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Five and Freeview on South Coast ?

  • 01-04-2006 7:40pm
    #1
    Niall1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭


    Just wondering a few things.

    I know that South Coast TV was setup to broadcast English Analogue stations to Cork and parts of West Waterford.

    My understanding is that they pick up the signal view a large aerial on top of the Comeragh mountains and then rebroadcast the signal over the cork and west waterford area.

    Why is it then, considering that they do all other stations, that they don't rebroadcast Five ?

    On another note, why don't they rebroadcast the Freeview signals or don't they carry that far ?


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  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,113 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Niall1234 wrote:
    Just wondering a few things.

    I know that South Coast TV was setup to broadcast English Analogue stations to Cork and parts of West Waterford.

    My understanding is that they pick up the signal view a large aerial on top of the Comeragh mountains and then rebroadcast the signal over the cork and west waterford area.

    Why is it then, considering that they do all other stations, that they don't rebroadcast Five ?

    On another note, why don't they rebroadcast the Freeview signals or don't they carry that far ?

    No idea about Five - a few guesses would be lack of interest and difficulty in getting a signal in the first place

    Digital Terrestrial Television signals cannot be relayed using any kind of kit that SCTV could dream of affording - COFDM-encoded signals cannot be passively repeated.


  • #3
    Niall1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭Niall1234


    Would be interesting then, if they just picked up the freeview signal, send it through a freeview box and then maybe broadcast a few extra channels such as Sky News or E4 ?

    All it would take would be one freeview box per channel.


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Easier to pickup satellite.

    So called "Deflectors" are doomed. SWCT should offer a proper service on same basis as Chorus/NTL in licences etc or shut down.


  • #5
    Niall1234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 425 ✭✭Niall1234


    All the same watty, nice to be able to tune in every single TV in a house to all the Englsih terrestrial stations without needing a decoder box for each TV.


  • #6
    Ulsterman 1690
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    Actually with BBC1 and 2 now FTA and on the Irish EPG maybe Southcoast should consider dropping BBC1 for C5

    Its been mentioned here before that some of the SCTV affiliates transmit EWTN in place of one of the BBC's Also IIRC one or two deflectors out there still carry Sky News :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,113 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Ulsterman 1690 wrote:
    Its been mentioned here before that some of the SCTV affiliates transmit EWTN

    :confused:

    People WATCH that that aren't american?


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