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  • 06-07-2012 11:27pm
    #1
    Curly Judge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭


    Having been through the throes of getting my humble abode ready for the digital changeover, one thing puzzles me.
    Why are the Irish channels not available on Freesat [Astra].
    The UK channels are, and the Irish channels are available on Sky.
    Just wondering?


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  • #2
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,230 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    You'll probably find out all the complicated details here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=55


  • #3
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    Curly Judge wrote: »
    Having been through the throes of getting my humble abode ready for the digital changeover, one thing puzzles me.
    Why are the Irish channels not available on Freesat [Astra].
    The UK channels are, and the Irish channels are available on Sky.
    Just wondering?

    Your answer is at the bottom of this link.
    Basically it's a matter of broadcast rights and €€€€€€€'s.
    Mr. Conor Hayes: …
    Another innovation by RTE is promotion of its satellite option, Saorsat. Some members of the committee will be familiar with the equivalent UK service, Freesat. The BBC, ITV and a number of other companies have put their services on one of the wideband Astra satellites. The services are broadcast unencrypted, or “in the clear” as we call it. The trouble with those wideband satellites is that they have a very big footprint. If RTE were to be put up on a wideband satellite, its services would be in the clear to the UK, France, Holland and many other countries. One might ask why that should not be done, to which I would respond that we do not have the resources to purchase the rights to enable us to broadcast into those countries. We buy programming that allows us to broadcast to 4.5 million people. We do not have the money to broadcast to 100 million people. Therefore, the option taken by the BBC when Freesat was launched is not available to us.
    …
    It [Saorsat] will cost us approximately €1.5 million per year. We can manage it. As other channels come on board, part of the cost will be defrayed. In light of the security this option provides and the ability to supply to the 2% of the population who do not currently receive public service television, the cost can be adequately justified. We might have a different take on the situation were the cost €20 million or €25 million, but the actual amount is appropriate and reasonable.

    As far as the Irish channels being available on Sky, they are only available on Sky Ireland not in UK, so no licencing issue there.


  • #4
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    You'll probably find out all the complicated details here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=55

    Please don't point the poster towards another forum. Instead please use the Report Post functionality so that a moderator can move the thread as appropriate. Otherwise, we can end up with duplicate threads which require merging.

    dudara


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