BBC Radio Berkshire DTTV phone-in

There was an "interesting" item on analogue TV switch off on BBC Radio
Berkshire's Andrew Peach show on Wednesday morning.

The "expert" was a BBC chap called Andrew Kelleher who made some gaffs. It's
worth listening again, he was on in segments right through the programme
(7-10am.)

Examples include: all Sky+ boxes are HD, confusing a caller who asked
whether his portable TV would work with a decoder on an internal aerial (he
missed the point and waffled about whether the TV had an external aerial
socket to plug in the decoder) confusing another caller who ended up with
the impression that all the Sky Christian channels are available through an
aerial on Freeview, telling a caller with a DTTV USB stick that his
equipment may be faulty as it won't receive DTTV in Maidenhead on the
supplied internal aerial, and worse still, not knowing which transmitters
serve Maidenhead.

The best of all was a Reading caller complaining that his DTTV was London
region as his view to Hannington was blocked by a hill.
The caller asked why BBC South could not be broadcast on a MUX from CP
"after all it broadcasts 100 channels so it can't be an issue of space, it
just needs the BBC to pay the fee to get it broadcast." Unbelievably,
instead of explaining properly about TV coverage and the fact that an area
is considered served even if the region is wrong, the expert promised to go
back to London and "see what he could do, but I can't promise anything." Can
you imagine the chaos caused to the general public of having two BBC1
regions coming off one transmitter!

I'm sure there's more that I can't remember, but having listened to it once,
I've not much desire myself to listen again!

"Doctor D" writes:

Can you imagine the chaos caused to the general public of having two
BBC1 regions coming off one transmitter!

Yet Sky viewers seem to be able to cope with all the BBC and ITV regions
being broadcast from one satellite and available from their set top box.

"Graham Murray" wrote in message
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"Doctor D" writes:

Can you imagine the chaos caused to the general public of having two
BBC1 regions coming off one transmitter!

Yet Sky viewers seem to be able to cope with all the BBC and ITV regions
being broadcast from one satellite and available from their set top box.

Isn't there some sort of setup that matches your decoder card to your
address and then picks the region it thinks you want? I seem to recall
various discussions about switching to a preferred region if your box got it
wrong.

That mechanism would be much simpler than presenting the user with 40 (say)
BBC1 and expecting grannie to be able to sort out which one was which.

Paul DS

A classic example of why BBC execs no nothing about broadcasting! They don't
listen and I bet he's on at least £40000 a year! Probably the only guy who
was'nt in a meeting!
"Doctor D" wrote in message
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There was an "interesting" item on analogue TV switch off on BBC Radio
Berkshire's Andrew Peach show on Wednesday morning.

The "expert" was a BBC chap called Andrew Kelleher who made some gaffs.
It's worth listening again, he was on in segments right through the
programme (7-10am.)

Examples include: all Sky+ boxes are HD, confusing a caller who asked
whether his portable TV would work with a decoder on an internal aerial
(he missed the point and waffled about whether the TV had an external
aerial socket to plug in the decoder) confusing another caller who ended
up with the impression that all the Sky Christian channels are available
through an aerial on Freeview, telling a caller with a DTTV USB stick that
his equipment may be faulty as it won't receive DTTV in Maidenhead on the
supplied internal aerial, and worse still, not knowing which transmitters
serve Maidenhead.

The best of all was a Reading caller complaining that his DTTV was London
region as his view to Hannington was blocked by a hill.
The caller asked why BBC South could not be broadcast on a MUX from CP
"after all it broadcasts 100 channels so it can't be an issue of space, it
just needs the BBC to pay the fee to get it broadcast." Unbelievably,
instead of explaining properly about TV coverage and the fact that an area
is considered served even if the region is wrong, the expert promised to
go back to London and "see what he could do, but I can't promise
anything." Can you imagine the chaos caused to the general public of
having two BBC1 regions coming off one transmitter!

I'm sure there's more that I can't remember, but having listened to it
once, I've not much desire myself to listen again!

On 18 Oct, 10:42, "Stephen Peterson"
wrote:
A classic example of why BBC execs no nothing about broadcasting! They don't
listen and I bet he's on at least £40000 a year! Probably the only guy who
was'nt in a meeting!

An exec on £40k a year? If I was him i'd looking forward to my
redundancy.

Doc

On Oct 18, 10:18 am, "Doctor D" wrote:
There was an "interesting" item on analogue TV switch off on BBC Radio
Berkshire's Andrew Peach show on Wednesday morning.

The "expert" was a BBC chap called Andrew Kelleher who made some gaffs. It's
worth listening again, he was on in segments right through the programme
(7-10am.)

Any BBC staff lurkers in here, who can look up who this Andrew
Kelleher chap is ?

I've Googled on his name and 'BBC' and only come up with this :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/...ry/3785801.stm

As for the programme, well that's about par with Radio Berkshire's
general programming quality.
That Andrew Peach show is on about the same intellectual level as
Cbeebies.

On Oct 18, 10:38 am, "Paul D.Smith"
wrote:

Yet Sky viewers seem to be able to cope with all the BBC and ITV regions
being broadcast from one satellite and available from their set top box.

Isn't there some sort of setup that matches your decoder card to your
address and then picks the region it thinks you want? I seem to recall
various discussions about switching to a preferred region if your box got it
wrong.

Yes, Sky boxes with a valid viewing card put your local version of BBC
1 on Ch 101.
All other BBC regions are available on channels between 971 and 992.

Without a card, you get BBC 1 London on 101, and evertyhing else on
9**

Any BBC staff lurkers in here, who can look up who this Andrew
Kelleher chap is ?

I've Googled on his name and 'BBC' and only come up with this :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/...ry/3785801.stm

As for the programme, well that's about par with Radio Berkshire's
general programming quality.
That Andrew Peach show is on about the same intellectual level as
Cbeebies.


LOL!

Kelleher was my spelling guesswork.

Andrew Peach certainly thinks he's more heavy weight than he is. He can
certainly create a story from nothing, in fact he seems to create a whole
programme from nothing!
He must be doing okay between his morning show, and all the Radio 2 news
bulletins he presents. I presume he travels into London for these rather
than just staying in Caversham and doing it from there?

On Oct 18, 12:03 pm, "Doctor D" wrote:

That Andrew Peach show is on about the same intellectual level as
Cbeebies.

LOL!

Kelleher was my spelling guesswork.

Andrew Peach certainly thinks he's more heavy weight than he is. He can
certainly create a story from nothing, in fact he seems to create a whole
programme from nothing!
He must be doing okay between his morning show, and all the Radio 2 news
bulletins he presents. I presume he travels into London for these rather
than just staying in Caversham and doing it from there?

He ought to be able to, but I bet he doesn't. When R2's Birmingham
based overnight presenters sit in for daytime ones, AIUI they come
down to London to do it.

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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On Oct 18, 10:18 am, "Doctor D" wrote:
There was an "interesting" item on analogue TV switch off on BBC Radio
Berkshire's Andrew Peach show on Wednesday morning.

The "expert" was a BBC chap called Andrew Kelleher who made some gaffs.
It's
worth listening again, he was on in segments right through the programme
(7-10am.)

Any BBC staff lurkers in here, who can look up who this Andrew
Kelleher chap is ?

I've Googled on his name and 'BBC' and only come up with this :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/...ry/3785801.stm

As for the programme, well that's about par with Radio Berkshire's
general programming quality.
That Andrew Peach show is on about the same intellectual level as
Cbeebies.


There's no Andrew Kelleher on the BBCs address list. He maybe a contractor
but he doesn't appear on the address list.