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Originally Posted by AdamDigital
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. |
The studios in Nottingham closed yonks ago. Everything has been coming from Birmingham for some time. The East Midlands news is recorded earlier, then broadcast simultaneously with the live version for the West Midlands. You may have even seen the same presenters on both versions. The same happens with Anglia East & West regions, that both come from Norwich. The only difference is Arqiva have upgraded the links from the studios to carry 2 HD outputs simultaneously now, so no more “one sub region in SD & the other in HD”. If you are getting alternate regions (870) in HD then VMs MHE is being fed with all the upgraded feeds.
I think it will need a move from ITV to change PSB2 to DVB-T2 in order to get parity on Freeview. If it does happen that ITV 2, 3 or 4 closes it may become even more likely.