All posts by Briantist
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Barry Gibbs : According to http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf Quest will be required to provide subtitles on some programmes in the 2013/14 year
"Six channels that had no obligation to provide access services in 2012 will be required to provide access services in 2013. These are Quest, owned by Discovery; Comedy Central Extra, owned by Paramount; Really owned by UKTV; MTV Hits owned by MTV and Sky Atlantic and Sky Living Loves owned by BSkyB; "
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trevorjharris: Funny use of the word "inefficient".
THe BBC spends 67% of it's income on programmes (and most of them UK originations) and Sky spends 33% and you claim Sky is more "efficient".
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rob: You do reliase that +1 channels are actually popular with some TV viewers. They cost the broadcasters almost nothing to set up and can grab and extra 10% of viewers.
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Just looked at the "11 movie channels all in HD"
Sky Movies Action & Adventure viewing share 0.1%
Sky Movies Comedy viewing share 0.1%
Sky Movies Crime & Thriller viewing share 0.1%
Sky Movies Disney viewing share 0.1%
Sky Movies Drama & Romance viewing share too low to register
Sky Movies Family viewing share 0.1%
Sky Movies Greats viewing share 0.1%
Sky Movies Premiere viewing share 0.2%
Sky Movies Premiere +1 viewing share 0.1%
Sky Movies SciFi-Horror viewing share 0.1%
Sky Movies Select viewing share too low to register
Sky Movies Showcase viewing share 0.1%
Total share 1.0%. That's less than BBC FOUR, which only broadcast for half the day.
"6 sports channels"
Sky Sports 1 viewing share 1.1%
Sky Sports 2 viewing share 0.4%
Sky Sports 3 viewing share 0.2%
Sky Sports 4 viewing share 0.2%
Sky Sports News viewing share 0.5%
2.4% of viewing. More or less what CBBC and Cbeebies get. In the daytime.
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Nicholas Willmott: "On those grounds, couldn't they have put COM8 as a C36 SFN "
The national SFN was allocated as a "final" multiplex because the frequency won't be cleared by other countries until later.
"and COM7 on whatever other vacant frequency C31 to C37 was available from the 80 sites that broadcast DTT from the outset?"
No. If you look at
More Freeview capacity - COM7, COM8 and COM9 - in the 600MHz band | Freeview news | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice you can see the hexagons and pentagons. The "old" plan uses five frequencies per multiplex, this plan uses three.
"As for the cost of funding this - I thought they were just re-using transmitting equipment they originally used for the pre-switchover low power DTT."
That's just wrong. Every site had the old equipment replaced at DSO. The new equipment was fitted in place of the analogue services and transmitter analogue until - at switchover - digital took over transmissions.
The pre-DSO equipment was a short-term low-power provision.
Com7 and Com8 are new provisions.
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--- Official notice from the BBC --- BBC - Blogs - About the BBC - CBBC HD, CBeebies HD, BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD & BBC News HD launch Tuesday 10 December 2013
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sharealam: Yes... as per On the tenth day of Christmas Auntie brought to me ... five more HD channels | High definition | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice !
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More officail news from Auntie
BBC - Media Centre - BBC to launch five new subscription-free HD channels on Tuesday 10 December
"Tony Hall, BBC Director-General, says: I am delighted that were able to launch our new HD channels in time for Christmas, when families gather together to enjoy some of the best TV from the BBC. This year, people will be able to watch even more of our programmes in brilliant quality.
All five new HD channels will broadcast the same programmes as their standard definition equivalents in HD.
Over 50 per cent of homes in the UK are already HD enabled, with reports estimating that the number of HD homes is expected to grow to reach over 20 million (80 per cent of all UK homes) by 2016 and over 23 million homes (90 per cent of all UK homes) by 2019."
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Bharat: Have you had a look at Freeview reception has changed? | Freeview Interference | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice ?
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Sunday 8 December 2013 10:41PM
Briantist: I've also done a write up here --- Does the BBC or BSkyB spend more on programmes? | About UK Free TV | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice !!!