http://sleepingwarrior.com/blog/rte-on-free-to-air/ A view from the mountains of North-West Ireland Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:39:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://sleepingwarrior.com/blog/rte-on-free-to-air/comment-page-1/#comment-5467 Murray Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:44:30 +0000 http://sleepingwarrior.com/blog/?p=193#comment-5467 Off to buy the FTA hardware this weekend. Will be watchig the UK's programming from now on. Don't see the point in continuing to invest in equipment for Irish programming. Shame because they could do it if they wanted. The issue appears to be the huge overhead in paying salaries to the controllers of RTE, and then there's not enough of the license fee/advertising revenue left over to actually produce anything worthwhile :( Off to buy the FTA hardware this weekend. Will be watchig the UK’s programming from now on. Don’t see the point in continuing to invest in equipment for Irish programming. Shame because they could do it if they wanted. The issue appears to be the huge overhead in paying salaries to the controllers of RTE, and then there’s not enough of the license fee/advertising revenue left over to actually produce anything worthwhile

]]> http://sleepingwarrior.com/blog/rte-on-free-to-air/comment-page-1/#comment-3816 John Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:46:01 +0000 http://sleepingwarrior.com/blog/?p=193#comment-3816 Well said. It is a disgrace that we should have to pay twice. Well said. It is a disgrace that we should have to pay twice.

]]> http://sleepingwarrior.com/blog/rte-on-free-to-air/comment-page-1/#comment-3267 Steve Staveley Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:29:02 +0000 http://sleepingwarrior.com/blog/?p=193#comment-3267 The Sky + RTE marriage stinks of brown envelopes,as many people would cancel their sky subscriptions if RTE was available free to air as it should be. Every country in europe has at least one national broadcaster free to air via satellite. you may also sign the petition here http://www.astraltv.ie/astraltv_2.html stop this rip off. Steve The Sky + RTE marriage stinks of brown envelopes,as many people would cancel their sky subscriptions if RTE was available free to air as it should be.
Every country in europe has at least one national broadcaster free to air via satellite.
you may also sign the petition here http://www.astraltv.ie/astraltv_2.html
stop this rip off. Steve

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