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5 More channels for Saorview.

  • 23-08-2011 4:34pm
    #1
    Mr. Rabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 778 ✭✭✭


    Presume this is related to Saorview Mux 2. From What Satellite TV:

    http://wotsat.techradar.com/news/five-more-channels-irelands-freeview-23-08-11

    Five more channels for Ireland's Freeview

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    Alex Lane - Tue, 23/08/2011 - 2:16pm Extra HD TV is among up to six new TV channels that could be joining Saorview, Ireland's nascent free digital terrestrial TV service.
    But Irish state broadcaster RTE, which operates Saorview, has been criticised for the fees it's charging rival broadcasters to join.
    Commercial broadcaster TV3 and Irish-language channel TG4 have both proposed new Saorview channels to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
    TV3 hopes to launch timeshift channel TV3+1, a high definition simulcast channel, TV3HD, and a daytime kids channel, 3Kids, which would become a classic TV channel in the evening.
    TG4, the Gaelic-language channel, wants to launch a youth-oriented channel and a timeshifter.
    The BAI has recommended TV3's plans go forward, but said TG4's youth channel should be subject to a market assessment and public value test before it goes forward.
    But the BAI has also warned new channels could be put off joining Saorview by the 1million Euro annual fee proposed by RTE.
    The BAI said 11 channel operators have expressed an interest in Saorview, but it was unlikely any would join the service until closer to Ireland's Digital Switchover date of October 2012.




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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,848 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Mr. Rabbit wrote: »
    Presume this is related to Saorview Mux 2. From What Satellite TV:

    http://wotsat.techradar.com/news/five-more-channels-irelands-freeview-23-08-11

    Related to spare capacity on both Mux 1&2.

    From the BAI report released last week - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=73870744#post73870744


  • #3
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭Antenna


    Mr Rabbit,
    could you not have at least put a question mark with the thread title.

    Important words here 'proposed' etc.

    it doesn't mean these will actually happen.

    What really could TV3 offer with new channels apart from more timeshifting to what 3e already provides with key programmes.

    They do not have the money to launch new channels.

    What exactly is meant by 'High definition simulcast channel' for TV3 ?

    RTE2 are not simulcasting in both SD and HD on Saorview


  • #4
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,848 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Antenna wrote: »
    What exactly is meant by 'High definition simulcast channel' for TV3 ?

    RTE2 are not simulcasting in both SD and HD on Saorview

    The story is from a UK site so I guess they see it through Freeview/freeviewHD (DVB-T/DVB-T2) eyes i.e. if a channel is in HD there must be an SD version also, not realising our DTT standard does both SD & HD.


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