All posts by Briantist
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Kerry Hogg: Yes, get a Freesat box from a local store. See All about Freesat | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Briege farrell: I think you should stick your postcode into the predictor - ukdigitalradio: Coverage .
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Bored Burke: It's 66 minutes...
If a local channel is serving an audience of 200,000, say 3% of the population, with perhaps six full-time staff, you are not going to get a "News 24" type service.
I can't see anyone wanting to watch local information 24/7, can you?
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Steve P: I would suspect the answer to that is that only BBC local radio actually produces anything you might take for news, and the idea here is have a non-BBC service.
There are no restrictions about local radio being involved, but there is a general principle that "number of voices" should be increased.
I would have though it really depends on the size of the "locality". If it is London, West Yorkshire, Birmingham, the market can probably sustain another company.
Where the population is under 100,000 you could probably argue that a TV-radio tie up would secure both.
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Mandy Ellis: Can you see Upgrading from Sky to Freesat
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Ian: The law requires that Sky (and any other broadcaster) put public service channels nominated by the Secretary of State - Communications Act 2003 - the services will run 24/7.
As there is no "national spine" then having programming on a loop is the only real option.
As the service is advertiser funded then 16 minutes per hour of broadcast time would be allocated to this.
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Ian: Surely it is spending almost no money at all.
For example - from http://downloads.bbc.co.u….pdf :
BBC One
Content £1,131m p/a
Distribution £50.8m p/a
Infrastructure £221.2m p/a
compare
"Channel 6" station
Content £0.5 p/a
Distribution £0.4m-£2m p/a (£25m/65 or £25m/12)
"Channel 6" network of 65 stations
Content £32m p/a
Distribution £25m
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Thursday 11 August 2011 11:48PM
Paul: Not much to go on there, for general information I would have a look at Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .