All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
joe: Thanks. The system isn't finding any radio transmitters at the location you have selected. I will investigate.
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Mark A: When I look at All of the free TV channels on Freeview in the UK it says "All of the free TV channels on Freeview in the UK" and lists only those on Freeview, and none that are only on Sky/Freesat.On all these lists those on Freeview Light only are in normal text with those only on Full Freeview are in italics. Is that too subtle?And the HD channels are all listed separated out at the top of the page.
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I've just fixed the bug that was preventing the "tooltips" in the channel lists showing details about the TV and radio stations. Turned out to be the wrong version of a helper class...
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Mazbar: That's strange, given " The BBC's total budget for all its presenters, actors and performers - from Gary Lineker to the extras on EastEnders - is £188m a year.". If they didn't pay any of these people you'd still be £425.4m to find. I don't think your maths is up to much...
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Mal: You think they can cut £613m that way? You ask "Also what do the army of people do ? " The ones I have met in the past are out there checking facts, recording interviews, editing the packages together, creating the webpages, lining up guests, sorting out security, doing the books, and of course the usual day-to-day management of a news-gathering system. All to make it look like a couple of people reading an autocue!
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Mazbar: An interesting selection. I see you've chosen to scape the £253.6m World Service... it's hard to understand how that is a great benefit to the UK though "soft power", isn't it?
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I guess I have to choose too, so I'm going for Broadband rollout "topsliced" to BT (as the obvious choice), BBC News channel (online news is better and more important), BBC Radio 3 (very low reach, expensive), S4C (very low viewers, very expensive), BBC Local Radio England (to placate the local press), BBC Radio Scotland (expensive)., BBC Radio Wales (very expensive), Orchestras and performing groups (sorry, but Radio 3 has gone). I've left BBC Radio Cymru to fill the S4C gap.This preserves the rolling news radio station and online, and also the cheap niche services BBC ALBA and Asian Network.
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Friday 21 August 2015 4:17PM
John Hunter: Thanks. The amount of information about alternative transmitters for AM and FM has been reduced to keep it strightforward. I'm not really sure you are being very clear by saying " I got from my crystal set in the 1950's" about DAB as the digital signal encoding can't provide such results. DAB reception is a much simpler matter "in the countryside" as there are no buildings to block signals!