Bolton game live on TV!

25 December 2000

Although in a similar vein to our last live outing, you'll need to pick up Swedish or Danish TV to see it. Next Saturday's clash with Bolton will be shown on channel TV4 in Sweden and on channel DK4 in Denmark.

You're probably thinking that this is not of much interest if you don't live in Scandinavia. Well, think again. Baggies fan Mark Mansell, living near Great Yarmouth, tells me that he pointed his dish towards the Sirius satellite at 5 degrees East, tuned his receiver to 11.938 GHz (vertically polarised) and over the last few weeks has enjoyed Fulham v West Brom, Wimbledon v Bolton and Birmingham vs QPR, all live - and will enjoy our game at Bolton along with many more.

The only possible snags are that the signal will get weaker as you come further across the country from the East coast, and that some older receivers cannot handle frequencies that high. Being a terrestrial channel, TV4 is not encoded on the satellite transmission and no complicated foreign cards are needed - just the ability to figure out what's going on from the Swedish commentary.

Given that we're now getting crowds of 20,000 for home games and that the imminent destruction of the Rainbow stand will reduce the ground capacity to 19,000, this might be your only chance to watch the rest of our promotion push...

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