Los servicios de BBC Radio, que actualmente están en el SES Astra 2B haz sur, para toda Europa, van a ser transferidos , a partir del 16 de octubre de 2012 al haz UK . Todo es por razones de derechos. Así que os podéis imaginar cómo de limitados y estrechos van a ser los temas de BBC TV, si con las radios se andan con estos recortes.On 15 October 2012 we will move our radio services on the Sky platform from DSat2 and DSat7 to be more evenly spread across DSat2 and DSat5 (Astra 1N tp 46). On the 16 October 2012 these changes will take effect on Freesat and Virgin Media. As each of the radio services moves there will be a small outage of a couple of minutes.
This will also mean that our radio services move from a European beam to a UK spot beam as DSat7 is the last of our European beam transponders. We use a UK beam for our TV services, so the radio services will be as available in the UK as our TV services. But it does mean that the radio services will no longer be receivable across much of mainland Europe. I’ve no doubt that some readers of this blog will be disappointed by this news. But I’m afraid European-beam transponders are not cost effective for us. We broadcast our services for UK audiences “in the clear” or unencrypted (which is what makes Freesat possible) and so for rights reasons we are limited in terms of the services that we are able to broadcast on a European beam. The BBC’s radio station for listeners outside the UK is the BBC World Service, and it is widely available throughout the world. In Europe you can receive the World Service in many different ways including on satellite from Eutelsat Hot Bird 8 at3° East. It’s also available online 24 hours a day via the listen live link from the BBC World Service homepage.
Ya antes las radios de la BBC estuvieron geolimitadas en el Astra 2D y se podían recibir con antena de 1,20 mts en Sevilla. Veremos cómo se comportan ahora en el haz UK desl Astra 1N.
Ni siquiera han necesitado transponder del recién lanzado Astra 2F para hacer ésto, el Astra 1N tiene transponders del haz UK y hasta lo podían haber hecho antes.
Desolador.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/ ... BBC-One-HD
Aquí, en este blog oficial de la BBC, se lee sobre los pasos de transferencias de transponders , de todos los servicios de radio y TV de la BBC, al haz UK , en algunos transponders no empleados hasta ahora del Astra 1N.