MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falklands' television service to be fully restored this month; new transmitter on Sapper Hill
Falklands' television viewers in Stanley will be able by the end of the month, weather permitting, to again have a full service of its former level of transmission. A release from the Falklands government recalls that viewers are well aware of the problems encountered over the last nine month, caused by the TV transmitter falling from the mast on Sapper Hill. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI give it three months before some cretin tells the UN that it's another “sinister surveillance array” (or the control system for the nuclear attack penguins)
Mar 16th, 2017 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Will they get EastEnders , coronation street Emmerdale , horseracing , boxing and all the sports , films and children's channel's.
Mar 16th, 2017 - 11:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually only a small number of viewers, those in slightly shadowed areas and / or with indoor aerials were affected. For example, we have good line of sight to the transmission mast and an aerial on our roof so have experienced no degradation to our signal.
Mar 17th, 2017 - 05:57 am - Link - Report abuse +2Briton
Unfortunately we already get all of the soaps. We get BBC 1 & 2, IVT 1, BFBS 1, Forces TV and Sky News. can't complain at all and never would. FIG pays BFBS for this and they do a good job to keep it running all of the time, and, everyone living in Camp receive it also via sat dish.
Don't you get something like an Argentinian version of Lord Haw Haw?
Mar 17th, 2017 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think would be pretty good at that - an Argentine born Norwegian/Spanish Fascist and Nazi colonialist. Just imagine the joy of listening to his slimy inuendos and Hissing Sid impressions of an evening? Propaganda videos of him marching over the Patagonian tundra accompanied by 'La Camping it up' thugs and Voice on the bagpipes, gripping entertainment... ;-)))
I heard that in the 60's a couple people on the island could tune into Argentina TV if they had a very tall antenna. Is this true?
Mar 17th, 2017 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse +1I also remember reading that the first Television transmission on the islands was during the Argentina occupation when they put a transmitter and were giving out color tvs.
Living the dream
Mar 17th, 2017 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't know about that first claim and I doubt it would be the case. As for the TV sets in 82, they were SELLING them, not giving them away. Foolishly they offered payment terms over a period of time that far exceeded the length of the war ( as it turned out) so some folk, confident that the task force would prevail, took them up on their offer and only made a couple of payments, getting the sets for a fraction of their full price.
Jo Bloggs
Mar 17th, 2017 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0nice to hear that..
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