Channels That Should Come to the UK

Wouldn't it be a bit of a problem for us to receive any major US networks, as they all operate locally within the US? Would we not have to receive a specific local channel?

I mean, if for example we started to get a direct feed of NBC, it would have to be NBC (WCAU 10) for Philadelphia, or NBC (WMGM 40) for Atlantic City - not just plain 'NBC'.

Maybe I don't know what i'm talking about...

It would and could not happen.
The technical matters of what affiliate we'd get is a trivial matter. The logistics of clearing and paying for all the rights are the major stumbling block, let alone the regulatory issues (i.e. what they can do over there which they can't over here)

I think I know what your talking about. These feeds are only used for Morning shows, Daytime soaps, Nightly News, Primetime and Late-Night. During off-hours, the NBC peacock appears for hours on end in the middle of the screen and during local commercial breaks.

There are slight varients to the Peacock during the off-hours. It appears on a black background and either flies across the screen, looks like going up a flagpole or looks like a windshield wiper is moving it on the screen. There is no sound at all. These do occasionally appear on screen when someone in the master control room of an affiliate forgets to cue the commercials up.

It'll never happen for the reasons the previous posters have said, but if NBC did come over here, I'd have thought given that the main transmission centre of the network is in the Rockafeller Centre, you would find that the local affiliate most likely to be seen on screen would be WNBC4 from New York.

Well, ok - so we would never get a major US network, but it would be nice to think that one day we may get some of their biggest cable networks, just with UK advertising inserted appropriately..

I'd love to see USA Network, Spike TV (formerly TNN) and TBS Superstation.

That's the affiliate that's on a satellite feed that people here with the right equipment watch, and ITV News get the NBC reports from.