Lack of Irish radio stations on sky

bbability

Any reason why RTE are using two slots for Radio 1 and why there isn't more stations from Eire on sky? UTV could at least throw a few up ther alongside their UK stations

Rubik.

bbability wrote: »

Any reason why RTE are using two slots for Radio 1

UPC have two as well, one of them being RTE Radio 1 LW. There are some differences between the two - Mass 10 o'clock Sunday mornings....etc

GSF

bbability wrote: »

Any reason why RTE are using two slots for Radio 1 and why there isn't more stations from Eire on sky? UTV could at least throw a few up ther alongside their UK stations

BBCR4 have 2 slots also - one for the FM output and one for the LW output. Dont RTE only put some sports commentaries on AM or FM?

As for UTV presumably they dont want to pay the additional charges for minimal return?

irishh_bob

radio one , 2 fm and newstalk are on the sky dial and i think r na g might be aswell , pity today fm is abstent

jimmyw

Yeah thats true, RTE R1 is on it twice.Are they paying them twice? Surprised Today FM is not there.

lacase

Don't forget Lyric FM is also there. I know on DAB there is an RTE 1 extra so maybe the second RTE 1 is for that? The station does split at times with one program on RTE 1 FM and a different program on RTE 1 Longwave. It may be the same on Astra.

byte

Is one of the Radio 1 feeds not from WRN (which was there before the other RTÉ radio channels, along with TV channels appeared on Sky)?

Kensington

One is the FM feed, the other the LW feed. LW carries a lot of sport commentary - GAA, horse racing etc. The LW feed on sky also has a much wider satellite footprint to the rest of the RTÉ channels, as it is uplinked on a different transponder (and different satellite craft) altogether.

As for the lack of radio stations on Sky, EPG slots are bloody expensive! For what return they might get from being on sky, it'd hardly be worth their while...

Skid

I guess the expense wouldn't justify the additional listeners for most stations.

Also, having listeners outside their broadcast area would be of less value to local advertisers for the regional stations.

RTE could do more with their two Radio 1 Stations (RTE Radio Channel 0160 and RTE R1 Extra 0142)

Instead of having the same output almost all of the time, they could show repeats in the evening of Liveline and Mooney, for example.

They could also broadcast more of their archive programmes like the 'Documentary on One' Series, some of which are excellent.

1huge1

SkidMark wrote: »

I guess the expense wouldn't justify the additional listeners for most stations.

Also, having listeners outside their broadcast area would be of less value to local advertisers for the regional stations.

RTE could do more with their two Radio 1 Stations (RTE Radio Channel 0160 and RTE R1 Extra 0142)

Instead of having the same output almost all of the time, they could show repeats in the evening of Liveline and Mooney, for example.

They could also broadcast more of their archive programmes like the 'Documentary on One' Series, some of which are excellent.

Just a small note in regard to having listeners outside their broadcast area, the radio stations would only have to be on Sky Ireland so that wouldn't be an issue.

Skid

1huge1 wrote: »

Just a small note in regard to having listeners outside their broadcast area, the radio stations would only have to be on Sky Ireland so that wouldn't be an issue.

My point is that if say, Red FM in Cork want to sell advertising to businesses in Cork, then Cork listeners are more valuable to them than having listeners in Donegal or Dublin.

As far as I can see, the Irish stations (RTE and Newstalk) can be accessed on the UK Sky EPG, so I don't know if their is an option for Irish Stations just to be available to Irish viewers.

1huge1

Ah ok I see, I was just thinking of national radio broadcasters that aren't on Sky currently (such as Todayfm although I havent checked in a long time but I assume they still aren't there).