UK Free TV 2014 annual Christmas Quiz

Do know everything there is to know about free to air television in the United Kingdom in 2014? Find out!

Time to test your general knowledge of everything related to free to air TV in the UK.    Please email your answers in to ukfreexmas@gmail.com – don't post the answers on the site.

You have until December 25th, I will post up the answers on Boxing Day. 

 

Q1 Last Christmas: name the top three TV shows that were watched on catch-up.   They had 2.79m, 2.67m and 2.17m viewers.

Q2 Count the days.   ITV Digital started out life as ONdigital.  How many more days did it spend "on air" than British Satellite Broadcasting did? 

Q3 You can get 4 pints of milk for £1 from the supermarket.  To the nearest 100ml, how of the white stuff can you drink to pay for a viewer-hour of EastEnders, Casualty, River City and Pobol y Cwm?

Q4 The transmitter that Sky use to send a signal to your dish is above a National Park.  Name it.

Q5 What month and year, and why, was the last time only two TV channels were on air in the UK?

Q6 Name the first transmitter in the United Kingdom to switch over to digital only transmissions.  What day was this?

Q7 If Apple's annual revenue is the size of an apple, how big is the BBC's?

Q8 Which news channel closed the two days before Christmas?

Q9 Once there was only black and white TV… there was once a powerful 10kW IBA 405 line-transmitter that now serves just 17,000 Freeview Light homes.    Name it.

Q10 Part of the BBC was privatized in 1997, what was the name when the sale was made, and the names it has since.    To the nearest million, how much was the sale for? 

Q11 How many, exactly, Freeview homes were effected by interference from 4G services that used the Crystal Palace Mast?

Q12 Know your radio transmitters do you?   Which is the most western and eastern UK radio transmitters? What's the name of the most Northerly and Southerly non-BBC local radio station?  

Q13 Converted to 2014 prices: what was the price of the Colour Television Licence when it was introduced and what was the price of the Radio Licence when it was abolished?

Q14 This year's ITV Annual report shows the "whole UK Share of viewing (SOV)".   Put in order from high to low the family of channels from the five main broadcasters.

Q15 What proportion of BBC spending is spent of "Presenters"?

Q16  Of the 25,100,000 homes in the UK, how many have Sky, Freesat AND Cable?

Q17 How much – if you average it out – does everyone in the UK pay towards the cost of Channel 5 every day?

Q18 Digital UK asked viewers where what the BBC1 HD channel number should be?  Of those who had a preference, what did they pick and what did Freeview do about it?

Q19 What £5m+ a year fees was cut this year, and when?

Q20 How many UK 10,000W DAB transmitters are there?   What is the most common starting letter of their names?

 

 

Please email your answers in to ukfreexmas@gmail.com – don't post the answers on the site.