C4 now 142 on SKY ROI subscription

watty wrote:

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No Irish Digital TV SERVICE AT ALL!!!!!!!! At least 45% of people can get DSL and including Wireless also maybe 70%+ can get broadband.

Digital Terrestrial still has no start date. There is no FTA or FTV Irish TV or even ANY Irish Pay TV Satellite platform (The 4 Irish channels at Sky's pricing and package on basically a UK platform not regulated here, with Install VAT Irish and Subscription VAT = UK).

Excuse me but Ireland Offline has raised profile of issues of Broadband. There seems to be zero political will and zero political & media understanding of the Satellite & Terrestrial Digital TV issues. RTE still regards Satellite as merely a Cable Service by Wireless like MMDS.


I don't think ICDG has achieved anything beyond helping the people that come here (which is a major achievement). The Ireland Off Line has really raised media awareness to the issues.

Completely agree with everything you said, and more needs to be done, I am willing to help out in anyway possible. I phrased my wording wrong really, Ireland Offline is doing a great job not to poor cold water on that (sorry if my wording looked like that)

But to a boardsie who looks at these things it looks like as if ICDG has been very successful, (Similar comments were posted on Digital Spy by irate ex-pats who have seen their Irish Tara taken away and Ireland given 4 out of the 5 UK channels without they getting to view anything back.

I think that the main issues needing sorting out on my personal priority would be:

RTE on FTA Sat with DTT after, also I think that some EU law should be passed allowing Ireland to control what is broadcast by Sky here, I am not in favour of censorship but on things like advertising and price regulation we should have a say sorta.

Anyway it is now technically Monday and there is no sign of C4 yet, my money is on sometime after 3.00am and I am still confident of it appearing.