Letter: Broader vision

While welcoming culture secretary Fiona Hyslop's review of public service broadcasting (your report, 13 September), we must take into account two important factors: terrain and technology.

Outside the Central Belt, low population density and high mountains make terrestrial broadcasting both difficult and not cost effective.

While the main transmitters of the Central Belt can handle over 50 channels on the freeview digital network, in remote areas only 15 channels are transmitted and, even then, if the terrain is obstructive the once snowy picture of analogue is replaced by an onscreen message of "no signal".

BRUCE D SKIVINGTON

Strath

Gairloch, Wester Ross