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Interesting response from C4...

  • 13-09-2002 4:51pm
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    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,945 ✭✭✭


    Got this rather interseting email today from C4 in relation to a query as to why C4 was available on NTL and not on Sky Digital in Ireland...

    "Many thanks for your email. I hope this helps.

    There is an EU directive which states that if a country's terrestrial transmissions are fortuitously receivable in an adjacent country as a by-product of providing satisfactory coverage in that country (which will almost always be the case), then the adjacent country may utilise that terrestrial signal to source cable distribution. Thus if Channel 4 is receivable in Eire from a transmitter in the UK (Ulster in this case), then they are entitled to distribute this signal on a cable network. By the same token the UK could distribute RTE channels on cable should we so desire.

    This same situation applies in France, Holland, Belgium where C4 (in fact all UK analogue channels) is widely available on cable. There is no such provision for satellite signals.

    Regards.
    xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
    Information Officer"


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