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    #92
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    zorro2566 wrote: »
    Will it be FTA on Sky or part of the sub like the other Irish channels?
    Highly likely it will encrypted and be part of basic package like the rest of the Irish channels.


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    #93
    [Deleted User]
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    irishfeen wrote: »
    Where does it read your quote on that article?

    Click the read more tab on the telegraph website!


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    #94
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    zorro2566 wrote: »
    Click the read more tab on the telegraph website!
    Ah OK ha I didn't see that.


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    #95
    Mint Sauce
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    irishfeen wrote: »
    Ah OK ha I didn't see that.

    Paragraph 22.

    ;)


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    #96
    afatbollix
    Registered Users Posts: 4,046 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    Anyone know if its going to be HD or SD?


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    #97
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    afatbollix wrote: »
    Anyone know if its going to be HD or SD?
    By the suspected testing of UTVI it seems likely to be in HD on sky although it could very well go behind the HD paywall.


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    #98
    ftakeith
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭ftakeith


    irishfeen wrote: »
    By the suspected testing of UTVI it seems likely to be in HD on sky although it could very well go behind the HD paywall.

    it should be covered under the basic sky package

    I hope its HD for saorview


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    #99
    galtee boy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭galtee boy


    irishfeen wrote: »
    By the suspected testing of UTVI it seems likely to be in HD on sky although it could very well go behind the HD paywall.

    What's on SKY at the moment can't be considered a test for UTVI , at least not yet. It could be anything. Until we see a UTVI test card or promo on it, it cannot be considered a test for UTVI, at least in my opinion anyway.


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    #100
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    galtee boy wrote: »
    What's on SKY at the moment can't be considered a test for UTVI , at least not yet. It could be anything. Until we see a UTVI test card or promo on it, it cannot be considered a test for UTVI, at least in my opinion anyway.
    I'd say it's odds on that its for UTVI.. We will I suppose soon find out :)


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    #101
    dublinbusdude
    Registered Users Posts: 449 ✭✭dublinbusdude


    Good Question there: who will host the weather???


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    #102
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    dublinbusdude wrote: »
    Good Question there: who will host the weather???
    I hope they go down the Met Eireann route - weather presenters should be meteorologists - end of. ... Martin bloody King :(


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    #103
    dublinbusdude
    Registered Users Posts: 449 ✭✭dublinbusdude


    irishfeen wrote: »
    I hope they go down the Met Eireann route - weather presenters should be meteorologists - end of. ... Martin bloody King :(

    Whats wrong having Martin King doing the weather :(


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    #104
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    dublinbusdude wrote: »
    Whats wrong having Martin King doing the weather :(
    He's not a meteorologist :)


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    #105
    dublinbusdude
    Registered Users Posts: 449 ✭✭dublinbusdude


    So is news readers on local & national radio too


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    #106
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    dublinbusdude wrote: »
    So is news readers on local & national radio too
    TV is different - any decent channel will have weather data based on facts from meteorologists and the relevant met service. A man reading from an autocue with a few clouds behind him on screen with a few town names on a map is not weather. It degrading those who study the profession IMO, a very hard and complex profession.


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    #107
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,722 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    irishfeen wrote: »
    TV is different - any decent channel will have weather data based on facts from meteorologists and the relevant met service. A man reading from an autocue with a few clouds behind him on screen with a few town names on a map is not weather. It degrading those who study the profession IMO, a very hard and complex profession.

    RTÉ have too many weather presenters too but rarely do people complain about them.


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    #108
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    lertsnim wrote: »
    RTÉ have too many weather presenters too but rarely do people complain about them.
    They have a core base of meteorologists presenters though and when big weather events occur they come into their own.


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    #109
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,529 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    On UTV NI weather is (or was, it's a good long time since I last saw it) chiefly done by Frank Mitchell on the teatime forecast and on other forecasts by the duty newsreader. They don't use meteorologists.

    OT but the reason the RTE team is so large was due to RTE's botched attempt to ditch the Met Eireann presenters a good few years ago. There was a bit of a media outcry (I'm not sure the general public cared so much) and it was decided that meteorologists would do the forecasts on RTE One and the new recruits the forecasts on RTE Two. Enough were recruited to do all the forecasts on both channels though. There aren't really any forecasts on RTE Two any more so I'm not sure how they're deployed - if you see Met Eireann under the presenters name at the start they are a meteorologist.


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    #110
    Richard
    Registered Users Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    irishfeen wrote: »
    Doesn't make a blind bit of difference if its all going into the "UTV Media" coppers ... they already sell ads to the south on UTVNI - UTV want TV3 out of the equation, this would be a massive step in helping that become a reality

    It makes a lot of difference - if advertisers want to target advertisements to the Republic, they'll want to guarentee that southern viewers will be watching. They won't be able to sell it for so much if they don't. Yes, they already advertise on UTV NI but if that's going to continue to be in a prominent position, whats the point of spending millions on this new channel?


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    #111
    Richard
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    Elmo wrote: »
    UTV Ireland could always buy in BBC Weekend programming like Strictly, RTÉ tend not to buy theses

    It'd be difficult to rebroadcast a live BBC show because UTVi would need to show adverts. If they delayed parts of it for adverts there would be a problem with voting.

    I believe they are showing Graham Norton, though.


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    #112
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    Richard wrote: »
    It makes a lot of difference - if advertisers want to target advertisements to the Republic, they'll want to guarentee that southern viewers will be watching. They won't be able to sell it for so much if they don't. Yes, they already advertise on UTV NI but if that's going to continue to be in a prominent position, whats the point of spending millions on this new channel?
    Yes but if keeping UTVNI on the EPG means drawing viewers from TV3 then it will be worth it - UTV will want TV3 gone asap - they know they are in trouble.


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    #113
    ftakeith
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭ftakeith


    http://www.independent.ie/business/media/rte-plans-for-online-viewing-to-take-on-upc-and-sky-30764576.html

    still need broadband from upc or sky broadband to use saorview connected


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    #114
    The Cush
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    ftakeith wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/business/media/rte-plans-for-online-viewing-to-take-on-upc-and-sky-30764576.html

    still need broadband from upc or sky broadband to use saorview connected

    Thread on it here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=86566847


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    #115
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,529 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    that article's connection to UTV Ireland is tenuous at best


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    #116
    afatbollix
    Registered Users Posts: 4,046 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    Richard wrote: »
    It'd be difficult to rebroadcast a live BBC show because UTVi would need to show adverts. If they delayed parts of it for adverts there would be a problem with voting.

    I believe they are showing Graham Norton, though.

    Graham Norton is recorded a couple of days before hand and edited. So they can edit it for ads.


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    #117
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    galtee boy wrote: »
    What's on SKY at the moment can't be considered a test for UTVI , at least not yet. It could be anything. Until we see a UTVI test card or promo on it, it cannot be considered a test for UTVI, at least in my opinion anyway.

    Where is it testing on the sky egg?


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    #118
    irishfeen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭irishfeen


    Poster on DS -
    http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=75738397&postcount=94

    2edqvli.jpg

    Suggesting PK will have his own chat show and they are well on the way to being carried on all 4 platforms


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    #119
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    irishfeen wrote: »
    Suggesting PK will have his own chat show and they are well on the way to being carried on all 4 platforms

    Oh, PK will host a live New Year's Countdown! Emm! Interesting to hear them talk about Budgets, Elections etc something TV3 were very slow to give coverage too, don't think they have ever give live coverage to Budgets and did they cover the local elections this year? As a news and current affairs service TV3 is very small, you'd never go to tv3.ie for news, just look at u.tv for the amount of news they provide, if they do that tv3.ie will be under pressure, something again that TV3 could have address this year.


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    #120
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    irishfeen wrote: »
    Poster on DS -
    http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=75738397&postcount=94

    2edqvli.jpg

    Suggesting PK will have his own chat show and they are well on the way to being carried on all 4 platforms

    Jaysus, Pats wife is gorgeous !


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    #121
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,722 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Elmo wrote: »
    Oh, PK will host a live New Year's Countdown!

    So they start on 31st December 2014?


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