Is it not the case though that pretty much every TV region has areas on its periphery where people would choose to receive a different service if it wasn’t for the local topography making it impossible?
Indeed.
Unless you happen to be lucky enough to live fairly centrally within a particular region's broadcast patch, you're gonna have an unbalanced skew of news.
For example... Henley-on-Thames viewers (on
DTT, at least) are cut off from hearing news about the rest of Oxfordshire, but get to hear about news from as far southeast as parts of Kent! A region has got to begin and end somewhere, so such anomalies are unavoidable.
No solution is ideal. Viewers in Eyemouth may prefer to hear about Berwick-upon-Tweed rather than Tobermory, Inverness or Whitehaven. And I doubt that viewers in Stranraer care about news from Eyemouth. You can't please everyone.
Last edited by Lou Scannon on 7 December 2018 9:11pm