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ITV Annual report: http://www.itvplc.com/sit….pdf
Diagram from 14 reasons why you should stop moaning about paying the TV Licence every day | About UK Free TV | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice :
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bob: Yes, much as it says above!
"C57 (762.0MHz) QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2"
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trevorjharris: You're so amusing.
Nearly ALL of those Sky's own channels are re-run after re-run of imported movies. Granted a few of them are sort-of new.
By admission from Sky, they are PROUD to provide a whole 30 minutes a day of new, commissioned first-run British content.
Aside from Sky News, everything Sky provides is LITERALLY 99% "repeats" of material bought in from the US.
Probably worth pointing out that a huge number of the "basic package" channels are provided by UKTV and show programming that was commissioned by the BBC for their channels: Gold, Watch, Dave, Dave Ja Vu, Alibi, Drama, Home, Good Food, Really.
Sky only own Sky Atlantic, Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky Living It, and Sky Arts 1 & 2.
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MikeB: The above comparison is for TV, so the total TV ad spend is less than the TV part of the licence fee. If the TV channels adverts had to pay for radio as well, it would be more: another 20%.
Sky pricing is as follows (you must pay for a year)
Basic access charge: £21.50 a month
This gets you Sky+HD box and installation and the "Entertainment" pack of 35 channels: Sky Atlantic, Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky Living It, and Sky Arts 1 & 2, Gold, Watch, Dave, Dave Ja Vu, Alibi, Drama, Home, Good Food, Really.
ANOTHER £5.50 gets you another 45 channels.
ANOTHER £5 gets you 50 of these channels in HD.
ANOTHER £22 a month gets you Sky Sports 1 to 4 (in HD if you paid the fiver above, of £5.5 if you didn't).
ANOTHER £16 a month gets you Sky Movies "up to five new Sky Movies premieres a week.". (HD for £5 or £5.50)
MUTV £6 MORE
Chelsea TV £6 MORE
2TB Sky+HD box: £279 extra (no, it's not an SSD!) one-off
MULTIROOM: £11.25 a month per room: Sky HD box: FREE, Sky+HD box:L £229 one-off, Sky+HD 2TB: £279 one-off
So: Sky+HD box with Entertainment Extra+ Sports Movies and HD and multiroom: £76.50 a month (with discounts).
Most basic package: £21.50 a month
"Over 35 channels (Sky Altantic, Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2, Sky Living It, Comedy Central, Syfy, FOX, MTV, Universal, Gold, Watch, Dave (free on Freeview), Comedy Extra, DMAX, Sky 2, Dave Ja Vu, Alibi, Sky Poker, TCM, Lifetime, Drama (free on Freeview), Home, E!, Movies 24, Quest (free on Freeview), TLC, Shed, Good Food, Really (free on Freeview), Home&Heath, Style, Sky News (free on Freeview), Sky News Arabic, TV5MONDE, LiveOK, Star, StarPlus, Star Gold).
240 free-to-air channels
Catch Up TV
6 free-to-air HD channels"
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jb38: I did notice that I got a receipt from a shop the other day that had the same problem. Everything on the site is supposed to be in UTF-8 UTF-8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia but for some reason it gets into the database OK, but the output isn't being treated as UTF-8.
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Stuart Owens: Sorry, I didn't mean to deny that the transmitter is in Wales.
It's just taken a bit of tracking down to find out that there was a database table I had forgotten about that was caching the names.
The problem was with my caching logic!
All is now correct and this transmitter now shows the correct location of Moel-Y-Parc (Flintshire, Wales) .
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steve: I just got a Humax FREESAT-HDR1010 White freesat+ G2 Box 1TB Hard Drive PVR from Richer Sounds for £249. Humax FREESAT-HDR1010 White | freesat+ G2 Box 1TB Hard Drive PVR | Richer Sounds
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trevorjharris: That's nice of them! The six-month limit on the deals keeps you on-side I guess.
It doesn't cost them the £72 (movies) or £66 (sports), of course. They're just factoring in that you've paid back your set-top box subsidy.
As I recall the sports deal usually goes out in the "off season" to stop people unsubscribing and re-subscribing. You have to admire BSkyB's marketing.
Still they do spend more on marketing than anything else. Incoming programs!
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Michael: the total collection cost for the licence fee is £111 a year, or about £4 per home.
Given that 3% of homes claim not to have a television. That is about 0.78m homes to be sent letters. Given the cost of postage... £6m seems a reasonable guess. £7.70 for six letters, quite reasonable.
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Monday 31 March 2014 9:52PM
jb38: Sorry, there IS a problem with the UTF-8 encoding system. I need to get to the bottom of it. I have done a temporary fix for the moment.