BMTV

BMTV – British Medical Television was an information service available by subscription aimed at GPs. BBC Enterprises launched a commercial venture offering providers the use of unused night time transmission hours. The venture was approved by the home office for a trial period of two years. Subscribers paying for the service would have a descrambler box which would automatically recognise the scrambled picture broadcast during the early hours of BBC2 and set the VHS recorder to record the programmes.