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Also I don't think BBC1 started from Manchester on VHF in 1956 either as it was initially only available from Holme Moss on Channel 2. BBC 1 from Winter Hill wasn't available until the 60s, I think 1963 or 64 from memory.
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There is no ITV 1 anymore. It's back to ITV, sadly with an ident on SD for the first time ever, however if you still have a 4:3 TV like me, it chops off the logo and also those of ITV+1, ITV2, ITV3 & ITV4 yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!
(apart from the old 4:3 programmes like Rising Damp and early Frost & Morse).
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Brian : Re your post of Saturday 22 December 2012 10:20PM
Nedbod: "The UHF dates start in 1984, as this is when Channel 4 was added to the line-up. It would have taken up too much space to add in the services one by one".
I thought Channel 4 started at 5pm on the 2nd November 1982 ? One day after S4C ? So Winter Hill was broadcasting test transmissions for Channel 4 well before this. I remember buying a large Group C/D aerial to pick it up in Mottram-in-Longdendale (as we lived on the other side of a deep cutting in a poor Winter Hill reception area). At the time, the GLOSSOP relay, our best transmitter, didn't broadcast Channel 4, indeed the WREKIN was next (which we could also receive in Mottram). C4 showed the test card and test transmissions from late summer onwards I think on Channel 65. I still have a VHS recording of this somewhere (not the girl and blackboard though).
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For clarity will all 100 or so current SD Freeview TV & Radio Channels be switched off ? If so when will this happen in the Granada / Winter Hill region ? If not, how many SD Channels will survive and on which Muliplex ? Why not go straight from analogue to HD if this is the case ? Once fully HD will the idents/logos disappear ? (PS: I think I already know the answer to that one, he says tongue firmly in cheek).
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Is there really a hunger for local TV, Channel M didn't last all that long in Manchester and its vewing figures were very poor. It looked so amateurish compared with BBC / ITV, even with regard to local news cf Northwest Tonight & Granada Reports / Granada News.
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Why is the bit rate higher on the COM 4, 5 & 6 Freeview Multiplexes than the more popular and more watched PSB 1 & 2 ?
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Friday 21 December 2012 11:12PM
RE your timeline table above : ITV Granada was broadcasting on Ch 59 on UHF long before 1984 ? It went colour in Autumn 1969, I think, but was on UHF in B&W before that.