27/05/10….Transmitter fire may affect TV viewers until September

Oxfordshire residents, including many in Thame, are set to be without some TV channels until September following a fire at the Beckley transmitter last week.

The damaged antenna, specially designed and constructed in Australia is, it was revealed today, to be beyond repair and will need to be replaced.

Up to 410,00 people lost their TV signal for around eight hours last Thursday, May 13, after the fire broke out and engineers switched transmission to a reserve antenna.

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