Re: Post-Switchover Mux Allocations

In message <RIKdnQmLXvX0_t7anZ2dnUVZ8rednZ2d@xxxxxxxxx>, Mike <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:47:43 +0000 (GMT), charles
<charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <a60sj399dkkmvenf7n6apt1ks9ag6rdnot@xxxxxxx>,
Marky P <bromham_hospital_band@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:30:45 -0000, "Doctor D" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>>
>> Actually Wenvoe isn't too good at the hotel either. I once 20+ years
>> ago had to go and look for BBC Wales signals since the BBC Welsh
>> Governors were due to have a meeting there. From the photos the
>> building seems much larger now than it was then, so perhaps they can
>> now get decent signal with a rooftop aerial.
>
>Speaking as a Welshman, I suspect they are one of the few groups of
>people who would prefer Welsh TV.
>
>I stayed at the Angel Hotel in Cardiff three years ago and was dismayed
>to find I had the choice of only 4 channels, one of which was in Welsh!
>I'm not a big TV watcher, but the hotel is so noisy that I hardly slept.
>A radio or some extra TV channels would have been nice. If you have to
>stay here, insist on a room at the back, and take ear plugs.
>
From what I hear, it sounds as if most people in Wales don't like Welsh
TV? I thought the Welsh were very patriotic and hated anything to do
with the English. Have things changed? I like Wales and Welsh people.
Never understood the point of hating people you don't know.

Many years ago, a Welsh clergyman said to me - at the time when BBC Wales
showed a locally made programme instead of the Commonwealth Games, where
Welsh athletes were winning medals - "After all, my congregation do
understand English.". It isn't that the Welsh don't want programmes in
Welsh, they don't like to miss out on the English ones.

Just like when, as an outsider approaching a group in conversation,
they revert to jabbering Welsh until they think you are out of
earshot, at which point they revert to perfect English. Quite
amusing when the wind blows the conversation downwind or even better
the person you are walking with has a good working knowledge of Welsh.


Many years ago (1975?), a works colleague and I were on a business trip to Treorchy, and we had to spend a couple of nights there. In the evening, we dined in a pub ('chicken in a basket', I recall!). The TV was on BBC1. A new programme started with the announcement "This is BBC TV Wales, Teleweli Cymru", and proceeded in the Welsh language. Almost in unison, the locals at the bar cried (in broad Welsh accents) "Oh bloody 'ell!", and switched over to ITV. I've never forgotten this.
--
Ian
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