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Spotlight TV leaving Sky and Freesat

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  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,155 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Thanks for the heads-up.

    I'm likely to receive a few calls about its disappearance later next week...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Maz2016


    Thanks for this. The mother will be devastated Id say she’s the only house in the country where spotlight is in the top 10 channels in the FTA box.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Could remain as an FTA channel on Astra. We’ll have to wait and see. Alot of people will miss it if its totally gone especially as it carried Ireland West Music TV twice a week.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Maz2016


    If it’s leaving FreeSat , I would highly doubt it will stay on Astra. Could be wrong though (hopefully). As you say a lot of people will miss it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 536 ✭✭✭muffinhead




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭mackersdublin


    Considering the owner has stated the channel is closing after this recent campaign https://spotlight-tv.co.uk/our-future

    No channel leaves Sky's EPG and remains broadcasting on 28.2 off the EPG

    The channel was due to close in mid August, but now Sky has confirmed it's closing permanently next Wednesday (31st) https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/What-s-On/Changes-to-the-Sky-TV-guide-August-2022/td-p/4061607

    Sky's TV Guide has it closing at 6am on Thursday 1st Sept



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Maz2016


    Going slightly off topic, you’d have to agree or at least see the viewpoint of the owners of Spotlight TV. The system they use (which is 70 years old) is flawed.

    “There are around 32 MILLION households in the United Kingdom. BARB surveys only 5,200 of them. So the viewing figures awarded to a television channel are based on the actual viewing of less than 1% of the population (0.016% to be precise).

    So, in theory, 30 million households might tune in to a particular programme, but if none of those households happen to be within the BARB family, the programme is given a zero rating, effectively saying nobody watched it.” - per link in above post.

    that system is very unfair. If that’s the system used here, it might explain why virgin media pulls in over 20% a week on their channels (1-3).



  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,155 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Hah, no! I only wish my income was the same as his! 😆



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,232 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Wouldn’t it be down to statistical significance and margin of error? In Ireland, a RedC poll of a thousand people will give a result accurate to within +/- 2% iirc.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭dam099


    Yes I would agree. The example of 30 million households watching and none of them being one of the 5,200 they use for their survey would have an infinitesimally small probability of occurring. Unless the method to select the sample is skewed somehow that is likely an adequate sample size.



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Has the channel gone from the Sky & Freesat EPG? Still there on the Sky online guide at 365.

    https://www.sky.com/tv-guide/20220901/4104-50/365

    Gone however from the Freesat guide at 500:

    https://www.freesat.co.uk/tv-guide



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Maz2016


    Yes it’s gone



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Gone from Astra as well.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Unfortunately it is gone. Usualy I tune in on Sunday evenings to relax to their music.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 536 ✭✭✭muffinhead


    Just seen someone mention on the Spotlight TV Facebook page that the following shows will be broadcast on Channel 7 (Sky ch. 181) on Monday nights:

    • Shamrock City @ 6pm
    • Hot Country EXTRA @ 7pm
    • Hot Country TV @ 8pm
    • Michael Commins @ 9pm
    • Ireland West TV @ 10pm

    Tuning info for other receivers here: https://www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/gh/Channel-7.html



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭ronanphilip


    The channel is now available to stream under the name Music and Memories

    Watch Online www.musicandmemories.tv

    Freeview #271 on your internet-connected smart TV (Channelbox)

    Channelbox App available from Google Play and App Store



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 536 ✭✭✭muffinhead


    I notice on Phil Mack's Facebook page he posted "For all viewers in Ireland we launch there in late October, details early next week". I wonder will Music & Memories TV be coming to Saorview?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Maz2016




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Maz2016


    Ok guys a (disappointing) update. Music & Memories is going to Veusat from late October I hadn’t heard of them but basically you buy a free to air box off them and then pay them €25 per year for free to air channels. I wouldn’t pay any company €25 for free to air tv channels. They must be playing this channel via an internet stream I’d imagine. Disappointing update , can’t see many people investing in this for one extra tv channel



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭Kenny Powers


    Does anyone have a direct link to stream this channel using VLC or other?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭Kenny Powers


    Nice one thank you , whit that link there is a glitch in the audio every few seconds yet the Chanelbox and streaming via web is fine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 536 ✭✭✭muffinhead




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Maz2016


    That was my reaction as well 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭Gerry Wicklow


    " Veusat is a service that provides you with over 130 + Free To Air TV channels from the UK and Ireland for €25 PER YEAR.

    All the Channels are FREE TO AIR and fully legal. All channels are received through your satellite dish and TV aerial......

    The €25 PER YEAR charge is to cover our Channel Update facility."


    Dang Maybe I should start charging for update info I post on here. 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Maz2016


    You’d swear it’s a hard job updating when a channel change’s frequency. Ok the ITV’s did this year but all the main channels are usually pretty stable. Still can’t figure out, if they are using a satellite dish and aerial how are they going to provide this channel



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 536 ✭✭✭muffinhead


    It looks as though Music & Memories TV will be internet streamed on these Veusat boxes. Presumably anyone with a smart TV with IPTV app could set up a stream to this channel using the link posted above and not have to worry about one of these boxes. Bit of shame for the viewers without an internet connection.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭Delta2113


    No recording facility with Veusat - unbelievable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 tapasandtinto


    My mother got a Veusat box over a year ago and it’s a great service. At €25 a year, it’s a lot cheaper than other TV suppliers and all she has to do is press a button and it updates for her. So I think €25 is nothing. She’ll be buying the new box to watch Music and Memories now because she loved Spotlight.



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  • Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,069 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    ha ha, your first post on here too, good one pal 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Maz2016


    Exactly! Veusat doesn’t appear to be a good service for me anyway. Any Veusat customers will have to buy the newer box (€120) fo get music and memories than €25 a year. They don’t allow you to record, don’t allow you arrange the channels in the order you want, can’t hide channels like the shopping and religious channels. Plenty of better boxes out there for cheaper and no yearly charge. Updating the channel with the touch of a button is handy but in all fairness it only takes a couple of minutes to do it anyway

    Post edited by Maz2016 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭Charles Slane


    "Updating the channel with the touch of a bottom is handy"

    Haha! That auto-correct gave me an unexpected laugh! Thank you, Maz2016!



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