All posts by Mike Davison
Below are all of Mike Davison's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Mike Rogers: You have probably had no reply as this site is not responsible for programme production. You say one programme was perfect and others are not, so it really points to the programme producers and it is to them you should complain. This site is primarily concerned with helping people who have problems affecting all reception in one form or another and not something as specific to some programmes on one MUX.
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Mike Rogers: That wonderful 'experience' - privatisation means that broadcasters don't own the transmitters any longer. They are all out of the broadcasters' hands(BBC ITV Ch4 Ch5) and the subtitles( I think) are also outsourced to various firms, RedBee Media being one. You may see them in credits for subtitles. Arqiva is the main operator of transmitter sites. It's a wonderful tangled web woven by you know who some years ago say around the 80s. Of course the consumer features very low in the priorities of operation now.
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No noticeable degradation of signal from Emley Moor at this time 18:45.in Wetherby.
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Mike Davison: Made in :- Leeds, Cardiff, Bristol now on programmes. On screen ID's confirm as well as comparing Freeview 8 for 'Made in Leeds'.
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Ned: If you are in an area that has COM7 active then the main HD PSB channels already exist for you either using satellite or terrestrial. If COM7 is not in service then Satellite will be the only way you will get all the main HD channels. It is indisputable that there are more 'secondary' channels from satellite as well. There is only one danger in having satellite as sole source and that is weather dependence. If a thunder cloud comes between dish and satellite then degraded performance and loss of service for some minutes can occur. Terrestrial services are rarely affected by weather other than co-channel effects in still summer high pressure tropospheric ducting conditions which can last for days at a time, but this does not usually result in total loss of signal. You are really comparing apples and pears, so having both covers all bases.
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rob: If you read the small print on the countries who have 'scrapped' the TV licence, you find it has been loaded onto other services like electricity bills or telephone charges or more unfairly DIRECTLY onto income taxes. There is no true escape from it. Even advertising has to be paid for somehow. Do you actuially believe those campaigns cost you nothing? In the early days of ITV's existance with only one channel a statistic came out saying INDIRECTLY you were paying £6 per year when the TV licence that funded the BBC TV and RADIO was only £4 per year and the government was taking £1 of that. by imposing that duty on the licence that was originally £3. We now have the farcical situation(in my opinion) that you are paying for the privelege of seeing a commercial channel called SKY. Sky customers should insist on commercial free services but then they would have to pay a realisticly high subscription for their service. The licence is the least worst way of paying for quality services, again in my opinion.
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mark phillips: I don't think you are correct. Its parent channel has been a scrambled subscription channel but became free to view in the early days of Freeview and supported by advertising. In fact more people can probably view it as it is now on one or the public service muxes so anyone in a FreeviewLite relay area and has a DVB-T2 capable receiver can now get it having been previously denied it as it was on a COM mux available only from main sites. Anyone with any sort of satellite receiver getting programmes from Astra 2 can still get it.
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Monday 10 November 2014 9:22PM
Wetherby
David: Place for 'Made in Leeds' already receivable but no programme just now and next programme guide with direct reference to Leeds studio. Frequency 11680MHz vertical, 27500 symbol rate 2/3 FEC. SID 55317. This is Eutelsat 28a and other programmes on this transponder are FTV. 55316 is the Cardiff prog.and 55315 is Bristol.