channel cutoff at 5am

Chrysalis · 15-06-2004, 05:03

why does ntl cut some channels of at 5am

e4 and challenge tv both go off at 5am on my box, challenge defenitly was carrying on because nightmare (old childrens show) was just starting but as soon as my ntl box hit 5am the ntl blue screen came on, and I noticed e4 is off at 5am as well.

handyman · 15-06-2004, 08:08

That will be the contract time they have to show the channel for, if e4 wanted to broadcast on ntl for longer they could.

magpie · 15-06-2004, 16:05

Analogue contracts are different to digital ones. Also, those channels might be timesharing with others.

Chrysalis · 15-06-2004, 19:23

do digital viewers of ntl get these channels 24/7 then?

challenge was just replaced by ntl advert on blue screen, e4 was replaced by a news channel.

JonSav1 · 15-06-2004, 20:20

In a word, yes.

If I remember rightly, E4 is on from 2pm until end of Tx and CNBC is on from 5am to 9am on channel 27 (Leicester Analogue).

Challege is on 5pm-5am and timeshares with UK Documentaries(?) 9/10am to 4pm.

there are a few others like this on the Leicester analogue system, but they are the two you seem to want to know about.

~Jon

Chrysalis · 17-06-2004, 05:00

I see why anaogue is cheaper then :~