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Brit commercials on Brit channels in Ireland

  • 29-03-2010 1:27pm
    #1
    Dragons Revenge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭


    Is it wrong to find it strange to turn to TV3, BBC, etc and find that they have British ads for British services that have British currency attached to them here in Ireland? Why is that? I mean, I get that yeah, the channels are based over there, and a good portion of the products advertised are found here, but it's that they're advertised in pounds instead of Euros.


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  • #2
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,321 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Why do British channels have ads for British people as opposed to Irish people?

    Really?


  • #3
    kmart6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,174 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Kind of a mute argument!


  • #4
    A Disgrace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭A Disgrace


    TV3 isn't a British Channel.. Although you wouldn't know it


  • #5
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    Dragons Revenge wrote: »
    Is it wrong to find it strange to turn to TV3, BBC, etc and find that they have British ads for British services that have British currency attached to them here in Ireland? Why is that? I mean, I get that yeah, the channels are based over there, and a good portion of the products advertised are found here, but it's that they're advertised in pounds instead of Euros.

    The BBC don't show ads.

    Why do RTÉ ads show products in € up north and on the western fringes of Wales?


  • #6
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,920 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    kmart6 wrote: »
    Kind of a mute argument!

    What, in sign language?


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  • #7
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    kmart6 wrote: »
    Kind of a mute argument!

    Good point. Why don't you mute the ads OP? ;)


  • #8
    NormanNicetouch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭NormanNicetouch


    Dragons Revenge wrote: »
    Is it wrong to find it strange to turn to TV3, BBC, etc and find that they have British ads for British services that have British currency attached to them here in Ireland? Why is that? I mean, I get that yeah, the channels are based over there, and a good portion of the products advertised are found here, but it's that they're advertised in pounds instead of Euros.

    If you turn to TV3 and find it's a British channel, that's wrong.
    If you turn to BBC and find any ads at all, that's wrong.
    It's all wrong.
    How does this worry you when you're living in the States?


  • #9
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    kmart6 wrote: »
    Kind of a mute argument!

    I'm speechless!


  • #10
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I'm confused.com


  • #11
    doubledown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭doubledown


    kmart6 wrote: »
    Kind of a mute argument!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ifdqEmlx-I


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  • #12
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    kmart6 wrote: »
    Kind of a mute argument!

    But that's a moot point.


  • #13
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,321 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Jip wrote: »
    But that's a moot point.

    You mean a moo point.

    (a cow's opinion)


  • #14
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    C4 and other UK channels have lot of Irish adds.....whats your point?


  • #15
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Winty


    Whats wrong with the TV channels in Janesville USA?
    To much Bible and incest


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