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Why no Utv/Channel4 on sky.......

08-07-2003 2:51pm

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....but there is on ntl???

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#2 08-07-2003 2:56pm

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All in the FAQ, skyuser....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73425

- Dave.

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#3 08-07-2003 9:31pm

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Thank you for letter of 9 April. I am General Manager - Rights for Channel 4 Television and I am responsible for rights clearance issues and for our negotiations with Irish cable operators.

We are of course keen that people across the island of Ireland should be able to see the Channel 4 service. Channel 4 is extremely popular with cable viewers in Ireland and we are sure that it would be equally popular with satellite viewers. However, European directives which enable us to clear rights quite simply for cable distribution do not apply to satellite distribution.

This is because whereas terrestrial overspill is 'free-to-air', satellite has to be encrypted as it covers a far wider geographical area, and Channel 4 has only cleared rights for the UK.

Therefore, the issue of rights clearance is considerably more complex. Along with many other broadcasters in the island of Ireland, we are investigating a range of options with a view to ultimately being available across the full range of platforms in the Republic of Ireland. I take your point about the technical advantages of satellite transmissions. Namely that people on the south coast of Ireland don't have to put up with S4C.

With regard to the point made in your final paragraph, Channel 4 has a distribution agreement in place with Sky and we have no current plans to move to 'free to air transmissions' on Astra 2D.

Yours sincerely

Andrew Baxter
General Manager - Rights

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