Galway Bay FM on ntl Digital

celticfc · 10-09-2005 3:14pm #1

....Lauched yesterday I think on chan #914.

From DS:

Galway Bay FM will launch on NTL Ireland's digital service next week.

"In effect, it is like being granted a quasi-regional licence in that we will now be broadcasting to an additional potential audience of 250,000 listeners in the Dublin, Waterford and Galway areas, on top of what we have already," Keith Finnegan, the station's CEO, told the Galway Advertiser. "The news will also be welcomed in some parts of Connemara where the station has experienced transmission difficulties in the past. Now all NTL digital customers will have to do is switch on their TV and go to Channel 914 to listen to us."

Ireland's Competition Authority is currently investigating the acquisition of NTL Ireland by UGC.

celticfc · 10-09-2005 3:24pm

Infact it appears to have just replaced Primetime Radio.

icdg · 10-09-2005 5:15pm

Still getting PrimeTime Radio here... maybe they launched ahead of time?

mike65 · 15-09-2005 9:59pm

Thanks guys!

Mike

ps I presume Galway subscribers can tune into WLR-FM! :rolleyes:

Mike.

patrickmooney · 15-09-2005 10:08pm

I've always wondered by local Dublin Radio stations, such as FM104 where never made available on Digital. Although FM104 where promoting/hinting at putting their evening talk show on CITY Channel - could be interesting.

mike65 · 16-09-2005 1:25pm

Indeed, NTL could do alot worse than get Talk News 106 on the whole system then they can add WLR-FM to the Waterford line-up!

Mike.

icdg · 16-09-2005 4:29pm

Merging with the existing thread.

Incidently, for some wierd reason Galway Bay FM didn't replace PrimeTime Radio on my digibox until I rebooted it. How wierd...

I believe this makes them the first Irish ILR to transmit in digital format, incidently.

Ulsterman 1690 · 16-09-2005 6:32pm

The news will also be welcomed in some parts of Connemara where the station has experienced transmission difficulties in the past

If parts of Connemara have difficulty recieving an VHF signal how the hell are they going to manage to recieve MMDS

GerardKeating · 16-09-2005 6:46pm

Ulsterman 1690 wrote:

If parts of Connemara have difficulty recieving an VHF signal how the hell are they going to manage to recieve MMDS

Well, the NTL MMDS transmitters are out in Connemara, whereas the GB-FM transmitters are on Tonybrooky

Ulsterman 1690 · 16-09-2005 8:41pm

If NTL have relays in Connemara surely Galway Bay have one (or more) as well

patrickmooney · 21-09-2005 11:50am

Has anyone in Dublin also lost this radio channel. Yesterday my help screen showed 160 channels on the platform, but last night this decreased to 159. I went looking through the EPG to see what channel had been removed to find out it was Galway bay FM, perhaps it was never the intention to have it relayed in Dublin?

icdg · 21-09-2005 7:17pm

I'm still getting it at any rate...

SF1 · 22-09-2005 6:04pm

icdg wrote:

I'm still getting it at any rate...

No.

GerardKeating · 26-09-2005 7:20am

mike65 wrote:

Thanks guys!

Mike

ps I presume Galway subscribers can tune into WLR-FM! :rolleyes:

Mike.

Nope, it appears GB-FM have a nine month exclusive deal for local radio on the NTL platform.

mike65 · 26-09-2005 5:09pm

Yeah I saw that in the Sunday Times yesterday, why did'nt anyone else think of it?

Mike.

Mossy Monk · 26-09-2005 6:02pm

GerardKeating wrote:

Nope, it appears GB-FM have a nine month exclusive deal for local radio on the NTL platform.

exclusive as in Sky or Chorus cant have it? i think they'll survive somehow

GerardKeating · 26-09-2005 6:22pm

Mossy Monk wrote:

exclusive as in Sky or Chorus cant have it? i think they'll survive somehow

Exclusive as in no other local radio station on NTL for the next nine months...

Galway Bay FM on ntl Digital

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