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Barclays Bank Ireland funding €70m DTT Network upgrade

  • 09-06-2011 3:45pm
    #1
    The Cush
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    According to this report the €70m for the upgrade of RTÉNL's transmission network for DTT is being provided by Barclays Bank Ireland.

    http://www.businessworld.ie/bworld/livenews.htm?a=2793084
    RTE today said it has secured essential bank funding to enable the building of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in Ireland by RTENL, the broadcaster's wholly owned transmission and distribution unit.

    The E70m funding comes from Barclays Bank Ireland.


Comments

  • #2
    jamescc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭jamescc


    is this on top of what rte put up . it must be state guaranteed


  • #3
    Biffo The Bare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Biffo The Bare


    jamescc wrote: »
    is this on top of what rte put up . it must be state guaranteed
    No its the debt that they have already incurred. It just means that they can keep paying the likes of Marian Finucane, Pat Kenny, Tubbs Tubridy et al without having to go into insolvency.


  • #4
    jamescc
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    so i'd beg to wonder what happened to the license fee money ?


  • #5
    watty
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    TV Licence Fee:

    Same as before there was a DTT rollout. The DTT rollout is an extra cost above the normal costs.


  • #6
    Widescreen
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    watty wrote: »
    TV Licence Fee:

    Same as before there was a DTT rollout. The DTT rollout is an extra cost above the normal costs.


    Slightly off Topic, but ain't our licence fee now an absolute rip off. Its been 160 for last 3 or 4 years. Since then thousands of people have lost jobs or taken massive pay cuts(me included) and now we are talking about water charges,property tax and god knows what and we all sit quietly and happily pay our 160 a year. I know the country is "allegedly" kaput, but lets face it that licence fee should be down at this stage to at least €125... all we get are four channels and three other channels showing what we have seen already! give us a break Government...If not I suggest we all refuse to pay the licence fee ever- can they jail us all!!


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  • #7
    Minstrel27
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    You should see what some other countries pay.


  • #8
    Onikage
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    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    You should see what some other countries pay.

    0, usually.


  • #9
    The Cush
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_licence


  • #10
    gtg60
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    The Cush wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_licence

    Thanks for that, doesn't really make ours look too bad in fairness, still hard enough finding the money to pay it though! :(


  • #11
    Widescreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Widescreen


    Yeah,but ours should either be frozen for the foreseable or go back in tandem with all the cuts everyone has taken in pay etc... Lets face it if they put it up by €20 tomorrow what would we all say... Ah sure what can we do:rolleyes:


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  • #12
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Widescreen wrote: »
    Slightly off Topic, but ain't our licence fee now an absolute rip off. Its been 160 for last 3 or 4 years. Since then thousands of people have lost jobs or taken massive pay cuts(me included) and now we are talking about water charges,property tax and god knows what and we all sit quietly and happily pay our 160 a year. I know the country is "allegedly" kaput, but lets face it that licence fee should be down at this stage to at least €125... all we get are four channels and three other channels showing what we have seen already! give us a break Government...If not I suggest we all refuse to pay the licence fee ever- can they jail us all!!

    82% of TV viewers take pay TV and pay more than that for pay TV. Yet over 90% of what they watch are free channels.

    Here is the TV Licence thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055794011


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