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<blockquote data-quote="Butterbox" data-source="post: 144270" data-attributes="member: 177606"><p>I agree RTE is forced subscription rather than FTA, however I have lived in many remote parts of Ireland and could always get very good reception with no more than a clothes hanger. I know some areas suffer with mountains etc, but they probably make up the 1%. The reason RTE can pick up rights to show football matches, movies and foreign programming so cheaply is presisely because they don't broadcast into the uk, and there obligation is only to provide cost-effective programming for the Irish mainland. They would have a hard time justifying a liscense fee increase to broadcast abroad.</p><p>There is though, as you say, a good case for an FTA RTE3 which would broadcast home-made programming, of which there is alot of good quality. This would more than pay for itself with advertising revenue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Butterbox, post: 144270, member: 177606"] I agree RTE is forced subscription rather than FTA, however I have lived in many remote parts of Ireland and could always get very good reception with no more than a clothes hanger. I know some areas suffer with mountains etc, but they probably make up the 1%. The reason RTE can pick up rights to show football matches, movies and foreign programming so cheaply is presisely because they don't broadcast into the uk, and there obligation is only to provide cost-effective programming for the Irish mainland. They would have a hard time justifying a liscense fee increase to broadcast abroad. There is though, as you say, a good case for an FTA RTE3 which would broadcast home-made programming, of which there is alot of good quality. This would more than pay for itself with advertising revenue. [/QUOTE]
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