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BBC South - We won't cover BHA next season!!
- Thread starter Ian Bairds Fist
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seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
No , there will still be annoying interruptions when they get an update in the matches affecting Crawley and Eastbourne Borough
Ian Bairds Fist
Active member
- Thread starter
- #83
This. It's about time Brighton fans had a good old campaign to get involved in.
And we rarely lose.
superwomen
Member
someone please get a campaign going - though we get South east today you never know if they will NOT show our games!
That's a very good idea. Might need someone on here to point out each time it has happened as I imagine not all of us catch it every time (personally working shifts it's hit and miss if I see it at all).
The tall one
Banned
- Jan 2, 2007
- 197
i messaged the bbc south today Facebook page and received this response:
Following the South East digital tv switchover in March this year, people in Brighton & Hove and as far west as the River Adur are now served by BBC South East Today. The BBC made this decision so that people living in the Brighton area will see more stories about where they live. This means the vast majority of supporters of Brighton and Hove Albion will see more stories about their club.
BBC South Today will continue to run Brighton and Hove Albion football results on Saturday and mid-week bulletins as we are aware that there are supporters across Sussex. BBC South Today will also look to take material from BBC South East Today when there are major stories about the club, ensuring value for money for licence fee payers.
Following the South East digital tv switchover in March this year, people in Brighton & Hove and as far west as the River Adur are now served by BBC South East Today. The BBC made this decision so that people living in the Brighton area will see more stories about where they live. This means the vast majority of supporters of Brighton and Hove Albion will see more stories about their club.
BBC South Today will continue to run Brighton and Hove Albion football results on Saturday and mid-week bulletins as we are aware that there are supporters across Sussex. BBC South Today will also look to take material from BBC South East Today when there are major stories about the club, ensuring value for money for licence fee payers.
Ian Bairds Fist
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- Thread starter
- #87
I got the same response and then asked them to clarify whether highlights would be shown to viewers in Worthing and to the west. They said that due to our perceived lack of support in this area of Sussex it wouldn't be necessary.
I'd suggest it's time to write to them and say you're from that area if that includes you!!
The tall one
Banned
- Jan 2, 2007
- 197
I suppose the thing to do is to reposition the tv aerial so that it points to the Brighton transmitter and picks up South East today.
The Sock of Poskett
The best is yet to come (spoiler alert)
- Jun 12, 2009
- 2,810
Received an email today, having put a complaint through via their website:
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Thanks for contacting us.
We’re of course very sorry to learn of your evident unhappiness with reports on the removal of coverage of Brighton and Hove Albion coverage in West Sussex, thus we hope to be able to provide a little more background to the situation.
BBC ‘South Today’ programmes will actually continue to run Brighton and Hove Albion football results on Saturdays and mid-week bulletins, as we’re aware that there are supporters across Sussex. BBC ‘South Today’ will also look to take material from BBC ‘South East Today’ when there are major stories about the club. This approach will ensure the best value for money for licence fee payers at a time when our limited resources are under intense pressure from ever-rising costs, meaning we’re required to make considerable year-on-year savings in every area of our operations.
The background to this is that, historically, analogue transmissions on the south coast overlapped considerably thus the BBC South region and the BBC South East region had somewhat blurred boundaries making it rather difficult to assign stories to one or the other; there was often the potential for duplication and this was deemed a waste of resources. The entire south coast has just one ITV region, but we wish to provide a more localised service to BBC viewers, as is the case elsewhere in the country too. In doing so, there will absolutely always have to be somewhere where an editorial line is drawn between the two - this isn't an exact science therefore we’ve to do our best within the limitations upon us.
Digital switchover means that the transmission areas are now much more defined and we’re aligning ourselves in terms of news coverage areas accordingly. We’re concentrating our Brighton coverage now in our BBC South East news programmes more than in the BBC South regional programmes.
We’re still, like all broadcasters, at the mercy of the vagaries of geography and topography in that terrestrial television signals may not have a clear and obvious boundary, thus it may still be the case that some people nearer one location may actually get signals through their rooftop aerial from another area. This is beyond our direct control, of course, but options are available in that satellite viewers (Freesat or via Sky) can choose their BBC region by selecting the appropriate channel number; an aerial specialist may be able to advise on re-setting a rooftop aerial to pick up a different transmitter; and cable and broadband customers should contact their supplier for advice.
As explained, the reality is that whilst we appreciate Brighton and Hove fans are widely spread, Brighton itself is in our South East region thus it’s appropriate that the bulk of coverage is on ‘South East Today’.
We hope this helps to clarify our approach and to reassure you that we do take this matter seriously and are doing our best to provide appropriate and best value for money coverage.
We’d like to assure you that we've registered your complaint on our audience log. This is an internal report of audience feedback which we compile daily and is available for viewing by all our staff. This includes all programme makers and presenters, along with our senior management. It ensures that your points, along with all other comments we receive, are circulated and considered across the BBC.
Thanks again for contacting us.
Kind Regards
Gemma McAleer
BBC Complaints
BBC - Complaints - Home
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Didn't say anything unexpected, but it would be interesting if the club has a breakdown of the geographical location of season ticket holders. Somehow I think there may be at least as many in West Sussex as East, although I've only gut instinct and the coastway train service on a match day as evidence ...
Wally Gould
New member
- Jul 10, 2011
- 413
Don't agree, I would sooner see Sally Taylor than the Ken and Barbie show on SE. As we are on Virgin we cannot retune as you can on Sky.............I expect I will get lots of mail and calls from Sky now!!!!!
Horton's halftime iceberg
Blooming Marvellous
I've still had no reply
Yoda
English & European
Why can't they stick the whole of the The Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation on South East then? I class Sussex (East & West) as the South East, not the South. Didn't anyone at BBC do geography at school?
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
That would be a great bit of information to throw at them!
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Here are the season ticket holders postcodes from last season if it is any help:
BN1 2144
BN2 1787
BN3 1838
BN5 142
BN6 349
BN7 327
BN8 257
BN9 238
BN10 415
BN11 290
BN12 238
BN13 287
BN14 472
BN15 554
BN16 224
BN17 146
BN18 54
BN20 137
BN21 146
BN22 139
BN23 147
BN24 66
BN25 274
BN26 94
BN27 175
BN41 669
BN42 669
BN43 332
BN44 136
BN45 22
BN50 2
BN99 2
RH1 25
RH2 11
RH3 2
RH4 4
RH5 7
RH6 34
RH7 7
RH8 8
RH9 1
RH10 103
RH11 59
RH12 148
RH13 208
RH14 60
RH15 596
RH16 418
RH17 210
RH18 13
RH19 83
RH20 134
TN1 15
TN2 25
TN3 27
TN4 36
TN5 12
TN6 105
TN7 2
TN8 3
TN9 6
TN10 1
TN11 0
TN12 12
TN13 11
TN14 5
TN15 0
TN16 1
TN17 3
TN18 5
TN19 26
TN20 12
TN21 84
TN22 267
TN23 2
TN24 1
TN25 5
TN26 1
TN27 0
TN28 0
TN29 0
TN30 3
TN31 131
TN32 6
TN33 34
TN34 34
TN35 17
TN36 4
TN37 24
TN38 40
TN39 98
TN40 41
Here are the postcode areas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN_postcode_area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RH_postcode_area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_postcode_area
BN1 2144
BN2 1787
BN3 1838
BN5 142
BN6 349
BN7 327
BN8 257
BN9 238
BN10 415
BN11 290
BN12 238
BN13 287
BN14 472
BN15 554
BN16 224
BN17 146
BN18 54
BN20 137
BN21 146
BN22 139
BN23 147
BN24 66
BN25 274
BN26 94
BN27 175
BN41 669
BN42 669
BN43 332
BN44 136
BN45 22
BN50 2
BN99 2
RH1 25
RH2 11
RH3 2
RH4 4
RH5 7
RH6 34
RH7 7
RH8 8
RH9 1
RH10 103
RH11 59
RH12 148
RH13 208
RH14 60
RH15 596
RH16 418
RH17 210
RH18 13
RH19 83
RH20 134
TN1 15
TN2 25
TN3 27
TN4 36
TN5 12
TN6 105
TN7 2
TN8 3
TN9 6
TN10 1
TN11 0
TN12 12
TN13 11
TN14 5
TN15 0
TN16 1
TN17 3
TN18 5
TN19 26
TN20 12
TN21 84
TN22 267
TN23 2
TN24 1
TN25 5
TN26 1
TN27 0
TN28 0
TN29 0
TN30 3
TN31 131
TN32 6
TN33 34
TN34 34
TN35 17
TN36 4
TN37 24
TN38 40
TN39 98
TN40 41
Here are the postcode areas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN_postcode_area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RH_postcode_area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_postcode_area
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Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
It's a start - what would be better would be the list of post-codes for everyone registered to buy tickets.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Why are you bothering listing RH4 and RH5, they are both Dorking postcodes, and terrestrial TV there is from London.