New TV chanel

Luckily living in the Midlands seems I will miss out on that 

But it does sound like it will be utter tosh!

Some of us rejected the use and ownership of television sets years [or in my case decades] ago.

What is worth watching may be seen on youtube in due course in any case.

ATB from George

It'll be on Freeview Channel 8 - other parts of the country will be getting their own local stations in due course.

From what I have seen, it will be a mixture of repeats of old shows (some of them, like 2012, are well worth seeing), and local news and programming.

The channel is owned by the Lebedevs, who also own the Evening Standard - an excellent paper these days - and the Indy.

Unfortunately they also seem to have a bit of a "yoof" slant, which does not bode well. But we shall see tomorrow.

It's a good job that not everyone shares your attitude George - otherwise no programmes would get made at all. People, be they writers, actors, directors, costume and set designers, editors, camera operators, etc need to be paid for their efforts.

Perhaps it will show City bankers counting their bonus money  

We now have 'Mustard TV' hereabouts. Complete with regular bursts of inane commercials.

Thank goodness for BBC4. It really is the jewel in the crown. I'm pleased that the predominantly juvenile twaddle of BBC3 is getting the chop, as opposed to the much more intelligent content of '4'.

I'm probably in the minority, but am happy to pay the BBC licence fee to enjoy a few programmes each week unsullied by moronic advertising.

John.

Oops, that dongle was meant for the back of the TV

Apart from some sport and playing an occasional film could easily do without the TV. I cannot recall the last TV program I watched. It will be several years ago.

I'm happy to pay the licence fee for BBC Radio. Oh, and the Olympics on TV was brilliant.

Bruce

(In UK only) we will all be getting new local interest TV channel(s)  The start-up schedules vary across the country & note it’s more than one station.  Also coming some during the regional stages some at other times is some new HDTV.

In my area from May 2014 we are getting CBeebies HD, Al Jazeera Arabic, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Al Jazeera HD, & Freeview HD & the local stations "Coming Soon"

Now the dire warnings – UHF TV has just come to the end the digital switch overs & also (in case you haven’t realised) a channel realignment phase that has given channels 60 to 68 over to G4 so that narrows the UHF TV band of channels 21-68 down to 21-60.  In many regions this requires the need to open up new MUX & as a result the new stations might be on channels outside your existing aerial group. In my case we were on Group C/D aerials that cover ch 48-68,  then during 2013 we went to 48-60,  now some of the new stations are on ch 31 to 37 & are at lower power meaning a lot of peeps need new aerials.  Fortunately yours truly saw this coming & installed a wide band 21-68 Log Periodic some years ago. 

Attached picture shows the various aerial groups that you can use together with a check on http://www.ukfree.tv/txdetail. to see how your area is affected.  If you don’t know what aerial group you have,  look at the colour of the plastic bung on both ends, the group colour code is on my picture.  

Bang on kevin,just retuned our lounge TV and its channel 8........and its looks crap.

Why do these people bother !!

Mista H

This is going to sound really thick but I guess that applies only to Feeeview users?

Bruce

Nope, Sky 117 and Virgin 159.

Well, what a load of old crap that was.

From what I saw yesterday, there appears to be not only nobody working at London Live over the age of 30, but nobody living in London over the age of 35 either.

It all felt a bit shouty, a bit over-excitable and a bit like a 1990s BBC producer's idea of "yoof TV". Fatty Lawson in the Graun praised the channel's diverse presenters (some shouty Hoxton types, plus a chick-lit author, an estate agent masquerading as a journalist, a DJ and various other talentless box-ticked nobodies), which is fair enough, but  "diversity" in itself isn't enough. You have to make well-informed, well-put-together programmes that people would want to actually watch.

The Not The One Show (definitely not The One Show, but not, one suspects, quite in the way that London Live's overlords had intended) item on London's property crisis could have made a compelling programme. All we got was some fluff about landlords being horrid - it's as if the programme makers were so desperate to project an "anarchic" "youthful" or "edgy" image that they were afraid to take anything seriously. Even subjects that deserve to be taken seriously.

And some of the sleb interviews were so obsequious and banal that it made me want to pull out my eyeballs and dissolve them in hydrochloric acid. 

Chanel 5?