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CNN on Freeview from this week

From 9pm-1am you can watch CNN International on Freeview.

From 9pm-1am you can watch CNN International on Freeview.
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CNN International joins Freeview this week, on Channel 84. However, it will only broadcast from 9pm-1am, twenty hours short of the normal broadcast for the channel.





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Dean Ensor
Tuesday 13 January 2009 3:05PM
Will CNN extend hours space providing should the 9-1 slot be successful also TCM should come on at last
Briantist
Tuesday 13 January 2009 5:29PM
Dean Ensor: No, there is only a four hour slot available. TCM is a subscription channel.
darren cain
Tuesday 13 January 2009 6:57PM
what channel has CNN taken ? or was it an already empty / spare slot ?
darren cain
Tuesday 13 January 2009 7:06PM
i found out, its kicking off Nuts TV.
Briantist
Tuesday 13 January 2009 7:27PM
darren cain: Yeah, there was some acrimony about that.
Ray
Tuesday 13 January 2009 10:27PM London
Brian
Acrimony? It's excellent news and, with only two news channels on Freeview, CNN is a welcome addition on a platform that contains far too much... well, let's be polite and call it trivia. And how many shopping and pop video channels can anyone stand? A great addition, I say. Incidentally, I noticed a ghost immage on the BBC2 test card the other morning, when the BBC was doing that much-discussed disaster simulation. I have clean BBC2 analogue reception, however. Any thoughts? Was this ghost being retransmitted by Sudbury from an off-air feed?

Briantist
Wednesday 14 January 2009 7:38AM
Ray: There was some suggestion that "Nuts TV" was not "up to sratch".

CNN International is probably a better world-view than Nuts TV!

There's only two music channels on Freeview, not that many really.

I think the concensus was that the test card had a slight modification to indicate an alternative source.
Keith
Wednesday 14 January 2009 10:25AM
CNN is the most tedious, boring News station in the world with the worst presentation.. I've been in many a country where it is the only English language station and it has driven me mad. Not a channel which should be taking up British bandwidth in my opinion.
Jordy
Wednesday 14 January 2009 11:49AM
Is it just me or does anyone else think this defeats the point of 24 news... Why is it only for 4 hours? Whats the point!

John
Wednesday 14 January 2009 11:54AM Glasgow
At what time in the day are the UK Transmitters at there most powerful for tuning in digital television?
Jordy
Wednesday 14 January 2009 12:01PM
Quote by Brian - I think the concensus was that the test card had a slight modification to indicate an alternative source.
The RBS worked up to some point in the chain, and then dropped out. The speaking clock continued to be radiated and it sounded like a video amp failure at one of the RBS receivers. There was a large time delay...
Briantist
Wednesday 14 January 2009 6:43PM
Keith: You must have never tried to watch Euronews for a whole hour!
Briantist
Wednesday 14 January 2009 6:46PM
Jordy: I suppose if you like CNN it is way better than none, and at least some of it is in peak hours, not like those "6am-9am" blocks we once got...
Briantist
Wednesday 14 January 2009 6:47PM
John: They are at the same level 24 hours a day.
Jordy
Wednesday 14 January 2009 7:27PM
Brian - Well it's a lot better than NUTS TV and a much better use of the platform...
Briantist
Wednesday 14 January 2009 8:57PM
Jordy: There don't seem to be many complaints about that channel going, as I recall.
Ray
Wednesday 14 January 2009 10:32PM London
Brian, Jordy, Keith
So can we agree that Nuts will not be missed. Freeview no longer need carry a health warning - may contain Nuts. I do concede,though, that CNN can be extremely dull when compared with other news services. Guess I am just a news junkie. And I have to declare an interest - that of being a former colleague of one of the evening 'anchors', who I have to say has developed an annoying mid-Atlantic presentation style since I knew her. That's CNN, I supppose.
Ray
Thursday 15 January 2009 1:04AM London
Brian
Re CNN, I did an update scan on my IDTV yesterday and channel 84 did not register. Nuts TV is, however, still there on 42! Sudbury is my local TX.
Briantist
Thursday 15 January 2009 9:35AM
Ray: Try again today I guess, the channel is supposed to be on air tonight.
Briantist
Thursday 15 January 2009 9:57AM
Ray: I think NutsTV was very disappointing for people who bought Freeview because it was "safe" compared to the satellite platform. Freeview was a good choice for "the kids bedroom". Still, they can still see all that same stuff online...
Jordy
Thursday 15 January 2009 11:00AM
Ray, Yes i will certainly agree with you that CNN is a much better option than NUTS TV and i'm going to assume it's tied to that magazine. Bit of a news junkie myself but prefare the beeb coverage than sky's because it never shuts up the recession... Also it must be annoying for the elderly. Not so long ago i had my dad over for a meal and he was sitting in the living room, came into the kitchen worried that there had been 3 train crashes all in Cumbria in the same place, he thought another world war had broken out or this was a Harbinger of Apocalypse... I had to sit him down and explain 24 hour news and that there had been a bulletin every 15 minutes and it was only one train crash!
NottsUK
Thursday 15 January 2009 4:02PM
I have just switched the TV on and a notice came up on the screen showing that a new DVB service had been found. So doing a scan, CNN is now on channel 84 and Nuts TV as gone.
Alex
Friday 16 January 2009 8:50AM London
Speaking of music channel - TMF is hardly one. It dedicated most of its time to repeats of MTV's reality rubbish. What a waste of time.

I wish Freeview would have some kind of channel quality control - then we could have 8 new 24 hours (or near) channels instead of:
Channel 4+1, QVC UK, Ideal World, bid tv, Dave +1, E4 +1, ITV2 +1, SmileTV 2.
Ray
Saturday 17 January 2009 1:08AM London
Alex
I'm afraid the lunatic acountants are now in charge of the madhouse. Quality control is an alien concept on a platform that is led by commercial imperatives. Anything that can't pay its way is a non-starter. Ofcom has nothing to say on the subject of programme standards where taste or decency is not an issue.

The demise of ITV as a broadcaster of diverse content is extremely sad and it's depressing to contemplate that even when, as now, the channel has managed to shed its public service responsibilities ITV is still in desperate financial straits.

Channels are now two-a-penny but the stock of talent remains the same. So it's this plus one and that plus one and repeats ad nauseam. The butter is spread rather thinly on the bread. Have you ever thought that broadcasters - and I exclude the BBC - just don't give a damn anymore? Now I'm sounding like a grumpy old man, but never has that big switch marked ON/OFF been so useful. I have to say I don't watch any more TV now than I did before Freeview was invented. Most of the digital-only content is wholly dismal - with the exception of BBC4 in my humble opinion.

I'm not sure, incidentally, that I will be devoting much time to CNN. The home-grown news product is far superior. Sorry for this negative post.
Michael
Monday 19 January 2009 1:41AM
MTV was a good channel at one time with programs like the Chill out Zone and Party Zone.
Now it is full of rubbish!
Looking at the lists it no longer looks like a Music Channel.

I was looking at Rockworld TV the other day and it was refreshing to see the Group Alien Sex Fiend playing my favourite song Ignore the Machine. There a Gothic Rock Band.

Fox News and NDTV are the only 2 news channels that are encrypted.

I have sky, but as you all know by now i do not subscribe.

I don't have freeview, however i can see where Alex is coming from, that channel line-up doesnt sound very good, though it is good that Dave have gone freeview.
On sky it is still encrypted and probably will be til the end of time.

Ray is absolutely right, there is no quality control.
I see this on Sky TV with channels like E! Entertainment and many others.

Jordy. Anything apart from E! Entertainment is better than Nuts TV.

I notice that since TCM became a Subscription
Channel, it has got worse in it's film line-up.
Briantist
Monday 19 January 2009 7:40PM
Alex: I really can't disagree that more choice of channels would be much better than the "+1"s as they fail to add options for both live and in particular PVR users of Freeview.
Michael
Tuesday 20 January 2009 3:59AM
CNN Text used to have an excellent weather service, but they did away with it?
Briantist
Tuesday 20 January 2009 11:37AM
Michael: Most people get that information online?
Jordy
Tuesday 20 January 2009 1:46PM
I've actually always wondered that, CNN had a brilliant weather service with the scrolling menu by city, that disappeared literally over night. Programs like Meet the Press and Late Edition were replaced by wine tasting pish...
Mark Barden
Tuesday 20 January 2009 7:52PM
CNN for some strange reason is mono left channel only! I wonder if we can get Briantist to plug in the right channel!
Briantist
Friday 23 January 2009 9:23AM
Jordy: You do have to wonder sometimes. I suspect that teletext is regarded as being defunct.
Jordy
Friday 23 January 2009 10:46AM
Brian - Yes you do know how i enjoy a good wonder!
Briantist
Friday 23 January 2009 11:48AM
Jordy: It is very strange that BBC World News has only one very small Ceefax section left, which is UK News!
Briantist
Friday 23 January 2009 11:59AM
Mark Barden: A similar thing happened to Radio 4 a while ago. Has the problem been resolved now?
Mark Barden
Sunday 25 January 2009 9:38PM
Yes, it is working correctly.

Thank you
michael
Tuesday 10 February 2009 5:44PM Pontyclun
i havn't got cnn on chanel 84
Michael
Saturday 14 February 2009 3:55AM
A side of satellite radio does anyone pick up Radio Caroline on an ordinary Radio?
Michael
Saturday 14 February 2009 3:56AM
Nuts TV?
Coming to think of it, it may have disappeared from Sky TV!
Not certain!
NottsUK
Saturday 14 February 2009 10:49AM
Michael, Nuts TV stopped transmitting via satellite the same day it stopped transmitting on Freeview.
amanullah
Thursday 19 February 2009 4:44AM
daily news
G Hudson
Saturday 21 February 2009 3:56PM
Can anyone help? Since the power failure to the mast at Monksilver during the bad snowfall. On it’s return. I have been unable to receive ITV 1. I can receive all BBC channels but find that the channel 4 programme is now in the ITV 1 channel position, the ITV 1 being unobtainable.

Michael
Monday 23 February 2009 3:34AM
press the button and retune it that should do the trick
Briantist
Friday 27 February 2009 8:26PM
G Hudson: Is this on analogue?
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