Random. Off topic and Broadcast Musing

But the "non availability of UK tv along the east coast" is a myth.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055605025

slegs wrote: »

So they install the equipment, put all the transmission in place and test succesfully and then turn off.

Sorry, but I don't see this happening. If they already have all this is place it would not make sense to turn off based on power (these are not independent sites - there is already power bills so they wont save that much) and transmission (there are significant build costs that are spent - will the monthly backhaul costs save them that much?).

Wouldn't be the first time they've done it with a project.

slegs wrote: »

The difference here is that the majority of the country could have a quality service without much extra effort/cost from RTE. All the main transmitters are active with I think > 75% population covered for the PSB services. The remaining transmitters to be rolled out were very low percentage pop coverage each and its understandable that the current economic climate would slow this down without the planned PAY TV revenue to RTENL.

They may not have any money to spend on capital rollout until the PAY TV provider comes in but it really would make no sense not to continue some momentum on this with the active transmitters and the PSB MUX.

If they shut it down then I give up on RTE, BCI and the government.

Yes they wouyld have no money it all goes to Gerry Ryan and co. :mad:

just a little rant here but i have hated RTE ever since they jammed the piraate kings Nova and Sunshine in the 1980s.

Shower of S**TS :mad:

IrishHomer wrote: »

Yes they wouyld have no money it all goes to Gerry Ryan and co. :mad:

just a little rant here but i have hated RTE ever since they jammed the piraate kings Nova and Sunshine in the 1980s.

Shower of S**TS :mad:

Funny, was just talking about that today - June 1982 - "they" started "testing" on Nova's link from Herbert Street to Green Arces....seems like only yesterday !

I've made this sticky thread for Posts of a somewhat off topic nature.

We'll move posts that spoil the flow of threads here (Moderators' Decision Final), but feel free to post here too. A sort of Bar, but without actual Beer.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0709/1224250318512.html

Instead of making good programs, raking in Advertising they want more of the Licence fee?

It appears, from published accounts, that TV3 was purchased at a very high multiple and the acquisition financed almost entirely through bank debt: €140 million is owed to Anglo Irish Bank and €160 million owed in mezzanine funding to Mellon Corporation, giving total bank debt of about €300 million. It is estimated the annual interest bill in 2007 would have been of the order of €30 million if all covenants were met.

Even if the entirety of licence fee funding for 2008 was given to TV3, it would still have potentially challenging levels of debt. The company and its investors accepted the original licence and the business risks, and the new investors have done likewise since 2006. The Irish television licence fee-payer is now being asked to contribute more to TV3 in this scenario.

It's the same evils as have beset eircom. TV3 has it easier than RTE. Less conditions on programs. More Adverts allowed. It could be profitable. Basically the Parasitical "so called" investors borrowed to buy and want the licence fee to pay their debts.

Leveraged buyouts and all similar funding for takeovers should be illegal. It's not "Investing", it's "Asset stripping".

Maybe he is measuring non-pay TV analogue only households. Which if you add pirate cable, pirate MMDS, Off Air UK Terrestrial reception, Freesat, FTA and cancelled Sky Digiboxes still in use is maybe only 20%

They also won't include the 20% of population with NO TV3 analogue coverage!

So that gets you that

TV3 has 26% viewing on the percentage of analogue only viewers that can get TV3. (15% approx of population?)
10% of the "multichannel" (free and pay TV) Market, 15% of payTV market?. (80%+ of Population?)

Just my thoughts...

The monies we have secured from the BCI is less than half the reduction in government advertising on TV3 in the first half of 2009. The decision-making process is opaque and overall to date we have secured only 15 per cent of the fund. Our audience share is about 27 per cent. Not only should we be getting our share of audience, we should be getting way above that.

TV3 are actually getting their audience share of the BCI sound and vision fund. BBC should also be given 15%, UTV 7% and C4 7% NO QUESTIONS ASKED :rolleyes:

Elmo wrote: »

But sure than your really just using statistics for you own ends. I believe that McRedmond was talking about the best day that TV3 had had in 2009 which had them on 26% of the audience for one day during prime time, kind of like TG4 saying they have 7% of the audience because of St. Patrick's Day. Or RTÉ ONE saying they have 50% because of The Toy Show :rolleyes:

Of course perhaps he was taking about TV3 share of the Advertising revenue If the report had said 26% of the audience in 4 TV land fine but it didn't.

Exactly.. My thoughts.

Statistics are useless without knowing where they come from and hwo they are gathered.

Ta. That's the article I was quoting and meant to link

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Statistics and hard facts were useless when McRedmond was in eircom, he simply lied through his teeth and the average Irish journalist uncritically wrote it down and never checked a thing

Why would it be different now he is lying for TV3 instead of eircom . ??

Perhaps someone could explain to me why Irish Journalist don't ask difficult questions. Generally their hard questions of RTÉ are ones we already know the answer to and often are just asked to give a quick kick to RTÉ. In saying that I don't really understand why the Irish Times let RTÉ write a full article filled with its own PR, but it seems to be more truth in what they are saying.

However take the following from RTÉ responce: -

It was notable in RTÉ’s view that TV3 secured BCI funds for highly populist programming such as Paul Williams’s series on gangland crime, Dirty Money.

I am sorry but the Licence Fee is used across RTÉ even for their populist programming.

The original reporter and the editor should both have been quick to point out TV3's erroneous statistics and RTÉ's superficial use of the licence fee.

I do agree that some of the funding that TV3 have received from the BCI for programming seems highly questionable: -

Something for the Weekend
Some celeb Parents talking about their celeb kids
Dirty Money
Living with Murder


Why not just give TV3 some money towards The Apprentice and Total Exposure.

watty wrote: »

Alternatively why give them any money?

Cathal Goan: because it our money,

(PR gather round the DG)

Cathal Goan: my money sorry I mean my money

(PR gather round the DG again)

Cathal Goan: What RTÉ means to say is the public money for a public company.

David McRedmond: I successfully told you we successfully rolled out Broadband when I was in Eircom, I will now successfully tell you how successfully we are at rolling out DTT.

Hilarious.