FrequencyCast Show 85 has just been released.
Here’s what we cover in our March 2013 show:
- News: Sky buys o2 Broadband, and BT buys ESPN Sports
- Focus: Is local TV worth a watch?
- Challenge: Kelly vs. Amateur Radio
- Discussed: 4G vs. Freeview interference
- Featured: Echostar PVR and Slingbox
- Feedback: YouView multiroom and Linux
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Find out how Kelly gets on at her amateur radio training session
Show Links:
- Show Notes and Transcripts for Show 85: https://www.frequencycast.co.uk/cast85.html
- Kelly vs. Amateur Radio (Video): https://www.frequencycast.co.uk/kellyar
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Re: local TV.
Taunton in Somerset, where I live, had its own TV station in around 2000 or so – on the terrestrial network.
It went through various phases, originally being little more than just relaying Sky News and QVC a lot of the time – it bought in a wildlife programme, Toyota World Of Wildlife, a sports programme called Gillette World Sports Special and a programme from a TV station in either Southampton or the Isle of Wight about films – they had a local news programme – later, they came up with what they called “teleradio” – they put presenters in a radio studio and had them play music, like a radio station on the telly – the music was accompanied by a bulletin board – on for most of the day – later, they did away with Sky News and QVC and took its news from the now-defunct ITV News channel – also had a few programmes about films that ITV used to show at weekends and in the middle of the night – they made their own soap, EastReachers – partly a pun on EastEnders and the fact that their studios are on East Reach – made by and starring drama students from the local art college, it was about fictional students – the station just disappeared one morning, never to return!