RTÉ for the UK TV market

 rté eyes British tv launch in the near future. from the Irish Post RTÉ is currently exploring ways in which it will be broadcast in Britain — whether through the Freeview digital platform, subscription or another method. Mr Feeney said: “Providing a service in Britain is a priority for us and all the decisions for…

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Balcony TiVo

for the record. I got wind of the balcony TV take down from Inga in Boston who is on a different time zone to me. I did my usual 5 hours sleep but started at 11pm so was up at 4:30am. saw the issue. blogged it, and while I blogged it I was so pissed,…

Bloomberg TV now FTA

I see BLOOMBERG UK TV FTA (free to air) now on 28 degrees east. From 15th January 2007, Bloomberg will be available FREE in the UK & Ireland to everyone with a Sky Box or satellite & receiver. If you are already receiving Bloomberg Television via a Sky subscription, you don’t need to do anything…

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does technology news only happen on friday

RTÉ has a new tech news portal and a fine looking thing it is. the content is of high quality too. its in conjunction with techcentral.ie and the site is here. http://www.rte.ie/business/technologynews.html but my 2KB of woe with this is that, for purchased-in content, why does this ‘portal’ make the old mistakes of web 1.0…

Balcony TV off air

“we don’t need no stinking transmitters” ? or do we, when control of your content is in the hands of a network with less right of reply than a kangaroo court, perhaps a spare TX or two is handy. Not since the jamming of Sunshine Radio & Radio Nova has a Dublin 4 outfit had…

benefits of squatting

I Squatted Your .EU writes EUBrowser Loses UDRP – buy-sell.ie isn’t buy and sell up 4 sale! my comment failed to submit over on that blog so here it tiz the amount of inbound google searches to my blog for bebo.ie makes it clear to me, bebo is leaking at the till for these lost…

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I want service… not snow

Sky Ireland are now banner advertising their offering as being better than snow like reception of terrestrial TV in Ireland [flash banner ad not available]. it makes my blood boil. not that sky make such a claim, but that there exists a playing field that lets them claim it. doesn’t it seem a bit rich,…

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