Happy Francophiles In Great Britain

a bientot

TV5 GOOD NEWS FOR THE BRITS....
Our neighbours in G.B. are happy to inform each other on digitalspy that TV5 has been upgraded in Telewest areas thus allowing more people to avail of a channel in another language.....

Spare a thought for us in ntl Ireland in Dublin (Galway and Waterford) where we lost the world's third most available satellite tv station, TV5, from our basic service after eight years whereas the other anglo/american cable company, Chorus, continues to provide the service in dormitory towns around Dublin and elsewhere in Ireland including our second city, Cork, for over fifteen years.

Dublin now has the honour of being the ONLY much cabled capital in the European Union and Greater Europe providing tv in ONE language exclusively to all in the very basic (cheapest) package of 15-20 channels. To date I have discovered that six of the ten new Union countries have TV5 in their cheapest cable service in their capitals and also English and German channels.

And we're not even British!
Or is it that ntl wants to improve our spoken English......and perhaps the grammar (past tense of verbs etc.) of a certain leading Irish politician...... Is he counted among the 44% (from January this will be 56%) of Union citizens who do not have adequate English.

But, oh yes, the government elected by our people did support that WAR. What else would (or could) one expect from a former colony?

patrickmooney

Originally posted by a bientot
Dublin now has the honour of being the ONLY much cabled capital in the European Union and Greater Europe providing tv in ONE language exclusively to all in the very basic (cheapest) package of 15-20 channels. To date I have discovered that six of the ten new Union countries have TV5 in their cheapest cable service in their capitals and also English and German channels.

Could this be becuase TV5 is a cheap option to carry on a cable system to "pad" it out? Now I don't have the exact carriage rates they charge, but I'm sure they're not as expensive as say UK Gold.

You know the probs with the analogue NTL network. Capacity. With analogue shut down within the next 10years, isn't it time we all invested in Digital. I did and I've got TV5 24/7.

DMC

You are not comparing like for like, in this case. It is appearing on Telewest digital cable service, not on analogue cable. TV5 as far as I am aware is available on NTL Digital packages here. So, in understanding your grievance with NTL over losing it on the analogue package, the argument that you have posted here now doesn't hold much water.

a bientot

No one will ever again mention funny languages or anything so weird or peculiar or as absurd, daft, bizarre, mad tv channels in other languages when Bertie and Mary achieve their dream of taking us out of the Union but this will not happen until George rewards us for our loyalty during THE WAR by admitting us as another U.S. state.
Remember permission will be required from London.

Perhaps, he who must be obeyed Bush might consider giving us ALL one hundred channels in the American 'language' for 10 euro a month.

But meanwhile we remain part of a Union and there is a world beyond Dover and Cobh.....

QED

DMC

:rolleyes:

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