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Biked service??

Not heard of this channel before, was it a prelude to VOD?

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Today l saw a new channel called 'talking pictures tv' and it shows old films and is free to air.

Does anyone know if this channel is coming to VM

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A biked channel was once which had its tapes delivered to the cable companies by courier (bike). I guess to know I meant HVC and not a well-known music shop :-)

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It is an super channel and carries quite a bit of Southern TV (ex ITV South from the 70s) material.

Most local tv channels carry six hours of it each day.

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Not in the near future, talking pictures has been broadcasting for quite awhile now on sky, freesat and freeview.
http://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/

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Lol, thanks for explaining, I'd not heard that expression before :D

But as Ozsat says, Arthur's local TV channel may broadcast a fair chunk of its output. On VM this is channel 159, not sure about the other platforms.

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Just shows what a waste of money these local channels are. If old black and white material that is available elsewhere is being regurgitated on the local channels, what on earth is the point of them? If I ever tuned into a local channel, I would be wanting to see the local news - and preferably not from 40 years ago!!

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A total waste of money IMO.

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AFAIK TPTV only have agreements with the "That's TV" run local channels, plus those in Northern Ireland, Brighton & Swansea.

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Made in Birmingham is on sky 117 i think i don't take much notice lol.

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Absolutely agree if i were to watch a local channel i'd want it to be programming about the local area and nearby surroundings, i'd like to see content such as local news, local events etc.

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Sheffield Live certainly seems to be, for 17 hours out of every 24 it relays Sheffield Live community radio with a photo slide show. The relatively few actual TV hours contain programmes in such well known Sheffield dialects as Arabic and Urdu. The minority communities are well catered for, local news and current affairs coverage seems like an afterthought.

Made in Leeds is better but whenever I've tuned in it seems to be showing weather updates or footage of the streets of Leeds filmed from a car. That or 1940's Sherlock Holmes films.

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Here in West Herts we had the first local cable channel to be launched in the UK (West Herts TV). They occupied two rooms at Telecential's Hemel base & put out 3 to 4 programmes a month on channel 6 of our old analogue system. The rest of the time was just a rolling text service of local events to the accompaniment of Sky Radio, (the Dutch music channel, nothing to do with UK Sky). Comtel scrapped the service a couple of years before digital was introduced.

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stupid question: is there a way to get things like all 4 on the tivo? the whole "box sets" thing and "catch up on demand" menu options miss most things i find.

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The BBC save £30m by moving BBC3 online.

The BBC3 online channel still cost £30m.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...nel-to-be.html

I can see BBC Two Scotland close with all the "Scottish shows" moving to BBC Scotland* - * as confirmed last week.

BBC is only adding £19m of new money - But BBC Scotland need to make £20m of UK Wide shows.

All the info was confirmed last week.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...or-bbc-in.html

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If your numbers are correct that is still 19 million of new money that was very much serving a greater need in my opinion.
I am 33 years old and do not feel that BBC caters for me in the slightest now they have done away with the BBC3 channel. Also because the budget for programming has shrunk (i seem to remember something about 12 million a year now they are online) they are taking far less risks. The type of shows they are commissioning for this online BBC3 have to also be suitable for a showing on BBC1 or 2, which i feel is stunting the type of content that the service is commissioning. They wasted money on a Top Gear spin off, FFS is that something that we really needed when nobody was watching the main Top Gear utter waste of time and money, but of course they did that because it was still a much safer option than something new. The BBC has a huge drama budget, i also do not want to see the BBC using money that is for BBC3 to basically commission and show dramas for BBC2 under the guise of this is BBC3. Where is the comedy that we were promised? We were promised the remit of this online BBC3 was going to be made you laugh or made you think and so far its done neither.

I was unhappy with the way it was the done but was a bit more accepting that ok there was a greater need for the BBC3 money. However that need was not to launch a +1 timeshift of BBC1, extend the hours of CBBC or launch BBC Scotland.

The gaul of it all is, i am forced to fund the BBC through a license fee i strongly oppose, because i choose to watch broadcast TV from other broadcasters that do provide a product that interests me.

Why do the Scottish get their own channel anyway? What about a service for the Welsh, English or Northern Irish? We all contribute to the license fee and do not have dedicated services.

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Made In Leeds is my local channel. I never watch it, but have just taken a look and they seem to have an old black & white film every afternoon.

I'm not sure if this is a Talking Pictures tie up or not.