RTE to broadcast to UK

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Ireland to broadcast to the UK, again
Ireland’s public broadcaster RTE is to be required to make its services available to Irish emigrants in the UK and potentially further afield. Gaelic language channel TG4 is included in the proposals and will be required to supply programmes to RTE. The plan is due to be put before the Irish parliament as early as next week ahead of a full broadcasting bill in the New Year. The move is expected to cost RTE several million Euros and comes just a few years after the failure of RTE’s commercial venture Tara TV that broadcast locally originated content to the UK over satellite and cable

watty

Tara failed because RTE charged it artifically high prices and pulled the plug.

Foggy43

I thought that both the Dail and Seanad had closed for Christmas?
Lucky sods!

byte

watty wrote:

Tara failed because RTE charged it artifically high prices and pulled the plug.

Yes, it's nearly like it was done deliberately to close the channel.

watty

Of course it was. No coincidence the Sky deal and reuse of Tara uplink for RTE was shortly after.

DMC

I don't think the Tara uplink was used. iirc, Tara was upped to an Intelsat bird high over the atlantic, Sky (or another company) took that feed are re-upped it to 28E. A new uplink station to 28E was purpose built in Montrose for RTÉ.

Mossy Monk

you are correct

watty

Yes, the Tara uplinked to Intelsat, but I beleive they moved the dish and it was used for a short while till the current facilty was built.

But I'm probably wrong.

If you say you disbelive my consipracy theory, it just proves you are part of the conspiracy

DMC

You know it pains me to correct you, watty

RTÉ have never used any other uplink for RTÉ1/2/TV3/TG4 than the purpose built gear in Montrose. They never used Tara's links.

watty

I said I was probabily wrong

So they had no excuse at all.

flogen

This is going to be some kind of 10-hours a week jobey, isn't it?
I remember reading about it in the Irish Post when I lived in England (they're spearheading the campaign over there), and the suggestion was to have a kind of round-up of Irish content.
Obviously it would be the homemade stuff only; maybe a few news episodes or Prime Time stuff to keep them up to speed on Irish affairs. Funniest thing is that this is about 50 years too late; a hell of a lot of the RTE-made content is available online, and it's very, very easy to keep up to date with Irish events once you have a net connection too.

watty

When I lived in Middle East in 1989 all we had was titbits from BBC World Service.

Indeed it is 75 years late. At least there has been RTE radio on Sky and a few hours on WRN and the odd SW relay. Pathetic world wide coverage.