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Licences, territories, media & term · Specialist

Free-to-air rights

Also called: FTA

ELI5

Rights for broadcast available without a subscription fee at point of reception.

Used in conversation

“The budget needs to show free-to-air rights clearly before approval.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Free-to-air rights” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.