcast unencrypted and may therefore be picked up via any suitable receiver. The term should not be confused with free-to-view (FTV) which describes TV which is available without subscription but which is encoded and may therefore be restricted geographically. Neither of these options can be described as pay-TV which describes a subscription (or pay-per-view) service which is encrypted.
