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Saorview Changes - 2026

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  • #32
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,916 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124148579#Comment_124148579

    Now there's kids talking about water.

    There's no audio on RTE jr so could they have the channels mixed up?



  • #33
    danm14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 253 ✭✭danm14


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124123537#Comment_124123537

    I wonder how many of those 12% are people in border regions who don't realise the UK Freeview channels aren't part of Saorview.

    I certainly expect the percentage of the population who would self-report having "Saorview only" in the border counties is an order of magnitude higher than those outside the border counties.



  • #34
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    They were getting UK stations long before Saorview and Freeview ever existed. They know the difference.



  • #35
    Glaceon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124148589#Comment_124148589

    I wonder if they're playing out some programmes that maybe hadn't been broadcast before, just to fulfil a contract or something? RTEjr was playing out something a few days ago.



  • #36
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,916 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124148821#Comment_124148821

    Maybe. It was a strange time of the night to have kids programmes on a random channel.

    The quiz said it would be back next week but it was obviously recorded. It was a weird, sort of interactive thing, just someone asking ten questions per round with a space between them and the answers given at the end.

    I'll have another listen tonight.



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  • #37
    Johns Brother
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭Johns Brother


    There doesn't seem to be any plans to streamline/tidy up the radio EPG channel numbers (like putting Gold on 201 & Maria on 205) when the closed radio stations are deleted on Friday?



  • #38
    Mickey Mike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Mickey Mike


    They should be a tidy up job, 201 for Gold definitely, I'm surprised that Maria Ireland is still on it, I have a feeling they will drop out too sometime if DAB+ takes hold.



  • #39
    Mickey Mike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Mickey Mike


    RTE defunct channels are now withdrawn from Saorview, they need to reorganise the rest of their radio channels.



  • #40
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    I'd have 200 blank and put RTÉ Radio 1 on 201 with 2fm on 202, which somewhat aligns the channel names with the channel numbers.

    Put Gold on 205 after RnaG.



  • #41
    Mickey Mike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Mickey Mike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124150907#Comment_124150907

    Absolutely bang on, it makes perfect sense.



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  • #42
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    If the quiz as supported by the Sound and Vision Fund it must air in peak listening hours which they now define as between 7am to I think 9pm (at least 8pm), the indos lobby for it to change from 7pm as they could not even fit it into their 7 to 7 schedule at the weekend for these Licence fee supported programmes. But RTÉ should just move them to GOLD.

    ______

    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #43
    butwhynot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭butwhynot


    RTÉjr Radio is back on 207, though not broadcasting anything



  • #44
    Mickey Mike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Mickey Mike


    All radio channels EPG now completely withdrawn, only thing left is to reorganise the numbers.



  • #45
    mackersdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭mackersdublin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124150437#Comment_124150437

    Personally I think RTÉ Radio 1 should move from 200 to 201, RTÉ Gold from 208 to 205, and Radio Maria Ireland from 210 to 206. All other genres start with the number 1

    Is there any reason why the Radio channels can't start at 31, why are they all the way up to the 200's?

    The Saorview Information channel with the Line-up stil lists the 5 stations that have been removed



  • #46
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124165162#Comment_124165162

    Why do they need to be in the 200s? Why not put them at 31

    31 - Radio 1

    32 - 2FM

    33 - Saved for Today FM

    34 - RnaG

    35 - Lyric FM

    36 - Saved for Newstalk

    37 - RTÉ Gold

    38 - Radio Maria

    39 - Saved for Classic Hits

    ______

    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #47
    Mickey Mike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Mickey Mike


    RTE put those radio channels in the 200s thinking there would be over a hundred channels by now, how wrong they were, a bit of a shambles, if anything they could move

    Radio1 101

    2FM 102 etc.

    Today fm, Classic hits, Newstalk should take up a position but sadly can't see it happening



  • #48
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,493 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Saorview has staked its claim to LCNs 1-299, with TV, radio, SSU and engineering test channels. Vestel TVs like Walker use LCNs 300 upwards to store the satellite channels.

    It's likely LCNs in the 30s range could be used for future IP delivered services.



  • #49
    butwhynot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭butwhynot


    2 changes last night

    The test card on 28 has been removed, saving 0.5 Mb/s

    And Mux 2 has switched from FEC 2/3 to 3/4 on certain transmitters adding an extra 3 Mb/s of capacity

    Also, RTE One was briefly broadcasting in SD this morning?

    —

    Update: FEC change has been reverted

    Post edited by butwhynot on


  • #50
    Aidan McCarthy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 168 ✭✭Aidan McCarthy


    I saw that this morning that test card on channel 28 is gone but what going to place the test card on channel 28



  • #51
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,903 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Can we ever hope to get Sky News in HD on Saorview with all the movement that's going on there at present?



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  • #52
    decor58
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭decor58


    Whatever about Sky news, VM channels or even VM1 would be welcome but we all know that's never going to happen.



  • #53
    Aidan McCarthy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 168 ✭✭Aidan McCarthy


    What about RTE news channel in HD on saorview



  • #54
    cacimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭cacimes


    I think Saorview should add Sky Sports HD.



  • #55
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124173499#Comment_124173499

    What benefit would be, RTÉ News Now is of little benefit now. They might want to first

    1. Consider what is broadcast on the channel
    2. Consider the schedule
    3. Consider the interface of the channel
    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124173535#Comment_124173535

    As likely as getting anything else on Saorview TBH.

    ______

    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #56
    dam099
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭dam099


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124173535#Comment_124173535

    Not a hope, they would need to add an encryption method and market new set top boxes that support it.



  • #57
    Aidan McCarthy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 168 ✭✭Aidan McCarthy


    No way. Not a hope. I can't see that to happen



  • #58
    marclt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭marclt


    RTE issued a tender for a RTE News HD service here:

    https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/notices/viewPublishedContractNotice.do?resourceId=3862326&documentId=3862764&noticeType=16&extId=750a17f4-3207-4345-b466-cbaac3349a12&lang=en&noticeId=3862442&isNational=false



  • #59
    Rick_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,650 ✭✭✭Rick_


    18 months ago… Would it really take that long that we'd only be seeing it potentially come to screen now/soon? Or has this been abandoned?



  • #60
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,443 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I suspect that RTÉ had prior plans in place once their tender agreement was signed off to upgrade the RTÉ News Channel to HD once some of their digital radio stations had closed down on Saorview last week. RTÉ must be contiuning that leg work now over the past week or so to eventually upgrade their news channel to HD either now or in the near future. What was the quality of the test card being removed on LCN 28; was it in SD or HD?



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  • #61
    Mickey Mike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭Mickey Mike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124174926#Comment_124174926

    SD I'm afraid



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