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Saorsat from sky?

  • 06-09-2010 10:11pm
    #1
    patsryan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭


    Any chance of this happening like in the uk? Only here it would be a great service


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  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    no

    The whole point of it is to deliberately exclude the UK.

    Otherwise the cost of content (even home grown content) would be horrendous and so there would be no service as the UK viewers is 20x as many.

    Also the single Kasat spot beam over Ireland is about 1/10th of carriage costs of 28.2E.

    Eventually the UK will use a similar scheme to ensure content is not in France, Spain, Netherlands, most of Western Europe. Even to limit regional coverage and reduce carriage costs to 1/5th.


  • #3
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    The only DTT channel missing from the existing Sky lineup is RTÉ News Now and Digital Aertel. Of the other sharing channels annouced in July Euronews is there already RTÉ1 +1 and The Den being the other two.

    I assume if Sky reached a similar agreement as with the existing channels on Sky the others would be there also but I can't see a Saorsat from Sky option similar to Freesat from Sky being made available. It would be of no benefit to Sky to carry them outside of any subscription package even encrypted with a card as we believe Sky pay all the costs associated carriage/transmission/epg/encryption costs etc of the Irish channels on the platform.

    The closest we got to a free service from RTÉ with home grown programming on Astra 2 was RTÉ International/Diaspora TV which is on hold at the moment with no known plans to resurrect it.


  • #4
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,556 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    The Cush wrote: »
    The closest we got to a free service from RTÉ with home grown programming on Astra 2 was RTÉ International/Diaspora TV which is on hold at the moment with no known plans to resurrect it.
    I don't think RTE will (or should necessarily) fund it, but I think RTE News Now has the potential to serve the irish community in the UK, and beyond. As well as the news, it already carries prime time/ frontline. Add in Nationwide and it'd be a nice mix for those wanting to stay in touch with home, without being ridiculous in terms of content costs (I imagine).


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