It appears that Pop may be on 24 hours a day on Freeview as it is now after 22.00 and it is staying going. You wonder how many children will be watching at this time of night they must have low audience figures.
The sky hours are 06:00-22:30 so it be interesting to see of it still on air after 22:30 i keep an eye on it.
Pop was removed from Virgin Media In Feb 2011 to make way for True Ent.
I guess the money saved by not being on Virgin has been used for the Pop Freeview slot.
Pop was removed from Virgin Media In Feb 2011 to make way for True Ent.
I guess the money saved by not being on Virgin has been used for the Pop Freeview slot.
Since that happened True Entertainment itself launched on Freeview. So any money saved would have surely gone towards True Ent's Freeview capacity. Although unlikely as two years passed between the Virgin change and the addition of the first CSC Media channel on Freeview.
More likely to turn into "Pop Tarts" or "Pop Shop" after a while?
It can't become an adult channel, if that's what you're alluding to. It's in the terms and conditions of the licence fee funding for the roll-out of the local TV multiplex.
It can't become an adult channel, if that's what you're alluding to. It's in the terms and conditions of the licence fee funding for the roll-out of the local TV multiplex.
I can't see there being a huge call for kids cartoons in the middle of the night mind, but with a kids tv channel 75 slot presumably restricted themselves to that unless they split the air time to another channel no. CBBC/BBC3 style?
does any one know when the Reigate area will get the local service or wont it be
Reigate was one of the areas where Ofcom found that it would be "technically feasible" to launch a local service (see the list of 16 areas at the bottom of this article: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/10/ofcom-bids-local-tv-services ), but they have not as yet advertised a licence, and I can't really imagine them ever seeing such a licence as being financially viable.
However I'm not sure why they couldn't have extended the Guildford licence across to Reigate so it could have countywide coverage.
Can you get a signal from Crystal Palace or do you use the Reigate transmitter? I can get the CP local mux down here.
Where I am in Reigate you certainly can't get Crystal Palace (unless perhaps you put an aerial on a tall pole) due to the screening effect of the North Downs. There is 0% signal on channel 29 where I am.
I can't see there being a huge call for kids cartoons in the middle of the night mind, but with a kids tv channel 75 slot presumably restricted themselves to that unless they split the air time to another channel no. CBBC/BBC3 style?
As they've apparently said it will only be on until 10pm, and there is now a licence for Chart Show TV, I wonder if we'll see the CBeebies/BBC4-style timesharing, with POP until 10pm and Chart Show TV overnight?
It may well be that POP is on 24hr currently simply because Comux haven't yet sorted out the facility to timeshare or show MHEG slides.
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The sky hours are 06:00-22:30 so it be interesting to see of it still on air after 22:30 i keep an eye on it.
26 June is the official on-air date.
All three muxes (not the channels themselves).
Source: Ofcom. There's a basic text copy of the timetable here.
More likely to turn into "Pop Tarts" or "Pop Shop" after a while?
You might be right there.:(
I guess the money saved by not being on Virgin has been used for the Pop Freeview slot.
It can't become an adult channel, if that's what you're alluding to. It's in the terms and conditions of the licence fee funding for the roll-out of the local TV multiplex.
I can't see there being a huge call for kids cartoons in the middle of the night mind, but with a kids tv channel 75 slot presumably restricted themselves to that unless they split the air time to another channel no. CBBC/BBC3 style?
When POP launched all it did show was old kids programmes, so it obviously didn't work out for the channel.
The Local TV multiplex hasn't arrived in your area yet.
However I'm not sure why they couldn't have extended the Guildford licence across to Reigate so it could have countywide coverage.
As they've apparently said it will only be on until 10pm, and there is now a licence for Chart Show TV, I wonder if we'll see the CBeebies/BBC4-style timesharing, with POP until 10pm and Chart Show TV overnight?
It may well be that POP is on 24hr currently simply because Comux haven't yet sorted out the facility to timeshare or show MHEG slides.