After 10 years, End of line

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Submitted by Watty on 15 May 2010 - 7:43pm

There isn't money for content, or electric or feed costs for the payTV muxes. Nor money to roll them out more. There isn't and never was a viable commercial plan for Terrestrial Pay TV in Ireland.
RTE will need every cent just to meet the PSB mux rollout obligations. Maybe in 2014 or so someone can afford them.

Roll out the the PSB MUX asap. Start the launch. Light the blue touch paper

http://www.independent.ie/business/...

Quote:

By Laura Noonan

Saturday May 15 2010

PLANS to launch a new commercial television platform in Ireland
are in disarray after the final bidder for the multi-million euro
contract bowed out in recent days.

Easy TV, a joint venture
between RTE and UPC owner Liberty
Global, was offered the contract for commercial Digital Terrestrial
Television (DTT) a fortnight ago when negotiations with an Eircom-led
consortium collapsed.

An RTE spokesman last night confirmed that
Easy TV had told the Broadcasting
Authority of Ireland (BAI) it was "declining their offer to pursue
negotiations" on the DTT contract.

He added that Liberty and RTE
had "carefully considered" the contract but had agreed not to proceed
"due to the significant lapse in time and the altered circumstances
since Easy TV's original application in 2008".

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