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Apologies if this has been previously posted here but have just spotted that
the various 'Channel 4' options on 28.2 are now FTA. This in addition to the
channel listed as '8350'.
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aa

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"aa" wrote:

Apologies if this has been previously posted here but have just spotted that
the various 'Channel 4' options on 28.2 are now FTA. This in addition to the
channel listed as '8350'.

They are for different UK regions. The programme content is the same
but the advertising varies with the region.

Channel 4 on Astra 28.2
 

Alfonso wrote:
"aa" wrote:

Apologies if this has been previously posted here but have just
spotted that the various 'Channel 4' options on 28.2 are now FTA.
This in addition to the channel listed as '8350'.

They are for different UK regions. The programme content is the same
but the advertising varies with the region.

That I knew, but believe these have not been FTA until now (or very
recently).
--
aa

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aa wrote:
Alfonso wrote:
"aa" wrote:

Apologies if this has been previously posted here but have just
spotted that the various 'Channel 4' options on 28.2 are now FTA.
This in addition to the channel listed as '8350'.
They are for different UK regions. The programme content is the same
but the advertising varies with the region.

That I knew, but believe these have not been FTA until now (or very
recently).

Thanks aa, yes they moved to 2D last week but still encrypted. I suppose this
now means that Freesat can now go ahead and map the correct C4 macro regions
to Ch 104, replacing the temporary London feed marked '8350' ?

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Mark
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:34:50 +0100, Alfonso wrote:
The programme content is the same but
the advertising varies with the region.

In view of ITV plc's desire to shed its regional programming, including
regional news, perhaps Channel4 could one day carry regional news on
these regional transmissions.

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J G Miller wrote:
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:34:50 +0100, Alfonso wrote:
The programme content is the same but
the advertising varies with the region.

In view of ITV plc's desire to shed its regional programming, including
regional news, perhaps Channel4 could one day carry regional news on
these regional transmissions.

I read recently that they are indeed considering that, though currently they
only broadcast six regions:

London
South and East England (and Wales)
Midlands
North
Scotland
Ulster

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Mark
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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?

Anyway, one would have thought that Wales would be put in with the
Midlands rather than the South.

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In article
.co.uk.invalid,
Alan Pemberton wrote:
Mark Carver wrote:

Thanks aa, yes they moved to 2D last week but still encrypted. I
suppose this now means that Freesat can now go ahead and map the
correct C4 macro regions to Ch 104, replacing the temporary London feed
marked '8350' ?

C4 seems to have changed transponder since I last tried scanning. No
wonder my versions still appeared to be encrypted. My box only found
five of the regions called 'Channel 4' today, so presumably London is
still encrypted. '8350' has DVB subtitles whereas the five FTA C4s have
only teletext ones.

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.

Why would those who speak Gaelic buy cheap boxes in Argos? Is there an
Argos in the Highlands anyway?



Yes, I know Alba sell cheap electronic items, but the company pinched the
country's name (to give itself respectability?).

--
From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

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On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:21:34 +0100, charles
wrote:

Is there an
Argos in the Highlands anyway?

Inverness?

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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

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In article ,
Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:21:34 +0100, charles
wrote:

Is there an
Argos in the Highlands anyway?

Inverness?

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

--
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Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

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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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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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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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Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

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"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

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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 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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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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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'.

--
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

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

Dave

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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.

--
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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

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

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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