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Doesn't all this effectively cease to be a problem once digital switch-over is complete? Channel 5 can just abandon their public service remit and show as little or as much news as they like, when they like.
Not if they want to be on a PSB mux rather than a COM mux.
As DSO continues, the main Channel 5 broadcast is being carried on PSB2 (the mux that also carries ITV1, C4 etc.) and is available to a much larger viewing population than the 3 COM multiplexes (one of which used to carry Channel 5 - and still does in pre-DSO regions) that remain on just the pre-DSO transmitters (without the extra relays/fill-ins that the PSB mixes have)
C5 has actually been running on Mux 2 (pre DSO areas) and PSB 2 (post DSO areas) since Sept 30th 2009.
It swapped with ITV 3, which took its place on SDN/COM 4
Poor decision, because it was after DSO had started, so many people who had DTT for the first time at DSO, suddenly lost ITV 3, because they are served by PSB only relay stations.
The swap really should have occurred before DSO started.
Off topic I know, but on this subject I was staying somewhere servcied by a relay station at Christmas so only had Freeview Lite. Am I right in thinking that ITV1+1 and C4+1 have to be on the PSB2 mux as that allows regional advertising variations? Because if not it seems odd for them not to run, say, ITV3 and Film 4 in those slots, instead putting timeshift channels there reducing the choice available to Freeview Lite even more.
The regional thing might have something to do with it, although
there's some 'regionality' with COM 4 anyway, to allow E4 in Wales (as its PSB 2 slot is taken there by S4C).
It might be that the +1s have larger audiences than ITV3 and Film4, whatever the reason, it'll be for the convenience of the broadcasters, and/or Ofcom's bizarre directives, rather than the viewers !
Doesn't all this effectively cease to be a problem once digital switch-over is complete? Channel 5 can just abandon their public service remit and show as little or as much news as they like, when they like.
Not if they want to be on a PSB mux rather than a COM mux.
As DSO continues, the main Channel 5 broadcast is being carried on PSB2 (the mux that also carries ITV1, C4 etc.) and is available to a much larger viewing population than the 3 COM multiplexes (one of which used to carry Channel 5 - and still does in pre-DSO regions) that remain on just the pre-DSO transmitters (without the extra relays/fill-ins that the PSB mixes have)
C5 has actually been running on Mux 2 (pre DSO areas) and PSB 2 (post DSO areas) since Sept 30th 2009.
It swapped with ITV 3, which took its place on SDN/COM 4
Poor decision, because it was after DSO had started, so many people who had DTT for the first time at DSO, suddenly lost ITV 3, because they are served by PSB only relay stations.
The swap really should have occurred before DSO started.
Off topic I know, but on this subject I was staying somewhere servcied by a relay station at Christmas so only had Freeview Lite. Am I right in thinking that ITV1+1 and C4+1 have to be on the PSB2 mux as that allows regional advertising variations? Because if not it seems odd for them not to run, say, ITV3 and Film 4 in those slots, instead putting timeshift channels there reducing the choice available to Freeview Lite even more.
The regional thing might have something to do with it, although
there's some 'regionality' with COM 4 anyway, to allow E4 in Wales (as its PSB 2 slot is taken there by S4C).
It might be that the +1s have larger audiences than ITV3 and Film4, whatever the reason, it'll be for the convenience of the broadcasters, and/or Ofcom's bizarre directives, rather than the viewers !
