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Old 05-12-2016, 13:31
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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??
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Old 05-12-2016, 13:43
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I always jokingly say 'that someone hasn't paid their broadcasting bill!"
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Old 05-12-2016, 13:58
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I always jokingly say 'that someone hasn't paid their broadcasting bill!"
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.
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Old 05-12-2016, 15:17
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looks like it has ceased broadcasting on freeview according to a post on its facebook page
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Old 05-12-2016, 16:28
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That's fine if channel has gone. Could this mean a proper entertainment channel takes the space or isn't it as easy as that .....
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Old 05-12-2016, 16:35
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Yes, The Craft Channel has been removed confirmed by a signal check on COM8: http://en.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php...ng=en&mux=COM8
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Old 05-12-2016, 18:32
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That's fine if channel has gone. Could this mean a proper entertainment channel takes the space or isn't it as easy as that .....
There was already space going begging on COM8 but nobody wants it.
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Old 05-12-2016, 19:52
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That's fine if channel has gone. Could this mean a proper entertainment channel takes the space or isn't it as easy as that .....
No, and posting the same question on two threads won't make it happen either.
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Old 05-12-2016, 22:12
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Uninteresting what happens on COM 8 as so few can receive it.
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Old 05-12-2016, 22:24
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Uninteresting what happens on COM 8 as so few can receive it.
Roughly 70% coverage though obviously limited to those with DVB-T2 receivers.
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Old 05-12-2016, 23:20
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Time to carry on getting rid of more rubbish on the platform and replace it with better things.
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Old 06-12-2016, 06:30
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Roughly 70% coverage though obviously limited to those with DVB-T2 receivers.
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.
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Old 06-12-2016, 09:45
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Both measures are correct but population coverage does give a misleading idea of what I would accept as "real" coverage.
It's a lot less misleading than population coverage figures given by mobile phone companies. With mobile phones, geographical coverage is important; with Freeview, far less so as the vast majority will watch it in their houses with a fixed aerial.
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Old 06-12-2016, 11:15
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It's a lot less misleading than population coverage figures given by mobile phone companies. With mobile phones, geographical coverage is important; with Freeview, far less so as the vast majority will watch it in their houses with a fixed aerial.
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.
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Old 06-12-2016, 11:28
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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.
But you are forgetting it is a commercial operation. No-one is going to pay out for the extra 30% coverage if it is going to cost disproportionately more to achieve that.

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.
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Old 06-12-2016, 19:07
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No, and posting the same question on two threads won't make it happen either.
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.....
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Old 06-12-2016, 19:37
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I'm sorry it was only to get the most people to see it
it doesn't work like that, is bad netiquette and causes confusion as to which post to respond to.

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.
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Old 07-12-2016, 12:29
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Can I ask how much it costs to broadcast through freeview and how this compares to Sky?
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