What's happened to the BBC Chilean miners channel?

Freeview channel 80 seems to have been replaced by a comment and news
channel

Steve Terry
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"I would like to plead for my right to investigate natural phenomena
without having guns pointed at me.
I also ask for the right to be wrong without being hanged for it."
- Wilhelm Reich, November 1947

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:24:16 +0100, Steve Terry wrote:

Freeview channel 80 seems to have been replaced by a comment and news
channel

Apparently the rescued Chilean miners have made an agreement with
each other that interaction with the media will be tightly controlled.

http://www.google.COM/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jd6WHk2cccRQDrKnJMOKn4OpA8-A?docId=4847033

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:10:20 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:24:16 +0100, Steve Terry wrote:

Freeview channel 80 seems to have been replaced by a comment and news
channel

Apparently the rescued Chilean miners have made an agreement with
each other that interaction with the media will be tightly controlled.

http://www.google.COM/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jd6WHk2cccRQDrKnJMOKn4OpA8-A?docId=4847033

Yes. I saw or heard a comment elsewhere that the miners have been
advised that they could make a very large amount of money if they act as
a group and their interaction with the media is properly controlled and
organised by agents and managers.

It's fair enough that the miners should get publicity, but I fear that
the engineers who drilled the narrow supply shaft, drilled the rescue
shaft, designed and built the rescue capsule, etc, will be taken pretty
much for granted.

So far I've heard brief mentions of engineering advice, assistance and
equipment from Canada, USA, Austria and South Africa. I wonder whether
those people will get the credit they are due?


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Peter Duncanson
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:26:16 +0100, Peter Duncanson asked:

So far I've heard brief mentions of engineering advice, assistance and
equipment from Canada, USA, Austria and South Africa. I wonder whether
those people will get the credit they are due?

Well the Pennsylvania company which manufactured the drilling equipment
got their 2 minutes 19 seconds of fame tdoay at

http://www.npr.ORG/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130582459

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:47:30 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:26:16 +0100, Peter Duncanson asked:

So far I've heard brief mentions of engineering advice, assistance and
equipment from Canada, USA, Austria and South Africa. I wonder whether
those people will get the credit they are due?

Well the Pennsylvania company which manufactured the drilling equipment
got their 2 minutes 19 seconds of fame tdoay at

http://www.npr.ORG/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130582459

Thank you.

That company's website has more. This article is dated October 9:
http://www.centerrock.com/chilean-mine-rescue


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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

In message , J G Miller
writes
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:26:16 +0100, Peter Duncanson asked:

So far I've heard brief mentions of engineering advice, assistance and
equipment from Canada, USA, Austria and South Africa. I wonder whether
those people will get the credit they are due?

Well the Pennsylvania company which manufactured the drilling equipment
got their 2 minutes 19 seconds of fame tdoay at

http://www.npr.ORG/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130582459

When it has finished, click on 'More on NPR.org', and you can then
select 'Toasting Fannie Farmer With an Epic Victorian Feast'. The mind
boggles!
--
Ian

On Friday, October 15th, 2010 at 16:08:45h +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:

That company's website has more. This article is dated October 9:
http://www.centerrock.com/chilean-mine-rescue

It is impressive that they were able to drill the rescue shaft in
a much shorter time that originally thought possible.

Meanwhile deep underground in Switzerland, tunnel builders have finally
broken through after 20 years of drilling.

http://www.spiegel.DE/international/europe/0,1518,723407,00.html

On 15/10/2010 02:24, Steve Terry wrote:
Freeview channel 80 seems to have been replaced by a comment and news
channel

Are you sure about that, or is it just speculation?

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mb

"Mike Brown" wrote in message
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On 15/10/2010 02:24, Steve Terry wrote:
Freeview channel 80 seems to have been replaced by a comment and news
channel

Are you sure about that, or is it just speculation?
mb


Never use the prefix "Just" in front of the word "Speculation"
when it comes to BBC News.

Their motto is "Speculation is all" (and comment is a bonus)

Steve Terry
--
"I would like to plead for my right to investigate natural phenomena
without having guns pointed at me.
I also ask for the right to be wrong without being hanged for it."
- Wilhelm Reich, November 1947