is RTE 2 HD Coming To Sky?

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Hardly when it is available FTA on Saorview.

givecredit wrote: »

Did UPC not announce this week that they got an exclusive deal on "pay tv" platform.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25954-upc-in-exclusive-deal-with

copacetic wrote: »

They can't and none of the quotes seem to have them saying it. It looks like purely a lazy headline, it takes much longer to be added to sky epg, up to a couple of months. As they have a strict queue system, although a number of those channels wouldn't appear to meet sky's minimum requirements so they may not all appear on sky. Details on sky requirements and queue are public:


http://corporate.sky.com/documents/pdf/20c24d2e1c62406594e1a79de5f917db/Allocating_listings_EPG

I'd imagine if the channels appear on UPC in April, some or all of them will appear on sky a month or two later.

in the case of other channels, comply with any one (or more) of the options
below:
- the channel may consist of no less than 75% native HD
programmes provided that it also includes an amount of
native HD programmes that alone meets (without any
contribution from any non-native HD programmes) the
minimum number of hours of non-repeating programming
required to be broadcast under section 1.1; or
- the channel may include no less than 320 hours of nonrepeating native HD programmes in each 12 month period
provided that the channel includes no less than 70 hours of
non-repeating native HD programmes in each 3 month
period; or
- the channel may include no less than 500 hours of native HD
content in each 3 month period (which may include repeated
native HD content provided that the channel has a minimum
of no less than 40 hours of non-repeating native HD
programmes each calendar month).

mad muffin wrote: »

What!? How can they possibly get an exclusive deal with a national broadcaster??

UPC’s cable and mmds platforms are currently subject to must carry obligations. At
present these obligations apply to RTÉ One, RTÉ Two, TV3 and TG4. The provisions
are also applicable to community channels and UPC presently carries both the Dublin
and Cork community channels. In the past UPC has been both supportive and willing
to have these channels included (at no cost to the channels themselves) in its basic TV
packages. UPC would expect that given RTÉ’s new services will be funded with state
finances these too will fall under the must carry provisions. In this regard, UPC would
expect that the current financial arrangements for must carry services would continue
for RTÉ’s proposed services; namely both RTÉ and UPC bear their own associated
costs for the production and onward distribution of these services.

UPC

Sky would expect that FRND terms in this
instance would mean that these new services would be made available to Sky’s
digital satellite platform on terms that were equivalent to those on which the same
services are provided to RTE’s proposed ‘Saorsat’ service, in order to avoid any
unnecessary and disproportionate distortion of competition.

Sky

mickko wrote: »

Hopefully, no. But if the state broadcaster is good at anything, it's selling out to foreign broadcasters.

mickko wrote: »

The majority of pay TV subscribers in Ireland are with Sky because RTE is available in digital, on the Sky platform.
Sky had very modest subscriber figures in Ireland prior to RTE's launch, and their subs rocketed from 2003 onwards.

For the state to hand the PSB's services to a foreign pay tv platform, allowing them to encrypt them, and make the license fee paying Irish citizens pay for them, beggers belief.

Futhermore, they've allowed Sky to operate unregulated, ripping of Irish subs in comparison to UK subs for the same packs, paying nothing to the Irish exchequer, and pumping hundreds of millions annually out of this country for nearly a decade now.

This is just one example of bad decisions made at government level that are helping to destroy this country.

The state public service is not there to be sold out to any companies for their own financial gain, be they Irish, or anywhere else in the EU. They should be there to be made available, free, on as many platforms as possible, to ensure the Irish public can use them.

Hopefully, RTE's HD content will be kept that way, and help loosen Sky's grasp, but I doubt it.

Please give me another example of an EU country that deploys their Public Service Broadcaster in this manner.

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

BBC viewers don't have to pay sky to watch their PSB.

Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »

Like it is at present? :rolleyes:

mickko wrote: »

Hopefully, no. But if the state broadcaster is good at anything, it's selling out to foreign broadcasters.

Hogzy wrote: »

lol yeah. Isnt UPC a Dutch company owned by an American Company.
Sky is probably more "Irish" than UPC. At least Sky is European Owned

EDIT: Yup. Liberty Global (USA) is the Parent of UPC.