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RTL leaving terresterial !

  • 23-01-2013 8:06pm
    #1
    Capt'n Midnight
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    http://www.a516digital.com/2013/01/german-commercial-broadcaster-to-exit.html
    Germany's largest commercial TV group RTL has announced that it is withdrawing from digital terrestrial television in the coming years. It's the equivalent of ITV withdrawing from Freeview in the UK, although far fewer households rely on digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Germany, where cable and satellite offerings are the most popular. RTL states it only gets 4.2% of its viewers from digital terrestrial broadcasts.

    Explaining its decision, RTL stated it costs 30 times more to broadcast terrestrially than it does to broadcast via satellite.
    ...
    Following the withdrawal of services in Nuremberg last year, RTL will begin switching off its DTT signal in Munich in the spring and everywhere else where it still broadcasts terrestrially by the end of 2014.

    The move indicates that in the long-term, RTL will no longer be a free-to-air broadcaster.
    ...
    Over on digitalfernsehen.de, the forums are full of speculation as to how it will affect the long term viability of the digital terrestrial platform in the country, with concerns that Germany's other main commercial broadcaster, Pro7Sat1 Group will opt-out of digital terrestrial television broadcasting later on down the line. Others speculate that the move will ultimately be the death-knell for DTT in Germany.
    what are the figures here for people who get RTE / TV3 only through saorview ?


Comments

  • #2
    excollier
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    Very high, I would imagine, especially TV3.


  • #3
    watty
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    Maybe 18% for TV3 ONLY via DTT (people with Sky or UPC may use DTT also on another TV)


  • #4
    hju6
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    watty wrote: »
    Maybe 18% for TV3 ONLY via DTT (people with Sky or UPC may use DTT also on another TV)

    And 4G will reduce the estimate further :)


  • #5
    Sam Russell
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    If TV3 were to leave Saorview, then UTV may take up the licence. If that could happen, then it is likely TV3 will not let it happen. They already have almost identical schedules, and would anybody notice if it did happen.


  • #6
    Stinicker
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    Sam Russell wrote: »
    If TV3 were to leave Saorview, then UTV may take up the licence. If that could happen, then it is likely TV3 will not let it happen. They already have almost identical schedules, and would anybody notice if it did happen.

    TV3 should be kicked off Saorview over their refusal to go on Saorsat.


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