All posts by Briantist
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Mike Dimmick: I think you are right about the "EU state intervention rules" because the BBC were asked to contribute £14m to Channel 4 to "help with switchover costs" and this was banned by the EU rules - Government withdraws proposal to give Channel 4 state aid of £14m - Telegraph .
Quite why it is now OK to dish out BBC money for S4C will, I am sure, eventually fall foul of the same rules.
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Dave Lindsay: The "smaller relays" (and indeed the big transmitters) were built with public money, half of it with the Licence Fee, half of it under the auspicious of the IBA Engineering division.
The BBC sale happened in the 1990s -
Bottomley to put BBC transmitters on market -
News - The Independent .
"In 1990 the IBA was disbanded and the engineering division entered the private sector as National Transcommunications Ltd (NTL)" - Heritage .
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For general information, the 4 million homes starting their switchover tonight, 2.25 million are in the West Midlands, and 1.75 million in Yorkshire.
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Mike Dimmick: That's a good point. I'll have a bit of a think about how that might be doable in code.
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Steve P: They are in Tech Help/Region Maps.
There is a white-on-black site map in the footer of every single page.
All of the rest of the transmitter information is on the Freeview/Transmitters page.
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George King: See Switchover starts in 4 million homes in Yorkshire, West Midlands 7th September | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice please.
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Thomas: Yes, this is normal, especially if you didn't do a "first time install" as directed above.
Multiplex B continues to broadcast as it carries Sky Sports 1 and 2 for another two weeks, when it switches to become Freeview HD.
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sharealam: Please, as directed above, do a "first time installation" and not an "add channels". If you can't find it in the menus, do this My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice instead.
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David: There is one at Argos (for example) for £66 - Buy Sagemcom DSI86 Freesat HD Digital Box - Black at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for Digital boxes and services.
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Tuesday 6 September 2011 9:11PM
Mazbar: As I say, I have banned them from advertising on the site.