Will Sky add more Radio Stations?

dublinbusdude

Hi all,

Will Sky add more Radio Stations like 98fm, FM104, Spin 1038/Spin South West to name a few???

watty

Virtually no Radio Station is anything to do with Sky. The stations pay of carriage (about 4 or 5 options) and optionally pay for Sky EPG, Freesat EPG or both.

Music Choice was Sky.

If the station works when you pull out your viewing card it's likely nothing to do with Sky.

It's unlikely it's economic for any local station to pay to be on Satellite and pay for Sky EPG (which costs nearly as much again). It's dubious for most National stations. RTE pays* as a sop to "external broadcasting" so as to be available in UK.

(*Sky wants RTE TV and pays all the costs, there may be some discount for RTE Radio on EPG, but unfortunately all details of RTE -Sky deal are secret).

mackersdublin

Newstalk is on Sky - Channel 0210

Only Irish station besides the RTE's

twinklerunner

dublinbusdude wrote: »

Hi all,

Will Sky add more Radio Stations like 98fm, FM104, Spin 1038/Spin South West to name a few???

I'd like to have the BBC radio stations on the epg

L1011

twinklerunner wrote: »

I'd like to have the BBC radio stations on the epg

Extremely unlikely to happen. Sky have to pay the BBC for the few channels they have on the EPG here as it stands, and the radio stations would be very low audience.

lawhec

IIRC RTÉ Radio One (now One extra?) was on the Sky EPG before 2FM/Lyric/RnaG eventually appeared and was line fed to WRN in London for the uplink.

Ultimately radio stations themselves decide wherever to transmit on the Sky platform, for some niche stations in the UK the costs required for transmission and EPG/guide placement (especially if they have no FM outlet) might just be enough for the potential market they can serve. It's much less likely a regional or local Irish radio station would find any useful return to do the same.

DublinKev

twinklerunner wrote: »

I'd like to have the BBC radio stations on the epg

They're not on the epg here in Ireland because of rights issues but you can add any of them, they're all free to air so any one of them is possible to listen to if added. I'm sure details of their frequencies are available somewhere else on this
forum.

Johnny Johnson

What rights issues would arise with BBC radio, apart from 5 Live and its "Extra" spin off?

watty

It's not "rights issues" as such. More Bizzare.
The BBC can't pay for Free UK stations to be on a "foreign" EPG.

BBC pays for all their stations to be on UK EPG.
Sky Pays BBC to have some BBC stations on Irish EPG.

If you use a Sky box with NO subscription you get ALL BBC stations.

DublinKev

watty wrote: »

It's not "rights issues" as such. More Bizzare.
The BBC can't pay for Free UK stations to be on a "foreign" EPG.

BBC pays for all their stations to be on UK EPG.
Sky Pays BBC to have some BBC stations on Irish EPG.

If you use a Sky box with NO subscription you get ALL BBC stations.

That is bizarre. I didn't know that.

So, on that basis, if you take out your sky (subscription) viewing card, reboot your box, will you have BBC network radio on 0101 to 0105?

I have them all on added channels anyway but I'm just curious. It would be a bit of a drag to have to do that to listen to them, in fairness, but does that work?