Border Television extends its coverage...

Granada has completed its purchase of Border Television and has updated its website accordingly. Sadly, their grasp of geography seems a little lapse if their description of its broadcast area is anything to go by...

'....Border Television's broadcast coverage extends to Peebles in the North, down to Seascale in the south and includes the Isle of Wight.'

Granda website - description of Border

So it didn't make 40 years of independence, a bit of a shame really. Bought by Granada 39 years and 11 months to the day exactly after it began life.

bbcnewsemployee - have you seen border recently? your sig definitely wouldn't be saying that if you had - I have to live with it!

Had to read that twice before I clocked it

We should get Isonstine to do some DXing!!

Do Border get their continuity from Leeds?

I think they do, as we once heard Border on Yorkshire

Also, are all Border adverts for local programmes voiced by the same man, from Leeds?

As I understand it, Granada has been essentially managing the station for the past year or so (since the Capital takeover), including feeding the signal out of Leeds.