I'd like to know why the hell I've got BBC 1 WEST MIDLANDS on 101, when I quite obviously live in Nottingham. Sort it now, or else!!
As you may be aware (or not), here in the Wrexham area (which is obviously in Wales and the largest population area in North Wales), it's the other way around i.e correct BBC channels on 101 and 102, S4C on 104, yet WRONG ITV (Granada) on 103.
You're lucky! I now get the
wrong BBC Region
and the
wrong ITV Region
. How wonderful!
It's not a situation unique to the East Midlands - viewers who should be getting BBC ONE East Yorkshire and Linconshire will instead get BBC ONE Yorkshire and North Midlands on 101 - because those two regions are covered by just one by ITV on DSAT. Likewise with BBC ONE Oxford I'd imagine.
Yes- here in Oxford we have BBC 1 West Midlands on 101 (I'm sure the Kay-worshippers are delighted at the amount of exposure she's going to get!!), and Central West on on 103, so both are the wrong region. Not too serious really as we can get BBC Oxford on 955 and Central South on terrestrial.
BTW, does anyone know if ITV have any plans to put sub-regions on Sky? (e.g. Central South/East etc)
im at a miss as to why they havent put the regional radio stations on too!!
they should be on as we could hear the local commentary on football in time for the new season??
Because it was difficult enough to get 12 TV regions uplinked let alone 40 radio stations - several of which are in fairly remote locations
I very much doubt they'd be allowed to nationally broadcast the football commentaries anyway - especially with the current deal with Nationwide clubs and PTV.
PTV rely on being able to charge for commentary to expats (not just those outside of the UK, but those away from the stations' broadcast areas) ...
All of the current deals are local broadcast deals.
1) The postcode area is being used as a trial for the new BBC postcode database for England, I guess I was lucky that the postcode the viewing card was registered in was participating in these "trials".
Or
2) The ITV database has the area set as the Central East subregion, as a new part of the ITV database if they were planning to launch the Central East subregion on Sky, and it was linked Central East <--> BBC 1 E Mids.
I'd like to know why the hell I've got BBC 1 WEST MIDLANDS on 101, when I quite obviously live in Nottingham. Sort it now, or else!!
As you may be aware (or not), here in the Wrexham area (which is obviously in Wales and the largest population area in North Wales), it's the other way around i.e correct BBC channels on 101 and 102, S4C on 104, yet WRONG ITV (Granada) on 103.
You're lucky! I now get the
wrong BBC Region
and the
wrong ITV Region
. How wonderful!
Oh no, how tragic for you.
What a bind it must be to dial 95x instead of 101 ...
1) The postcode area is being used as a trial for the new BBC postcode database for England, I guess I was lucky that the postcode the viewing card was registered in was participating in these "trials".
Or
2) The ITV database has the area set as the Central East subregion, as a new part of the ITV database if they were planning to launch the Central East subregion on Sky, and it was linked Central East <--> BBC 1 E Mids.
The BBC regions' postcodes will be remapped early next year
You seem to have a problem.
It's the principal. I shouldn't
have to
dial 950 instead of 101.
j2k: The 2nd comment is wrong otherwise it would have been the same for me as well.
Don't worry. Just set your region as a favourite so when you press blue it skips to that region's channel (if other channels are already selected as favourites keep pressing blue until it appears) . Or you could just set a reminder for East midlands today so it switches when it's time.
You seem to have a problem.
It's the principal. I shouldn't
have to
dial 950 instead of 101.
j2k: The 2nd comment is wrong otherwise it would have been the same for me as well.
But how do you know you're not set for Central News West? There's no way of checking. It may be that your postcode is just on the border of East/West and you were assigned West. I dunno.
and the largest population area in North Wales), it's the other way around i.e correct BBC channels on 101 and 102, S4C on 104, yet WRONG ITV (Granada) on 103. 
