more details here. analogue switch off is looming, free to air public service TV is a right, I don’t see why we have to pay sky high prices to see our national tv broadcaster. Ask your election candidates on the hustings why RTE is not FTA.
The BBC is planning a day of action tomorrow to highlight the plight of Alan Johnston, BBC Gaza correspondent, who was abducted on 12 March 2007. For the first time, the four major international news broadcasters will come together to produce a special programme.
The BBC’s two TV news channels - BBC World and BBC News 24 - together with Al Jazeera English and Sky News will simulcast the programme, and there will also be contributions from CNN. The simulcast will go on air from 1330-1400 UTC anchored by Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East Editor, from Ramallah. It will incorporate packages from the BBC, Al-Jazeera, CNN, and Sky. It will also have live reports from BBC, Al-Jazeera and Sky anchors and correspondents in Ramallah, Gaza and London. [more]
rte is to stream many of its news & current affairs programmes live to the world and to Ireland from tomorrow (St. Patrick’s Day 17/03/2007). see rte.ie/live
Múirne Laffan, Executive Director of RTÉ Publishing, said of the new service:
“This is a very exciting development for RTÉ. We built a system in-house, using the most innovative technology to give the best service possible to our existing users. Our aim is also to reach new audiences. RTÉ.ie now has the highest user base of any Irish website. We believe that delivering RTÉ News live throughout the world will grow this even further”.
adverts are blacked out, and house ads could be put in here unless thats not allowed. I think the service could be complimented with 24/7 rolling news, 24 hrs a day and 7 minute loop like Sky News & BBC24. to fill the gaps between the live news slots. With RTÉ International due this year its a big year for the Irish broadcaster, earlier today we reported the the LW 252 was to get DRM enabled in the next 10 days.
Im watching it on 2048/256 ADSL in Dublin and both windows media & real media formats had some issues on the eve of live watching eircom soccer. But in the main its nice to see 16:9 as i live in bunny’s ears land of FTA where RTE digital has yet to provide a service, but my freeview box has just become FREE and will be in Dublin on Tuesday (thanks liz). While I watch this i think a tight RSS feed to a youtube like service would be a decent service in this day and age. Perhaps if the iPlayer from Auntie BBC is EBU usable then RTE eyes would really be smiling online.
[] the second part seems to now be on 17th Saturday repeated at 2am 18th…
[first posted on http://www.angloirish.info ] As we Celts know our music has filtered out into the world of the creative commons over the centuries. I was at the Celtic Connections festival in 2003 & 2005. 2007 festival is to be broadcast on BBC4 March 16 & 18 either side of our national holiday here in Ireland. from Galicia to Galway to Glasgow tape it PVR it $ky+ it; but do watch it. [BBC 4 is a FTA TV Service available via Freeview & Digital Satellite and available (free to air) to the 32 counties of ireland too.]
Yesterday The European Commission consolidated the text and modernised “Television without Frontiers” its now called Audiovisual Media Services Directive; TVWF has been on the go since 1989, it now will include non linear AV services including on demand services. I wonder if Noel Dempsey will stop using the term TVWF now? AFAIK it stops well short of radio and podcast but if either of those had moving pictures they could be in, while radio with pictures is not a good definition of Television (it once was) it would seem to morph here… so is Video Podcasting in? ( i could be wrong I could be right; read this blogs disclaimer.) is it in? i don’t know, apply this video podcast as a sample candidate. storyfix from the BBC.
[what's in a name, I liked TVWF, it sounded Star Treky! but I hate audiovisual as much as I hate multimedia, thankfully in Irish law we call it what it is, wireless telegraphy or sound broadcasting, so rather than one word 'audiovisual' I would call it three words 'Sound and Vision' cue Bowie]
this new improved directive (in advert speak) extends “country of origin” principle to new non-linear (on-demand) audiovisual services (in particular video on demand) for the first time.
it also has a lot to do with easing restrictions on advertising for TV broadcasters, like the removal of the 3hrs a day rule as “no specialist TV channels come near that limit”, as well as split screen advertising and product placement, as the USA produced progs. have an advantage over European produced shows in this regard. But the USA has a death penalty, the EU does not… must we swallow all the bad medicine to liberate markets? When Telefonica owns 75% of endemol and endelmol shows are being examined for interactive phone practice and TV is the conduit wouldn’t better citizen protection be better than “consumers” being allowed to freely choose which network they would most like, based on the least amount of adverts where no upper limit exists?. come on!
here is one mathematical problem, the 3 hour upper limit is to go. but the 12 minute an hour stays, so the daily limit is in fact 4hrs 48min but who will do 12min breaks overnight? madness.
In Ireland we have the down side of the ‘country of origin’ where protection of minors from advertising is law in our member state but not in the UK where a majority of service providers claim to broadcast from.
some of the newer text added into this directive follows
Article 2
7. A Member State may in order to prevent abuse or fraudulent conduct, adopt appropriate measures against a media service provider established in another Member State that directs all or most of its activity to the territory of the first Member State. This shall be proven on a case by case basis by the first Member State.
Article 3b
2. Short news reports may be chosen freely by the broadcasters from the transmitting broadcaster’s signal with at least the identification of their source.
Article 3g
(a) audiovisual commercial communications must be clearly identifiable as such. Surreptitious audiovisual commercial communication shall be prohibited.
(b) audiovisual commercial communications must not use subliminal techniques;
Article 3h
1. Audiovisual media services that are sponsored or that contain product placement shall meet the following requirements:
(b) they must not directly encourage the purchase or rental of goods or services, in particular by making special promotional references to those goods or services;
4. News and current affairs shall not be sponsored and not contain product placement. Audiovisual media services for children and documentaries may not contain product placement.
so you can’t product place the airline that flew you around the world to do a documentary about child labour in the coffee plantations all hosted on a go daddy server discount code BHG!
and there’s more.
if you have a TV service in Ireland and you claim to broadcast (and some do) from the UK, but are found to do that to work around the law - well watch out
The country of origin principle could be said to be abused only if the audiovisual service provider’s choice of establishment could be shown to have been made for the purpose of fraudulently avoiding national rules that would otherwise have applied to it. The European Court of Justice has consistently held that Member States retain the right to take action against service providers that clearly abuse the country of origin principle and the freedom of establishment. Until now, Member States that were convinced that a specific service provider had abused this freedom had to initiate a cumbersome and often very time-consuming infringement procedure.
The new directive would enable Member States to take action against a broadcaster that abuses this fundamental freedom and sets out a streamlined infringement procedure with tight deadlines under the supervision of the European Commission. It will henceforth be easier for Member States to take legal action against any audiovisual service provider that abuses the freedom of establishment, while the European Commission will safeguard the single market in this procedure.
I’m not pointing fingers but not many miles from me are service providers providing TV that uplinks in the UK not Ireland. and the laws in Ireland will have to change if this directive comes in.
the red card reports
many poles wont have setanta but will have FTA digital satellite dishes pointing home where digital TV is free to air and available in ireland but from poland. the whiter rounder and more upright polish satellite dish will be pointing further east to 13 degrees east of south, you’ll see them (self installed) often with a dual LNB head. For polish with out NTL or setanta subscription, international soccer is available via a look up of http://url.ie/335 and a keen knowledge of the following channels and sport output (which i do not have) or ask a russian man with a ladder to fix NTL signal for €10
4 Fun TV Hot Bird 4
Edusat Hot Bird 1
ITV Hot Bird 1
Mango 24 Hot Bird 1
Podróze TV Hot Bird 6
Polonia 1 Hot Bird 1 & 6
Polsat Zdrowie i urodaHot Bird 6
Tele 5 Hot Bird 1
TV Biznes Hot Bird 4
TV Puls Hot Bird 6
TVN Hot Bird 1 [Pal]
TVN Gra Hot Bird 1
Viva Polska Hot Bird 6
TV TRWAM Astra 2C
TVP 3 Regionalna Astra 2C
TV Polonia Astra 2C Hot Bird 1 Eutelsat W3A
TVP Kultura Astra 2C Hot Bird 1 Eutelsat W3A
Hot Bird 13° East
Astra 2C 19° East
Eutelsat W3A 7° East
ITV is to suspend all its premium-rate interactive services from tomorrow (06/03) and take call-TV digital channel ITV Play off air while an independent audit is conducted into its participation TV output. [media guardian needs free sub]
surely it was always a rip off cost, how far need it go? to ban it. perhaps it was a covert op to teach big brother viewers how to spell so they could read the Sun. It follows my theory of Weather TV Casting. by the age of 25 I had seen so many weather forecasts on TV, if the casts had taught meteorology then I could have graduated with flying honours in Weather Forecasting, sadly it just told me where the rain fall and low temperatures would be tomorrow. TV is a much abused medium for the pursuit of audience figures and the chance to sell you some thing where a man comes on the TV and tells me how white my shirt can be, Echos of the sound of salesmen, of salesmen, OHHHHHHHH SALESMEN
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thanks to michele & crew in Blacknight for the swift help last friday on this accounts domains…
Chelsea FC have become the first football club to team up with youtube, their chelsea TV is putting daily news on youtube. my review, a 1 minute piece to camera from studio is a tiny slice of what a TV station should be able to put to YT each day. The camera stayed in the studio, so if you already know what the presenter looks like (a photo could help) then it may as well not be on YouTube. The content is a news headlines report from presenter sitting on the studio floor. the content is not even worthy of radio or podcast, you might as well ship this content to premium phone club call services as the only people that will hear it there are the worlds saddest fans. The breaking news of the day the eve of the FA Cup fifth round tie was the club denying something muted my fans in the clubs forum…! shocking… where are the multi billions worth of footie players, goal mouth action, training ground footage, locker room talk, fans vox pop, or an inside tour (cribs like) of the owners yacht. i see sky involved, if its like their brush with podcasting in 2005 expect a retreat before an advance.
[marks 0/20]
official guff reads like this
The branded Channel will have the same look and feel as the recently redesigned Chelsea website, www.chelseafc.com, representing the latest landmark in Chelsea’s multi-media platform strategy.
Content will be provided by Chelsea Digital Media, the joint venture subsidiary owned by Chelsea and Sky, which runs Chelsea TV and www.chelseafc.com.
I have set up a petition online with regards to the FTA transmissions of RTÉ.
to read & sign; please pop over to http://www.petitiononline.com/rte2fta/petition.html
many thanks in advance. brian greene.
details http://www.rte2fta.com/
more details http://www.rte2fta.com/about/
