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Question - Sub Regions ?

(December 2004)

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NE
North East
With ITV getting buying more space not so long ago, Does anyone know if any more of the News Sub Regions will become available on Sky?
Also i was just wondering are all of the sub regions available on FreeView and Cable?
DV
DVB Cornwall
All the ITV 1 Westcountry regions are covered on Freeview.
NG
noggin Founding member
AIUI all analogue sub-regions are available on Freeview where a Freeview signal is available - though they might not have the same coverage boundaries as analogue (there are currently far fewer digital transmitters)

(Of course there is no Freeview/DVB-T in the Channel Islands yet - as there are issues with the frequencies that France uses for TV)

AFAIK the only change to the sub-regions on digital satellite (aka Sky Digital) was the addition of Meridian East a while back.

Presumably Meridian East was added because it was one of the few areas where the equivalent full BBC regions was on DSat, but the ITV equivalent wasn't - and was a full programme?
SP
Spencer
North East posted:
With ITV getting buying more space not so long ago, Does anyone know if any more of the News Sub Regions will become available on Sky?


Apparently that's the plan for the extra space. Some testing of the fourth transponder has begun, so I imagine it shouldn't be too long. Does anyone know when?
NG
noggin Founding member
Spencer For Hire posted:
North East posted:
With ITV getting buying more space not so long ago, Does anyone know if any more of the News Sub Regions will become available on Sky?


Apparently that's the plan for the extra space. Some testing of the fourth transponder has begun, so I imagine it shouldn't be too long. Does anyone know when?


I guess it will take a bit of time for NTL to put the extra compression and muxing gear in, as well as engineering the links to the uplink centre?

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