Thieves Strike At Gunthorpe (P'boro')
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:00:29 -0700 (PDT)
Heart (Peterborough), Kiss (East Anglia), Lite FM, Gold 1332 and BBC
Asian Network were off air last Tuesday morning (7th July 2009) after
thieves stole the programme feed cabling from a Gunthorpe transmission
site.
It appears the incident happen around 11:30pm the night before.
You might remember Friday Brid ...
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Television Centre now Grade II listed
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:57:37 +0100
Acording to The Guardian this morning, TC (main block) has just been
awarded Grade II listed status on the advice of English Heritage says
the Culture Minister - Barbara Follett.
The listing could affect BBC hopes to raise funds by selling the site.
Too late to stop Salford though!
Mike
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Re: Disaster in the making
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
On 5 July, 09:21, Richard Evans <rp.evans.nos...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> > I think his question very much was/is the point: what other broadcasters
> > launched a "better" (however non-optimum) service, at that time?
No one else launched any system at that time - most people invo ...
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BBC pulling back from the DAByss?
Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:44:05 +0100
See:-
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/07/bbc_dab/
Mike
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BBC response to missing Look North
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:14:09 +0100
Dear Mr Wright
Thank you for your e-mail regarding BBC Look North on 3 July 2009.
I understand that you're frustrated at being unable to view BBC Look North
on 3 July 2009 due to extended coverage of 'Wimbledon'.
We recognise that some areas of the country no longer have analogue
transmissions and there ...
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MSF extended maintenance
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:17:20 +0200
Hi
The MSF service has a maintenance period coming up from 2009-07-28 08:00
BST to 2009-07-29 18:00 BST. Normal maintenance periods are in the
region of 4 hours. Any idea what is being done?
Regards,
Chris
http://www.npl.co.uk/science-technology/time-frequency/time/products-and-services/msf-outages ...
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Ghosting on BBC One analogue from Oxford
Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:00:22 +0000 (UTC)
I'm seeing some strange ghosting on BBC One analogue at the moment,
receiving off Oxford. At first I thought I'd made a pils of making up
new flyleads for my little bedroom set, but the same thing shows up at
my parents' house a few miles away too. Haven't seen this before
today, and it's only affecting BBC One; ...
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Re: R4 Wenvoe: dropouts
Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:47:28 +0100
"SpamTrapSeeSig" <no-one@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:+abUAGuGmKUKFwUx@marketing1.teknocraft.co.uk...
> Last 24 hours or so there have been many short losses of audio. I'm
> listening to R4 Wenvoe (FM), but it doesn't sound TX-related. It was
> obvious yesterday evening and on ISIHAC this morning ...
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Re: BBC cripple HD offering to make it fit on Freeview
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:11:14 +0100
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:00:36 +0100, "Bill Wright"
<insertmybusinessname@f2s.com> sharpened a new quill and scratched:
>
>"Kay Robinson" <Kay_Robinson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:Ti5PSj0g7vh2mPNvHRO=FSxt5b+r@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:10:43 +0100, tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk>
>> sharpened a ...
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Re: most likely cause of 'ghost' on analogue channels?
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:55:59 +0100
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:37:42 +0100, "Graham." <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:21:07 +0100, Richard Lamont wrote:
>>
>>>> Explain how the whole grid runs at the *exactly* the same
>> frequency
>>>> everywhere at the same time.
>>>
>>> An individual alternator's output frequency is directly ...
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