All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
SeeMoreDigital: For TV, yes, BBC Worldwide make a profit.
The international radio services are no longer funded by the Foreign Office and are now, from this year, paid for out of the TV Licence. From the report, the BBC has picked up ...
"£500 million per annum of new obligations placed on the BBC, including broadband roll-out, the World Service and funding local TV and S4C. "
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Richard Baguley: Please don't. If you have nothing constructive to say, please say it elsewhere.
Thanks.
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Mrs Madeleine Oakenfull: I would suspect they will be happy to cover anything!
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David Cox: Sadly, however, the agreement that Mark Thompson didn't allow for that.[1]
It's cut £734 million a year from the budget or nothing. Who would have thought that after a bank crisis that inflation might go above 2%? Who?
[1] BBC budget cut by 16% in spending review, George Osborne confirms | Media | The Guardian
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John Martin: Of course you have to pay for ITV even if you don't watch it or have a TV (as the costs are added to everyone's shopping bills).
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Peter Webber: Forces TVForces TV has some details for that channel.
It's down to the channel, if they want they can rent the space the next time there is extra capacity, or have themselves as part of one of the IPTV providers.
The answer is, I suspect, "there are no plans at this time".
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Paul Ryan: Do you know if you have a wideband aerial (rather than a "group C/D" one)?
If you don't as yet, you might need to change to one to get these service to work.
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Paul Ryan: Not really. The site is a bit out of date, because group E doesn't really work well enough for C31. You need an 18-element Yagi, it just needs to be wideband so it won't block C21.
Also, given that the "700 band" is going to be used for 4G mobile phone in the coming years, a wideband aerial will future-proof you from whatever allocations Winter Hill gets then.
The "How will the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmission frequencies change over time?" chart shows the possible change in the 2019- column.
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Paul Ryan: Yes, assuming you are in the "normal" reception area. You didn't provide a postcode, so I'm assuming that you have no other reception problems.
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Sunday 7 December 2014 10:16AM
SeeMoreDigital: As far as I know that was never an option.
For one thing it would require a change to the BBC charter (and these cuts happen before that), and with most sport being supported by subscription channels (Sky Sports, BT Sport) and not adverts (see ITV) it seems an rather uneconomic suggestion.