Bbc Local

[Goofy]

Not sure what section this should be in but ...
I have my home page as BBC. Normally to my local (SW Scotland) area, but quite often it switches to London as my local - which it ain't!
How do I reset to my area? It normally resets itself after a couple of days, but it's a bl**** nuisance until it does!
Thanks

[Buenchico]

You've not told us how you're receiving your TV signals. (It's a rather important piece of information here!). However, since you obviously won't get BBC London on Freeview where you are, I'll assume that it's Sky that you're using.

The satellite sending signals to your dish has no way of knowing where you are, so it sends all of the BBC regional services to you and lets your Sky box work out which one to show. Your Sky box can only do that because the required information is on your viewing card. If it can't find that information it displays BBC London by default. So you need to check that the card is inserted properly and that the box is reading it properly.

Disconnect your Sky box from the mains. Remove and then firmly reinsert the viewing card. Then power up the box again (and cross your fingers!).

[sunny-dave]

Could it be a freeview box cockup, Chris?

Aren't some/all the BBC1 regions lurking up in the 800 series & the box decides which to show on Channel 001?

[237SJ]

Isn`t the BBC home page what the OP has on the computer from the internet and nothing to do with the TV? Click on 'change your location'.

[Buenchico]

S-D:
Freeview boxes place 'extra' regional signals in the 800s in the channel listings. However they only do that when they can receive those 'extra' signals in the first place. For example, someone living near Ripon might get ITV signals from both Yorkshire and TyneTees (plus the corresponding regional BBC signals) so, via accessing the '800s', they'll be able to watch either service. However there's absolutely no way that they'd be able to view London services because their local transmitters won't carry them. Similarly there's no way that Goofy's TV set (in Scotland) could be picking up BBC London via Freeview.

[black_cat51]

i agree homepage=computer

[Buenchico]

A good point, 237SJ, although the BBC website doesn't seem to have a web page for South West Scotland (except for radio news for that area). If Goofy's post does relate to a web page it might help to know the URL of it!

[Buenchico]

Aha!

I've just remembered that the main BBC page offers a 'Change your location' facility, which puts a cookie on the user's computer so that (hopefully) the BBC's server will know where the user is (and provide appropriate content).

As it seems that the cookie on your computer, Goofy, can't always be read properly, I suggest deleting it and then creating it again. (Rather than explain about finding and deleting cookies, which varies between browsers, I suggest that you simply change your location to somewhere random, such as W1A 1AA, and then change it back to your own postcode).

Sorry about the earlier confusion!

[sunny-dave]

Ah - thanks Chris - I thought that the London channels were so self-important (obviously) that they might be re-broadcast everywhere - in case some metropolitan types got withdrawal symptoms in their third-homes (castles?).

[237SJ]

"I`ve just remembered that the BBC main page has a 'change your location' facility" - hency my post at 21:07 ;-)

[237SJ]

*hence* (where did the y come from?)

[Goofy]

yes I'm talking about my pc heree.
Trouble is, you can choose a location, but it doesn't always stick. If and when I find the changeyour location thingy, I'll write myself a big memo to remind me where it is.
Anyway, thanks all