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mo 30 Dec 2019 red button	We find in the morning the BBC red button text service a succinct way of checking that the world is still going to hell in a handcart. Regrettably the text service is closing 30 January. We've tried the Beeb's news app but it's a bit tabloid for our taste ... Nine things you didn't know about that there Ed Sheraton. ♫
tu 24 Sep 2019	Oh poo, flickr have started putting adverts in when flicking through a free account photostream and in the Martlesham Tesco a couple of weeks back there was a £20 personal cassette/radio with built in speaker and mike ... cassettes eh?
th 19 Sep 2019 red button	The BBC is considering phasing out info on the red button . That's a very great pity because for a tv not connected to the Internet it's news, sport, and information on demand and in a concise format. Should it happen we will regret the passing of a service that started 45 years ago as Ceefax.
we 7 Feb 2018	TODAY around near the coast Freeview will need re-scanning if it doesn't do it for itself. No advantage to near the coast, the great and the good are moving some frequencies because they think they can make some money out of it.
th 27 Jul 2017	Although there's no mention of it on their web site Freeviews's channel on Freeview (100) says Wednesday the children's, news, text and streamed channels are moving. If like us you have some older tellys you may have to manually retune and delete all those bloody shopping channels all over again.
th 9 Oct 2014	New tv channel ITVBe on Freeview channel 26 launched yesterday and is the new home of TOWIE ... you don't really need to know anything else do you?
th 4 Sep 2014	Our Freeview tuner didn't need us to tell it about the channel changes yesterday afternoon, perhaps the the most significant is BBC News has moved from 80 to 130.
su 27 Apr 2014	Freeview tv station True Entertainment has found the version of MASH* without the bloody awful laugh track and though a marked improvement we'd forgotten how mawkish, in that American way, the series could be ... maybe someone will think to bring back Hill Street Blues?
sa 21 Dec 2013	New channel to us Freeview 61 True Entertainment is showing MAS*H ... but the US version with a laugh track.
sa 13 Jul 2013	If your Freeview isn't clever enough to do it on its own a good idea would be a channel scan because new station Drama on 20 launched this week and it's showing Rumpole of the Bailey. (Remember Leo McKern as a Number Two in The Prisoner?) We also found three BT Sport channels, two are scrambled and the third keeps telling you it's going to launch this summer ... they'd better get on with it then.
fr 27 Apr 2012	The Sinclair ZX Speccy was 30 on Monday. We never had one having already gone BBC but we did have have a ZX81 which to save a few bob run off a car battery charger we'd dodged up. Once when fiddling with the ZX81 a mature visitor advised us to get an outside aerial (you used your telly as the monitor). 'It's a computer Pete.' 'Oh, dirty videos.' 'No Pete, it's a computer.' 'Yes ... have you got an outside aerial?''
fr 30 Apr 2010	Coastal Suffolk Conservative candidate Therese (it's French) Coffey lives in Westleton so she can't get Channel 5 or Freeview and no doubt rubbish broadband. When she asked BT why near the coast broadband is so rubbish so close to BT's research centre they said Oh, our broadband is rubbish too. We found out yesterday at the Martlesham Black Tiles that Therese has stood as an mp once before, her rescued dog Rizzo is very patient, when she ordered the panini she hadn't realised it came with chips, and is very aware this time round she's not a shoo in. More pix on Facebook
we 30 Sep 2009	We've just checked Freeview and as predicted by Fat Ginge Channel 5 had gone missing, it didn't reappear after a channel scan but reception's rubbish here in Stately Terrace, worse during the day and even worserer in this dry weather. Hopefully night time and perhaps some rain will improve the situation.
mo 16 Jul 2007	If you're finding Freeview rubbish at the mo it's the hot sultry weather affecting reception and if, like us, you can't get Five US (we're suffering NASCAR deprivation) but can get BBC Asian Network try The Bhanghra Mixtape, even if it would be better with more bhangra and less mix.

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