11-05-2023, 01:57 PM
Yes they went on satellite to boost the coverage due to the patchy nature of their terrestrial network (being effectively shoehorned in at channel 37 which had a lot of VCRs using that channel as an output)
In some areas they didn't come from the same transmitter as the four main channels did - as an example Channel 5 never came from Sutton Coldfield in the analogue days, it ended up coming from Lichfield instead (there were a couple of reason for this, one being cost/ownership and the other technical). It wasn't until digital switchover that Channel 5 eventually started coming from Sutton Coldfield, and that had the effect of Lichfield no longer being a TV transmitter, although I believe it has a much taller mast than Sutton Coldfield does.
In some areas they didn't come from the same transmitter as the four main channels did - as an example Channel 5 never came from Sutton Coldfield in the analogue days, it ended up coming from Lichfield instead (there were a couple of reason for this, one being cost/ownership and the other technical). It wasn't until digital switchover that Channel 5 eventually started coming from Sutton Coldfield, and that had the effect of Lichfield no longer being a TV transmitter, although I believe it has a much taller mast than Sutton Coldfield does.
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