BBC North West

Did anyone else have problems with BBC Analouge this afternoon?

Here in the North West both BBC ONE and TWO went blank, with no signal at all, shortly after the local news. Digital seemed unaffected though.

I assume by "blank" you mean "snow" on the affected channels.

If this is the case... then I am assuming you are watching transmissions from Winter Hill. According to today's
transmitter maintenance schedule Winter Hill was off air on BBC1 and 2 between 11:40am and 13:59. It is also liable to interruption and reduced power up to 17:00 today.

Also in the NW, the Cornholme transmitter has been off air/on reduced power today.

I'm not sure whether it's the same at all transmitters, but I think the Digital services are run on backup generators, hence why analogue services only went off - it could also be that no work was scheduled on the DTT service in the area.

For want of somewhere better to put this, is anyone else having problems with that new BBC Transmitter Maintenance page reloading and shooting you back up to the top every so often?

I get about half way through reading it and lose my place when it does it.

They announced this on the ITV1 idents at 9.25am and 10.30am today to say that there will be interference on the picture between 11.00am and 5.00pm.