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TV in Gibraltar
I'm just about to start a College project about British TV in Gibraltar.
Has anyone been there or currently lives there that could help me identify the main providers and what kind of channel lineups the services have? I've found U-mee thus far but couldn't find a channel lineup on their site, and they haven't responded to my queries. I'm not sure whether most folks there subscribe to this service or whether there are other players. Thanks for any help! |
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Well start googling !!!!
http://www.yourgibraltartv.com/news/...e-in-gibraltar And that webiste looks a good starting point !!! |
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Well start googling !!!!
http://www.yourgibraltartv.com/news/...e-in-gibraltar And that webiste looks a good starting point !!! I was hoping to hear from people who have visited or live there. |
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Would probably be helpful if you listed the pages you've looked at. This is a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commun...s_in_Gibraltar
Digital Spy is aimed more at the UK so a general forum about Gibraltar may yield stronger reults. |
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I have done an initial Google search and came across that page, but it doesn't tell me very much.
I was hoping to hear from people who have visited or live there. The Local TV is run by the local Government, It previously broadcast on analogue channel 8, vertical polarized, and was received along the Costa Del Sol as far as Fuengirola and parts of Benalmedina. Now that the transmission is digital it can be received on the rock and some parts of La Linea, Most people watch TV via cable and all the Spanish stations can be received together with a range of services in English. The BFBS, TV and radio, is relayed to troops on the rock. The BBC World Service continues to be relayed on 1485 AM with a rather low powered signal. After dark, on high ground, it is possible to receive Radio 4 on 198 LF, but this suffers from severe interference from Algeria. |
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Plenty of the bars had Sky installed when I was there but this was a good 10 years ago so I dont know if this is still the case.
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Plenty of the bars had Sky installed when I was there but this was a good 10 years ago so I dont know if this is still the case.
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gbc.gi is a good place to start...
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Just putting Gibraltar TV into Google produced 18 results. I suggest that there is no point in you doing this, or perhaps any, "project" if you can't even do that. As a project for college you will have to show what you have done, getting someone on DS to do all your work for you isn't going to cut it. What course are you doing? If it is media studies think again as it is not recognised in the media world as a valid qualification for anything apart from a Starbucks barista.
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I went to Gibraltar a few years back, and was surprised to find a rather ancient B&W turret lens image orthocon TV camera mounted on a Vinten dolly in the local museum. Can't remember if it was a PYE, EMI or Marconi, it's probably still there.
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So I found this and a channel lineup is included.
Can anyone in the know tell me whether this is rather like one of the old Spanish microwave retransmission services aimed at expats, and/or is it a service that is popular amongst expats? And I presume they have obtained legal & above board retransmission agreements with broadcasters like Sky and BT? |
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The BFBS method is to use DVB_T to distribute into Forces accommodation over co-ax, so its entirely private to the MoD. In other territories (eg Stanley and Tristrain da Chuna) low powered over-air is used, so the civilian populous can watch at least BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Sky News.
I always thought it a pity that Gib isn't an ITV region and that they don't have a 1 mega watt analogue transmitter on the top of the rock, putting a signal right up the Costa del Sol. If Gibraltar were French, that's exactly what they'd have done! Well, Associated Redifusion used to broadcast in Malta, so why not Gib too? |
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I have done an initial Google search and came across that page, but it doesn't tell me very much.
I was hoping to hear from people who have visited or live there. And to Arqiva.com which has other information .... And both have some dates and topics around which you may search the Gibraltar newspapers to give you some more information.... |
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The BFBS method is to use DVB_T to distribute into Forces accommodation over co-ax, so its entirely private to the MoD. In other territories (eg Stanley and Tristrain da Chuna) low powered over-air is used, so the civilian populous can watch at least BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Sky News.
I always thought it a pity that Gib isn't an ITV region and that they don't have a 1 mega watt analogue transmitter on the top of the rock, putting a signal right up the Costa del Sol. If Gibraltar were French, that's exactly what they'd have done! Well, Associated Redifusion used to broadcast in Malta, so why not Gib too? |
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Presumably the Spanish would complain if they transmitter putting out a high power signal, they like to complain about everything! What do they do in their colonies around the North West African coast, presumably they transmit to the Spanish colonists there?
http://oklivetv.com/rtv-ceuta-rtvce-live/ |
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According to wiki Gibraltar TV broadcasts on VHF as well as UHF. I've no idea how up to date that information is though....
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Interesting, yes they must do. Ceuta has a local station: RTVCE. RTVE distributes to all the Spanish islands and enclaves, so must be in Ceuta and Melilla. Presumably some if not all of the commercial DTT is there too.
http://oklivetv.com/rtv-ceuta-rtvce-live/ |
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Just putting Gibraltar TV into Google produced 18 results. I suggest that there is no point in you doing this, or perhaps any, "project" if you can't even do that. As a project for college you will have to show what you have done, getting someone on DS to do all your work for you isn't going to cut it. What course are you doing? If it is media studies think again as it is not recognised in the media world as a valid qualification for anything apart from a Starbucks barista.
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I always thought it a pity that Gib isn't an ITV region and that they don't have a 1 mega watt analogue transmitter on the top of the rock, putting a signal right up the Costa del Sol. If Gibraltar were French, that's exactly what they'd have done! Well, Associated Redifusion used to broadcast in Malta, so why not Gib too? "Redifusion Gibraltar- ITV in the sunshine". I like it. I like it a lot. I wonder if anyone ever considered it
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A bit (well a lot) too late now, but I think that station would have been massive in the 1970s and 80s as the package holiday boom to the Costa del Sol took off.
"Redifusion Gibraltar- ITV in the sunshine". I like it. I like it a lot. I wonder if anyone ever considered it ![]() |
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TVE (on the instructions of the Spanish government) always refused to give Gib TV a microwave feed which was the way most programmes were distributed in those days.Also meant Gib TV couldn't feed anything out.
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There was a spin-off series of the ITV Comedy 'On The Buses', starring the late Stephen Lewis as the retired 'Blakey' now living in mainland Spain in "Don't Drink the Water". In one episode he nearly gets arrested for trying to receive English language TV from Gibraltar (presumably episode #8 in series 2 on this list "What, No Telly?"). I vaguely remember watching this at the time. Broadcast in 1975 it's a reminder how poor the relationship between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar could be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27...ter_(TV_series) |
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But how would the ITV network signal have gotten to Gibraltar back then? I know that TVE used trans-Atlantic satellites to get the national news -- and only the national news -- live to its station in the Canary Islands in the 1970s, but satellite transmissions were very expensive at the time, so I'm having a hard time imagining a full-time UK-to-Gibraltar satellite link for such a small population.
The only live UK TV service into Europe (pre satellite) that I'm aware of was BFBS's operation in the early 80s, that relayed live (and recorded) BBC and ITV programmes into Germany. Europe's longest microwave link was established, from Wembley deep into Germany. https://youtu.be/CJemXKSEIvY |
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But how would the ITV network signal have gotten to Gibraltar back then? I know that TVE used trans-Atlantic satellites to get the national news -- and only the national news -- live to its station in the Canary Islands in the 1970s, but satellite transmissions were very expensive at the time, so I'm having a hard time imagining a full-time UK-to-Gibraltar satellite link for such a small population.
No idea why we don't do it with our overseas territories. |
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www.viewtelly.com
Has a good few UK channels |
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