Ian Brady: poor BBC reporting yet again

[old_windbag]

Yes there is:-

https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Belmont

Also quite a powerful transmitter.

Heres your winter hill transmitter....... and lower power too https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Winter_Hill

The above I remember from the IBA engineering anouncements, who remembers those. There was still a coded button sequence on freeview to access the test card and other engineering related screens. On a recent test it seemed to have gone but it may vary from box to box.

https://ukfree.tv/article/1107052442/How_do_I_get_a_test_card_with_Freeview

Edit: it appears theres a new page number but supposedly still exists https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2248655/freeview-test-card

[thirdcrank]

Yes.

I understand why there are anomalies with the areas reached by BBC regional programmes. Our outdoor aerial gets the stuff intended for Yorkshire while an indoor aerial at the back gets the stuff from Newcastle. What does surprise me is that the BBC doesn't seem to recognise this by tailoring the regional stuff to the areas reached.

[old_windbag]

TC are you using autosearch when tuning in your television. It sounds as if the aerials you have are either pointing at a far off transmitter( i.e pontop pike or bilsdale ) or they are picking up those signals because you have a wideband aerial or the same group as your transmitter and the tuner is sensitive enough to pick the stray signal too within the aerials reception angle. Sometimes autotune will overwrite the wanted channel found with the signal from the unwanted transmitter, I've had that happen so now I manually tune using the channel number for each freeview mux on the transmitter my aerial is pointing at. So far that has worked.

Not sure about tailoring programmes as they can only broadcast from the transmitter they know serves that area, i.e. pontop pike puts out look north newcastle version, but pontop pikes coverage will overlap with the edge of other transmitters for another area. At the boundaries its choosing which is the better strength signal to pick. With digital transmission it's more noticeable when the signal quality rolls off!

[pete75]

Yes.

I understand why there are anomalies with the areas reached by BBC regional programmes. Our outdoor aerial gets the stuff intended for Yorkshire while an indoor aerial at the back gets the stuff from Newcastle. What does surprise me is that the BBC doesn't seem to recognise this by tailoring the regional stuff to the areas reached.

The same applies to ITV companies operating from the same transmitters as well. I know it's fashionable for right leaning folk to knock the BBC but play fair.
In any case, as I said, the regional stuff from Belmont is intended for the bulk of it's transmission area Lincolnshire and East Yorks.
East Anglian stuff comes from Tacolneston and Sandy Heath but in some areas of North Norfolk reception is better from Belmont so folk tune their TVs to that.