All posts by Briantist
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Mick White: Yes, PICK TV is on Freeview (it's channel 11), it seems to be programmes shown on ITV.
BBC HD and BBC One HD are on Freeview HD, you will need to be in a switched over region (plus London and Birmingham) and have a DVB-T2 receiver to get Freeview HD.
Men and Motors closed on 1st April 2010.
Any channel that can win the auction for capacity can broadcast on Freeview, and this includes shopping channels. No-one "decides" what content is provided, other than "the market".
See Compare Freeview and Freesat TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice to compare Freeview and Freesat. If you want the most free channels, use them both!
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Michael: You have to pay Sky for a subscription and then an extra "HD premium" to access the non-free-to-air HD channels.
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Peter: Yes, please see ITV1+1, ITV1HD, BBC One HD regional services on Freeview | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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nick: See Connecting it all up | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice please.
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Nick Wilcock: BBC Trust report, as linked above
"It found that the [red button] service is used by a broad cross-section of the population, with an average of 12.7 million users every week - 5 million Red Button users do not use BBC Online "
"cost per user is low compared to other BBC services, at 6.4p per week"
"Red Button's digital text service, providing news stories, weather updates and sports results, draws the most visitors; its additional coverage of live events such as Glastonbury, Formula 1 and the Olympics - is also popular with audiences."
"User figures peaked at 14.7m in summer 2010 during Glastonbury and Wimbledon"
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Trevor Harris: A satellite transponder costs about £4m a year to hire, and it's probably more when the BBC doesn't own it direct, but via Sky.
Knock £4m out of a distribution budget of £20m - that's a "required" saving of 20%.
The "content" budget for "red button" is £14.9m, which makes the service cost more to distribute than provide content for. The only other services that do this are BBC HD (£2.1m content, £8.2m distribution) and BBC Parliament (£2m content, £4.7m distribution).
Most services are content-cost heavy: BBC One, for example content is £1131m, distribution £51m (4.5%); BBC Two £421 and £21m, (4.9%), BBC Three £84.7m and £3.9m (4.6%).
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Friday 26 August 2011 1:50PM
Randall Evans: Bit hard to say without a full postcode, but see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for general advice.
The signal strengths are listed at the top of the page under "Comparison of analogue and digital signal levels".