All posts by Briantist
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Shona: sky 291... Not seen a Virgin number yet, you could try the old blighty channel number?
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Kevin: In addition to MikeP points, it is worth noting that the satellites ("birds") do not belong to Sky.
The Astra Astra 1N, Astra 2A and Astra 2F "birds" belong to SES Astra, a Luxembourg company.
Satellite Services - Satellite Capacity, TV & Communications - SES.com
The Eutelsat 28A satellite belongs to the Eutelsat consortium, Eutelsat, leading satellite operator for broadcast, broadband, and data services .
Sky (and the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and so forth) rent capacity on these "birds" on long-term contracts.
Having competition for the satellites lowers the price to consumers, and provides market flexibility. Satellites have been launched - and eventually junked - over time, which is why there are several birds.
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... there are one or two bits of "old satellite " around ... http://blogs.voanews.com/….jpg .
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Richard Davis: All channels pay "the market rate" to obtain capacity.
Remember that Freeview is just the name of the service. The commercial capacity is owned by Arqiva and SDN (which is 100% owned by ITV plc).
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Mary: The programmes on Drama (and most other channels) are played out automatically by computer systems.
If there is a fault, which it sounds like there is, there is "presentation" person around on these minor channels to provide an apology.
I'm sure that the playout company, Red Bee Media did not wish to spoil your enjouyment of any show.
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John: "PSME" = "programme making and special events", which are basically radio mic systems.
I am very sure that short range transmitter devices are NOT licenced to use 868MHz.
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Rob: only people with tutv will have to change as BT vision customers can watch over IP now.
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Monday 8 July 2013 2:09PM
Steve bower: Pick TV is proved by sky. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the TV licence. Only the BBC is funded from that.