Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 4.

RTE to launch UK Channel.

RTÉ plans to launch an RTÉ branded linear television channel – working title RTÉ Ireland. The channel will be made available free to air in the UK (England, Scotland and Wales) on Virgin Media.

http://static.rasset.ie/documents/ne...ortversion.pdf

Very good news. Thanks MB!!

bayonet

16-09-2013 19:46

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Regarding RTE Ireland if we get it on VM and from a purely personal point of view, I'd get to see some of the pro 12 games not available on S4C or BBC2 Wales.

Risco

16-09-2013 19:55

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Media Boy, is it realistic to expect Sky Sports F1 HD?

blue666666

16-09-2013 20:34

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Originally Posted by Risco (Post 35622400)

Media Boy, is it realistic to expect Sky Sports F1 HD?

all we know is they are in talks

cityfan247

16-09-2013 20:40

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35622315)

thats sounds good -hopefully will show GAA (if they are able to of course in the UK).

DJ-SWITCH

16-09-2013 21:43

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Looks like all the UKTV channels have gone widescreen all logos are right in the corner looks a lot better :D

jj20x

16-09-2013 22:06

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35622315)

This is something they have been planning for many years, unfortunately it keeps getting delayed.

passingbat

16-09-2013 22:13

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Originally Posted by DJ-SWITCH (Post 35622469)

Looks like all the UKTV channels have gone widescreen all logos are right in the corner looks a lot better :D

Which ones weren't widescreen? I think all the UKTV channels I watch are already widescreen, so I guess I don't watch them all?

DJ-SWITCH

16-09-2013 23:32

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Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35622478)

Which ones weren't widescreen? I think all the UKTV channels I watch are already widescreen, so I guess I don't watch them all?

Must of just been the logos put right in the corner

ocav	17-09-2013 00:29

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Originally Posted by bayonet (Post 35622392)

Regarding RTE Ireland if we get it on VM and from a purely personal point of view, I'd get to see some of the pro 12 games not available on S4C or BBC2 Wales.

It won't be the RTE channel as it appears in Ireland, it will be like BBC America, entirely seperate but showing mostly the same shows.

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35622329)

Media Boy, even though the channel will be free, l cannot see it on VM, we have enough trouble getting other channels on VM.

It clearly says in the document on "Satellite and Cable", so if it doesn't come to VM the only other cable network is Small World

jj20x

17-09-2013 01:23

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Originally Posted by ocav (Post 35622522)

It won't be the RTE channel as it appears in Ireland, it will be like BBC America, entirely seperate but showing mostly the same shows.

It's difficult to predict what it could show as RTÉ only has Irish rights to show most of their content. UK rights for most of their content is generally held by one of the UK broadcasters. There shouldn't be a problem with showing home grown Irish productions but that wouldn't be enough content for a fulltime channel. At a guess they could easily obtain rights for programmes they show, which UK broadcasters don't want.. Shortland Street springs to mind.

UK rights are considerably more expensive than Irish rights because of the relative sizes of the countries, so it could be quite expensive for them to start purchasing UK rights. And this is probably why the project keeps being shelved as too expensive.

huxleypiguk

17-09-2013 07:41

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From what I read in the document, it is something they would like to do, not a definite.

I miss Tara TV because it had the GAA - Hurling is mental !

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