Re: No Freeview in the channel islands

In article <Qjyhi.7401$nE2.6677@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Piggy <The Pig@xxxxx> wrote:

"Boltar" <boltar2003@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1183231976.032517.25970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I thought digital TV was being rolled out everywhere in the british
isles? Seems someone forgot about our cousins in the channel. Anyone
know why Freeview isn't available there? Is it because the toytown
governments on jersey and guernsey there don't want it or is there
some other reason?

Apparently the digital signals would interfere with French Transmitters
was the last announced reason, but they have plans to switch over in
2013.

Effectively you are correct. there are no extra channels available for
DTTV. However the existing channels will eventually carry the service.

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