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Future radio stations on saorview ?

Mitch epitag · 2012-11-01 17:22:35

Will there be other (none RTE) radio stations on saorview in the future ?

01-11-2012 5:22pm

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Mitch epitag

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Will there be other (none RTE) radio stations on saorview in the future ?

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#2 01-11-2012 5:41pm

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Today FM appeared on a test transmission back around the start of this year: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76626669#post76626669

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#3 01-11-2012 9:01pm

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It's up to stations to pay to be on. It's cheaper than DAB, but too expensive for other than a national station. Even then the economics of cost vs extra listeners is poor.

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#4 01-11-2012 11:23pm

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Can it really cost that much, given the low bitrate needed - especially as codecs like AAC are supported? Newstalk is FTA on Astra 28.2, that can't be all that cheap. They plug listening on their website to international listeners - this costs them money and I can't see how their advertisers get any benefit from that.

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