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Originally Posted by jj20x
They did use donated capacity. I really don't know what has changed, it's not like there is heavy demand for COM8. With recent departures from the temporary muxes, including the Viacom 18 channels, there should be lots of spare capacity to "donate".
Community Channel has recently departed from it's original "community" remit, showing commercially produced content previously shown on other channels. Perhaps the commercial channels are complaining that CC has gifted carriage but is showing commercially produced content.
Although I was previously told that the Freeview channel is showing different content to the main channel, I have compared the Freeview EPG guide with the official CC listings and they look pretty similar to me. So I'm not quite sure where that suggestion came from, unless someone is aware of plans to schedule different content in the coming weeks. 
The timing of this, the lack of notice and the Freeview re-branding is quite odd. |
Didn't know about the commercial content.
I wonder if they are having to reduce their presence on Freeview to make room for Freesports that's about to start??
Also, I'm pretty sure that the consortium that won the right to run Freeview undertook to make provision for the Community Channel in its proposal. If it's on for two hours in the middle of the night (for the minimum of two hours now required for any channel) I guess it still meets this criteria.