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The Craft Channel
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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I always jokingly say 'that someone hasn't paid their broadcasting bill!"
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I always jokingly say 'that someone hasn't paid their broadcasting bill!"
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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looks like it has ceased broadcasting on freeview according to a post on its facebook page
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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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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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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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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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Uninteresting what happens on COM 8 as so few can receive it.
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Uninteresting what happens on COM 8 as so few can receive it.
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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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Roughly 70% coverage though obviously limited to those with DVB-T2 receivers.
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Both measures are correct but population coverage does give a misleading idea of what I would accept as "real" coverage.
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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.
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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.
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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No, and posting the same question on two threads won't make it happen either.
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I'm sorry it was only to get the most people to see it
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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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Can I ask how much it costs to broadcast through freeview and how this compares to Sky?
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