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What's happened to BBC Radio 1?

  • 06-11-2009 11:27pm
    #1
    bloomfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭


    I have my radio plugged into the FM socket of my UPC cable box, and seem to receive other radio stations fine. But BBC Radio 1 seems to have disappeared a few days ago. It used to be at frequency 99.7, but now it's broadcasting silence (as opposed to static). Has it been moved, or are UPC no longer rebroadcasting it?


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Agree that that frequency is now silent - I tuned my FM receiver in last Sunday and it was definitely there on 99.7 but now it's silent, all the other BBC stations are still there. My tuner says it's receiving a stereo signal on 99.7 but it's just silence.


  • #3
    Infoanon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,769 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    BBC Radio 1 is still on the Digital service on UPC, I would take a wild guess that no one in UPC has noticed the blank carrier on 99.7 (sourced from the same feed as the digital service) .

    UPC incompetance knows no bounds... and due to the leakage the blank carrier is interfering with legitimate reception of 99.7...


  • #4
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    May well be a tech fault. However, I have been told that radio services on the analogue cable are viewed as a "legacy service". Nothing new will be added to it and anything that "falls off" won't go back on again. Any new services go onto digital.

    Having said that, since there's a carrier there it sounds like there's a problem with the feed. Was 99.7 off air at any time from the north?


  • #5
    bloomfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭bloomfield


    Called technical support earlier this evening, and it's now back. I guess nobody at NTL noticed it had dropped off the air. Thanks for everyone's input.


  • #6
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,066 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    BrianD wrote: »
    May well be a tech fault. However, I have been told that radio services on the analogue cable are viewed as a "legacy service". Nothing new will be added to it and anything that "falls off" won't go back on again. Any new services go onto digital.

    A sensible enough position given that numbers actually making use of the analogue radio service are likely to be low - I know of no-one personally that uses it and most people don't even know it's there despite the big "FM" on the wall tap.


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