A marketing campaign group renewed requires the Authorities to guard conventional TV acquired by way of an aerial till no less than 2040.
They need the pledge enshrined in laws that’s at the moment going by way of Parliament.
It comes because the Media Invoice is debated within the Home of Commons.
Campaigners Silver Voices discovered no point out of defending conventional TV – set to run out within the early 2030s – within the Media Invoice.
That is regardless of Tradition Secretary Lucy Frazer saying that older individuals depending on terrestrial providers shouldn’t be “left behind”.
Silver Voices desires the Authorities to insert a brief modification into the Invoice, promising that conventional TV is safe till no less than 2040.
Our Hold Us Tuned In marketing campaign backs these demanding terrestrial providers and Freeview stays till then.
It comes after Silver Voices and Broadcast 2040+ coalition activists revealed a landmark examine demonstrating the significance of conventional TV to the British public.
Round three-quarters of individuals thought that eradicating the service would minimize older individuals off, with 80% believing it must be protected previous 2040.
Conventional TV continues to be loved by greater than 17 million individuals, usually by the poor, older individuals and the disconnected in rural areas.
Dennis Reed of Silver Voices mentioned: “Two months in the past, the Tradition Secretary was telling us that viewers who rely upon conventional TV shouldn’t be left behind.
“Now within the Media Invoice, there’s not a single reference to defending conventional TV.
“Amending the Invoice to supply this assure can be easy and easy. If the Authorities doesn’t act, then MPs ought to insist on this modification.”
Calls for for the safety of conventional TV come because it emerged that the BBC has despatched out greater than 100 million letters for non-payment of the licence price.