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New Meridian, BBC South & South East Thread

(July 2006)

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MA
Markymark
fireydraco posted:
Thank you for the help. It seems that BBC South East might be even better.

But is there any kind of (big) change in programming? I know my mum wants to watch the BBC South Titanic special. (If there is one)


The Titanic special BBC South is planning is a good point. They've been slowly getting more and more 'excited' about it, without acknowledging that on March 7th South Today will vanish from the Brighton area.

I suspect the feature will be available on line, and quite honestly, why not have it shown on BBC 2 or 4 for a national audience ?
LL
London Lite Founding member
The other differences for Whitehawk Hill viewers will be Inside Out and Late Kick-Off, the latter is produced by BBC London for both regions.

The changes simplify what has been the norm for Brighton households with Sky/Freesat already and relieves ST of covering the town using SET reporters.

However it'll mean that news stories from nearby Worthing will continue to be covered by the Southampton team, while Hove will have SET.
ME
meridiantvfan
Macalolo posted:
meridiantvfan posted:
Macalolo posted:
I love a program that ends like this.
http://www.itv.com/meridian-east/fullprogramme/


Hmm what do you mean exactly ? The way they say good bye / the over head shot right at the end ?


It was Thursdays program and Andrew Pate was saying goodbye in Chinese, he said it to the wrong camera and then Fred ended up getting up and hitting Patey on the head with some paper. It was quite funny to watch.


Ah right yes I do like blooper moments, wish I saw this. I have given up watching since a certain weather presenter left !
ME
meridiantvfan
Markymark posted:
deejay posted:
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 !


Do you know the power and polorization of Findon ? I have a triax 92 element wideband on a rotator but horizontal pol
MA
Markymark
meridiantvfan posted:
Markymark posted:
deejay posted:
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 !


Do you know the power and polorization of Findon ? I have a triax 92 element wideband on a rotator but horizontal pol


Post DSO it will be 2kW Vertical, UHF Chs 41/44/47. At the moment it's only 50 watts (analogue only), and very directional.

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=567
ME
meridiantvfan
Markymark posted:
meridiantvfan posted:
Markymark posted:
deejay posted:
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 !


Do you know the power and polorization of Findon ? I have a triax 92 element wideband on a rotator but horizontal pol


Post DSO it will be 2kW Vertical, UHF Chs 41/44/47. At the moment it's only 50 watts (analogue only), and very directional.

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=567


Thanks for info, counts me out though. Hannington going off Wednesday morning, think I have a signal on this.. BBC 2 on ch 45 unless it's another tx somewhere
MA
Markymark
meridiantvfan posted:
Markymark posted:
meridiantvfan posted:
Markymark posted:
deejay posted:
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 !


Do you know the power and polorization of Findon ? I have a triax 92 element wideband on a rotator but horizontal pol


Post DSO it will be 2kW Vertical, UHF Chs 41/44/47. At the moment it's only 50 watts (analogue only), and very directional.

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=567


Thanks for info, counts me out though. Hannington going off Wednesday morning, think I have a signal on this.. BBC 2 on ch 45 unless it's another tx somewhere


Unlikely to be anything else, the only other analogue HP user left on Ch 45 is BBC 2 Chatton (Northumberland) Laughing
ME
meridiantvfan
Markymark posted:
meridiantvfan posted:
Markymark posted:
meridiantvfan posted:
Markymark posted:
deejay posted:
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 !


Do you know the power and polorization of Findon ? I have a triax 92 element wideband on a rotator but horizontal pol


Post DSO it will be 2kW Vertical, UHF Chs 41/44/47. At the moment it's only 50 watts (analogue only), and very directional.

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=567


Thanks for info, counts me out though. Hannington going off Wednesday morning, think I have a signal on this.. BBC 2 on ch 45 unless it's another tx somewhere


Unlikely to be anything else, the only other analogue HP user left on Ch 45 is BBC 2 Chatton (Northumberland) Laughing


It was actually a local relay with me - oops !
TV
TVnut15
BBC South Today (Late bulletin, 9/2/12) has failed to show, with the BBC News channel showing instead complete with DOG and Astons. Weather report cut in at 10:34 as per usual.
DE
deejay
BBC Oxford didn't TX either. There are certain parts of opting infrastructure which are shared to allow pan-regional stuff to work so presumably something there has failed...

EDIT
I'm told that that's exactly what happened. Not an ideal night, given the all important weather forecast, for the opting system to fail...
Last edited by deejay on 9 February 2012 11:19pm
MA
Markymark
deejay posted:
BBC Oxford didn't TX either. There are certain parts of opting infrastructure which are shared to allow pan-regional stuff to work so presumably something there has failed...

EDIT
I'm told that that's exactly what happened. Not an ideal night, given the all important weather forecast, for the opting system to fail...


Well, I wouldn't worry, we were treated to the all important weather forecast from Alex Deacon TWICE !! Forget the local one, it's a waste of time, often conflicts with the national one, because it's obviously recorded earlier in the evening.

Mrs MarkyMark was totally confused by the resulting mess, she just glazed over when I tried to explain what had happened.

It highlighted that using the News Channel as a sustaining service during the opts, is completely useless, makes BBC 1 look like some sort of amateur effort.

27 days later

NE
news26
BBC South East failed to opt at 6.30 and carried on showing BBC News,getting about a minute or so into Sportsday before suddenly cutting to SET. Good start when Rob Smith had been posting on Facebook saying welcome to new viewers joining us this evening etc.

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