Re: Good old BBC

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:22:24 +0000, Josiah Jenkins
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:28:35 +0000, Charles Ellson
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In Scotland BBC anti independence propaganda has reached such
blatant
proportions that even the Brit Nats admit it. You have to be
here,literally, because they won't allow people outside Scotland to
access Scottish news.

Paranoid nonsense, Chic. You can receive all the BBC and ITV regions
on
satellite TV. When STV dropped a couple of my wife's favourite
networked
programmes in favour of locally produced (i.e. cheaper) dross, she
simply watched them on ITV London.

I won't invoke McGodwin's rule but your use of the P word must be some
kind of record.

You lied. You lose.

Note this thread is about BBC. STV/ITV are still available on line.

And all the BBC's regional radio and TV broadcasts are free-to-air to
anyone within the footprint of the Astra(?) satellite. Your claim that
"they won't allow people outside Scotland to access Scottish news" is
paranoid nonsense. So there! (And who are 'they', anyway?)

All politicians always claim that the BBC is biased against them whatever
party they are from - though in this case I think Chic may have a point as
to the Nats not getting a fair deal. However you are right in that the
idea that Reporting Scotland is not on I-Player because they don't want
those outwith Scotland to see it is a bit over the top in the conspiracy
theory stakes. It would make sense if all the other UK equivilent
programmes were on there but I've just checked and certainly at the moment
none of them are. For those outwith the UK! On BBC1 we get a UK wide main
news at 6PM which lasts for about 30 minutes which is then followed by the
weather than a 25 minute news programme more aimed at the specific nations
and regions. In Scotland we get Reporting Scotland whilst Wales and
Northern Ireland have their equivilents as do the English regions. For
instance there is Look North (for northern England) there is Look East for
East Anglia and the London News for London etc etc etc. None of these
non-UK wide news programmes are on I-Player. So people in Norwich can't
see what is happening in the Scottish show but neither can people in
Scotland see what is happening in East Anglia. There are only so many
shows on I-Player! There is some Scottish news content on it though as
both Newsnight Scotland and Scotland at Ten are on at the moment.

Allan
Almost right. Allan, BBC NEWS24 does not cut to local area news but shows
London News.
All BBC local channels are on BSkyB

FreeSat acksherly. The Beeb threw of Uncle Rupert's shackles a few
years ago but that hasn't stopped him and his newspaper allies
implying that you need to pay him to see the BBC. IIRC the only
dependancy now on $ky is with the uplink to the Astra satellite.

SIS handles a lot of the uplinks.

Indeed but the final broadcast links are usually forced to travel via
wherever the various accompanying FreeSat and $ky EPG and other
information has to be added, although I'm not sure if that includes
the basic "Now and Next" programme information. ISTR this crops up
when someone has to explain why BBC services are occasionally screwed
up by a failure of something in Uncle Rupert's electrickery going
wrong.

'SIS LIVE is Europe’s largest supplier of satellite uplinks.
In the UK, we provide contracted satellite services to all the
major broadcasters — BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, GMTV,
Sky News and Sky Sports.

If you are watching a live feed in the UK, the chances are that
it is being transmitted by a SIS LIVE truck using our own
500 MHz of leased satellite capacity.

We uplink 100,000 hours of live events every year and 80%
of live news feeds across the UK are delivered by SIS LIVE.'

Who owns the big dish farm at the side of the Thames ?

Which side of which part of the Thames ?

Tracksat.com shows :-

Arqiva Docklands Teleport
Pier Road North Woolwich
London
E16 2JJ
=========
DFA London Teleport
Unit 1/1 Harbour Yard Chelsea Harbour
London
SW10 OXD
=========
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