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Subject: Re: BBC Radio 1 and 3

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Outsider

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Date Posted: 02:47:39 01/09/04 Fri
In reply to: Outsider 's message, "Re: BBC Radio 1 and 3" on 02:14:47 01/09/04 Fri

>>Well, everybody seems to know that there is some spare
>>space on transponder 38 of Astra 2B (where Radio 2 and
>>Radio 4FM coming from), but last official statement
>>from the Beeb is(I contact them yesterday) that there
>>isn't. Apparently, they would have to hire another
>>bandwith on UK viewers/listeners expense which is
>>totally out of the question. They gave us Radio 2 and
>>Radio 4FM simply because there was a spare bandwith
>>already hired for BBC bloody i.
>
>I think this is not the whole truth, even if there
>were no free capacity in the Astra 2B transponder they
>could also take one BBCi stream from Astra 2B to 2D
>and move all the radios from 2D to 2B. I don't know
>how the bitrates of the radios vs. one BBCi stream
>would exactly match but I dare to say it's more due to
>lack of will than due to technical reasons not to put
>the radios onboard Astra 2B.

Well, actually it seems there is free space on Astra 2D TP50 for one additional BBCi stream and removing this from 2B TP38 would create the there space for at least most of the radios.

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Re: BBC Radio 1 and 3	Expat	03:18:49 01/09/04 Fri