Tuesday 28 April 2009

Freeview update ... what your TV licence should but might not get you ...

Last night's "Evening Telegraph" (see http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/output/2009/04/27/story13034197t0.shtm) gave readers an update on the recent TV reception issues (and my meeting this week with Digital UK).

It also highlighted a long-standing concern of mine that - even when all transmitters finally transmit digital signals (the relay transmitters currently don't) - the intention is to provide a reduced "Freeview Lite" service from transmitters like the Tay Bridge relay transmitter after 2010 - giving residents only 22 of the 58 TV and radio channels that others served by main transmitters (like the Angus transmitter which serves most of the north of the city) will get.

If you click on the headline above, my earlier update on this matter from just over a year ago gives some more of the background on this. The bottom line on this, I think is that TV licence payers are all entitled to the same number and quality of service and that principle has been breached - I view this as unacceptable.