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Dude111

10-01-2023 23:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh

1995 - Jones Cable Leeds

Was that digital Mate?

Maybe parts were in 95 but I dont know if any cable company had full blown digital in 95...

Media Boy UK

10-01-2023 23:08

Re: When did your area first get digital cable?

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Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36143490)

Digital? ;)

We were about that (United Artists) for cable. I can’t be too far from MB - digital was Telewest here too after the market consolidation.

When cable did arrive to my area in early 1995 it was called United Artists until it was rebranded as Telewest around 1997/1998 on rebrand day Telewest did launch The Racing Channel and move The Performace Channel on Channel 37 in my area.

But someone in my family lost performace channel for over the month as he did turn his box off overnight.

Rillington

11-01-2023 16:49

Re: When did your area first get digital cable?

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36143485)

1995 - Jones Cable Leeds

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dude111 (Post 36143524)

Was that digital Mate?

Maybe parts were in 95 but I dont know if any cable company had full blown digital in 95...

No.

Digital television didn't begin until autumn 1998 and it wasn't until at elast mid-1999 that digital first became available for cable subscribers.

Hugh	11-01-2023 16:56

Re: When did your area first get digital cable?

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Originally Posted by Rillington (Post 36143564)

Wasn't it first in Leeds in 1994?

1995 saw cable start to appear in York. By then it was Bell Cablemedia. Leeds was the main hub for the franchise which also included Harrogate as well as York, and I presume it was also 1995 for harrogate.

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No.

Digital television didn't begin until autumn 1998 and it wasn't until at elast mid-1999 that digital first became available for cable subscribers.

Yes, but the build didn’t reach our location until early ‘95 (may have been late ‘94, but can’t remember).

I was employee number 50 at Jones Cable Leeds - started 3rd January 1994, and it became BCM in July ‘95 (we all changed our company cars from Mondeos to A4s).

Rankrotten

14-01-2023 00:20

Re: When did your area first get digital cable?

CableTel analogue in 1995 and digital around 2000

Maggy

14-01-2023 09:39

Re: When did your area first get digital cable?

C&W for the phone.Sometime in the 90s.TV a little later.

Dude111

15-01-2023 10:18

Thank you for your entry Maggy :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh

I was employee number 50 at Jones Cable Leeds - started 3rd January 1994, and it became BCM in July ‘95 (we all changed our company cars from Mondeos to A4s).

Wow I didnt realise you worked at a cable company.... Good for you mate :)

g0mit

15-01-2023 20:14

Re: When did your area first get digital cable?

Telewest Liverpool 1990

gunner45

21-01-2023 18:38

Re: When did your area first get digital cable?

About 25 years ago in 1998 I subscribed to Cable London in Haringey and was one of the first to migrate to digital (in the following year I think but not sure exactly when) and got the replacement STB. Rather oddly Telewest, which took complete control of Cable London in 1999, continued to offer analogue in its Cable London franchises until November 2009.

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