Yes, some parts of Nambucca are in a bad spot for free to air TV…
Poor line of sight to the local Mt Moombil site (near Dorrigo) and too far from Middle Brother (south of Kew).
I am a little surprised there isn’t a low powered in fill from Mt Yarrahapinni to fix up these parts… and there are probably others too.
It’s been a while now since I’ve travelled as far as the North Coast, but I thought NBN News up there was structured similar to how things are in Newcastle & Central Coast on weeknights in that they have separate windows for local news/sport for the individual submarkets but region-wide weather.
Also if Yamba is officially part of the Mid North Coast viewing area, then it’s interesting how NBN News considers that location (at least Weather wise) to be part of the Far North Coast area.
The last time I was there it was NBN but this time it was Imparja. The only HD channels were ABC and SBS
Take a drive around Yamba on street view - do most of the aerials point towards Nardi (Far North) NW from Yamba or Moombil (Mid Notth) SW from Yamba?
Been years since I’ve been there, I just drive by and marvel at the Clarence’s own version of the Gateway Bridge:
Myswitch is also an equally good resource for this.
It seems to suggest that the majority of the Yamba area gets better reception from Mt Nardi than Moombil (which is still listed as good in many parts but has more pockets of variable coverage). Though Yamba is within the defined Mid North Coast viewing area (the blue borders that appear on it)
VAST channels in hotels and caravan parks are now quite common in some remote towns even in VIC, NSW and TAS.
While some of these towns may have had local analog re-transmissions before the digital switch-off, it was deemed not cost effective to setup a local digital re-transmission site to replace these so these towns are now on VAST (individual satellite dishes on every home and business) and forced to endure Alice Springs/Mt Isa advertising.
Story time: Back in the day, I used to watch GO!, Ten (SC10) and Eleven pretty often on an analogue TV connected to a HD MPEG-2 set top box (Strong SRT 5405). When we upgraded to an MPEG-4 digital TV around 2012, we stopped having “family viewings” of Couch Time and The Simpsons (as it was back then) and went with our own TV viewing lives, as it is today (mainly 10/WIN). I recall seeing the TV being tuned onto GEM pretty often in 2015, and I even got my mum hyped for 9Life’s regional launch. Dad used to LOVE 7mate but he currently prefers to watch bogan car shows on DVD.
Ok.
Where’s the milk and cookies?
When 9GemHD lunched in Newcastle the names of all NBN channels are now lower case
Were any multichannels available without rescanning if they took over currently-in-use LCNs? I recall Eleven (via Southern Cross Ten) was available without rescanning (thus without an LCN change) after the loop took over LCN 55, and I actually spotted said loop back in the day…
With most modern tuners (much like DAB+), they automatically refresh the channel list when they turn on. The rescan function is only really for scanning in new muxes.
Yes they are smarter than DVB-T tuners which often require a rescan just to pick up a change in channel name.
For some reason, sub titles on news updates for Channel 7’s “The Latest” are half the size they should be eg. there shouldn’t be any gap between the two lines. It was like this last night as well. Normal programming is fine however.
ABC Radio stations, including Local Radio from the relevant capital cities, will be available on Digital TV from Tuesday 3rd September.
It’s about time that the ABC followed in the footsteps of SBS by broadcasting all their radio channels (albeit with Local Radio just being the feed from the relevant state/territory capital city and no ABC Grandstand) on DVB-T.
Good use of their spectrum I reckon. I wonder if they’ll adopt VAST style LCN allocations?
Cool, shame they can’t do ABC Grandstand
@Dan_Abbott Why so sad?
I should have clicked the link! It looks like they’re taking after SBS and using both the 2 digit and 3 digit LCNs. I think it will look messy. Should have just kept them all on 2xx.
Possibly concerned about what TV channels might have a reduction in bandwidth to fit in the eight new radio streams?
Although I personally think it’s reasonable to expect the radio services of our taxpayer funded national broadcasters to be available through as many platforms (including DVB-T) as possible, especially in this day and age.
I agree, it’d be better to have all the streams in the 200s. Perhaps something among these lines:
200: ABC Local Radio
201: ABC RN
202: ABC News Radio
203: ABC Classic
204: Triple J
205: Triple J Unearthed
206: Double J
207: ABC Jazz
208: ABC Country
209: ABC KIDS Listen
