The Irish Post says that the new Irish TV service for Britain is to be called RTÉ International and could be operational ahead of the previously scheduled date of March 17, 2009. This week RTÉ is recruiting on its website for several positions relating to the new channel.
Details of the new service released so far indicate that the channel will be a hybrid of RTÉ One and RTÉ Two with some additional programming from TG4. The One, Six-One and 9 o’clock news bulletins will be carried live. It will also carry a range of homegrown Irish programming that will be of interest to Irish communities abroad.
(Source: Irish Post via Ray Woodward)
on Jun 10th, 2008 at 09:49
Will this be UK wide FTA clear unencrypted only via the Astra2D satellite and a limited overspill to Western Europe as exists with BBC/ITV services, OR will this service utilize the massive pan-european fixed beam of Eurobird 1 covering several European countries ensuring reception in the UK and large parts of Europe?
on Jun 10th, 2008 at 10:25
Someone should really tell RTÉ about this, no mention of it on their own website at all, lol, (Their own job page just has the “There are currently no vacancies” message on it.)