Comment by myself248

My understanding has been that the majority of FTA TV in the western hemisphere is religious in nature, and that's simply not a tempting onboarding bait for a lot of people to buy the gear and start exploring. The vast majority of satellite TV receivers in the US are propretary VSAT services, not equipped for exploring wild feeds and things.

My understanding is that elsewhere, there's a lot more interesting stuff FTA so a lot more people have the hardware, and the hardware itself is more generic. So there's just more opportunity for someone to get bored and discover a new hobby a few degrees to the side of their usual watering hole.