Analogue switch off begins

Petert wrote:
Analogue switch off begins tonight. The BBC is carying the following
news item:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8193721.stm
it started ages ago in Scotland

I thought it started some time back.

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Analogue switch off begins tonight. The BBC is carying the following
news item:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8193721.stm
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Peter

Zimmy wrote:
"Petert" wrote in message
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Analogue switch off begins tonight. The BBC is carying the following
news item:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8193721.stm
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Peter

Only in Wales, it's already happened in the Borders AFAIK.

Yes, and the process will also be complete in the South West England region
next month.


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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:30:52 +0100, Laurence Payne
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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:41:08 +0100, "Graham." wrote:



"Petert" wrote in message
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Analogue switch off begins tonight. The BBC is carying the following
news item:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8193721.stm

I wonder what the F/B ratio of the aerial on the house is?

Looking at the url, it's strange it leads to an item about South WEST
Wales.

Probably because the first transmitter to be affected is Kilvey
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In article , Peter Duncanson
wrote:
Analogue switch off begins tonight. The BBC is carying the following
news item:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8193721.stm

There seems to be a large rectangular hole in the side of the house
through which people outside can see the TV inside. Perhaps this is for
the benefit of passersby and for people who have not had "the digital"
installed. They may be flocking there in their hundreds with folding
chairs and umbrellas.

That'll be so that the TV licence people can check it without needing
access to the house.

No doubt it will eventually become a legal requirement for all TV owners
to have holes in the sides of their houses for this purpose.

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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:42:37 +0100, "Zimmy" wrote:


"Petert" wrote in message
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Analogue switch off begins tonight. The BBC is carying the following
news item:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8193721.stm
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Cheers

Peter

Only in Wales, it's already happened in the Borders AFAIK.

Yes, but that doesn't count. The changeover in Wales is being
mentioned only on Welsh news. In 2012, when it happens in London,
it'll be item one on the BBC1 10 pm uk national news.

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:51:48 +0100, Roderick Stewart wrote:

No doubt it will eventually become a legal requirement for all TV owners
to have holes in the sides of their houses for this purpose.

Would it not just be simpler to make it a legal requirement for households
to display their licence on the front of the building eg under a glass panel?

J G Miller wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:51:48 +0100, Roderick Stewart wrote:

No doubt it will eventually become a legal requirement for all TV owners
to have holes in the sides of their houses for this purpose.

Would it not just be simpler to make it a legal requirement for households
to display their licence on the front of the building eg under a glass panel?

In this day and age, you shouldn't need to display such things at all as proof
of compliance. I certainly don't need to show anybody my motor insurance
certificate, or MOT document in order to obtain a tax disc, and indeed I'm not
sure why I need to display that tax disc in the car's window ?

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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:32:07 -0700 (PDT), Owain
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On 11 Aug, 10:32, Petert wrote:
Analogue switch off begins tonight. The BBC is carying the following
news item:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8193721.stm

"Switch to digital starts in Wales" = People have ignored the last 5
years and only just realised their tellys are about to stop working.

"Gareth Earle, regional project co-ordinator for the Switchover Help
Scheme, said: "People are eligible if they're aged 75 or over, if
they're on certain disability benefits, if they're blind or partially
sighted, or if they have lived in a care home for six months or more.
Everyone who is eligible will be contacted by us "

Flagrant breach of the DPA I would have thought, for the DWP to supply
information on benefit claimants to the BBC.

It would not be a breach of the DPA if the transfer of information has
been authorised by Act of Parliament or Statutaory Instrument.

Eureka!
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2007..._20070008_en_1

1 Disclosure of information

(1) The Secretary of State and the Northern Ireland department may,
at the request of a relevant person, supply a relevant person with
social security information for use (by the person to whom it is
supplied or by another relevant person) in connection with
switchover help functions.

(2) The Secretary of State may, at the request of a relevant
person, supply a relevant person with war pensions information for
use (by the person to whom it is supplied or by another relevant
person) in connection with switchover help functions.

(3) A local authority or, in Northern Ireland, a Health and Social
Services Board may, at the request of a relevant person, supply a
relevant person with visual impairment information for use (by the
person to whom it is supplied or by another relevant person) in
connection with switchover help functions.

Further details then follow, including the definition of a "relevant
person" - BBC etc.

This Order prescribes the personal information that can be supplied:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/uksi_20071768_en_1

Those running the Switchover Help Scheme are, of course, bound by the
DPA and are restricted in their use of any personal information
received.
http://www.helpscheme.co.uk/en/site/dataprotection

Kitty Phillips from Neath said "I enjoy every programme and I
practically watch it from morning until night." Not what one might
call a discriminating viewer, then.

And never mind about Channel 4, what people in Wales want most is QVC!

Owain


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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:59:43 +0100, John J Armstrong
wrote:

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:42:37 +0100, "Zimmy" wrote:


"Petert" wrote in message
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Analogue switch off begins tonight. The BBC is carying the following
news item:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8193721.stm
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Cheers

Peter

Only in Wales, it's already happened in the Borders AFAIK.

Yes, but that doesn't count. The changeover in Wales is being
mentioned only on Welsh news. In 2012, when it happens in London,
it'll be item one on the BBC1 10 pm uk national news.

Yes, and we will all be expected to get excited about it even if we live
hundreds of miles away.

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