Channel 5 possibly in 06?

Mayo Exile

In todays (Thurs, Nov 10th) business section of the Irish Independent, page 13. "Channel 5 to accept Irish advertising." Is this a possible prelude to Channel 5 being available in RoI sometime in the future, 06 maybe?

DMC

UK's Channel 5 books Irish ad debut for 2006
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=184&si=1502646&issue_id=13240

ANOTHER British station, Channel Five, may soon become available to Irish advertisers, according to Saor Communications.

Although nothing official has been announced yet, the Irish opt-out is rumoured to happen in early 2006.

Channel Five, Britain's fifth terrestrial channel, was launched in April 1997 and is available on all platforms in the UK.

Since the launch, the channel has enjoyed steady increases is audience.

Mayo Exile

Would "JohnDigital" have any insights on this?

Mossy Monk

Mayo Exile wrote:

In todays (Thurs, Nov 10th) business section of the Irish Independent, page 13. "Channel 5 to accept Irish advertising." Is this a possible prelude to Channel 5 being available in RoI sometime in the future, 06 maybe?

could it be similar to what Channel 4 do with the Irish advertising in Northern Ireland and we will see Channel 5 end up on NTL and Chorus but not Sky

maybe RTL want it on Sky in the UK and also Ireland to maximise profits

DMC

Setanta wont be pleased if it appears on NTL or Sky, as they almost always take any soccer five show.

RTL now controlling all of five has changed their outlook. Previous management didn't care.

BrianD

Ch 5 was on some of these new networks that were installed in some housing estates. It has since disappeared. I doubt if Ch5 will appear here in the medium term due to rights issues.

JohnDigital

Everything I have heard to now about Channel 5 has been for it to be available for advertising opt out in NI early in 2006 (where it is already broadcasting). No plans for ROI to the best of my knowledge.

Tony

BrianD wrote:

Ch 5 was on some of these new networks that were installed in some housing estates. It has since disappeared. I doubt if Ch5 will appear here in the medium term due to rights issues.

I'm not so sure Brian it was available here on analogue satellite.

L1011

Being on analogue (encrypted but with null encryption keys, you just needed a videocrypt decoder and any non-killed Videocrypt card - the first FTV channel? ) was the reason it was on the small CATV systems still around the in the mid 1990's. It being ****e back then; and network consolidation into CMI and Irish Multichannel is why it vanished.

watty

And even on licenced "deflector" UHF TV in Limerick City, fed by analog satellite!

I had C5 for ages on Analog after I got Sky Digital.

lawhec

Unless Five have plans to extend their analogue terrestial network (which they still heavily rely on) in Northern Ireland I don't really see them focusing on a Northern Ireland advertising sub-region just yet. The analogue coverage they have up here is poor to say the least - they just about cover Belfast with frequent co-channel interference & have a transmitter in Derry.

BrianD

Tony wrote:

I'm not so sure Brian it was available here on analogue satellite.

I hear it was on one of those new housing estate networks (I won't state the name) as part of the channel line up as recent as a year ago. As Ch5 has appeared since broadcasters started rigidly protecting their programme rights it has really been ushered out of this market. They may have plans for a NI advertising opt-out (though I doubt it for a pop. of 1m) but Ch5 is non-existent in this market so it's highly unlikely. You hardly even hear about them in the UK!

Mossy Monk

BrianD wrote:

I hear it was on one of those new housing estate networks (I won't state the name) as part of the channel line up as recent as a year ago

it's been in Dungarvan since the channel launched

Ulsterman 1690

With ITV gone FTA I can imagine Chorus and NTL will now be very anxious to get Five on their line up so that they will have some selling point over $ky

An "Irish optout" for (RTL owned) five would hardly be unprecedented given that RTL have German/Luxembourg/Austrian and Swiss versions of RTL 1 and 2

Greenman

Ulsterman 1690 wrote:

With ITV gone FTV

I'm sure you mean FTA

L1011

Mossy Monk wrote:

it's been in Dungarvan since the channel launched

Dungarvan also has a cable company who seem to know what they're doing, though. The rest of the country, bar Longford Town (Crossan) really, really doesn't.

Ulsterman 1690

Greenman wrote:

I'm sure you mean FTA

Im sure I do too

Our man in Havana

MYOB wrote:

Being on analogue (encrypted but with null encryption keys, you just needed a videocrypt decoder and any non-killed Videocrypt card - the first FTV channel? ) .

No Sky Sports was FTV for a short period when it first launched.