I just found out that the Whitehawk Hill transmitter is going to switch from BBC South to BBC South East after the digital switchover. I don't really like BBC South East. What do I do?
Get satellite (Freesat or Sky). You can watch whichever region you want then, and with Freesat you can change the region on channel 101 via the menu, whereas with Sky you have to manually select 984 for BBC South. You could try pointing an aerial at Hannington or Rowridge and see if you can pick up BBC South. It's worth trying the aerial thing again post switchover because the Freeview Strength is increased after DSO.
Get satellite (Freesat or Sky). You can watch whichever region you want then, and with Freesat you can change the region on channel 101 via the menu, whereas with Sky you have to manually select 984 for BBC South. You could try pointing an aerial at Hannington or Rowridge and see if you can pick up BBC South. It's worth trying the aerial thing again post switchover because the Freeview Strength is increased after DSO.
Forget Hannington in the Brighton area, Midhurst might be a goer, and the Findon relay near Worthing is to have a massive increase in power for DSO, reception of that might be possible in Brighton, or of course Rowridge (aka Isle of Wight).
However, as said, Freesat will probably be a cheaper solution than getting an aerial erected for Rowridge and Findon, and gives you more regions than you can shake a stick at !
Last edited by Markymark on 30 January 2012 3:02pm
Oh, well. Has anyone watched BBC South and South East recently? I want to know if there's anything better about BBC South East.
BBC South East have Michael Fish doing the weather quite regularly. The Clangers, Craig Revel Horwood and Tracey Emin are also featured several times a week. They have days out in the summer where the show comes from a beach somewhere in Kent or Sussex.
Probably most importantly for you, they have news and features about Brighton which is something that BBC South don't have so much of and come April will probably have none of. They sometimes report from Queen's Road outside the BBC Sussex building.