Extension of TV2 to more viewers
By Ken Coates
More than 9000 viewers in the Lyttelton, Sumner, Redcliffs, McCormacks Bay and Heathcote areas are likely to be included in TV2 coverage this year. Plans to install translators at a cost of about 815,000 extending TV2 to viewers who have so far been unable to receive TV2 were announced yesterday by the regional engineer for the Broadcasting Council in Christchurch (Mr Ted Atkins). “We have been held up because of lack of money, but all the planning is completed, and we now have the go-ahead for translator installation which we expect to complete this year,” he said.
Installation of a TV2 translator and aerial will begin soon at Lyttelton, at the same site above the town as the existing TV] translator. This will serve about 2450 viewers.
Bringing TV2 to Sumner viewers is dependent on installation of a translator on what is known as South Shore, on the Brigh-
ton side of the Estuary. The Broadcasting Council is at present negotiatinp for land for the site. If the council obtains the site it wants for the translator reasonably soon, then installation will be completed this year. Mr Atkins explained that TVI translators are at present sited at Redcliffs, Sumner and Heathcote.
The Redcliffs translator would be shifted to South Shore, and would beam the TVI and TV2 signal into Sumner, Redcliffs and McCormacks Bay. A total of 2000 viewers would be watching via a direct signal from the South Shore translator, and 3900 would be served with a signal relayed through a translator on the Sumner site.
A TV2 translator at Heathcote would serve another 1000 viewers.
The Broadcasting Council’s plans for this year do not include two Cashmere Hills areas and Taylor's Mistake where viewers still do not recieve TV2. The hills areas are Bow-
envale Valley and Crichton Valley, to the east of Hackthorne Road. Mr Atkins said these areas were earmarked for translators but viewers would have to wait until the necessary funds were authorised.
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