2007
island of ireland
over on the petition kevin posted a comment along with his petition signing
“Thank you for your email. RTÉ has no current plans to make its television services available on a satellite free-to-air service. Approximately 50% of our programming is acquired from UK and American sources. RTÉ only purchases Irish rights to these programmes. If we were on a free-to-air basis these programmes could be viewed outside of Ireland and RTÉ would be in breach of its rights agreements with the suppliers of this source of programming. Being available on a subscription satellite basis on Sky enables encryption which prevents access to RTÉ outside of the island of Ireland. This means that availability on Sky satellite is within our rights agreements. RTÉ is obliged by law to provide a transmission network for its radio and television service. Our analogue terrestrial network fulfils this obligation. Looking to the future the Government has authorised the beginnings of the provision of a digital terrestrial television service.”
these questions are not for Kevin but I ask aloud
Island of Ireland! 32 county, Northern Ireland - starting to sound very new SF, next TV of the equals?
yes RTE are on the EPG up north - rights issue ? nope!
does RTE have programming rights for the island or Ireland?
Obliged by law[1] - RTE International!
Obliged by law[2] - UN declaration (read post #1 of this blog)
Stick the imports on terrestrial and broadcast Irish TV in the clear over DVB satellite?
50% - ok RTE TWO imports ~ RTE ONE FTA! Lets have it 50/50
How much does RTE pay to be encrypted? EPG? Dish Tax? The Deal with Sky?
DTT is on trial – no owners – no vision – no business plan – no certainty of FTA. (but likely to be FTA)
DTT no 100% role out for a decade? (guess) DVB-SAT 100% available now.
maybe RTE have the answers to these questions, but they aren’t telling me.
Teilefis has made a Comment
“does RTE have programming rights for the island or Ireland?”
RTE has cleared programme rights for Northern Ireland, but clearing them for the whole of the UK would be too expensive.
November 8, 2007 @ 4:51 am
Brian Greene has made a Comment
thanks Teilefis – I can see no issue in them being able to do what BBC on the Astra 2D footprint do with regard to Irish TV rights. TV without Frontiers (TV without bunnies ears). if they need to play it safe, condense the output of 1&2 into International and get on with it. They now have the remit, but not the budget or willingness according to the address the DG have the audience council over the summer. Yesterdays comments by an Taoiseach re Dáil TV are all the more bizarre when you take the RTÉ FTA position into account.
November 8, 2007 @ 10:19 am
john boyle has made a Comment
I grew up in an area in donegal where RTE would not provide a good analouge signal .In my oppion special cards decoding irish broadcasts only be made available to these licence payers.I can only see this problem getting worse when things go digital .Satalite signals will be the only option available to viewers who live in these areas,It is unfair that they must pay for a SKY package to avail of local channels as well as paying a licence fee.
November 6, 2008 @ 1:04 pm