Bring back regional programming

Them EBU listing books were great bedtime reading, of course...
grin.
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"Paul Ratcliffe" wrote in message
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On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:05:44 -0500, wrote:

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

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...

Mark Carver wrote:
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.

I'd be interested to know why a Sky box and a Freesat box get different ITV
regions when both are at the same postcode.
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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.

You also get the correct region by putting in a Harrogate postcode.
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Woody wrote:

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!!!

As explained, it is *pointless* to plead with Sky over this, you need to
pursue the matter with ITV.
Anyway, why bother, ITV regional programming is all but dead in the water.

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I worked for Rediffusion of course.

Anyway, where was I...
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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.

Brian Gaff wrote:
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.

Reigate.



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Oh its all so boring now.

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"J G Miller" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:26:44 +0000, Adrian wrote:

No, Westward was a seperate company that served Cornwall.
IIRC they lost their Franchise in the sixties.


South West England franchise/licence holders

April 1961 - December 1981 Westward Television

January 1982 - December 1992 Television South West

January 1993 - November 2008 Westcountry Television

November 2008 - present ITV Broadcasting Limited


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

The South West England licence region has now been merged with the West of
England licence region, and is licenced to ITV Broadcasting Limited.

Because nowadays, I have no sight and thus the draw of such things has gone
rather, but those were the days.
Brian

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"J G Miller" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:24:46 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:
Sorry, just mourning the old days of choices of fun itv regions and
different Saturday morning shows etc.

So why not try pointing your satellite dish at 19,2 East and watch
the Drittes Fernsehprogramm regional stations?

Better quality programs than ITV and no programs are interrupted by
commercials.

Brian Gaff wrote:
Them EBU listing books were great bedtime reading, of course...
grin.

Never did me any harm.

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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!!!

But it's nothing to do with Sky - it's ITV's decision. So pleading with Sky
isn't going to make any difference.