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Alan White August 18th 08 08:06 PM

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On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:57:46 +0100, charles
wrote:

Having bothered to look at their website, you are correct and there's one
in Ft Wm, too.


I was guessing ;-)

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Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

charles August 18th 08 08:44 PM

Channel 4 on Astra 28.2
 
In article ,
Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:57:46 +0100, charles
wrote:


Having bothered to look at their website, you are correct and there's one
in Ft Wm, too.


I was guessing ;-)


and I might visit the latter one on Friday - passing through, stopping to
buy supplies at Morrisons and maps at NevisSport ;-)-

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Ron Lowe August 19th 08 07:33 PM

Channel 4 on Astra 28.2
 
"charles" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:57:46 +0100, charles
wrote:


Having bothered to look at their website, you are correct and there's
one
in Ft Wm, too.


I was guessing ;-)


and I might visit the latter one on Friday - passing through, stopping to
buy supplies at Morrisons and maps at NevisSport ;-)-



The NevisSport in FW does ( or did, not been there recently ) very fine
large ginger biscuts in the restaurant upstairs. A favourite wet-weather
passtime, if the mountains were too miserable to contemplate, and we didn't
have the kayaks with us...

--
Ron


Mark Carver August 19th 08 10:04 PM

Channel 4 on Astra 28.2
 
J G Miller wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:06:04 +0100, Mark Carver wrote:
I read recently that they are indeed considering that


It will be interesting to see if anything does develop, and who gets the
contract to produce the programs.

South and East England (and Wales)


It seems strange that the East is not coupled with the Midlands.

And I thought Channel4 did not provide a service to Wales, but that was
the remit of S4C?

I seem to recall that one of the conditions of S4C being established was
that it would not be an additional service to Channel4 in Wales, or is my
recollection faulty?


S4C occupies the spectrum in Wales that would have been otherwise occupied by
C4. There is not enough room for both to operate on analogue in Wales.
Therefore S4C analogue timeshifts many C4 programmes that are displaced by the
Welsh programming.

When DTT came along, there was space for both S4C (on Mux A) and C4 (on Mux 2).
Therefore C4 is available on DTT (and of course D-Sat) in Wales.
Because of that the DTT/D-Sat version of S4C carries no C4 programming. And
that's how things will continue post ASO.

C4 has EPG position 8 on Freeview, and 134 on Sky in Wales.


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Mark Carver August 19th 08 10:06 PM

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Mark Carver wrote:

C4 has EPG position 8 on Freeview, and 134 on Sky in Wales.


Correction: Actually, I think C4 Wales might be 117 on Sky ?



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Mark Carver August 20th 08 10:25 PM

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Alan Pemberton wrote:

I also turned up a channel called BBC Alba on 11953 H 27500, presumably
aimed at the sort of people who buy cheap boxes from Argos.


Now on the Sky EPG at Ch 169



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Grimly Curmudgeon August 28th 08 06:16 PM

Channel 4 on Astra 28.2
 
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Alan White
saying something like:

We do a nice 'cuppa'.

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Alan White
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Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather


There used to be a green-painted wooden teahouse along that road - are
you near it or in it?
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Dave

Alan White August 28th 08 11:31 PM

Channel 4 on Astra 28.2
 
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:16:16 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

There used to be a green-painted wooden teahouse along that road - are
you near it or in it?


If you mean 'The Green Kettle', near it.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

Grimly Curmudgeon September 2nd 08 12:50 AM

Channel 4 on Astra 28.2
 
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Alan White
saying something like:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:16:16 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

There used to be a green-painted wooden teahouse along that road - are
you near it or in it?


If you mean 'The Green Kettle', near it.


That's the one. Used to go along there regularly to visit folks in
Arrochar. The whole area was my breathing space for years.
--

Dave

Alan White September 2nd 08 09:36 AM

Channel 4 on Astra 28.2
 
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:50:32 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

That's the one. Used to go along there regularly to visit folks in
Arrochar. The whole area was my breathing space for years.


In that case, you regularly drove past our house.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather


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