Rkolsen's posts, page 12

I'm pretty sure she was ITN's Tokyo presenter on the C4 Daily in its first few months in 1989?

Unlike the US networks, interference from the management of ITV in ITN would be unacceptable and it would be reported to the regulator Ofcom who would come down like a tonne of bricks on ITV management.

Not doubting her expertise, it's that she seems to have come across abruptly when I have seen her.
I have never seen Robinson or Gardener.

I think it must be said....and I hate to say it.....this has to be the biggest set disasters in recent years I've ever seen from NBC. They are usually near flawless when it comes to set design, but also graphics and lighting. Ive never seen them do anything close to this bad. Its a defo a head scratcher. They usually leave the cheesy crap to ABC or CBS. This seems strangely out of character for NBC News creatives.

That list refers to all the regional variations that are transmitted by ITV. Not all of them are available on Freeview. As of today it also happens to be out of date as ITV launched more variations of ITV HD this morning.

For example, I live in the Anglia West region. On satellite (Sky/Freesat) until today we received Anglia East on ITV HD, as that list says, and as of today we now get Anglia West in HD. However on Freeview we get Meridian South East on ITV HD.

It's because ITV HD is carried on the BBC owned 'PSB 3' multiplex, which was the original Freeview HD multiplex and the only HD multiplex with full national coverage. When it launched ITV only transmitted a few 'macro' regions in HD, and BBC One HD had no regional variations at all (still the case in England), so the multiplex was setup with enough encoders to cover all of ITV's macro regions.

Since then ITV have launched HD versions of most their regional variations, but Freeview is stuck with the old variations due to a dispute between the BBC and ITV over who should pay for the new encoders/infrastructure. The BBC thinks ITV should pay for it as they're the ones asking to add more regions, but ITV refuse to pay the full cost as the BBC will also benefit from it when they eventually launch regional versions of BBC One HD, effectively giving the BBC free encoders. So we're now stuck with a silly situation where many areas have completely the wrong ITV region on Freeview (which has the most viewers), but the right one on satelllite.

Not on Freeview. Only London and Granada match the relevant region. If you live in the South West, instead of getting ITV West Country, they have ITV Central (West) and viewers in Norwich receive ITV Meridian on HD instead of Anglia. Granada goes out in the Border, Tyne Tees and Yorkshire regions.