I meant to say, these services should be carried on Multiplex 2 (and PSB2) because they come out of the ITV "3&4 Ltd" free Freeview allocation!
2009/6/18 Brian Butterworth <briant...@freeview.tv> > > > 2009/6/18 Andy Leighton <an...@azaal.plus.com> > >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:28:54PM +0100, Brian Butterworth wrote: >> > East Midlands Counties >> (Notts/Derbys/Lincs/Northamptons/Leictersh/Rutland) >> > Norfolk and Suffolk >> > Cambridge and Bedford >> >> Whilst a more local news service is the solution I think that some >> of your breakdowns will need more thought. I live in Peterborough >> and the sensible area for news would probably go down to Huntingdon, >> March and Chatteris in the south, up to past Spalding in the North, >> out to past Wisbech in the east, and west as far as Oakham and past >> Oundle. Ideally a local news service should cover that area - I >> shouldn't have to switch between the three local stations you've >> suggested (and I've quoted) to get the right coverage of things going >> on in my area. > > > You can't help that transmitters would cover more than one "local" area, > it's just the way it is. Given that Freeview boxes/sets don't know where > they are, only which region they are in, the only way to implement local > channels would be to have lots of them and choose. > > In an ideal world you would have some interactive thingy on BBC One when > the regional news cuts in so you can select, that would be possible with > MHEG, but not automatically. > > I also agree that 60 local versions that would be even more local (a > million people in each) would be better from the "local" standpoint, but I > am just trying to deal with the £150m question, a 60-local-BBC-news service > is going to cost a lost more than £150m on top of the current budget. > > > >> >> >> So what is needed is indeed a number or news stations, but also have >> the areas overlap and a culture and process of local stations sharing >> news gathering, and even VT packages, with neighbouring news stations. >> There should be no need for Norfolk/Suffolk to go out and film an >> interview at the western edge of their area, and then the next day for >> a Cambridgeshire station to go and repeat the interview because it is >> at the eastern edge of their area. > > > Yes, this is the case at the moment, was to be the case with the BBC local > TV service and would be here in my 30 times two-million proposal. > > The way I have been looking at it is to use the 501-534 LCN range, thus: > > 501 Bristol, Bath and Western Today > 502 Cambridge and Bedford Today > 503 Cumbria and Northwest Counties Today > 504 Devon and Cornwall Today > 505 Dorset and Wiltshire Today > 506 Durham and Northumberland Today > 507 East Midlands > Counties Today(Notts/Derbys/Lincs/Northamptons/Leictersh/Rutland) > 508 Edinburgh and Glasgow Today (Perth, Dundee) > 509 Essex and Herts Today > 510 Highlands and Islands Today > 511 Kent East Sussex and Brighton Today > 512 Leicester/Nottingham/Derby Today > 513 London East (reserved) > 514 London North (reserved) > 515 London South (reserved) > 516 London West (reserved) > 517 M4 Corridor Today (Oxford, Reading, Slow, Woking) > 518 Manchester Today > 519 Merseyside and Blackpool Today > 520 Norfolk and Suffolk Today > 521 North and Rural Wales Today > 522 Northern Ireland Today > 523 Rest of Scotland Today > 524 South Wales Coast (Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Rhondda) Today > 525 Southampton and Hampshire Today > 526 Surrey and West Sussex Today > 527 Tyne and Wear Today > 528 West Midlands Counties S Today > 529 West Midlands Counties N Today > 530 West Midlands Metropolitan Today > 531 West Yorkshire Today(Leeds, Bradford etc) > 532 South Yorkshire Today > 533 York and North Yorkshire Today > 534 Hull, East Riding and North Lincs Today > > > > >> >> >> -- >> Andy Leighton => an...@azaal.plus.com >> "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" >> - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_ >> - >> 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >> > > > > -- > Please email me back if you need any more help. > > Brian Butterworth > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover > advice, since 2002 > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
