UTV in ROI via Sky Digital?

LegacyUser

I emailed UTV last week about its forthcoming arrival onto Dsat and asked whether or not ROI viewers will get it. Here is the reply...

Dear Will,

Thank you for your e-mail regarding UTV's availability on Sky Digital.

UTV will be available on Sky Digital at the end of the year as part of ITV. As yet we have not finalised with Sky how ITV will be distributed for viewers in the Republic of Ireland, but we will certainly be aiming to ensure UTV is available in the South. Unfortunately I do not have any further information for you at this stage.

We appreciate when viewers take the time to get in touch as your comments are very important to us and will be seen by UTV senior management.

Yours sincerely,

Orla McKibbin
Head of Press and PR

So, UTV want are trying to be available in the South. Hope so. Anyone got any further info on this or indeed C4 or C5?

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WILL D

LegacyUser

Im not suprised.UTV are very fond of expanding South.And another thing,the fact they have very few American progs lessens the probs compared to BBC.

LegacyUser

Yeah i`m wondering bout the availability of bbc1 and 2 on digital because at the mo they are the only things making me stay with chorus`s absolutely sh!te service

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I might look like a fool but i`m really a blithering idiot

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Danny:
Yeah i`m wondering bout the availability of bbc1 and 2 on digital because at the mo they are the only things making me stay with chorus`s absolutely sh!te service

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you obviously dont do much research, so id say, you best stay with ChorusuX

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Ashley Lyn Cafagna

icdg

Excellent news - it means UTV will probably be available on Sky in ROI at same time as ITV-1 in the UK.

Now the latter is the £1m question...

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Danny:
Yeah i`m wondering bout the availability of bbc1 and 2 on digital because at the mo they are the only things making me stay with chorus`s absolutely sh!te service
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Eh? BBC ONE and TWO are on SkyDigital.

LegacyUser

At least we know the story with UTV/ITV, but what about Channel 4. It' easier to get an audience with the pope than to find out if/when we can get Channel 4 in Ireland. Does anybody have any information?

LegacyUser

did anyone ever see how the utv website has two address utv.ie utv.co.uk.

LegacyUser

Gosh, How interesting *cough*

LegacyUser

Be nice.

The fact that UTV has two domain names just strengthens the arguement that they are targetting the Republic as much as the North. UTV Internet (http://www.utvinternet.com) is available all over the island. And the mail that Will received is a very good sign of the availability of UTV when it arrives on Sky.

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ShaneOC:
Be nice.

The fact that UTV has two domain names just strengthens the arguement that they are targetting the Republic as much as the North. UTV Internet (http://www.utvinternet.com) is available all over the island. And the mail that Will received is a very good sign of the availability of UTV when it arrives on Sky. </font>

Your'e right. I'm just in a sarcastic humour. (Sorry enday2k) Bad day etc

Obviously they realise what size market lies south of the border
by registering the utv domain with an .ie suffix. Lets hope they do their figures and come up with a package for us down south on SkyDigi.


[This message has been edited by BNC (edited 23-07-2001).]

LegacyUser

Just to update:
I finally got a response from Channel Four via the C4 forum with this excuse of an answer:
Channel 4 are a publically owned company, with a license to broadcast in the UK. There are no plans to extend the license to the Republic of Ireland.

What a load of rubbish. I'm starting to worry that C4 may never appear on the Irish Sky Digital service.

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WILL D

LegacyUser

in reality "licenses to broadcast" mean nothing with Satellite broadcasting, cuz if you want it, you can have the channel with little effort.

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Ashley...if only

Ashley Lyn Cafagna