MP Banks welcomes Crieff transmitter

Dec 11 2009 by Johnathon Menzies, Perthshire Advertiser Friday

PERTHSHIRE MP Gordon Banks has welcomed news that the BBC has built and fully-installed a new transmitter in Crieff.

The device will carry the broadcaster’s digital radio services to a further 7,500 people in the Strathearn area.

The Ochil and South Perthshire parliamentarian said: “For several years now, certain areas of Crieff have had very poor reception for both TV and radio signals.

“Sadly it has not been an issue which can be resolved quickly and residents will continue to experience difficulties with their signals until the digital switch-over arrives in this area.

“I have been pressing the BBC to improve signal provision in Crieff and, at the same time, ensure long wave services continue.

“I’ve received an explicit guarantee from the Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, that it has no plans to cease its long wave services and the new transmitter in Crieff will expand digital radio services to a further 7,500 people, ” he said.