Channel South on 107

deanh

This channel has been added on chorus digital cable in Cork. It seems to be a rebroadcast of city channel (owned by UPC?) with some local opt-outs.It uses the city channel logo and dog.

dunworth1

it here in limerick too

RINO87

yeah, the testers are on the basic package but id say theyll knock that off when they start broadcasting

malahidetv

Again Malahide get 4th class Chorus service.
We wait years for City Channel and what do we get... Channel South!!
I really don't need the Waterford Weather Forecast!!
A Sky subscription looks better every day.:rolleyes:

icdg

malahidetv wrote: »

Again Malahide get 4th class Chorus service.
We wait years for City Channel and what do we get... Channel South!!
I really don't need the Waterford Weather Forecast!!
A Sky subscription looks better every day.:rolleyes:

That's strange. However Malahide is ex-Chorus rather than ex-NTL, so that may be the reason - you are probably being fed from Chorus' super head-end rather than NTL's. You'd think they'd be able to arrange for City Channel Dublin to be inserted locally instead though.

zilog_jones

Is there ever anything on this channel besides music videos? That's all I've seen, contrary to what the EPG says.

deanh

zilog_jones wrote: »

Is there ever anything on this channel besides music videos? That's all I've seen, contrary to what the EPG says.

It seems to be a test broadcast at the moment. Full broadcasting begins, according to advertising, on Monday @ 7pm.

talkingclock

zilog_jones wrote: »

Is there ever anything on this channel besides music videos? That's all I've seen, contrary to what the EPG says.

Maybe Morning Psychics, Afternoon Psychics, Evening Psychics and Night Psychics? Another crappy station like BUZZ TV??

Infoanon

Ads in todays papers - launches tomorrow Nov 10th - 'City Channel' for Munster (and Malahide!) infocommercials/very old movies/music you get the idea! better than Buzz though...which does not say a lot...

patrickmooney

Yes Citys Founder, David H was on NewsTalk on Sat. talking about the launch. Weird it's Channel South and not City South etc. It is meant for Limerick and Cork.

I love the idea of City, their local news and weather, they could have this on non-stop repeat. That is was I want from a City Channel. But the Dublin one today had Galway report, as a Dublin viewer, wanting to know what is happening in Dublin from Dublin City Channel, Galway Report is useless.

Solair

Well, I suppose it's the fact that it covers more than just cities. It's covering a big area of the south of the country hence "Channel South" not just the Cork and Limerick city cable networks.

City Channel would possibly be better off being called Channel East (Dublin) and Channel West (Galway) given that it also covers a wider area than just the cities of Dublin and Galway.

Is Channel South being carried on exNTL waterford?

icdg

Solair wrote: »

Well, I suppose it's the fact that it covers more than just cities. It's covering a big area of the south of the country hence "Channel South" not just the Cork and Limerick city cable networks.

City Channel would possibly be better off being called Channel East (Dublin) and Channel West (Galway) given that it also covers a wider area than just the cities of Dublin and Galway.

Is Channel South being carried on exNTL waterford?

City Channel is or was on NTL Waterford, to though how different it was from the Dublin version I don't know. It no longer seems to be listed as a seperate entity on City's website though.

zilog_jones

Did it actually start on the 10th? The EPG still bares no resemblance to what's on the channel

Antenna

Interview with David Harvey on local radio in Cork the morning after the lauch of Channel South available to listen here (about 4 minutes long):

http://www.2shared.com/file/4323002/df48f438/channelsouthlaunch.html

malahidetv

ok, thought that channelsouth being on chorus in malahide was a test run for us getting city channel but no, we're still stuck with it! how hard can it be to switch us over? Chorus service here is a disgrace:mad:

Freddie59

icdg wrote: »

City Channel is or was on NTL Waterford, to though how different it was from the Dublin version I don't know. It no longer seems to be listed as a seperate entity on City's website though.

Channel South in Waterford now.

deanh

zilog_jones wrote: »

Did it actually start on the 10th? The EPG still bares no resemblance to what's on the channel

I think they were using the EPG. information for city channel in Dublin (eg FM104 phone in show was listed but not carried on the channel). The EPG has been updated and syncronised since last thursday.

Antenna

Some Cork press coverage of the launch of Channel South:

1st page:


2nd page:

MarkK

malahidetv wrote: »

Again Malahide get 4th class Chorus service.
We wait years for City Channel and what do we get... Channel South!!
I really don't need the Waterford Weather Forecast!!
A Sky subscription looks better every day.:rolleyes:

On Sky you can watch "Channel M" http://www.channelm.co.uk/ and get some Manchester weather forecasts.

Antenna

Channel South's magazine programme 'South Tonight' came to an end last Friday (7 August 2009) - its timeslots is now being filled by repeats of other programmes.

'South Tonight' was presented by C103 presenter Martina O'Donoghue and was pre-recorded at a different location in Munster every week (usually at a hotel), a half hour show then went out Monday - Friday and with omnibus repeat at weekends.

Is it going to return in the Autumn? Apparently there was no mention that it would return.

Solair

I would really wonder if there is enough advertising revenue around for city channel / channel south to survive. Considering that tv3 and rte television are struggling for revenue and given that there are Irish ad sales for a considerable number of satellite channels which would have much broader appeal than these local channels, I would suspect they're having a hard time.