All posts by Briantist
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Watlingfen: The current digital TV service is designed to be used for static reception from a rooftop aerial.
The old overpowered analogue services were indeed suitable for indoor reception ... and caused massive problems when there was Inversion.
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KMJ,Derby: I suspect that it could be because it was a sub-relay of Winshill at some point.
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julie mc caffrey: Showcase has moved from
Eutelsat 28A: 12607 V
to
Eutelsat 28A: 11344 H
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KMJ,Derby: I realised I should disregard what Wikipedia says as it fails to agree with what is on the official site.
http://www.itvmedia.co.uk….pdf says that just the Hannington trasmitter is called ITV Meridian Thames Valley.
This differs from the "old" ITV Thames Valley which included the Oxford transmitter (and relays).
There is an ITV Thames Valley site - Thames Valley | Meridian - ITV News but this has stories from Brighton on it because it's just a re-feed of "ITV MERIDIAN NEWS IN BRIEF".
It's unclear if just Oxford, or Oxford+Hannington "merged" with the Meridian South [Coast] region.
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Mike Dimmick: Thanks for those. It was the creation and then destruction of the ITV Thames Valley that left me with questions.
ITV don't issue press statements when they remove services.
However they did send this into Ofcom when the C3 (and C5) renewal notice went out
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
"Details of our proposals for news in each area are set out in more detail in the Annexes to this note with a detailed discussion of the overall proposals in Border below. In terms of the flagship peak time regional news programme on a typical week night the proposal would involve the delivery of the following (as the core part
of the 30 minute 6pm programme):
... ITV Meridian: separate 20 minute regional news offerings for each of Meridian East and South with a sub-opt from Meridian South for Thames Valley News -- for viewers around Oxford, Reading and the M4 corridor.
... ITV Central: separate 20 minute regional news offeringsfor each of the east and west sub-regions."
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Mike Dimmick: I think there are some actual answers on the http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf on page 30...
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Mike Dimmick/KMJ,Derby/Paul.: OK... it seems as if the Oxford transmitter is run with Merdian Thames Valley's region's news.
But it seems odd that ITV Sales offers the Central South region as an ad region.
Does this mean that Central South is operated as two sub-sub-regions: one for Oxford (thames Valley News, Central South adverts) and one for Ridge Hill (Central West News, Central South Adverts)?
That would make Ridge Hill very super-served, given that it ALSO has a ITV West extra transmission too - Ridge Hill (ITV West) (County of Herefordshire, England) Freeview Light transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice .
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there's more here
ITV Local Meridian Blog » Welcome to the new Meridian Tonight
and
Seventeen regions into nine: How the updated ITV local news services will operate | Media | guardian.co.uk
still unclear about Ridge Hill.
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Monday 3 June 2013 5:53PM
Nat: That's a bit odd, as no changes were made to the service.
The best thing to do is this My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice .