2008
RTE International
the Sunday Business Post has an article on RTE International.
we knew the following already.
Its to be called RTÉ International (not Diaspora), It will source programmes from RTE 1&2 (no mention of 3 or 4 or others), It will be FTA ! the article may put this forward as news but we knew this already. It fails to inform us that RTE Int. will be on air before the March 17th 2009 date. It tends to push FTA but never mention Freesat (how odd) and having read the article I wonder if RTE/Sky are thinking of not giving a free EPG listing to this service, clearly pitting it as a non domestic service, being FTA is one thing, being on Freesat is another and being FTA does not exclude a station from an EPG listing on Sky, but with no Sky International Genre section EPG access to Sky is weakened with Sky+ features unavailable and ‘other channels’ the poor mans erasable Monday method of tuning . This article fails to say how RTÉ International will be funded or if it will run adverts.
But in many ways it tell us that RTE TV without the programmes with rights issues, like GAA or imports will give us DVB FTA of RTE for the first time since Tara. Bar GAA & imports if RTE TV is FTA like its radio channels are, will I then archive this blog? You’re wondering now, what to do, now you know this is the end?
Brian Greene has made a Comment
if RTÉ never had an international TV service they would never have had to buy International TV rights. With an International TV mandate & soon to be service, international TV rights on things like sport may become very important to RTE. So when bidding for these rights RTÉ’s relationship with sporting bodies with regard to sponsorship will become more important. RTÉ are sponsoring GAA this season!
June 23, 2008 @ 9:17 am
Tim J has made a Comment
I really hope that RTE gets an EPG in the UK. Even if they don’t show live sport, I’m sure that they could have a weekly GAA round-up that would be worth watching. I pay Setanta for the live GAA coverage, so understand why they couldn’t broadcast it FTA in the UK. Maybe they could so an ‘S4C’ and broadcast the matches in Gaelic. I might get on better with that then with the Welsh lessons!
September 11, 2008 @ 11:40 am