On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 18:32 +0100, Hywel Williams wrote: > 2. More channels have been requested. I'm currently testing the inclusion > of almost all BBC regional radio stations in the schedules. The main > issue is that at present they don't represent occasions when more than one > regional station is broadcasting the same programme. Please forgive me if these questions are elementry for someone more fimilar with the BBC, but I've only recently moved to England.
Is there a method for determing what radio & TV stations are available from a given lat/long (or, equivelently, National Grid reference)? If the best method is to compute it ourself from the list of transmitters, is there a master list of all relevant transmitters? The info under http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters may be sufficent, except the local radio tables are in many cases malformed -- the tables have two cells run together. For reference, I list the tables that I'm aware of below: Channel 5 transmitters -- very nice: http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/tv_trans/tv_c5.shtml Map of TV 1-4 transmitters -- but no data table: http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/tv_trans/index.shtml MW/LW transmitters -- very nice: http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/radio_trans/medium_long_wave.shtml FM transmitters, by country: http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/radio_trans/n_ireland_fm.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/radio_trans/scotland_fm.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/radio_trans/england_fm.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/radio_trans/wales_fm.shtml Local radio -- but tables seem malformed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/radio_trans/lr_al.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/transmitters/radio_trans/lr_mz.shtml And, of course, there's an additional problem with using this information -- the BBC terms of use prohibit using this information, which is not a part of backstage. Would it be permissible to use this data regardless? A one-time import would certianly suffice for this data, which is not liable to change often -- and any changes I think are likely to show up on the BBC news well ahead of them becomming live. Thank you, -=- James Mastros - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
