Channel TV

According to BBC Reception information Fremont Point is Off Air on all TV channels until Thursday, which presumably means that Channel TV are only broadcasting to DSat at the moment.

Is this planned maintenance or has there been a failure?

I noticed that in the BBC list too, Steve.

It seems very unlikely, but it's repeated in tomorrow's list too.

Anybody know what's going on?

It's an NTL site, isn't it.

Yep an NTL site... I believe I read that the mast there is Emley Moor mk I (the one before the one that collapsed)

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/fremont-point.asp

Fremont Point :
They are changing an aircraft warning light on top of the mast as well as doing other essential maintanence. It's only supposed to be off air for 4 hours from 9am on the first good day this week between Monday and Thursday.

Source :
Channel Text (page 205) - Yes it was a news item as there is no engineering page to speak of for the CI region. Unfortunately the headline was something like "No TV for four days" making everyone view the story including the majority who are working at this time of day.

Thanks for that, Crispy, old bean.

Four hours on ONE day seems a lot more reasonable.

BBC exaggeration again, then.

Next thing, they'll be accusing government specialists of talking to their reporters!

so it's a 4 day window in effect... thanks for that Crispin

The feed for BBC 1 & 2 for the Channel Islands will soon change from tyhe present arrangement to satellite. Presumabley this will occur as part of these outages.

I haven't heard anything in the media about it recently, maybe later on. When the ITV feed changed from airwave to cable their was an article about it on the news, so I expect this to be the same.

I'm not sure if the outage has happened yet (definately not today!) but it probably would have been for a lot shorter period of time than they said.

it was back in july sumtime innit

I've just lost the will to live....

well die then

Only if you die first.....