Bring back regional programming

J G Miller wrote:

The South West England licence region covers the counties of Devon, Cornwall,
plus adjacent parts of Somerset and Hampshire.

For Hampshire, read Dorset !

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dB wrote:
"Woody" wrote in message
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The annoying thing about all of this is that $ky still insist on you
watching the programmes of the ORIGINAL franchisees for your area.

We are in Harrogate, in Yorkshire, 16 miles north of Yorkshire TV in
Leeds, but $ky insist

Why do you think it's Sky insisting on this and not ITV?

It's ITV who dictate the regional mapping of ITV1, Sky merely implement their
wishes.

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Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

Three will be most for regular reception on UHF.

It was worked out by someone many years ago that the area which
can regularly receive five regions was around the Mendip hills.
So that will be HTV Wales, HTV West, Southern, Westward and ATV.

'ang on a minute, Westward and HTV West is the same region, so that's only
4.
But you'd get Stockland Hlll there as well, making it 5 again... unless it's
co-channel with something else. I'm sure the real Marky Boy has all the
channel numbers off the top of his head...


Westward served the South West from Stockland Hill and Caradon Hill, lost
its licence around 1982. Named after a golf course called Westward Ho which
is also the location of a UHF relay. Ident was a silver ship on a dark
blue background.

Harlech TV took over from a station called TWW. TeleVision Wales and West.

Adrian wrote:

Woody wrote:
The annoying thing about all of this is that $ky still insist on you
watching the programmes of the ORIGINAL franchisees for your area.

We are in Harrogate, in Yorkshire, 16 miles north of Yorkshire TV in
Leeds, but $ky insist we watch the dreadful and 'nowt-to-do-wi'-us'
rubbish from Newcastle 100 miles away. Thankfully dear old Auntie is a
little more practical and lets us watch Look North Leeds.

Is there any wonder ITV have got no viewers???

I wonder who decides, if you had Freesat you would get YTV instead of Tyne Tees.


With Freesat you would be better putting a Leeds post code in to secure
the correct region.

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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dB wrote:
"Woody" wrote in message
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The annoying thing about all of this is that $ky still insist on you
watching the programmes of the ORIGINAL franchisees for your area.

We are in Harrogate, in Yorkshire, 16 miles north of Yorkshire TV in
Leeds, but $ky insist

Why do you think it's Sky insisting on this and not ITV?

It's ITV who dictate the regional mapping of ITV1, Sky merely implement
their wishes.

That was my point.

Thanks for the info, for some reason I had the idea that Westwood lost
their
franchise at the same time as ABC and ATV.

To be pedantic, neither ABC nor ATV lost their franchises. ABC were forced
into a merger with Associated-Rediffusion to become Thames Television, and
ATV were forced into a restructure, becoming Central Television.

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:44:39 +0000, dB wrote:
To be pedantic, neither ABC nor ATV lost their franchises.

To be pedantic, ABC did lose their Northern weekend and Midlands weekend
franchises, and ATV did lose their Greater London weekend franchise.

To compensate for these losses, ABC gained a controlling interest in
the Greater London weekday franchise, and ATV gained a full week
Midlands franchise.

"Adrian" wrote in message
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Woody wrote:
The annoying thing about all of this is that $ky still insist on you
watching the programmes of the ORIGINAL franchisees for your area.

We are in Harrogate, in Yorkshire, 16 miles north of Yorkshire TV in
Leeds, but $ky insist we watch the dreadful and 'nowt-to-do-wi'-us'
rubbish from Newcastle 100 miles away. Thankfully dear old Auntie is
a
little more practical and lets us watch Look North Leeds.

Is there any wonder ITV have got no viewers???

I wonder who decides, if you had Freesat you would get YTV instead of
Tyne Tees.
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Shouldn't be a problem as FreeSat works from postcode which you enter
yourself. Insert a Leeds postcode and, as they say, Robert is your
uncle.


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

"dB" wrote in message
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"Woody" wrote in message
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The annoying thing about all of this is that $ky still insist on you
watching the programmes of the ORIGINAL franchisees for your area.

We are in Harrogate, in Yorkshire, 16 miles north of Yorkshire TV in
Leeds, but $ky insist

Why do you think it's Sky insisting on this and not ITV?



Well, to be technically correct the station that covers all (OK 90%) of
Harrogate is Bilsdale which is TT land. The fact that most of the south
and east of the town can get Emley is just good luck.Much of the centre
and N/NW of the town is behind the hill.

Having said that, York, which is 18 miles east, is officially covered by
Emley as the Wolds get in the way of Bilsdale for most of the area. Same
goes for the Scarborough relay, but if you live in Malton which is on
the north-facing slope of the southern Wolds you have little or no
option but Bilsdale unless you live high up.

Crazy if you ask me. Moreso that with FreeSat you can watch any station
in the country by entering the appropriate postcode, but no matter how
much you plead with $ky you get the franchise for your postcode and
that's that - and they both come from the same satellites!!!


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Woody

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In 405, I could get sandy heath Anglia, Membury Midland and of course
Crystal Palace.
In 625, for a while Oxford Midland and Hannington Southern, and what
followed of course.
Then they stuck an infill transmitter vertically polarised somewhere and
ruined Oxford.
Brian

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"charles" wrote in message
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In article ,
Mark Carver wrote:
Brian Gaff wrote:
Sorry, just mourning the old days of choices of fun itv regions and
different Saturday morning shows etc.

It was fun I suppose, but how many people actually had a choice of ITV
region ?

I did. Even for 405!

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