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I claim the prize for being the first to complain about having the wrong
region on 101. I live near Peterborough, being about as far west as BBC East
goes, and my 101 is BBC One East E. Obviously, it should be BBC One East W!

Humph

Nick

"Nick Shaw" wrote
I claim the prize for being the first to complain
about having the wrong region on 101. I live near
Peterborough, being about as far west as BBC East
goes, and my 101 is BBC One East E. Obviously, it
should be BBC One East W!

Bugger it!

I'm in St Ives and was just about to say the same thing.

It could just be teething trouble - apparently Susie Fowler Watt's been on
Look East telling people that the correct version is on 952 is you're not
getting the right one.

Fingers crossed...

Kieran
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"Nick Shaw" wrote in message
...
I claim the prize for being the first to complain about having the wrong
region on 101. I live near Peterborough, being about as far west as BBC
East
goes, and my 101 is BBC One East E. Obviously, it should be BBC One East
W!

Humph

Nick



The BBC are using the same mapping as ITV and therefore there will be cases
of the wrong region as the BBC have more regional services than ITV.
The Beeb and Sky are working on it but a resolution is not expected till
early next year.

JS

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:18:35 +0100, "JonnySkyman" wrote:




The BBC are using the same mapping as ITV and therefore there will be cases
of the wrong region as the BBC have more regional services than ITV.


and sometimes the opposite - Cumbria (or whatever its called this
week) has its own ITV1 service but has to share BBC NE&C with the
Northeast.

Kieran Seymour wrote:

I live near Peterborough

I'm in St Ives and was just about to say the same thing.

I'm in Cambourne and I have BBC1 East (E) for 101 ;-( At least it is better
than BBC London

951 = BBC1 East (E)
952 = BBC1 East (W)

The BBC are using the same mapping as ITV and therefore there will be cases
of the wrong region as the BBC have more regional services than ITV.

....such as their insistance that Derbyshire is in the West Midlands.

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"Dan Brusca" wrote in message
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The BBC are using the same mapping as ITV and therefore there will be
cases
of the wrong region as the BBC have more regional services than ITV.

...such as their insistance that Derbyshire is in the West Midlands.


The problem is that there was no Central East midlands so your postcode was
set to receive Central West midlands which *should* be you closest
alternative.
And because of this the BBC regional service sees your postcode and assigns
you a West Midlands beeb service too. Even though there is an east midlands
broadcast available (epg 950).

Kinda leaves you wondering if anyone at the bbc saw this coming? And why it
wasn't sorted before release?

Js

JonnySkyman wrote:

[snip]

Kinda leaves you wondering if anyone at the bbc saw this coming? And
why it wasn't sorted before release?

The issue is not just the BBC's - it is also Sky's. They need to sub-divide
the groups of cards (there will be more groups now there are more regions)
to allow for more combinations of BBC and ITV regions than previously.
Given that the whole regional selection issue was only settled very
recently - when Sky agreed that the BBC COULD retain 101 and 102 for Sky and
FTA broadcasts, ( whilst allowing RTE to have 101 and 102 in the Republic of
Ireland ) -- the Beeb and Sky have had less than two months to sort this
out?

I think the fact there is any regional mapping at all is a step up from what
previously looked likely - either BBC One London or a region-free BBC One on
101 for all viewers across the UK - with all regional variations in the
900s. (The Beeb initially wanted a software update to the EPG to allow 101
and 102 to be manually mapped by the user?)

Steve

In article ,
K wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:18:35 +0100, "JonnySkyman" wrote:




The BBC are using the same mapping as ITV and therefore there will be cases
of the wrong region as the BBC have more regional services than ITV.


and sometimes the opposite - Cumbria (or whatever its called this
week) has its own ITV1 service but has to share BBC NE&C with the
Northeast.

If you live in South Cumbria you get BBC North West just as you get from the
local aerial transmitters. BBC North West gives South Cumbria and the Isle
of Man a reasonable mention in its news and weather, Only the north of
Cumbria gets its local news from Newcastle. The local radio station for
Cumbria gives a full account for the whole county, I don't know exactly how
the postal boundaries go -- but Kendal gets ITV Border and BBC North West on
both local TV transmitters and now on Digital Satellite with LA post
codes (As far as the post office is concerned post is centered on
Lancaster), ITV Border also covers the South of Scotland.

Phil Hetherington - now 85
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:18:35 +0100, "JonnySkyman" wrote:

The BBC are using the same mapping as ITV and therefore there will be cases
of the wrong region as the BBC have more regional services than ITV.
The Beeb and Sky are working on it but a resolution is not expected till
early next year.

I don't think that the BBC can be using the same post code mapping as ITV. On
101 I now correctly get BBC East. On 103 I get ITV London & not Anglia.

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"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:18:35 +0100, "JonnySkyman" wrote:

The BBC are using the same mapping as ITV and therefore there will be
cases
of the wrong region as the BBC have more regional services than ITV.
The Beeb and Sky are working on it but a resolution is not expected till
early next year.

I don't think that the BBC can be using the same post code mapping as ITV.
On
101 I now correctly get BBC East. On 103 I get ITV London & not Anglia.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
The post code mapping is a bit of a mess so is right for some people and
wrong for others.
I live North(ish) Nottingham and get BBC East Midlands, ITV West Mid (c**p)
and ITV Yorkshire is on some number I can't remember.
A guy I work with lives 1-2 miles futher south but gets BBC West Mid,
ITV West Mid but no ITV Yorkshire.
Both of us are in easy range of BBC East Mid analogue so quite why
there is a difference I've no idea.

K wrote:

Well, seeing as Cumbria is in the North-west of England that makes
sense. Why isn't that the official BBC station for there?

It used to be, but the Caldbeck main transmitter (near Carlisle) has carried
BBC Newcastle rather than Manchester in recent years.

Having said that South Cumbria is, and always has been, served from Manchester,
via the Kendal, Lancaster, Coniston, and Windermere transmitters.

Nigel Barker wrote:

: I don't think that the BBC can be using the same post code mapping as ITV. On
: 101 I now correctly get BBC East. On 103 I get ITV London & not Anglia.

I live within range of the Oxford transmitter and am getting
BBC1 West Midlands on 101! This seems completely wrong - especially as
the BBC *HAVE* their Oxford region on 955.