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Old 12-07-2017, 02:34   #1800
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)

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Originally Posted by nodrogd View Post
Likely their licence covers all the Freeview transmitters with available interleaved space in Kent. If I remember right that will be Bluebell Hill for the medway towns (which are covered by the Basildon headend on VM), Reigate & Tunbridge Wells (Crawley). The Ashford headend covers the remaining areas of Kent that have any cable services at all (Ashford, Folkstone & Dover about sums it up)
Technically the Freeview service covers Maidstone & Tonbridge with a highly directional, low power signal. Not unusual really for these local channels. VM coverage appears to be relatively good for KMTV. I was in Kent over the weekend and Monday and had no reception of KMTV on Freeview, no big loss apparently.

My point about the fairly wide coverage was in comparison with the likes of Made in Leeds, which covers a somewhat wider area than Leeds on Freeview but VM doesn't make this one available on adjacent networks, only to Leeds.