Just noticed this thread by optrex. will can you merge threads please.
Last of the Rugby pips
that means that unless they're still used for this secret use all of the masts are now defunct.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Time change marks end of an era
If you read that explains the reason for the broadcast rather than fibre optics. Many homes have a video, dvd or clock that gets it's time through the time signal transmitted from rugby or whereever it is.
I had a video that kept putting the wrong date on daweo blamed rugby! as if. If that was true everyone elses would be wrong.