Det Forenede Kongerige — det eneste land i Europa, hvor DBS for alvor er taget i brug — er i dag en slagmark, hvor Rupert Murdochs tv­kanaler, der sendes via Astra, kæmper med British Satellite Broadcastings (BSB's) DBS­program.
The United Kingdom, the first full-scale DBS-user country in Europe, is to this day the battlefield for Rupert Murdoch's Astra-based television channels and the British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) DBS programme.