Well, CornPie, that's why I said "Let's not talk too much about technicalities". Because the conditions where you live are very likely very different from where I live, and there are too many technologies out there in both places.
1) Yes, scientology will be able to provide their parishioners with 24x7 access. We cleared up this issue -- scientology will not be able to shove their content onto every existing TV.
Did we clear this up? I don't think so. They need just 1 frequency (terrestrial TV or satellite) to cover a whole nation and every TV in it. A cable channel would be sufficient too.
2) How the signal reaches parishioners is extremely relevant -- parishioners must have a high speed Internet connection -- there is no other way.
Nope. They could still use DVBT, DVBS, or analog terrestrial or satellite TV frequencies, or whatever, or cable , which are still much in use where I live. Therefore: Dismissed.
And once the customer has that, in-house and paid for each month, they're only a simple step away from plugging a PC in the the router, and getting onto the Internet -- where scientology desperately wants to keep them away from.
Router? Since when does a
TV need a router? Call me old fashioned, but mine doesn't have one and doesn't need one. Does yours?
This is a two edge sword -- the Internet technology that's required to deliver scientology's signal -- is also the same technology they deplore -- and which many people agree is bringing them down.
They (Scn) don't need the Internet. There are so many technologies out there, there really don't. It all depends on which target group they're aiming at. If they're aiming at older people in under-developed areas, internet won't help much - terrestrial or satellite would be the way to go. I'll spare you (and everybody else here) a sermon about technologies and target groups. However, if they want(ed) to target modern, intelligent, educated, sophisticated, informed people, they'd very probably be f*cked.
Conclusion: they could begin their nation-wide transmission in this second and you wouldn't even realize it, if nobody told you the frequency.
Edit:
Yeah, I do realize that I'm the one who's talking about technicalities.