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Originally Posted by nodrogd
Virgin sources their ITVHD feeds directly from Arqiva, not from satellite. All these new regions are now being uplinked from Crawley Court for Sky/Freesat, so it’s just a question of whether these are being piped on to the Langley MHE for VM to distribute. There are currently no changes to Freeview services.
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As of yesterday (20 October), channel 113 on VM here in Nottingham was showing ITV Central East News (albeit from Birmingham
) in glorious High Definition (or at least, upscaled SD). Similarly, ITV Yorkshire was showing Calendar for Humberside (from a studio in Leeds
) in HD on channel 870.
I've read in other forums that to change the Freeview transmitters to show the correct subregions on Freeview channel 103 is difficult as the BBC owns the HD multiplex (PSB3) and doesn't want to share with ITV the cost of rearranging the multiplexing set-up to allow full regionalisation.