[Stooky Bill]

WC and NTL made great fanfare about being able to squeeze telephony (I'd guess that's within an E1) and data channels into their system - would there have been room for that *and* the VBI stuff?

Surely the 'data channel' included the data that was put intended for the VBI?

I assume in the absense of widespread internet in 1993 some of that data traffic was connecting the newsroom production systems. Systems like BASYS wouldn't have needed that much data