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SeeMoreDigital: For TV, yes, BBC Worldwide make a profit.

The international radio services are no longer funded by the Foreign Office and are now, from this year, paid for out of the TV Licence. From the report, the BBC has picked up ...

"£500 million per annum of new obligations placed on the BBC, including broadband roll-out, the World Service and funding local TV and S4C. "

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Richard Baguley: Please don't. If you have nothing constructive to say, please say it elsewhere.

Thanks.

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Thats Solent
Sunday 7 December 2014 12:27PM

Mrs Madeleine Oakenfull: I would suspect they will be happy to cover anything!

There's a form you can fill in here Contact Us or give them a call at (020) 7612 4141.

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David Cox: Sadly, however, the agreement that Mark Thompson didn't allow for that.[1]

It's cut £734 million a year from the budget or nothing. Who would have thought that after a bank crisis that inflation might go above 2%? Who?

[1] BBC budget cut by 16% in spending review, George Osborne confirms | Media | The Guardian

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John Martin: Of course you have to pay for ITV even if you don't watch it or have a TV (as the costs are added to everyone's shopping bills).

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Peter Webber: Forces TVForces TV has some details for that channel.

It's down to the channel, if they want they can rent the space the next time there is extra capacity, or have themselves as part of one of the IPTV providers.

The answer is, I suspect, "there are no plans at this time".

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Sunday 7 December 2014 6:16PM

Paul Ryan: Do you know if you have a wideband aerial (rather than a "group C/D" one)?

If you don't as yet, you might need to change to one to get these service to work.

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Sunday 7 December 2014 8:34PM

Paul Ryan: Not really. The site is a bit out of date, because group E doesn't really work well enough for C31. You need an 18-element Yagi, it just needs to be wideband so it won't block C21.

Also, given that the "700 band" is going to be used for 4G mobile phone in the coming years, a wideband aerial will future-proof you from whatever allocations Winter Hill gets then.

The "How will the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmission frequencies change over time?" chart shows the possible change in the 2019- column.

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Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter
Sunday 7 December 2014 10:33PM

Paul Ryan: Yes, assuming you are in the "normal" reception area. You didn't provide a postcode, so I'm assuming that you have no other reception problems.

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MikeP: Really sorry to hear that.

The problem you have sounds more like a "video driver problem", rather than a web page issue - you shouldn't be able to display another pages text even if you wanted to!

I've got this page open in Firefox 34.0, Safari 5.1.7, IE11 and Chrome 40.0 on Windows 7 Ultimate and I can't replicate the problem.

Also the same bunch of browsers on Windows 10.

We've also been testing on an iPad with Safari/iOS8, iPhone 5with Safari/iOS8 as well as Android 5.0 Chrome on Nexus 4 and a Nexus 7.

There is a one-minute timer event that refreshes the "update bar" at the top of the page (only if it in the "closed state") and that doesn't cause the rest of the page to change.

I'm a bit of a loss to know what to suggest, unless you've got an ad-blocker or Anti-virus that is doing something odd perhaps?

I'm using New Relic to get Browser errors, but I've looked and I can't see anything there at the moment.

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