Square Peg: the Dream of British Satellite Broadcasting - Episode One

If BSB is remembered at all, over a quarter of a century on, it's as a cautionary tale of one of the biggest disasters in British business history. But it could, and perhaps should, have been the shape of British television, if it wasn't for their own incompetence, their own rotten luck, and a certain Australian entrepreneur bypassing all the rules. That was the dream of British Satellite Broadcasting. Here's how it failed.

Part one: Squaring the Circle. What satellite TV is and how it came to be, and how BSB came together.

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