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Farah Fahmy Farah Fahmy | 16:42 UK time, Friday, 20 March 2009

Last week, a viewer made the following query: "When I access the flight arrivals screen, the picture changes from that which was on television to a rolling weather forecast. Why is this? Why would I want to know about the weather?"

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This happens when using ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Red Button on Sky, and there is actually a technical reason behind these seemingly unconnected pieces of content. But before I get into that let me explain how our channels, extra video content and text allocation are set up for the Red Button service on digital satellite.


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(there's a table of transponders!) and comment at the Press Red blog.

Farah Famy is Development Producer, TV Platforms group, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Future Media & Technology

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