Re: No terrestrial TV in Cambridge?

In article <43149b6d$0$22939$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Doctor D <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "John" <JohnZIZnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:df0t4o$55c$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > tony sayer wrote:
> >
> > > > Does anyone know what happened in Cambridge last night? All the
> > > > analogue channels disappeared (although Five seemed to come back
> > > > after an hour or two), and I hear the digital ones did too. I've no
> > > > idea when they came back, cos I went to bed.
> > > >
> > > > Dan.
> > >
> > > Widespread mains failure in the area....
> >
> > Reminds me of when a BBC transmitter was turned off by the local
> > electric board, when the BBC didn't pay the electric bill.
> >
> > An administrative ***-up was the cause.
> >

> Are you talking here by any chance of Fareham MF?

> When it went unmanned nobody thought about telling the Southern
> Electricity Board that they had "moved out" and the bills started piling
> up on the doormat until they were cut off ! :-)

You'd have thought that even if "unmanned" there would have been 3 monthly
visits, which would have led the bills being spotted. And, didn't the bills
go straight to Engineering Accounts anyway?

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