Local TV

STV has a new cheap ass show, the best of LOCAL TV.

Digital Nation: We go around the UK picking up the best stories from local TV. Join us on a journey of discovery and see what your fellow viewers are up to!

That's already been mentioned here. It's a BBC-produced cheap ass show.

Ofcom have given permission for That's Berkshire (Reading) and That's Hampshire (Basingstoke) to expand their coverage areas at launch.

According to Ofcom, some viewers in fringe reception areas of That's Oxford will lose reception of the Oxford local mux due to the Reading change.

Yes, they were going to use the same allocation (UHF 29) for both Reading and Basingstoke, which would have created a 'mush zone' in Tadley, a small town more or less equidistant from the two main towns.

Presumably, as Reading will still be co-channel with Oxford, it's Basingstoke that will adopt a new allocation.
Both services are to be transmitted from the same transmitter (Hannington) so I'd now expect the Tadley area will probably get reception of both services (lucky people eh !), and the Basingstoke service will now not be co-channel with London Live, so that'll make reception possible further 'up' the M3

I'm not sure what Reading's area will gain, probably Newbury and Thatcham, though that beam will be the one interfering with Oxford

Basingstoke - UHF channel 51
Reading - UHF channel 29

York - new transmitter site at Askham Bryan
http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/better-coverage-for-york-local-tv.html

Amazing how it's taken Ofcom this long to realise the bleeding obvious regarding the choice of Tx site for the York station, oh well, common sense prevails just in the nick of time !

Ta ! Though it will now be co-channel with the Guildford local station, so a repeat
of the 1998-2012 DTT debacle !

Sheffield Live's studio has been knocked out by a power cut since 6.30PM tonight taking their live programming and website stream off air.

They finally managed to put a tweet out about it just before 8PM. Nothing on their website or Facebook page. (All three are shared outlets for the community radio station too).

Their viewer will be upset.

Thank you Santa!

I suspect you may be being optimistic about their Sunday evening viewing figures...



I'd agree, had my house not been affected by the same power cut. Interestingly Radio Sheffield (two doors down from Sheffield Live) wasn't affected at all.

Do Sheffield Live still broadcast those bizarre filler segments with those excruciating sound effects that were like scenes of torture ?

Pretty much sums up all the output actually.