RTE THREE

No offence to anyone but i couldnt care less about a new irish channel they just hold no intrest for me anymore.

For those unaware RTE share the same view of boxer. They released a document publicly recently which was created in 2007 called "letter on digital switchover" where they did a very good job of analyzing other countries implementations including failures, cough itv cough cough and came to the conclusion that the majority of the service should be used for free to air.
They even discussed the current overflow of british dtt in certain irish counties and overflow to all counties via freesat and concluded that offering the british channels over fta is best for the irish people in an ethical sense and also a business sense.
They also stated that according to the NI peace treaty this fta transmision of irish-british channels and vice versa should be possible.
In fact I was really surprised when reading it as RTE seem to be thinking more about the public interests than comreg or the bci.
Although rte have not yet gone out of their way to let their views publically known through any of their mediums other than released documents I have a funny feeling that they are one of the entities that pushed for restructuring and the replacement of the bci with the bai which will be a great thing for dtt if it is the case and also a great thing for broadcasting in ireland in general in terms of content and new irish channels.
Comreg/bci's handing over the majority of rtenl's infrastructure to boxer was a horrible mistake. The fact that tax payers money + tv liscence money has been invested in creating this new infrastructure so that a foreign privately owned company can sell us british freeview channels is a joke both unethical and from a business point of view idiotic. Its like they want to sell us bottled tap water at a premium rate.

So guys, rte are actually decent people who tend to look out for us better then the organizations set up for that very purpose.
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Out of interest over the current situation and series of events inclusing the hiatus of boxer, views in that document and the removal of the bci(Broadcasting Commision Of Ireland) in favour of BAi(Broadcasting Assosiation Ireland) I have sent an email to rte asking for more information regarding their current stance on the situation and the lack of public awareness.. I'll keep u posted when I get a reply.

Either is giving 3/4 of the infrastructure to a sweedish private company to charge us for something which we should legally be able to provide for free.
I think it should be swicthed to 3/4's used for public service and 1/4 used for comercial. Boxers current business plan is going to fail anyway, if they were given 1/3 of what they have and used it correctly a wisely by offering channels which people wouldnt have a problem paying for like pay to view movie and sports channels there wouldnt be a problem.
And currently using just one mux for public service doesnt offer much room for expansion for rte or any new irish company to offer channels on fta terms.
I do agree though that more irish companies should be urged to get into the business and offer more choice for irish programming.
The way I see it as long as they get the mux's right and use 3/4 for public service than this can enable both irish companies to offer solutions and british so we would have the best of both worlds. If they dont get it right then it wont improve or media infrastructure. I am not saying that we need irish tv shopping channels, but we do need more competition for irish television disregarding british fta. RTE shouldnt createn another 10 channels because the content would be scattered and most likely poor but a new irish company trying to prove there worth might be able to create a great alternative to rte programming.