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RichardCoulter · 31-08-2019, 20:51

All being well, Now 90's hope to be back on Freeview at the end of September on a UK wide mux (their previous mux only covered 60% of the country).

Looks to me like their lease expired and they either didn't want to renew it as they are due to move to a better mux, or the owner of the mux didn't want to continue with the arrangement.

AFAIK, (not withstanding the temporary muxes), there are only a few hours overnight available on Freeview, so something else must be closing or moving to a temporary mux in order for Now 90's to have somewhere to move to.

Given that Now 90's performs better than Now 80's, you'd think that they would have temporarily closed Now 80's to keep Now 90's on air. Perhaps they didn't want to make any more changes than neccesary.

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RichardCoulter cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 10,067	Re: NOW 90s closes on Freeview? All being well, Now 90's hope to be back on Freeview at the end of September on a UK wide mux (their previous mux only covered 60% of the country). Looks to me like their lease expired and they either didn't want to renew it as they are due to move to a better mux, or the owner of the mux didn't want to continue with the arrangement. AFAIK, (not withstanding the temporary muxes), there are only a few hours overnight available on Freeview, so something else must be closing or moving to a temporary mux in order for Now 90's to have somewhere to move to. Given that Now 90's performs better than Now 80's, you'd think that they would have temporarily closed Now 80's to keep Now 90's on air. Perhaps they didn't want to make any more changes than neccesary.