All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Watlingfen: As always, it is up the content provider to make arrangements to rent capacity and gain EPG placement.
Nothing at all links the four distribution systems (satellite, cable, internet, terrestrial).
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RJ: "In my eyes, freeview should do what DAB does and use Same freq for all national non-regional channels. All be on same freq across UK"
A fine idea, of course, if the UK didn't have any other countries around it. SFN networks are hard to implement if you don't do it internationally.
Also, most domestic areas have been "grouped" for many decades. They are specifically designed to not receive frequencies outside a defined range.
SFN networks would require millions of homes to be fitted with new aerials!
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Dave: The local TV services are being provided on Interleaved Frequencies: spare slivers of frequencies left over from the planning process.
There simply isn't the capacity - and the money - to add the local TV to any additional transmitters.
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Matt: It's possible they might not if the service area isn't the whole of the UK. It's just impossible online to restrict provision to an audio stream to a single county.
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andrewp: Having done a search on the whole of the internet, I can come up with ONE reference to "Ridge Hill" AND "Points West".
It's in the Freesat BBC Trust consulation, and it says
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbct….txt
"Winchcombe Business Forum .... I live in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. We are on the border of TV regions, so it is difficult to receive local news via terrestrial television. We do have a local Winchcombe transmitter,
but this is just a repeater of the Sutton Coldfield transmitter and so carries news from Birmingham (we see news from Cheltenham and Gloucester as being local). Most aerials are either pointed at Sutton Coldfield or, for the few with line of sight, the Ridge Hill transmitter. It would appear that since our local transmitter has only 4 transmission channels it will not be possible for it to carry all channels of Freeview after switchover and clearly if it still carries the same programs as the Sutton Coldfield transmitter (and therefore no local news) then it will still not be used. It would appear that the only way for us to get local news at all is via digital satellite (and BBC Points West). It is worth pointing out that we can't receive local advertising either, which has an impact on businesses. Even now Sky does not show our correct ITV region (ITV West) and you have to add it manually by adding it as an additional channel. "
I'm really sorry to say this, but your posting has an air of "complete fantasy" about it.
There's THIS Wrong Local News - Page 2 - Help & Support Forum
" BBC West Midlands is however the correct region for Cheltenham, and is the only adequately receiveable BBC region as far south as Cirencester."
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Stuart Owens: According to Communications in Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Television[edit]
Television broadcast stations: 1 (plus three low-power repeaters) (2002)
Television Licences: 7,452 (2002) Requirement abolished (2007).
GBC Television is operated by the Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) is transmitted on VHF Channel 12 with UHF repeaters on 56 and 53.
Until 1999, GBC retransmitted BBC Prime, but was relaunched as a community-based service focusing on local news and other items of local interest. GBC programming starts at around 19:30 and finishes before midnight with the most popular programme being the local news bulletin, News Watch at 20:30. During the day fillers and the sound of GBC radio are transmitted.
The station was funded by a mix of advertising, government funding, and an annual television licence fee. In June 2006, the licence was abolished by the Government. A new general manager was appointed in 2010 with a mandate to develop the station to meet future requirements of the community.
The majority of homes also have access to satellite television with mostly United Kingdom channels. Gibraltar also receives Spanish national digital television and radio stations, as well as Spanish digital regional (from Andalusia) and local stations (from the Campo de Gibraltar area)."
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Paul Barton: "Somebody in Chiswick does not give a hoot what is happening in Hackney. A Lambeth resident has little in common with a Chelsea resident. "
Except, perhaps, that they read same Metro and Evening Standard?
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Monday 3 March 2014 9:23PM
Jill Devenney: There are full details on the Northern Ireland RTE1, RTE2, TG4 special mini-multiplex from 24 October | Digital switchover | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice page.