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Old 30-08-2016, 08:39   #26
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Re: BBC Parliament coming to BBC2.
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Sigh ...

This is following a familiar pattern isn't it? You know, the one where you propose an idea, several people explain why it might not be practical, and then you just dig in and insist you're right.

First: please answer my question. You insist the BBC could repeat some of their entertainment shows overnight. Yet the fact is, they don't. You have rejected explanations that have been offered to you. So please, offer an explanation of your own. Why do you think they don't do it?

Second: both Richard and I explained what, in practical terms, "close down" means for a digital tv station. You either didn't bother to read it or you didn't understand it. Let me try again. A digital broadcast consists of several channels on one frequency. Even if all the staff of one channel switch off and go home for the night, the multiplex that carries their channel is still being transmitted, even if it carries no data for their channel. The service may "close down", however the actual broadcast of the frequency carrying the channel does not.

BBC4, seeing as we're talking about it, shares its portion of the broadcast multiplex with CBeebies, which operates daily from 6am to 7pm. So that portion of the multiplex is actually only unused for 2 hours every night. I doubt they think it's worthwhile simulcasting anything for those two hours. The hours from 4am are when even many of the channels that repeat shows overnight give up and switch to teleshopping.

May I finally repeat my main question: why do you think the BBC does not repeat its shows overnight on BBC1 and/or BBC2?
You are being pedantic in the extreme, Chris! You can use whatever term you like to describe it, but if it pleases you, let's say that BBC1 and 2 could carry 'no data' for their channel during the said wee small hours. Is that better? However, I think most would describe it as a 'close down' because in the past that's what the daily cessation of transmission has been called.

Of course, you are correct in saying that BBC4 shares with a children's channel, but your argument about the significance of closing down (as most would describe it) is made pointless when you admit that no data is sent for 2 hours after BBC4 ceases broadcasting for the night.

I have no idea why the Beeb chooses to simulcast rather than repeat all or some of its prime time viewing. The reasons you have given don't really hold water. If minor channels can do it, so can they. However, I am sure your creative talents will enable you to come up with some major barrier or other to a perfectly feasible suggestion. Strewth, I'm glad you're not in charge of the Brexit talks!
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