But in those areas it was often possible to receive a signal from both areas' transmitters, so there would be a market for programme guides for both.
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Howardh
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Here I live quite high up, right under Winter Hill transmitter (Granada) and south facing, and could easily get central and Welsh TV including S4C, so tons of alternative stuff was available including football matches highlights not shown locally.
Nowadays every TV station is available via satellite and online, but apart from being able to get S4C in HD and BBC Scotland, there's very little different now on those regional channels.
ChrisC
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Most of the newsagents around here stocked both editions. Yes, it is possible in some locations around here to receive a signal from both areas’ transmitters. Mostly it depends upon which side of a hill you live. It’s very much a case of neighbouring villages receiving different regions because there is a hill between them. I suppose being right on the edge of both regions, signals are not so strong to be unaffected even by quite small hills. It doesn’t really matter that much now that apart from regional news there are no differences in the programmes shown.
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It was only last year when RT finally dropped the regional variations of their listings I believe, certainly for the Christmas double issues. There used to be LMA (London / Midlands / Anglia), Yorks / Tyne Tees editions etc. In 2023 it was simply England, Wales, Scotland or N.I.
I certainly remember having to buy Radio and TV Times separately, but we only ever bought the Christmas editions. During the rest of the year we had to use the TV listings in the paper to help us decide what to watch on the (only) telly.
Killingworth
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I must be getting really old. My father bought the Radio Times to follow radio programmes as we didn't have a tv. Friends who did could only get the BBC because that was all there was.
gg1
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My parents used to buy both mainly for the film listings for the week ahead. The problem with the TV guides in newspapers at that time was they only gave you the listing for that day.
Ashley Hill
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The only time we bought the TV Times/Radio Times was at Christmas. As a child I used to get the magazine Look In which had regional tv listings at the back. I was fascinated with all the different ITV regional idents and always looked forward to our annual holiday to my aunties where I could watch Southern TV (as opposed to Westward TV at home).
gg1
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They didn't at the time.
The reason the Radio Times just listed BBC and TV Times just had ITV was because they had exclusive rights until the rules were changed in the early 90s. Until this change there were no weekly TV supplements published by any newspaper.
OK i bow to your knowlwedge of when it started. I remember the supplements (not TV specifically) from the '60s but I didn't have a regular newspaper from the early seventies until '93 when I moved to St Albans. The first TV I had was around the early '80s when I would use Teletext to check TV programming.
Talking about recieving different broadcast regions, after switch over my Gran could still get the PSB MUX's from Wales (Wenvoe) as well as the correct region, West/HTV, from Mendip, this being in a house high up in Crewkerne, this was even despite them being in different directions (though Wenvoe is the main station for BBC national FM). She would also have been in the usable signal area for Stockland Hill (Westcountry) and just about able to receive Rowridge (South) from the IoW, Radio Solent from Rowridge can just about be picked up.
Where I live on Portland it's a mix of Rowridge and Stockland Hill as whilst Stockland Hill is closer it's at a much lower power and some people just prefer news from the south.
Interestingly the correct region is in theory Westcountry as that's what the Weymouth relays use (well the Weymouth relay does use Rowridge for BBC National FM) yet a Sky or freesat reciever will default to the Southern region for some reason.
Another transmitting oddity that no longer exists is Welsh opt-outs on Radio 1, the Chard FM relay has an extra receive antenna on North Hessary Tor for Radio 1 due to this whereas everything else uses Wenvoe as the re-broadcast feed.
Where I live on Portland it's a mix of Rowridge and Stockland Hill as whilst Stockland Hill is closer it's at a much lower power and some people just prefer news from the south.
Interestingly the correct region is in theory Westcountry as that's what the Weymouth relays use (well the Weymouth relay does use Rowridge for BBC National FM) yet a Sky or freesat reciever will default to the Southern region for some reason.
Another transmitting oddity that no longer exists is Welsh opt-outs on Radio 1, the Chard FM relay has an extra receive antenna on North Hessary Tor for Radio 1 due to this whereas everything else uses Wenvoe as the re-broadcast feed.
dangie
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You know you are old when you see a 71 year old Jenny Agutter in 'Calling the Midwife' then remember watching her as a 17 year old in 'The Railway Children'.
Busaholic
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Or as a 16 year old, playing a 14 year old, in 'I Start Counting.'
... or as a 16/17 year old playing a 14 year old in a never to be forgotten film, 'Walkabout' released in 1971.
Ashley Hill
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I’ve met her several times,she’s lovely.
PeterY
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I've just turned 66 and I've now got my bus pass. 
D6130
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You young whippersnapper!....I got mine back in October!I've just turned 66 and I've now got my bus pass.
If we are boasting, I am on my third!! (And I know there are those who will have had them for longer). In keeping with the thread - You know when you are getting older ... when people take it as read that you have a bus pass - and that is me!!You young whippersnapper!....I got mine back in October!
Killingworth
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You young whippersnapper!....I got mine back in October!
I sense that statement will confirm to a lot of us that we really are getting old.
That said I was on the platform of my local station recently when I was asked if the platform extension being constructed was level with the existing section. We thought it wasn't. He got down on his hands and knees to get a better view. When he got up we carried on the conversation and I discovered he started work before I was born. Well over 90 and still active!
Participation in this thread is proof that we know we're getting older!
Gloster
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People have been suggesting to me for years that I should apply for a bus pass and then looking shocked, apologetic or (sometimes) disgusted when I say I am not old enough, particularly when I could say that I had a decade to wait before I could get one. The same was true, if not to such extremes, with a Senior Railcard, which I do now have. As I have said before, probably irritating frequently, I do not regret the years of dissolute living that made me look much older. It was fun.
Puffing Devil
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When you go from "I fell over" to "They had a fall".
Gloster
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Sitting in the doctor’s waiting room and watching all the youngsters busy on their ‘phones while all the oldies are just staring out into space, you start feeling nostalgic for all those four-year-old copies of Country Life, People’s Friend, Punch or Reader’s Digest that used to be laid out. Nowadays it is all so clean: not even leaflets like ‘Caring for your feet’ or ‘How to recognise a carbuncle’.
james60059
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You know you're getting old when....
You have to turn the car radio down to see better
You have to turn the car radio down to see better
When you have many memories of the last leap year which began on the same day of the week as the current leap year.
(It's a 28-year cycle; for me, it first happened in 2008 so I'm obviously seriously old now...)
Or, for extra points, when you remember two such previous leap years.
(It's a 28-year cycle; for me, it first happened in 2008 so I'm obviously seriously old now...)
Or, for extra points, when you remember two such previous leap years.