New Irish Film Channel Going FTA on Satellite?

taung

Does anyone know or is anyone willing to speculate on whether this channel will be FTA on satellite or just FTA on DTT?

Irish Independent


By Anne-Marie Walsh

Friday May 16 2008

IRELAND'S newest State-sponsored TV channel will cost less to run each year than one series of RTE medical drama 'The Clinic'.
Film sources yesterday revealed that the operating cost of the low-budget channel, launched yesterday, would range between €3m and €4m a year.
A decision has not been made on where the new station will be based, or whether it will show Irish, European and world films around the clock.
It has also not been decided whether it will keep the cumbersome title, 'The Irish Film and World Cinema TV Channel'.
The Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan yesterday launched Ireland's answer to Film 4 at a party in Temple Bar, Dublin.
"It is a lean, mean, operating machine," said the Irish Film Board's Louise Ryan, from the Cannes Film Festival.
"There will be a lot of low-cost acquisitions, and it will differ from Film 4 in that there will be no money for new productions."
Enthusiasts said 'Man about Dog' and 'Intermission', starring Colin Farrell, have been earmarked as some of the first films to hit our small screens.
All of the films will have already screened and will therefore be relatively inexpensive.
The entertainment value of the new film channel could mean it picks up more viewers than 'Oireachtas TV'.
The creation of both channels was announced in the Broadcasting Bill, published this week.
Mr Ryan said the channel would provide a new avenue for Irish filmmakers to deliver their work to a wider audience.
"I am confident that this free-to-air channel will be up-and-running on the digital platform by the end of 2009," he said.
- Anne-Marie Walsh

taung

From the information given at the Minister's press conference this channel will only be part of DTT roll-out and not on satellite.

watty

Its icing for the otherwise possibly "doomed commercially" Irish DTT.

MisterAnarchy

taung wrote: »

From the information given at the Minister's press conference this channel will only be part of DTT roll-out and not on satellite.

Looking forward to watching that in 2020 so .:rolleyes:

taung

By the end of 2009 according to Minister.....

MisterAnarchy

taung wrote: »

By the end of 2009 according to Minister.....

No chance of that.
For Gods sake they have been testing for a few years .
Who the hell needs to test for that length of time ?
You dont actually believe politicians do you ...

watty

Could be before 2009 actually

taung

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

No chance of that.
For Gods sake they have been testing for a few years .
Who the hell needs to test for that length of time ?
You dont actually believe politicians do you ...

It takes a fair bit of time to roll-out a completely new network right across the country, irrespective of whether its digital or analogue.....tender processes have to be gone throught etc........

TheDriver

DO we have a date when RTE mux will start from or even boxes being launched or will we have to wait til all commercial options are ready with their products too?

watty

The RTE mux may be up and running on most of the main TX before the licences are decided for the 3 other Mux, never mind roll out started.

TheDriver

sounds like we should be able to pick up DTT for the main Irish channels sooner than we think

Hero Of College

What is DTT??

Is it foolish to go and spend money on SKY?? Will I lose the digital irish channels to another format or supplier which I then have to spend even MORE money on??

Cheers.

homer911

Where have you been living Hero of College! DTT=Digital Terestial, the replacement for Analogue currently being trialed in a couple of locations. In the future, this is how you will pick up Irish terestrial signals. As for Sky?, consider Freesat or Freeview instead! - no monthly - just depends on what channels you want to watch

Hero Of College

homer911 wrote: »

Where have you been living Hero of College! DTT=Digital Terestial, the replacement for Analogue currently being trialed in a couple of locations. In the future, this is how you will pick up Irish terestrial signals. As for Sky?, consider Freesat or Freeview instead! - no monthly - just depends on what channels you want to watch

Yes....but I won't be able to get the Irish channels, which are something i would always like to have. And the last thing i want to do is to get my parents to subscribe to sky on the understanding that they will always have RTE, Network 2, TV3 and TG4 when all of a sudden BANG the shagging DTT takes it over and they find themselves with a SKY subscription and no Irish channels.

Will we all need Digitial satellites/aerials for this new service?? When is it likely to be rolled out nationwide??

Thanks again.

TheDriver

You will need an aerial, nothing digital about it. And instead of connecting aerial to your tv, it goes to a 50 euro box and then to tv.

Hero Of College

TheDriver wrote: »

You will need an aerial, nothing digital about it. And instead of connecting aerial to your tv, it goes to a 50 euro box and then to tv.

What sort of an aerial? A digital aerial? Surely there is a website for all this, no??

Who sells the boxes? Government??



Cheers:cool:

My main concern, again, is getting stuck with Sky for a year and finding that the 4 Irish channels are gone elsewhere. That would leave my folks shelling out for SKy 1, 2,3 and all that discovery ****e. :eek: