Sky News Ireland to air on Sky one

TVDX

Just been on another satellite forum.
News is in that Sky one Ireland will now simulcast the Sky News Ireland bulletin.

From the site Digitalspy : "The 30-minute bulletin, anchored by Grainne Seoige, will replace Malcolm in the Middle on Sky One Ireland at 6.30pm on weekdays. "

At least most of us know how to tune in the UK variant should we need to watch whatever is on at 6.30. If they get good ratings they will put it on at 10pm as well.
I had the english version tuned in ages ago because I hated the Irish ads.
Looks like Ill be using it more often.
This to me is a turn off, If I want Sky news Ireland I will switch on Sky News Ireland.

Gonzo

that is really crap, I like Malcolm In the Middle, think its time I ring up and complain...the last thing I want to see on Sky One is news.

Sparky

thats why they have news channels, to show the news on them, i only ever knew of sky three showing news but sky one??
Its like they are trying to get more people to watch sky news ireland would yous reckon.

L1011

They're trying to make both Sky One and Sky Three be like the terrestrials, e.g. show a mix of everything and not specialise

Additionally they desperately want viewers for Sky News Ireland, so... anything goes.

Robert

I agree give me Malcom in the middle over the news any sday

Charles Slane

It's both bizarre and stupid at the same time. For some reason they seem determined to make us watch Grainne Seoige (is that her name?) whether we want to or not.

My advice? Tune the real Sky One in on "Other Channels" and watch Malcolm on that. The tuning details are 12285 V SR 27500 FEC 2/3.

bazzer

What a desperate move by Sky. Are they finally realising that 'Sky News Ireland' carries far too much British-oriented material to be of any major interest to Irish viewers? So much so, that Irish people simply don't bother to regard the Sky News channel as a decent provider of news with Irish interest, with the exception of a major world event.

RTÉ have been known to be interested (at least in the past) in setting up a dedicated Irish news channel. Maybe they should team up with Sky to re-launch a truly Irish news service that people here will actually want to watch.

Charlie

Why the hell couldn't they have have put it on one the endless slots they give to crud like brainiac or stargate. Malcolm is one of the few shows that I would watch on Sky 1. sky news never did and never will take off. Irish people are skeptical about these razzle dazzle news channels.

mellow joe

Well I think its a good idea.
The news is more important then loads of crappy repeats.

Good move by Sky.

If you don't like it you have Sky Two and Sky Three.:)

limerick_man

And if you do like it you have sky news!!!
I dont have sky 2 and 3.. i just have sky news and sky 1.. so both my channels will have the same thing i dont want to see! I wanna watch malcolm not news!!

Charlie

mellow joe wrote:

Well I think its a good idea.
The news is more important then loads of crappy repeats.

Good move by Sky.

If you don't like it you have Sky Two and Sky Three.:)

The point is that there are a ton of shows that sky could have put the news on over malcolm. I would of thought that malcolm is one of the more favoured programs on sky 1. Secondly, anyone who has access to sky 1 has access to sky news. Do sky think we are not compotent enough to change the channel if we want to see the news. It just seems as if they are shoving it down our throats so they will be able to say in 6 months time that the viewership for sky news Ireland is up.

TVDX

mellow joe wrote:

Well I think its a good idea.
The news is more important then loads of crappy repeats.

Good move by Sky.

If you don't like it you have Sky Two and Sky Three.:)

Well, I have because I have satellite.
But what about people who still have analogue or even digital cable?.
They can't tune in the Uk variant.

RobertFoster

Charles Slane wrote:

It's both bizarre and stupid at the same time. For some reason they seem determined to make us watch Grainne Seoige (is that her name?) whether we want to or not.

My advice? Tune the real Sky One in on "Other Channels" and watch Malcolm on that. The tuning details are 12285 V SR 27500 FEC 2/3.

Can you only re-tune channels on Sky Digital, or can you do it with NTL Digital too?

L1011

RobertFoster wrote:

Can you only re-tune channels on Sky Digital, or can you do it with NTL Digital too?

No, the UK Sky One isn't carried on NTL:Digital here.

Mossy Monk

absolute madness by Sky. this is one half arsed attempt at getting people to watch Sky News Ireland. their big problem is they start while Six One and TV3 News are on

moved to Broadcasting

JohnC.

Almost as pointless at NTL dedicating an entire channel to simulcasting The Den while it is on RTÉ2.

Why on earth would they replace a popular show with something which is on another channel which Sky One viewers do already have? Madness.

Telefís

I disagree - it's a clever move by Sky, indeed you'd wonder why they didn't do this from the very beginning. Yes it's going to pee off Malcom fans, yes it is illogical on the face of it having Sky News just a channel hop away, but the reality is more people will watch, even if a negligible amount at first. They're banking on the fact that viewers on cable tend to percieve Sky One as another terrestrial, and hence many will continue to treat it as such once Sky News Ireland comes on.

As for the 7pm slot - does Malcolm live there 365 days a year? If not, it is more than a little bizarre to be complaining about the loss of a programme that is merely plugging a slot till the next series of whatever is bought in to replace it. If not, than fair enough, but even so SNI at this time was nothing short of inevitable from its very inception - some things have to change.

Agreed about the poor content of SNI, and from that perspective I would also bemoan the loss of Malcom
But from a broader broadcasting viewpoint, it's a clever move.

TVDX wrote:

But what about people who still have analogue or even digital cable?.

Who 'still' have it - GASP!!! The shame of it all
You mean the majority of cable viewers in Ireland?

icdg

One daft move after another - if Sky are actually realising their mistake in putting Sky News Ireland up against both Six-One AND TV3 News, there is one simple thing to do. Move it back to 19:00 and let The Sky Report be dammed. Moving it from its established time slot to a slot where it was inevitably going to lose viewers (up against the flagship bulittens of the main Irish terrestrial stations) for UK scheduling reasons was, and still is, a silly move.

Anyone who has Sky One Ireland also has Sky News Ireland. That is more or less a given. Any of these people who actually want to watch Sky News Ireland will be watching Sky News Ireland, not Sky One Ireland. The only result is that not only will Sky News Ireland have lost viewers, now Sky One Ireland will also have lost viewers.

Someone in Sky has a serious ratings death wish for the 18:30 time slot...

muffler

Charles Slane wrote:

For some reason they seem determined to make us watch Grainne Seoige (is that her name?)

Sure I could watch her all night:D

Cabaal

mellow joe wrote:

Well I think its a good idea.
The news is more important then loads of crappy repeats.

How very true this comment is, however it only applies when its quality news
Sky News just ain't quality news

Telefís

Ah - it's on a 6.30! I mis-read it as being 7.00 :rolleyes:
Can you by any chance tell I don't have Sky?

Well that certainly puts a different spin on things - what a silly notion to put it up against Six One, and TV3, its sibling in sh*te.
7pm is the perfect time for SNI - coming on just as all the others finish, and more significantly it could act as the Channel 4 News of Ireland - catching all those commuters coming home who have missed all Irish news output over the course of the previous hour and a half.

If putting it on Sky One at 6.30 actually loses significant amounts of viewers over conventional programming on in that slot, at the very time all other Irish news is on, then that's just ridiculous. 7pm is a much more realistic slot, not least from the perspective of serving the public......oh wait, this is $ky....

Skyuser

It's not about getting more people to watch it cause it's on Sky One. It's because currently the last half hour of 'live at 5' is being cut off for Irish viewers to watch news ireland. They're trying to be nice so we can see the whole show.

Mossy Monk

so Sky News Ireland will be gone from Sky News completely?

Telefís

Well simulcast is mentioned in the first post there.
One would assume they'd retain it on Sky News too....

Skyuser

O yes it will be simulcast, sorry. Actually yes, they do just want more poeple to watch.

Round Cable

I think it's pretty stupid, but smart at the same time, which is watched more; epg slot 106, or 501?

I'm sure Sky News Ireland must be near the end and this is one last desperate attempt to lure viewers, I wonder how sucessful it'll be against RTÉ News.

Mossy Monk

Round Cable wrote:

I wonder how sucessful it'll be against RTÉ News.

personally i think it doesnt stand a chance

byte

Mossy Monk wrote:

personally i think it doesnt stand a chance

I wholeheartedly agree.

Richard

Kahless wrote:

Almost as pointless at NTL dedicating an entire channel to simulcasting The Den while it is on RTÉ2.

This is surely sensible on RTE's part. I'm guessing that the simulcast is near other Kids channels, so that it is therefore easier to compete with them.

I've not yet seen Sky News Ireland - it'd be interesting if they put it on overnight on Sky News UK so that I could see what it is like. I don't have SkyDigital, only Freeview.

watty

I watched it once. I didn't feel it was worth remembering the time to catch it again.

I think it is a terriable idea to put it on Sky1.... UNLESS Sky 1 has a regional news for each area of British Isles at the same time.

(There are at least 5 Sky news channels on Satellite, so it is possible...)

I have choice of Sky News (various versions and satellites), BBC News 24, BBC world, DW TV, Nile TV international, Euronews, VOA/C-Span, Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Russia Today etc for 24 hr channels and English bullitains on JSTV, TRTint, IBA Ch33, RTE, TV3, UTV, BBC NI (all FTA).
When RTE starts their long time proposed 24 hr Channel I'd sooner watch that than Sky News having an Irish Slot. I regard it as useful as buying the Sun or Mirror for Irish News.

Anyone remember the advance publicity when Sky marked Dublin as somewhere near Wexford?

Freddie59

TVDX wrote:

Just been on another satellite forum.
News is in that Sky one Ireland will now simulcast the Sky News Ireland bulletin.

From the site Digitalspy : "The 30-minute bulletin, anchored by Grainne Seoige, will replace Malcolm in the Middle on Sky One Ireland at 6.30pm on weekdays. "

At least most of us know how to tune in the UK variant should we need to watch whatever is on at 6.30. If they get good ratings they will put it on at 10pm as well.
I had the english version tuned in ages ago because I hated the Irish ads.
Looks like Ill be using it more often.
This to me is a turn off, If I want Sky news Ireland I will switch on Sky News Ireland.

What complete and utter nonsense. 'Multi' channel TV?? I've never heard of anything so brutal in all my life. I absolutely love Sky News......ON Sky news. LEAVE THE OTHER CHANNELS ALONE!!!

Random

Oh joy... as if a 24hour repetitive news channel wasn't enough... now they wanna 2 channels of the same bloody repetitive news?

MITM is far superior.

Charles Slane

A poster called "givecredit" on DigitalSpy has said that the simulcast is only until the end of February and it's being done to promote the service on Sky News.

Ulsterman 1690

I wonder will BBC1 still have national news bulletens when the analouge terrestrial signal is turned off

Rather pointless when there is news 24

JohnC.

Something semi-related to this...

Can the non-Ireland versions of Sky News and Sky One be tuned into an Irish Sky box through Other Channels? More of a curiosity than something I'd use much really.

DMC

Yes it can.

Sky News : 12207 V 27500 2/3
Sky One : 12285 V 27500 2/3

JohnC.

Cheers