ITV1 on Sky

Shouldn't we be singing

#Get ready for ITV....#

?

Right, lets start taking bets at what ridiculous cryptic channel id's will be given to the itv1 tests on monday:

my guess is ICL, ICC, IGR, ISC

(I for ITV1, CL for Carlton London, CC for Carlton Central, GR for Granada, SC for Scottish etc.), or can anyone think of anything more ridiculous......

How about:

1G - Granada
1S - Scottish
1CL - Carlton/LWT
1CW - Westcountry
1CC - Central
1GR - Grampian
1A - Anglia
1U - UTV
1C - Channel
1H1 - HTV Wales
1H2 - HTV West
1BS - Border Scotland
1BE - Border England
1Y - Yorkshire
1T - Tyne Tees
1M - Meridian

2 - ITV2
SP - Sport

How about the standard id tags... GRA, CAR, CEN, TTT, YOR, STV, etc.

Hope Ed doesn't mind me pasting this from MHP-Chat



Phew! My countdown seemed to be correct! Not sure about 9-5pm tests - more like just around lunchtime I think!

Time to get down to Woolies for a bunch of blank tapes me thinks...

Cheers, Asa

What do you think will happen on the 29th? Do you think it will all begin with a test card? Or an ident-loop?

What are your ideas?

A popular Sky Digital website's speculations are as follows:

10.832H could carry Carlton/LWT, Carlton Central, Carlton HTV Wales, Carlton HTV West and Carlton Westcountry.
10.891H could carry Anglia TV and six other channels, with 10.906V will carry the other four regional channels.

So maybe 10.832H is the Carlton transponder

lol, running low on tapes for captures Asa?! :
Come to Robert Dyas for your blank tapes (if there's one near you). A set of videos for £4.99 is on offer at the mo. The best deal around!

Don't they do dyes? (Its based in the town next to me) Anyway I got 15, 3 hour(6 on LP) for £10 at Makro, beat that!

Don't think for a minute that all 15 regions of ITV will be on air 24 hours a day on Sky Digital.

As standard, your own region will probably be on air 24 hours a day. But I suspect other local ITV regions will only come on when there are variations to your own area, i.e. local news magazine, sport etc.

And if 5 or local ITV regions outwith your own region are showing the same programme, but a completely different programme to what you are watching in your own area, I would presume that only one region will go on air.

But at least you will soon get a choice of ITV programmes at various times during the day soon rather than missing out on programmes you would find much more enjoyable in the very next region compared to your own.

A ratings battle at 7.30pm between Granada and Grampian would be far more interesting than one between BBC One and ITV.

What? Don't be silly!

All regions will be FTA - they won't enable them for different periods of time - that would be silly!!

They will all be available FTA. Maybe your own region will only be available on 103, but all other regions will be available via Add Channels!!

Sorry David, but I think that is complete nonsense!!

Someone is not going to be designated to 'switch on and off' regions simply for the sake of it!!

There not going to check, is this person viewing on ch103 therefore we should keep this on 24hrs(!). AFAIK, a deal has been done with Sky this week to stick your region on 103 and keep outsiders out but UK viewers will be able to view FTV ITV1 channels (any of them - 24hrs!) either off the EPG or add channels when it officially launches in November.

Cheers, Asa
...Getting ready to laugh in the faces of members of DigitalSpy forum who had a nerve to attack people like me who believed that ITV may allow us all the regions to view.