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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I never knew that! You learn something everyday 
Was this in vision or audiably? I have heard of cable companies in the past making eg flood warning announcements on top of the TV audio.
Would they do this today? Do they still have the technical capability to do so after years of consolidation?
Yes, I often wondered that too. Did they only do this on channels that they owned? Didn't Telewest end up with the formerly United Artists owned channels? Obviously these channels ended up being owned by VM who sold them off to Sky.
ISTR that previous freeview periods on VM have either not happened or have started and/or ended early. The reasons given at the time were that amending the encryption was much more problematic for cable than satellite. |
It was a on-screen banner across the bottom of the screen if my memory serves me correct.