[Jimbo2022]

Personally, I think that is a nice idea - and hopefully someone in their family may be feeling generous this Christmas and gift some of those last Freesat SD viewers a T2 HD STB!

I wonder if the rest of the period up until the 9th of January will be a return to as-now, before possibly a cut over to a full-screen caption for a bit after the 9th once the services have closed.

If the BBC only have one caption generator, that won’t be a problem if they link the various SD EPG slots to a single stream with a full-screen generic BBC caption. That way, people who don’t watch BBC One will also notice the caption.

They may decide that’s too much effort though.

I agree I think it is a nice gesture.

The current arrangements are

Weekday daytime skate us shown 0600-1715
No slate during pointless
Evening and weekend slate us seen 1800-end of day on weekdays, after breakfast to end if day on weekends not during strictly

We don't yet know what is happening with the rest if the SD feeds on 8 January. It is possible the SUDs could all be pointed to one stream, but BBC have the impression that there would be a 'channel closed' caption on all our SD feeds'.

So there may be 9, there may be 1.

I do remember when discovery had a dispute with Sky a few years ago, a notice was prepared. It sat on 12836H, video Cartier only, with about 10 SUDs pointing to thus one stream.

It was never used because the dispute was settled and the new agreement was made The notice said 'Thus channel cannot currently be broadcast on sky at this time' we ith an apology and pointing out that they hope to resolve the issue as soon as possible

The notice was only actually broadcast fir 24 hours before disappearing.

In the case of the BBC SD feeds, something similar could be done but we will have to see. In their last update on 22 November, they said the notice that goes out from 8 January will be on air until 31 March.

Interesting times ahead.