06-10-2023, 02:06 AM
(05-10-2023, 08:07 PM)Andrew Wrote: I was recently in Tenerife, and the TV in the apartment must have had near enough 100 channels. Spanish channels, UK, French, Italian, possibly some other countries as well.A couple of places I've stayed at in the Canaries recently had BBC One North East. There are various suppliers out there advertising dodgy equipment which can decode "BBC satback" - the back up distribution feed intended for Freeview transmitters, which started carrying NE after the Bilsdale mast fire as that feed was used in the recovery scenario.
No BBC News Channel or BBC World but there was a Spanish 24 hour news channel
BBC One was London, but there were two versions of ITV - Channel Islands (which I suppose is the nearest region and kind of fitting for the Canary Islands) and bizarrely Border. There was also STV, and not even the central belt version, it was the Grampian version.
Also of note all the bars were showing the Rugby World Cup via ITV1
Last time I was there in early September it was showing BBC London so I assume the temporary Bilsdale mast is now feeding all of the relays.