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Digitisation of RTE News Archives

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    Antenna
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    Apogee wrote: »

    Satellite TV comes to Ireland in 1986 (only £2000 for dish installation)
    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1012/823460-satellite-tv-comes-to-ireland/

    The footage at the start of that report must be from the then Cork Multi-channel TV which I know was the first cable operator in Ireland to provide some satellite channels. I presume the original broadcast report stated this at the very start, but this RTE archive video has the very start snipped out for whatever reason?


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    You're probably right, did Cork carry HTV instead of UTV? (HTV is shown on one of the monitors).


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    L1011
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    Karsini wrote: »
    You're probably right, did Cork carry HTV instead of UTV? (HTV is shown on one of the monitors).

    Yes - there was no way for them to get UTV practically at that stage, HTV was collected off air from a mountain (along with S4C which carried most of C4 mainstream programming then)


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