All posts by Briantist
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stephen Lewis: Five of the six links to the right of your post will tell you what you ask.
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leslie rainer: keep a eye on the Eutelsat 28A & Astra 1N/2A/2F at 28.2°E - LyngSat page.
Look for light blue boxes on the right hand side of the tables.
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Charles Ince: drama is free on Freeview but is a sky pay channel on satellite and not yet on cable.
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Neil: If you look at "How will the Bluebell Hill (Medway, England) transmission frequencies change over time?" above, you can see that Bluebell Hill changes to Group E to wideband when the new local TV and Freeview HD services start next year.
If you look at a terrain plot - My Freeview | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice - you will see that the signal from Crystal Palace is blocked.
Loft mounted aerials are not recommended for reliable Freeview reception. You would have a reliable service with a rooftop mounted one.
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Aerialman: yes. With the proviso that the radiation pattern is a state secret...
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Radio Geordie: Not really.
The ITV WestCountry licence area (now WestCountry West) had three sub-regions (Cornwall, Devon and Somerset).
The Anglia region used to have three sub-regions (approx Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire).
Meridian was three services (South Coast, South East and "Hannington").
Central South was a sub-region- this was merged into Meridian Hannington to create "ITV Thames Valley".
YTV was split into a three, not two. The Yorkshire part had a Sheffield opt-out.
TTTV was split into two for news, a Tyneside and a Teesside service.
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From BBC - FAQs - BBC Launch five new HD Channels
The BBC announced on Tuesday 16 July, that it will launch five new subscription-free BBC HD channels. The new channels are as follows:
BBC News HD
BBC Three HD
BBC Four HD
CBeebies HD
CBBC HD
These will launch by early 2014 and will be offered to all digital television platforms that carry HD channels.
The new channels will broadcast the same programmes as their standard definition equivalents in HD, giving viewers access to a further 250 hours of HD programmes per week than is currently available from the BBC. The majority of HD programmes from these channels will also be available to watch on demand via BBC iPlayer.
In addition, within the next six months, the BBC will present to the BBC Trust a proposal covering the technical options and timetable to launch English Regional variants of BBC One HD and variants of BBC Two HD for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The five new HD channels will be broadcast on satellite, covering approximately 99% of UK homes from launch. On digital terrestrial television (Freeview HD and YouView), BBC Three HD and CBBC HD will use capacity on the BBC's existing HD multiplex, which has 98.5% coverage of UK homes. BBC News HD, BBC Four HD and CBeebies HD will use new HD capacity, which will cover part of the UK and grow in coverage over time. Further information on this new digital terrestrial television capacity can be found in the press releases issued from Ofcom and Arqiva. The five new HD channels will also be offered to TV platform operators that run their own networks, such as cable TV and IPTV operators.
Further information can be found on the BBC Media Centre website.
BBC - Media Centre - BBC to launch five new subscription-free HD channels
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Maureen Rhead: It's not the thunder storms themselves, but the very heavy rain between your dish and the satellites, which is many miles above the equator over Africa.
Normally you might expect disruption for perhaps 20 minutes at a time.
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Stuart Owens: In the ITV document, they called the YTV regions "North and South".
As for STV, most of the population of Scotland lives in what is called the "central belt", with the highlands and islands being very unpopulated.
List of towns and cities in Scotland by population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia this quite well.
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Monday 22 July 2013 7:28AM
Sharon Carroll: Was the usage factually incorrect?
How else should a suspect be described, in your opinion, so that they can be recognised, beyond "IC1" IC codes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ?