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The Craft Channel
stuharris63
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Seems The Craft Channel may be having issues, all morning it has been coming up "service is not available".
Another channel bitten the dust??
Another channel bitten the dust??
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Quite possible, just looked at their facebook page which said last week they had "internal issues" and certain items hadn't been dispacted and a lot of the programmes were repeats. However it said everything should be back to normal on Monday. Obviously it appears not!
I did wonder how 3 craft channels would last on Freeview, considering the big names who Create & Craft and Hochanda have working with them.
There was already space going begging on COM8 but nobody wants it.
No, and posting the same question on two threads won't make it happen either.
70% population rather than geographical though. Reality is it is available to a smallish number of highly populated areas. A bit like BT who always use population coverage to mask the lack of physical coverage. Both measures are correct but population coverage does give a misleading idea of what I would accept as "real" coverage.
That's true but there's still very large areas that cannot watch it that way. I just think it masks the true scale of what isn't covered if that makes any sense.
By that I mean that the cost to cover the extra 30% is more than roughly half as much again as they are paying for 70% coverage. If it is going to cost, say, twice as much as it currently does then the extra income from advertising for the TV companies isn't going to cover the increased transmission costs.
Not to mention that with COM 7 & 8 there are added technical reasons for the reduced coverage, due to the very limited number of UHF channels they can use and the potential for mutual interference that could result. And of course they are not "permanent" either so all in all not much incentive to invest huge amounts to increase coverage significantly.
I'm sorry it was only to get the most people to see it and hopefully next year Freeview will go from strength to strength.....
Freeview has been going from strength to strength for some time and keeps running out of allocated space, be it EPG or mux space.