why not Ireland tv for UK

nitefire

Could any one tell me in Ireland on sky you get all BBC and ITV for free or do you have to add them in the menu?
Why the uk can't see your tv is this very fair or have got this all wrong?

Analoguesat

BBC 1 & 2 are available on the epg, although in different positions on the epg.

The reason we cant see the RTE stuff is rights issues - it would be very expensive for RTE to add the additional transmission rights for the "mainland" to their coverage area.

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nitefire

How can the BBC tv rights do this to us and we pay it
Is it very fair now?

Analoguesat

BBC has been available on cable tv in Ireland for years, and many folks could get it by using big aerials pointing north...

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David J Robinson

It would be very expensive to cover all UK households, but surely RTÉ could offer their channels to subscribers if they wanted to. The number of extra viewers would be known, so the rights deal could take this into account. After all, they already do this in part of the UK, namely NI. Individual programmes could still be blocked in the UK if necessary.

Analoguesat

But remember RTE are not licensed to transmit outside Ireland.

The best we will ever get its a "RTE International" which has been suggested but seems to have been put on indefinite hold.

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dasteelman

also gets me mad when the BBC sells their rights to every country abroad...BBC prime, bbc usa, ppbc poland etc....

i honestly dont know how they get away with this...

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Nice but Dim

PaulR

Sorry, you've lost me on this.

When the Beeb sell their programmes they are then able to use this money to defray the cost of that programme or produce further programmes.

What's wrong with that?

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PaulR

As I get older I find myself thinking about the hereafter - I go into a room and then wonder what I'm here after.

dasteelman

They get over 135 quid a year stealth tax from every legal tv license in the UK.

Part of the beeb's remit is to be a an informative british non commerical entity, very different of that of ITV or Sky. I find it repulsive in 2008 that I cannot have the CHOICE to purchase bbc.

The vast amount of "guaranteed" money which the BBC waste per year is phenomenal, over staffed productions and of course BBC anchors on obcene amounts salarys etc, it has 26,000 employees in the UK alone and a budget of more than £4 billion

Take sky for instance, when sky have a premiership football match, the production team is a 3rd of the amount of staff of which the BBC will use for their live football productions.

In my humble oppinion, mine and many thousands of viewers issues is the question of being forced to pay for somthing you may wish or not wish to watch.

back to your point regarding the beeb selling their rights abroad and then being able to use the money to produce futher programming and cut costs. cut costs for whom? for the licence fee payer? I think not

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Nice but Dim

rolfw

Please do not turn another thread into an anti licence fee argument/rant, we are all fully aware that a lot of people are anti, this is going off topic and I will delete any posts which take it further off topic.

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denis1501

Or in my case, pointing east!!
In the early 80's us lucky co.cork people used to have BBC Wales, HTV etc. re-beamed to us from the Comeragh mountains in Co.Waterford where the signal could be easily picked up.
I'll never forget the day we first got the new aerial and we were no more in 2 channel RTE land!!
Happy days!
regards
D.