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***** from BBC Radio 4 LW & Radio 5 Live MW - Droitwich - BBC - FAQs - Home ***
The BBC's Droitwich transmitter will be subject to daily shutdowns on BBC Radio 4 LW, between 10:00-17:30, from Saturday 29 March until Summer 2014. There will also be periods of reduced power for BBC Radio 5 Live MW. This is to enable engineers to work safely, while refurbishing the long wave antenna, and the two masts which support it.
You can use the reception postcode transmitter checker on the BBC Reception Advice website which will give more information on this work, on a day by day basis.
Radio 4 LW will continue to be available on Sky, Freesat and via BBC iPlayer Radio.
Yesterday in Parliament and The Daily Service will continue to be transmitted normally each day.
Radio 5 Live will be available on DAB - subject to a postcode prediction check at the BBC Reception Advice website. The station will also be available on Freeview, Sky, Freesat, Cable and via BBC iPlayer Radio.
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Mr John Theobald: the channel is one of the two broadcast alongside London live to help pay for it. It will stay on air. For a while at least.
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john Martin: In fact there *IS* fibre optic everywhere. The whole of the backbone network (the SDH) was converted to fibreoptic a couple of decades ago.
If you have a non-domestic data need, then you've had fibre optic put into your premises for about the same length of time. ASDL30 was always delivered using 8Mb/s, enough to supply 4xASDL30 services.
Most of the "cable TV" network uses fibre to the street hub. The coaxial cable that connects the hub to the house has plenty of available spectrum to delivery 100s of megabits per second, so Virgin probably have fibre within tens of meters of your home.
The same is true for the BT Infinity is the same idea: the fibre gets to a cabinet near your home and the data is sent down two copper pairs (like 100BT ethernet). Again, this is probably has fibre within range of your home. However, BT Infinity requires putting in new copper to your house.
For everyone else: it's ADSL and ADSL2: the link is a single copper pair from the exchange to your home.
If you don't mind me criticizing her a little, Mrs Thatcher got it wrong here: when she forbid BT from providing "entertainment services" over the BT network until 2002 - to protect the "new cable companies" - it stopped BT running the fibre-to-home that they wanted to do. They had a fully running interactive TV service running in 1995. BT Archives
See also
Vallance to meet Blair as BT reaffirms cable deal - News - The Independent
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Sharealam: Thanks for that. New one on COM4... one of the better "Freesat-exclusive" channels. It's in the database. I wonder what happened to Channel 65?
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MikeB: I'm just going to post this diagram to show the costs and possible income streams again, as trevorjharris seems to think that money from advertising could support the BBC.
As I hope you can all see the purple arrow is the TOTAL INCOME that ITV plc has from all it's advertising income.
It's not going to pay for much, and it will pay for even less if the BBC and ITV have to share it. CF 1985 Peacock Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.palgrave.com/P….pdf
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Helen Cowdrey : According to RadioToday | Global Radio confirms local Gold changes
The frequencies, listed below, will broadcast the London output of Smooth Radio instead of Gold. It brings an end to decades of programmes under the 'gold' name for most of the frequencies, which were previously known as either Classic Gold or Capital Gold.
Berkshire and North Hampshire (1431/1485)
Bristol and Bath (1260)
Cambridgeshire (1332)
Dorset and Hampshire (828)
Essex (1359/1431)
Gloucester (774)
Hampshire (1170/1557)
Herts, Beds and Bucks (792/828)
Kent (1242/603)
Northamptonshire (1557)
Norfolk (1152)
North Wales and Cheshire (1260)
Plymouth (1152)
South Wales (1305/1359)
Suffolk (1170/1251)
Sussex (1323/945)
Wiltshire (936/1161)
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MikeB: The figures are in the ITV Annual Report.
ITV plc (45.80%) £1,510,000,000
STV, UTV (est) (5.15%) £169,698,877
Channel 4 (16.40%) £540,698,690
Channel 5 (7.90%) £260,458,515
Sky sold* (15.60%) £514,323,144
Other (9.15%) £301,764,005
TOTAL (100.00%) £3,296,943,231
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Sunday 30 March 2014 6:48AM
Alvin Pritchard: Perhaps the model used in Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland,Italy, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland. Norway..?