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BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1 and Channel 4 (December 2003)

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SA
Salty Founding member
Just lost BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1 and Channel 4 - in the West Midlands Area.

Channel 5 seems fine.
BB
Big Brother Founding member
Grampian TV seems to be having some problems this evening. Been falling off air regularly since about 8pm. Not sure about the other channels because I haven't checked when it goes off. But my DTT card in my PC isn't working at all - could just be because I have a mass of upgrades and work going on in the background on the network but it's never usually like that when I've got updates and installs running.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
5 is from Lichfield, 1-4 from Sutton Coldfield. Poewr failure at SC is the most likely cause I guess.
SA
Salty Founding member
All back to normal now
RO
roo
How odd. Just as this post appeared, Sky News and BBC News 24 among other channels died on my cable box. I restarted it and now it's stuck on 'Please wait. Loading data'

I'm sure it's just a coincidence....but now I have to watch Jackie Bird on my wee TV Razz
RD
RDJ
Only Channel 4 went off mine on Analogue but not Digital! Wonder what happened??? Confused:
SP
Steve in Pudsey
hmm if you're Central South not Central West whatever transmitter you're using may have backup arrangements for Sutton being off on 1-3 but not 4?
MD
mdtauk
channel 4 just apologised for a power outage at the transmitter
RD
RDJ
ah, CH4 just explained why you lost it in parts of the Midlands and Oxfordshire because of a transmitter power failure! (EDIT: Beat me to it!)
HA
harshy Founding member
Yep tons of snow falling here, no digital satellite for 19.2E, 13E or Sky Digital Sad
RO
roo
C4 just made an announcement about power outage at the transmitter.


(sorry)
IN
intheknow
harshy posted:
Yep tons of snow falling here, no digital satellite for 19.2E, 13E or Sky Digital Sad


Heh, I have just come back from hanging out of a window brushing off the snow from my Sky dish, as we couldn`t get any channels at all. Got them all back fortentely.

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