What happens to us as in 2012 Uk switches to digital and we can get our signal from miles out. I get better reception on Uk tv than rubbish Irish tv. I only watch C4 and channel 4 knows it has a big Irish audience as Des on Countdown often refers to the viewers from Ireland and with Spiral in Big Brother appealing to an Irish audience will they stop Ireland's BB auditions, BTW We get BBC 1,2,3 & 4 and itv1,2,3 &4 on sky here, dunno why?
If you can pick up UK transmitters now then why won't you be able to pick them up after 2012? The DTT transmitters will have the same (or greater) coverage as the current analogue ones.
If they don't, then you can always get Freesat and get BBC (without having to fork out for the licence fee) and ITV, C4 and five for nothing.
Most Irish people don't really pick up UK terrestrial TV off-air any more. Dublin was for many years an aircraft hazard due to high TV aerials, but most urban areas are cabled and the UK channels (except Five) are available to all cable/MMDS viewers.
If you have satellite, you can pick up BBC/ITV as above.
The Irish Government has for eight years now been promising a DTT service. Only now is a limited trial beginning, so that's a long way towards happening. A DTT service will only prove successful IMO if the UK terrestrials are being offered in some shape or form.
It's high time there was some reciprocal arrangement whereby the UK could receive RTE programmes. Seems only fair if the RoI can get BBC channels without (I assume) paying a license fee.
It's high time there was some reciprocal arrangement whereby the UK could receive RTE programmes. Seems only fair if the RoI can get BBC channels without (I assume) paying a license fee.
If you are on a cable system you do pay a fee to both BBC and ITV.They last I heard is that it's about 10% of the cable fee
RTE can't just put out RTE1 and RTE2 as transmitted in Ireland because of the high proportion of mostly American programming that they show at times and since .RTE only pay the fee to the rights holders (of those US programmes ) for an audience size of 4 million or so
As a side note RTE being receiveable in NI ( as per the Good Friday agreement ) on SKy Digital was held up as intiallly the US programme rights holders tried to charge RTE for an additional audience of 55 million (UK population) as against 1.5 million (NI population)
There really should be a channel that shows only the Irish programmes from RTE and other Irish channels I agree but I think what is holding that up is who would pay for it whether RTE or the Irish Government
There really should be a channel that shows only the Irish programmes from RTE and other Irish channels I agree but I think what is holding that up is who would pay for it whether RTE or the Irish Government
I think it's a shame they closed Tara TV, that was a good idea, like Sky Scottish it wasn't given enough time to develop and build up an audience, especially on Digital, but in the old days some Cable operators (such as Cable & Wireless) didn't even give it a go.
If they can get RTÉ in NI, then surely why can't they in the rest of the UK? Frankly I couldn't give a damn about the US programmes, it's the same old tat, but RTÉ would probably be a week ahead of Sky etc etc, I'd rather see Irish programmes rather than UK and US ones at the same time as BBC/ITV which can be the case sometimes.
Plus RTÉ's presentaion is rather refreshing and different to UK presentation.
I think it's a shame they closed Tara TV, that was a good idea, like Sky Scottish it wasn't given enough time to develop and build up an audience, especially on Digital, but in the old days some Cable operators (such as Cable & Wireless) didn't even give it a go.
They didn't "close" Tara TV - I believe it went bankrupt. There were all sorts of murky rumours about programmes not being paid for etc...
It's high time there was some reciprocal arrangement whereby the UK could receive RTE programmes. Seems only fair if the RoI can get BBC channels without (I assume) paying a license fee.
I see your point but remember - the BBC made the decision to go FTA on satellite of their own accord. It is none of RTÉ's concern if people in Ireland can recieve BBC channels for free. That was the BBC's decision. RTÉ is under no obligation to reciprocate. But yes, it would be 'nice' if they did. And I believe RTÉ does have the intention of launching an international channel in the future. When exactly - we don't know.