The Archives
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03.14.08In the name of the FadaIn the name of the Fada premiered on RTE TWO yesterday (well premiered may be a bit of an overstatement its not a bloody film). Finally an attempt at brining some interest to the Irish Language to Ireland's bebo generation. I have to say I loved the show, it follows Des Bishop as he tries to learn Irish with the idea that he will do a gig in Irish at the end of the 11 months learning process. In order to do this he moves to Connemara’s Gaeltacht area. Its pretty funny and very enjoyable from what I have seen, although ...
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03.06.07Second Phase of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) PilotIt looks like Digital terrestrial television has begun, lets hope is as good as the UK version, to date, it looks promising, and has an interesting channel line up (see below). This second phase of the pilot will involve a trial with an initial panel of 500 public participants, who have been drawn from the Dublin and Louth areas. This will rise to 1,000 participants over the lifetime of the trial. TV Channels include RTÉ 1, RTÉ2, TV3, TG4, Channel 6, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News 24, Sky News, Sky Sports 1, Extreme Sports and UKTV History and radio channels ...
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02.02.07Channel 6 Bites the BulletAnd about time, Channel 6 originally was in a little old dispute with SKY, because they wanted to be on the Sky Digital platform on one of the low numbers (on the EPG), near RTE1/2/TV3/TG4, which I suppose is fair enough, it is an ‘Irish’ channel, however SKY only offered them one of the high (and less watched) numbers in its channel line-up meaning that it was at the end of the entertainment package, also meaning less viewers for Channel 6. So CH6 decided not to go on SKY at all, but rather use NTL and Chorus, a mad move ...