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Cost of broadcasting on sky anyone know?

  • 02-11-2009 03:22PM
    #1
    curious guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭


    Anyone know the cost and process of getting a channel onto Sky Digital? Like is it that hard or expensive as there is a load of religious channels on it?


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  • #2
    Pat Gleeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Pat Gleeson


    curious guy wrote: »
    Anyone know the cost and process of getting a channel onto Sky Digital? Like is it that hard or expensive as there is a load of religious channels on it?

    http://www.howtolaunch.tv/glossary.asp

    http://www.howtolaunch.tv/howtolaunch.pdf

    The religious channels have a hell of a lot more money behind them than you might think. :D


  • #3
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    The big cost is getting onto the Sky EPG. Without that, you're a nobody! Well at least as far as the average Sky viewer is concerned.

    Outside of that you obviously have to set up your playout, uplinks etc.


  • #4
    Pat Gleeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Pat Gleeson


    BrianD wrote: »
    The big cost is getting onto the Sky EPG.Without that, you're a nobody!

    The cost was £76k p.a at 2006 prices.


  • #5
    brettmirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭brettmirl


    Cost of uplink at 2006 prices was €110,000 per Mbit/s per annum.


  • #6
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    There are four main items
    1) Uplink costs (dependent on how much bandwidth you plan on using)
    2) Cost of linking to uplink point (ditto plus other factors)
    3) EPG charges (bend over !) Dependent on if you want full 8 day EPG, Now and Next or just a LCN (channel number)
    4) Encryption charges (dependent on which -if any package tier you want to be on)

    4 is optional (as is 3 in theory) if only going for 1 and 2 its probably best to bypass $ky altogether and deal with an Astra 2/Eurobird multiplx operator.

    Dependent on what country/ies you operate (produce content) and uplink from you may need one of those licence things ?


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  • #7
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    I believe that TV3 gave 250,000 euro to Sky Ireland in 2007. But this may not be for their position on 103, I think TV3 use Sky for a number of things.
    There are four main items
    1) Uplink costs (dependent on how much bandwidth you plan on using)
    2) Cost of linking to uplink point (ditto plus other factors)
    3) EPG charges (bend over !) Dependent on if you want full 8 day EPG, Now and Next or just a LCN (channel number)
    4) Encryption charges (dependent on which -if any package tier you want to be on)

    4 is optional (as is 3 in theory) if only going for 1 and 2 its probably best to bypass $ky altogether and deal with an Astra 2/Eurobird multiplx operator.

    Dependent on what country/ies you operate (produce content) and uplink from you may need one of those licence things ?

    Don't for get your own content.


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