rte is to stream many of its news & current affairs programmes live to the world and to Ireland from tomorrow (St. Patrick’s Day 17/03/2007). see rte.ie/live press release Múirne Laffan, Executive Director of RTÉ Publishing, said of the new service: “This is a very exciting development for RTÉ. We built a system in-house, using…
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Celtic Connections BBC4 tonight
[update] the second part seems to now be on 17th Saturday repeated at 2am 18th… [first posted on http://www.angloirish.info ] As we Celts know our music has filtered out into the world of the creative commons over the centuries. I was at the Celtic Connections festival in 2003 & 2005. 2007 festival is to be…
audiovisual without frontiers directive
Yesterday The European Commission consolidated the text and modernised “Television without Frontiersâ€? its now called Audiovisual Media Services Directive; TVWF has been on the go since 1989, it now will include non linear AV services including on demand services. I wonder if Noel Dempsey will stop using the term TVWF now? AFAIK it stops well…
polish soccer TV in ireland
the red card reports Many aspects of Ireland are adapting to our new residents and this is reflected in the increased outlets of foreign language media in Ireland. Setanta Sports are showing Poland’s European Qualifiers in the remainder of the campaign. many poles wont have setanta but will have FTA digital satellite dishes pointing home…
play away
ITV is to suspend all its premium-rate interactive services from tomorrow (06/03) and take call-TV digital channel ITV Play off air while an independent audit is conducted into its participation TV output. [media guardian needs free sub] surely it was always a rip off cost, how far need it go? to ban it. perhaps it…
SSIA / Little Star Fund
[disclaimer: doop host Little Star Fund.ie] [disclaimer2: i dont have an SSIA] thanks to michele & crew in Blacknight for the swift help last friday on this accounts domains…
BlueTube
Chelsea FC have become the first football club to team up with youtube, their chelsea TV is putting daily news on youtube. my review, a 1 minute piece to camera from studio is a tiny slice of what a TV station should be able to put to YT each day. The camera stayed in the…
RTÉ FTA petition online
I have set up a petition online with regards to the FTA transmissions of RTÉ. to read & sign; please pop over to http://www.petitiononline.com/rte2fta/petition.html many thanks in advance. brian greene. details http://www.rte2fta.com/ more details http://www.rte2fta.com/about/
empty vessel makes more noise
why would viacom not want to play ball with youtube? sure MTV don’t really play video anymore. born in the cable underground, there ain’t an ‘underground bone’ left in this corp. giant of tele-visuals body anymore. can I just say 8 words more on this bubble hits bubble hits bubble hits bubble hits which is…