New Irish Broadcaster (if they appeared!)

I agree that Irish fictional comedy series need a lot of love. Though I don't see RTE doing much. I think some competition from a new group to pressure RTE and TV3 would be a good thing.
None of the national broadcasters seem to take advantage of the net either. I think current.com are probably the best with taking advantage in this regard.

The BBC also do a good job but I think thats mainly due to its great R&D department. Although the BBC are great in terms of technology they still have their shortcomings.
I thought that their dvb-t2 implementation would use dirac instead of mpeg for example which would have been great using an open standard and would have reduced costs but they chose mpeg4 in the end.

I dont think there will be much chances for a new group to offer tv over fta in ireland to be honest.
From what I understand anyway BAI/BCI and comreg seem to be selling the specrums in large quantities rather than a channel per channel basis. This will make it near impossible for anyone new to try and make it in this industry, at least for semi neich markets(a channel focused at 16-30 something year olds). Due to the lack of space on the fta service I think we will get much of the same, dispersed and more widespread programming. Which is a pity because one of the things I always assumed dtt would bring is more choice and quality in terms of television in ireland.

Graham Linehan , Chris O'Dowd, Dylan Moran... What do all of these guys have in common. They are Irish, funny, successful and none of them work for RTE. In fact when asked why he left Ireland, Dylan simply stated that no one was hiring.
I have said before on the forums that RTE focus too much on factual content and don't really live up in other genres and I don't think I explained it properly.
Its not that we don't have an abundance of young talent out there. Its just that its too difficult to make it in Ireland compared to Britain with regards to creating fictional content. In Britain its seldom rare an actor would rise to fame in the movie industry without first providing a portfolio of interesting television for any one of the abundance of british channels, and this is a good thing as it improves the quality of all sides from acting, directing and writing.
Although the same cannot be said for Ireland.
This is a problem which I hope to see resolved if a new channel were to rise from nowhere. Imagine having Grahem Linehan, Chris O'Dowed, and Dylan Moran on board to reform Irish media.
To give hope to media students across the country that they don't have to suppress their passion or alter their style to get coverage, that they will no longer have to choose between what they want to do and what country they need to live in.
Who knows, with the advent of iptv there might be a possibility of a new broadcaster to achieve this, first proving their worth on the web and then migrating to dtt.
Now that I think of it Colin Murphy would make a nice addition to the group, a great presenter and entertainer but while watching the blizzard of odd I always thought his charisma would fit well in a sitcom.
Anyways, Those 4 people would be essential, if we are talking about home brew content that is. They would also be essential in trying to expand with regards to writing staff, acting staff etc, who better to be able to spot new Irish talent?

Well, I'm not really attacking RTE. RTE do a way better job than TV3, the main reason why I didn't mention TV3 there was due to the fact that TV3 weren't around back when Grahem and Dylan were starting their careers. Even if TV3 were around I think we would have the same issue.
Maybe the issue is not RTE but the lack of third party broadcaster pushing Irish media.
This is just what I would like a new broadcaster to focus on so that the future Dylan's and Grahem's can create great television in Ireland rather than leaving our country to pursue their careers.
Again, I don't want to give the impression that RTE are doing a bad job, they have invested quite a lot of money into alot of things including the hardware side with RTENL.
Also because they have government backing its most likely considerably harder to take risks. I mentioned Collin at the end because I was a fan of the blizzard and I do agree RTE have treated him well.
Its a pity that show needed to end because it had such a cult following but I think its a good example of the kind of position RTE are in due to government backing.
The show lived up to its name and maybe this was just too odd to have on government financed television.
I just hope that the boxer deal falls through, There is just not enough space on dtt reserved for third party broadcasters to offer fta tv over unencrypted airwaves. I wouldnt mind if it was 2 mux's for fta and 2 for boxer but 3 to boxer and 2 to fta is in my opinion bad.
I think that the TV3 group and RTE are in a better position to get the remaining space because there wouldnt be enough time for a new group to get set up yet, especially with the economy the way it is at the moment.
We really do need new blood though.