All posts by Briantist
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KMJ,Derby: I suspect that it could be because it was a sub-relay of Winshill at some point.
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julie mc caffrey: Showcase has moved from
Eutelsat 28A: 12607 V
to
Eutelsat 28A: 11344 H
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KMJ,Derby: I realised I should disregard what Wikipedia says as it fails to agree with what is on the official site.
http://www.itvmedia.co.uk….pdf says that just the Hannington trasmitter is called ITV Meridian Thames Valley.
This differs from the "old" ITV Thames Valley which included the Oxford transmitter (and relays).
There is an ITV Thames Valley site - Thames Valley | Meridian - ITV News but this has stories from Brighton on it because it's just a re-feed of "ITV MERIDIAN NEWS IN BRIEF".
It's unclear if just Oxford, or Oxford+Hannington "merged" with the Meridian South [Coast] region.
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Mike Dimmick: Thanks for those. It was the creation and then destruction of the ITV Thames Valley that left me with questions.
ITV don't issue press statements when they remove services.
However they did send this into Ofcom when the C3 (and C5) renewal notice went out
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
"Details of our proposals for news in each area are set out in more detail in the Annexes to this note with a detailed discussion of the overall proposals in Border below. In terms of the flagship peak time regional news programme on a typical week night the proposal would involve the delivery of the following (as the core part
of the 30 minute 6pm programme):
... ITV Meridian: separate 20 minute regional news offerings for each of Meridian East and South with a sub-opt from Meridian South for Thames Valley News -- for viewers around Oxford, Reading and the M4 corridor.
... ITV Central: separate 20 minute regional news offeringsfor each of the east and west sub-regions."
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Mike Dimmick: I think there are some actual answers on the http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf on page 30...
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Mike Dimmick/KMJ,Derby/Paul.: OK... it seems as if the Oxford transmitter is run with Merdian Thames Valley's region's news.
But it seems odd that ITV Sales offers the Central South region as an ad region.
Does this mean that Central South is operated as two sub-sub-regions: one for Oxford (thames Valley News, Central South adverts) and one for Ridge Hill (Central West News, Central South Adverts)?
That would make Ridge Hill very super-served, given that it ALSO has a ITV West extra transmission too - Ridge Hill (ITV West) (County of Herefordshire, England) Freeview Light transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice .
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there's more here
ITV Local Meridian Blog » Welcome to the new Meridian Tonight
and
Seventeen regions into nine: How the updated ITV local news services will operate | Media | guardian.co.uk
still unclear about Ridge Hill.
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Briantist: To quote from the above blog link (from archive.org)
Basically the old Thames Valley Tonight, Meridian Tonight South East, and Meridian Tonight South are all being amalgamated into one programme Meridian Tonight.
The West and East of the new region will each get their own version of Meridian Tonight for the first 15-18 minutes of the six oclock programme, after that the services will merge to cover stories that are relevant to the whole of the region what the jargon calls a pan-regional service.
The West and East part of the region will also get their own dedicated late bulletin usually at 10.30pm. All the other bulletins GMTV, lunch and weekend will be pan-regional.
Inevitably this has meant some reduction in staff, and most visibly it will mean there are only two presenters for two regions, rather than six for three regions.
The new presenting team are Fred Dinenage and Sangeeta Bhabra, and you can see profiles of them on our front page, as well as those of our new family of correspondents on our website - Latest News - ITV News
The other presenters Debbie Thrower, Ian Axton, Wesley Smith and Mary Green have left. And you can read what the official press releases said about them here.
The changes have all been made against a background of massive upheaval in British broadcasting. In a nutshell ITV had an obligation to make regional news as part of the original conditions of its broadcasting licence. But those conditions have been relaxed as a result of the huge number of digital stations now competing for advertising revenue, and the credit squeeze.
This is all part of a big national debate about PSB public service broadcasting, and who should pay for it. The problem is that PSB is EXPENSIVE, and cannot be maintained on a purely commercial basis.
The BBC is obviously paid for by the licence fee, but other PSB providers, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the largest provider, ITV, are asking for either separate funding, or to be released from their obligations. The government is promising to come up with a solution soon. In the meantime economic realities have forced changes across the whole PSB landscape.
Having said all that I do know the team here at Meridian are very good at what they do, and will identify stories of interest to our whole audience, and we still have enough reporter/correspondents to get across the whole patch. We have had to come to grips with new working practices to do this, and reporters now operate cameras and edit their own material. New technology also means we are able to to edit on location or go live and beam reports back to base from anywhere across the patch, using the internet, or any of our three satellite trucks.
Also we will be developing our online services and will hopefully fill any gap viewers may feel has not been filled by the new service.
So as one blogger put it give them a chance we are confident we are still best placed to inform and entertain the viewers of the South and the South East.
Blogged by Jonathan Marland
ITV Meridian Online Editor
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Monday 3 June 2013 5:56PM
Watlingfen: The current digital TV service is designed to be used for static reception from a rooftop aerial.
The old overpowered analogue services were indeed suitable for indoor reception ... and caused massive problems when there was Inversion.