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Originally Posted by Media Boy
As far as I know RTE One and RTE Two broadcasts right now on Virgin Channels 875 and 876 right now in Northern Ireland only.
My updated listing are base on this thread http://channelwiki.x10.mx/index.php/...K_%26_Ireland)
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Originally Posted by Horizon
RTE is the state broadcaster of Ireland, Southern Ireland that is. They have the Irish rights to shows such as Eastenders. So there is zero chance these tv channels will appear in Britain. For political reasons, NI although in the UK, is allowed to have the RTE tv channels.
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I would tend to agree with Horizon, it would cost Ireland too much to acquire broadcast rights for the UK. This is a similar situation to Germany making its channels available free to air to German speaking neighbours in Austria and Switzerland. Because of the relative population sizes, Germany can afford to buy rights for the entire German speaking region. With smaller populations, it is uneconomical for Austria and Switzerland to purchase rights for the whole German speaking region, so they encrypt their satellite channels. The same situation applies because of the relative population size of Ireland compared to that of the UK.
If you check the RTÉ Player, very few programmes on the main channels are available for viewing in the UK, with mainly news and locally produced content being available. Similarly, the RTÉ News Now channel can be watched by viewers in the UK. Mainly of interest to Irish ex-pat.s but because of the size of Ireland, much of the news is similar to what we would see on the local news, so not of great interest to the UK as a whole.
So I can't see the RTÉ TV channels coming any time soon.
As for Radio, their Radio 1 channel was available on long wave to the whole of the British Isles, to serve Irish people living in the UK, which is probably why Telewest carried that channel. Although I can see the logic in this channel being made available to all VM customers, there's no real reason to bring the other music channels to the network. That said, all broadcast analogue and digital radio channels from RTÉ are available to UK listeners online, without restriction. So radio is a grey area, there's no real reason why the channels shouldn't appear but probably not very much demand for them. It's also possible that RTÉ may wish to switch the channel from RTÉ Radio One to RTÉ Choice at some point.
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Originally Posted by Media Boy
Sky Sports are to rebrand Sky Sports 2 and Sky Sports 2 HD as Sky Ashes and Sky Ashes HD from July 10th to August 26th.
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I wish they wouldn't do this to be honest, I find these temporary rebrands annoying. I wonder how much it actually costs them to have these name changes registered on their Ofcom licences.
