Thank you

Nothing yet. It took them a few days to get round all the regions last time.

Not sure if this is common throughout the country but it appears that the new BBC locals on Freeview are broadcasting in mono.

Thanks. Please keep us posted.

Olivers Mount should be the same as Emley Moor.

Thanks. I think Oliver's Mount is a relay but for some reason it is shown on maps similar to a main transmitter.

Looking at the IDs, BBC London should be on LCN 719 (as the rest with ID 3200 are), but it's on 721, where the channels with ID 3400 are. And one of those channels is coming to Crystal Palace. So... I think BBC London has just been keeping 721 warm and will move to 719 when this next batch launch.

3200 - 719
3300 - 720
3400 - 721
3500 - 722
3600 - 734 (or 726 if DUK are LCN sharing)
3700 - 735 (or 729 if DUK are LCN sharing)

Shropshire should be on the same Mux as the rest of the West Midlands. As Stoke seems to be on the North West mux maybe it's Shropshire not Stoke on the W Mids

Presumably Kent and Sussex are on the South East region so that's just Surrey, Berkshire, 3Counties and Essex in addition to London. So that's not more than other regions have

Shropshire is still missing from Sutton Coldfield and yes it is Stoke that is there. What is on Sutton Coldfield is shown in a previous post including SID numbers. The radio sttions have the same SID numbers even if they are on more than one transmitter but the PIDs can vary.

Odd, wonder why it's been missed.... unless they're going to introduce a new Mux for The Wrekin, which is very unlikely

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Mendip has the following added in addition to Radio Bristol:

6209: BBC Radio Gloucestershire
6211: BBC Radio Solent
6273: BBC Wiltshire
6337: BBC Somerset

No other info is known as yet.

All five locals on Waltham are in 80kbps Mono.

The service is mainly for people on the move in hotel rooms etc, a job it does very well. People at home have access to normal radios. It would be unreasonable to transmit fewer services in stereo for the tiny number who want to listen or record local radio at home this way.

In which case it would be nice if Hotels would add them then (and give access to the EPG too)... (which to be fair smaller B&B's seem to manage with just fine).

The other side effect of all the LR being on Freeview is that MW becomes even less needed in most areas.... (i.e. DAB (or FM) out and about with Freeview taking over at home in the blackspots)

Oliver's Mount was a relay in the analogue days, but because it carries all 6 muxes, it's fibre fed for DTT, so that's why it now gets listed as a 'main'. However it's in the the same SIPSI group as Emley, so it will mirror that.

Thanks for that clarification.

Also as mentioned on the last page it's up to the way most the stations are delivered to the coding and muxing centres. I'm pretty sure the online streams are mono too. That will change as it's being replaced

This is a really good point -- broadcasters across Europe are switching off MW, and the BBC needs to keep cutting costs. Having local radio stations available on Freeview will help them do both.

The BBC shut down some CBBC and CBeebies text services a few weeks ago. Does anyone know how much bandwidth they used -- presumably, that is partly where the capacity to add these new radio services is coming from.

6211 is the Dorset version of Radio Solent.

Just a reminder, and to assist anyone trying to identify which channels have been added to their regional mux, I listed the SID allocations in an earlier post: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=77340868

Thanks for that clarification. Any news on North East, Border region, South East, South, South West and Channel Islands yet?

Thanks

The data stream bitrates have not changed, as far as I know.

I haven't been able to lock onto the signal for Bilsdale but did notice, last night, that there are 4 extra audio streams. Presumably, North East & Cumbria will carry Radio Tees and Radio Cumbria, in addition to the Radio Newcastle service already carried. The most likely candidates for the other 2 streams are Radio York and Radio Lancashire (the only overlap areas). As I can't actually see the SID numbers, I can't confirm this.

Interesting. I would assume if you managed to store the channels you will be able to see the SID numbers? Depends what equipment you are using I suppose!

It was with Transedit, I could see that individual streams were present and the stream IDs (PIDs) but the signal strength was basically at the noise floor so the software wouldn't even recognise the signal as DVB-T.