So any ideas

FIRE

Does anyone have any ideas of what could/will end up on 105 on the epg.

Do we have to wait for a new RTE channel or an independant channel like TV3 to start?

Charles Slane

I reckon it will be 107 + 1 hour ....;)

There are so many gaps in the EPG that I wouldn't think that there's any reason to believe that something is likely to turn up on 105 just because there's a space there.

RTE just don't have the funds at the moment to start any new channels.

The only possibilty is that UTV will do a sly deal with Sky to get onto 105. As if we need their "localised" verson of ITV.

We'd be better off if Granada (as part owners of TV3) did some kind of deal to get Granada onto 105. We'd certainly stand a better chance then of getting ITV2, and we wouldn't have to listen to more years of news stories about the "troubles", which RTE have already been forcing down our necks for the last gazillion years.

That might sound mean, but give us a break !! Is there not enough news in the republic that we have to hear about every time somebody does something insane on the Falls/Garvaghy Rd or wherever ??

Sorry, but I just have bad memories of having kids programmes on Ulster TV being regularly interupted by announcements that "keyholders in the Glengormley area should return to their premises".

I certainly don't want to make little of the suffering of our friends up north (regardless of their origins).

Am I completely wrong, or even a tiny bit right ?

Discuss.....

CHRISTYG

I can certainly see what you mean, Charles. For about 10 years, until the early 1980s, the voice of a man called David Gamble, who was a continuity announcer at BBC NI, was heard about 40-50 times a night, and not just introducing programmes, but reading police messages, newsflashes etc. I remember one year, BBC NI incurred the wrath of football supporters in Northern Ireland, by constantly interrupting the FA Cup Final!!!

well thankfully the thing has calmed down slightly up North(if you don't count fire-bombing,punishment beatings etc)

Up untill recent years here in the South East we had no access to NI tv.
In fact in my early years as a child, I had to put up with Billidocar on BBC Wales after school, instead of Scooby Doo
This lead to an early obsession with the tv tuner and aged about Nine, I found BBC one south west-complete with Scooby doo after school:)
There was also The Time Tunnel on the then Westward tv(susequently TSW and now Carlton Westcountry) which was on from 4.45 to 5.45 if I remember rightly.
I now have UTV (thanks to the BBC card) and quite like it:)
I have no objection to it being on 105.
mm

Fred Flange

Hey MM

What about Gus Honeybun?

Regards

Fred F.

Originally posted by Fred Flange
Hey MM

What about Gus Honeybun?

Regards

Fred F.

Jaysus-Fred!!! , thats bringing back the memories:D
Gus Honeybun was the king of all puppets:D
mm

DMC

Westward... wow.....

Your're old MM!

Nostaglia fest!!! part of TV Ark

BTW, Westward started broadcasting today in 1961, 41 years ago.

Originally posted by DamoDMC
Westward... wow.....

Your're old MM!

Nostaglia fest!!! part of TV Ark

BTW, Westward started broadcasting today in 1961, 41 years ago.

Now! now! Damo...:D
all the facts please..when did Westward stop broadcasting??:D
My parents hadn't even met in 1961...didn't marry till '67 and I was their third:p
mm
but I am old:D

DMC

You could have an argument there.....

Westward finished broadcasting on the night of 31st December 1981 (when ATV and Southern also met their Waterloo) but in fact at that stage, TSW had taken over in the previous August, as the existing company couldnt be arsed continuing. The Westward name lived until that December, when TSW launched in full.

http://www.transdiffusion.org/ident/album/westward/ and http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/itw/Westward/history.html for more info.