Flight Arrivals and Weather
Post categories: red button
| 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?"
This happens when using BBC 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.
Read more (there's a table of transponders!) and comment at the Press Red blog.
Farah Famy is Development Producer, TV Platforms group, BBC Future Media & Technology
