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retransmission
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The transmission of something again, especially over a different medium or at a different time
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These retransmission payments have become a big deal to the broadcasters.
The issue of retransmission fees was raised by the BBC's then director general, Thompson, in his MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival in 2010.
The BBC has raised the stakes in its row with BSkyB over retransmission fees and will consider charging the satellite broadcaster for channels such as BBC1 if the fees are not dropped.
With both ITV and Channel 4 calling on pay-TV operators BSkyB and Virgin Media to pay to carry the public service channels on their platforms, Purnell said the issue of retransmission fees would be returned to by the BBC but not before charter renewal.
ITV has also called on the retransmission fees to be abolished.
A spokesman for ITV said: "We welcomed the minister's statement earlier this year in relation to retransmission fees.
Faced with a demand for retransmission fees from ABC, Fox or NBC, a cable or satellite operator can point out that the broadcasters already give their shows away online.
Now broadcast TV stations are also demanding "retransmission fees".
Networks worried that if Aereo was able to get away with not paying them for the right to carry their channels, other pay-television providers would fight the "retransmission fees" broadcast networks collect.
He improved the rules that determined how nodes should handle the retransmission of failed packets (they were to continue to transmit for a while in the event of a collision, to ensure that all nodes realised that a collision had taken place, and were then to retransmit after a random interval).
The receiving computer, not the network, would then juggle the packets back into order, and request retransmission of any packets lost in transit.Such "connectionless" packet-switching reduced the need for sophisticated and costly equipment within the network to establish predetermined routes for packets.
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