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How many rely on Saorsat?

marclt · 2021-06-15 16:12:48

Just interested how many viewers Saorsat might have? If you were reliant on it, you’d be missing out on the Euros right now. With saorview overspill accepted in terms of rights, surely the same could / should apply in this case?

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#52 02-07-2021 4:36pm

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Johns nephew wrote: »

[I wonder how much it would actually cost Virgin Media annually to broadcast their 3 stations on saorsat? Are we talking hundreds of thousands or millions?

RTÉ states that the chosen satellite option will cost approximately €1.5 million per year.Not sure what the figure is now with half the bandwidth.

Note : TV3 use low bandwidth so their costs would be a lot lower. Overspill to the UK is minimal and besides the parent company would have UK rights. And never forget that they only had something like 80% coverage before they were forced onto Saorview and they got an exemption on costs. I rarely watch them because you can watch most of the programs on Freesat in HD.

To go to Astra and encryption - to use a SKY system you'd need SKY hardware. And they don't sell CAM's

To get the Italian system Tivusat you need to spend at least €83 to get a card and a receiver or CAM module that you don't need.

Other systems are out there.

But which to choose and how to manage it ? And why bother when Saorsat is an extra LNB on a solid dish.

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