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Match on Cabletel?

  • 05-09-2002 11:50am
    #1
    CHRISTYG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭


    Switching to a (slightly) different topic, is the game on ordinary TV, because my girlfriend has Cabletel in her flat in Belfast, and I would like to watch it there? (Providing the gentlemen at Cabletel don't find reason to block it!) And what time's kick-off?


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  • #2
    lynchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,013 ✭✭✭lynchie


    Network 2 will be covering the game live.


  • #3
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    CableTel ???????

    A blast from the past there, the company (like Cablelink in the South) is of course now called NTL...

    I'm not sure where to put this thread (Cable/MMDS, Broadcasting), particularly since your question has now been answered. But the Broadcasting forum seems the best place, and the satellite forum's definitely not.


  • #4
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    Originally posted by CHRISTYG
    Switching to a (slightly) different topic, is the game on ordinary TV

    And what exactly do you mean by "ordinary TV" in Belfast?

    But with Cabletel, old names die hard. Cabletel had a big advertising campaign to establish the name, and it has stuck. The NTL ads aren't particularly targetted to Northern Ireland so maybe people don't associate the two, even though they called themselves "NTL CableTel" for a while.

    As well as this, people may just use "CableTel" as another name for "Cable TV`", just as people sometimes use "Sky" to describe all Satellite TV, or even all Multichannel TV.


  • #5
    CHRISTYG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭CHRISTYG


    Richard. you'd be surprised at how many people actually still DO refer to Cabletel, even though the name changed quite a few years ago!!


  • #6
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    Originally posted by CHRISTYG
    Richard. you'd be surprised at how many people actually still DO refer to Cabletel, even though the name changed quite a few years ago!!

    I'm not suprised at all - and I don't mean to be critical of anyone that does - it is human nature. And some of us trip over ourselves to use the new names even when no-one knows what we are talking about.

    I think I'll go and buy a pack of Opal Fruits...:D


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  • #7
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Originally posted by Richard


    And what exactly do you mean by "ordinary TV" in Belfast?

    But with Cabletel, old names die hard. Cabletel had a big advertising campaign to establish the name, and it has stuck. The NTL ads aren't particularly targetted to Northern Ireland so maybe people don't associate the two, even though they called themselves "NTL CableTel" for a while.

    Maybe they should have borrowed from McCann Erikson's launch campaign for NTL in the Republic of Ireland:

    "Cablelink has a new name...its now called NTL. What does that mean? Who knows...New Trendy Logo?"

    And other rather wierd treatments...but they worked, awareness of the NTL brand down here is rather high, even though my wall socket and everyone else's still has various incarnations of the Cablelink (or even RTE Relays) logo on it.


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