Speaking of Channel Islands, has anyone notice the subtle change to their studio? They've put a new table in, and they've changed a single slate of the studio from red to white. Looks a bit out of place, wonder if it's part of a bigger change.
Just watched online and the new music is terrible. Poo move by ITV Channel
I was talking about the BBC service myself, but just watched Channel Online, and I couldn't agree more. That music is awful.
I have just read that the Westcountry studio has been fully closed down now, the signal is now coming direct from Bristol.
You are wrong....something still comes from ITV Plymouth!
(confirmed - I checked)
Stockland and Caradon Hill analogue are being fed by DSat from 24/03/09. Redruth and Huntshaw still go through ITV in Plympton.
(so Harvey is wrong!)
How did you get this information?
Plympton is supposedly fed from Caradon Hill and still has Westcountrys Ancilliary text service on page 600 running, so presuming Plymton is actually still being fed by Plympton studios?
Plympton is supposedly fed from Caradon Hill and still has Westcountrys Ancilliary text service on page 600 running, so presuming Plymton is actually still being fed by Plympton studios?
A friend of mine works in the MCR at ITV Westcountry.
My aerial is getting the signal from the Plympton relay and page 600 on analogue teletext is showing a message saying "This service has been discontinued".
Jane McCloskey will be the new HRLP in the South-West, based at the BBC's broadcasting centre in Plymouth.
Jane has an impressive track record in television production and as a senior leader at ITV – she is the current Regional Director of ITV in the West and West Country.
as I posted in a new thread but for inclusion ...
Jane McCloskey will be the new HRLP in the South-West, based at the BBC's broadcasting centre in Plymouth.
Although some may do, I don't want to accuse Ms McCloskey of 'running' when the 'going got hard' at ITV, as she seemed to readily accept quite a fair amount of lambast for the executive decisions of her superiors about the region(s) she was asked to cover in ITV plc.
Following her move to BBC, it will be interesting to see her views on the suggested collaboration between BBC South West/West and ITV West/Westcountry in the future.
Should be an interesting Spotlight tonight, the programme is coming from the Beacon Hill transmitter as it prepares for the first stage of digital switchover tonight.
They've been mentioning it on BBC Spotlight's breakfast bulletins all morning, but not one mention was made on ITV Westcountry (although I think they have made mentions previously) - will have to see what they come up with tonight.
It was a very good sum up by Justin tonight, which other regions would be advised to look at, to replicate when they reach their respective turn to complete DSO.
One thing I didn't understand, and forgive my lazyness in not looking this up, but why is ITV1 replacing BBC 2 on analogue until the next phase?
The Analogue ITV1 frequency is used by MUX1/BBC'A' in the DSO Plan, therefore has to be cleared tonight so that the DTT Mux can start transmissions in the early hours.
One thing I didn't understand, and forgive my lazyness in not looking this up, but why is ITV1 replacing BBC 2 on analogue until the next phase?
The Analogue ITV1 frequency is used by MUX1/BBC'A' in the DSO Plan, therefore has to be cleared tonight so that the DTT Mux can start transmissions in the early hours.
I'm currently staying at a friend's house in Bovey Tracey, and despite living near the relay station, she picks up her signal from Beacon Hill.
I watched the events last night... It was interesting how everyone was saying it would happen at midnight - and then never happened until 00:50! Also worthy of note was that ALL channels went off air (I thought each channel had its own seperate transmission equipment so only BBC2 and ITV1 would go off) but I guess that was the main switch being thrown (like the footage we saw from the Whitehaven switch over).
It must have been quite a complex job because they were switching channels on and off, then around 01:50 everything seemed to come back.
Can't have been the nicest night to do it either - I wouldn't want to be trudging out into a field in the dark and the wind and rain!
Will be interesting to see Spotlight's take on it later.