Extra Channels

Rosser

First it was Hallmark and now FM106, 98FM, Newstalk, Spin1038 and Radio Caroline(?) - to be fair to NTL/UPC Ireland they really are improving..

Charlie

Gimme talksport and i'd be happy to dtay with ntl

patrickmooney

Yep in fact 8 new radio channels have come on board. All the dublin local stations, and the remainder of the BBC ones - BBC 5 Live Extra and BBC 7.

bazzer

I don't have NTL Digital myself, but I thought the Dublin Radio stations would have been included from Day One. Why has it taken so long?

snaps

ITV2 and 4, Then I will be as Happy as Larry. Good to See Five Live Extra though.

decies

Rosser wrote:

First it was Hallmark and now FM106, 98FM, Newstalk, Spin1038 and Radio Caroline(?) - to be fair to NTL/UPC Ireland they really are improving..

When are the second class citizens in waterford going to get those extra channels:mad: :mad: :mad:

mike65

Waterford has Hallmak Five Live Extra and BBC 7 which an exellent service.

Mike.

GerardKeating

patrickmooney wrote:

Yep in fact 8 new radio channels have come on board. All the dublin local stations, and the remainder of the BBC ones - BBC 5 Live Extra and BBC 7.

Here in Galway, we got BBC5 Live Extra on 928 and BBC7 on 929, but that's it.

snaps

Must admit I proably wouldn't listen to the dublin satations here in Galway so no real great loss. Just great to see 5 Live extra (Especially for the cricket & extra footie coverage)

Tennis

patrickmooney wrote:

Yep in fact 8 new radio channels have come on board. All the dublin local stations, and the remainder of the BBC ones - BBC 5 Live Extra and BBC 7.

Delighted to see the extra radio stations. But Q102 is missing as far as the dublin stations are concerned, and BBC Radio 1 Extra and the BBC Asian Network are still not there either! I would love to see Talksport too!

Charlie

It would be excellant if talksport was put on to it, a station that I can listen to all day, but I don't think its likely as talksport are a sky owned company.

Mossy Monk

i thought UTV owned them

Charlie

No sky own them. Thats why they're a pretty right wing station. Still the sports(football) coverage and commentary is second to none.

Trotter

Ive got NTL Digital in Waterford,
What new Radio channels should I have!? Should I have the Dublin ones??

decies

no dublin stations in waterford .you should be happy with halmark and galway bay fm since last spring:mad: :mad:

icdg

charlie mchugh wrote:

No sky own them. Thats why they're a pretty right wing station. Still the sports(football) coverage and commentary is second to none.

Er no, UTV do own them:

http://www.utvplc.com/radio.asp?sub=au&sublk=cst&fursublk=ra&id=15

Their right-wingness is possibly due to the previous influence of Kelvin McKenzie on the station...

Personally I'm glad to see the Dublin ILRs on NTL Digital, and especially BBC7.

My TV wish list is still Trouble, Challenge, ITV2 & 4, and Sky Three.

Charlie

I checked that aswel, but english media outlets seem to constantly indicate that sky own them, and the presenters on the station constantly refer to Rupert Murdoch as "their boss".

JDxtra

Just spotted that the shopping channel next to QVC is gone (formerly TV Travel Shop)...

The tax man

jdempsey wrote:

Just spotted that the shopping channel next to QVC is gone (formerly TV Travel Shop)...

Don't know if it's the same channel(sharing channel time)but ibuy is gone too. Never any use to us here cause they only shipped to the UK.:rolleyes:

patrickmooney

Great find re iBuy. Had noticed we'd dropped to 176 channels and couldn't figure out what had been removed!

patrickmooney

Just noticed myself we've more4 + 1, showing blank though. Ch 118.

patrickmooney

And now we've ABC1 on ch 506!!! Amazing, but why so high. This is a great channel, but it's lost up in the 500s, 13x would have been better!

So over the last two months we got City, More4, More4+1, re-branded Sky Two, Hallmark and ABC1. Not to mention all the new radio channels.

PhoenixRising

Excellent, just noticed ABC1 now. Looks like a pretty good channel. Has a few classics like moonlighing and home improvement.

Richard

charlie mchugh wrote:

I checked that aswel, but english media outlets seem to constantly indicate that sky own them, and the presenters on the station constantly refer to Rupert Murdoch as "their boss".

Are you for real? UTV recently bought "The Wireless Group", which included TalkSport. TalkSport is now part of UTV Radio. I've never heard anyone refer to them as being Sky-owned.

I don't listen to the station often - but I can't imagine they are referring to Murdoch as "their" boss.

The UTV Radio website says they own them - can you find something similar on the Sky website?

mike65

big frickin deal as they say on NYPD Blue. How many more channels do I have to avoid to miss Ellen etc! Bring on ITV4. Proper telly.

Mike.

Trotter

Are there any plans for Waterford to get the Dublin based radio channels?

patrickmooney

An interesting point about ABC1, it doesn't show ads between programme junctions, just straight into the next show...meant to be US style?!?!

Mossy Monk

i'd doubt it. have you contacted ntl?

paulm17781

There is a new music channel at 716 too. 'Hits' or somesuch.

patrickmooney

Brill...it would appear we're getting all the freeview channels then! Hits tends to show music videos unlike mtv!

snaps

ABC 1 is showing up on the epg but screen is blank here in Galway

mike65

Same here in Waterford.

Mike.

SteM

patrickmooney wrote:

Brill...it would appear we're getting all the freeview channels then!

Does that mean we can expect five and Sky Three some time?

Mossy Monk

who knows except ntl and the channels involved

The tax man

Happy 10,000th Mossy.:D

gamer

u can listen to talksport on medium wave if u have a good quality radio .

p~b

will trouble ever be on ntl

patrickmooney

SteM wrote:

Does that mean we can expect five and Sky Three some time?

Well I read in the indo last week that Five are launching a version of the channel with Irish ads. As it's not on Sky, it can only mean for distribution on cable?!?

SF1

patrickmooney wrote:

Well I read in the indo last week that Five are launching a version of the channel with Irish ads. As it's not on Sky, it can only mean for distribution on cable?!?

Please let this be true.

icdg

Good news to see ABC1 - similar to Paramount in many respects, but with better presentation (not a fan of Paramount's recent make-over...). Very much US-style, the placement of its breaks (one directly after the opening titles and just before the final scene) is wierd, though Sky One were doing something rather similar in the mid-1990s for a while. The channel's jingle is starting to annoy me already though. It also has perhaps too much reliance on the now-cancelled Eight Simple Rules.

paulm17781

I noticed there is more channels in the PPV section. Am I right or was this upped ages ago and I never looked?