Talk:Cable television in Ireland

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UTV 1959

UTV began broadcasting on the 31st of October 1959 UTV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by IrishTV (talk • contribs) 21:26, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

No sense?

Cablelink had their link channel searched space with Nickelodeon (The Children’s Channel). Link provided some local news in Dublin, Waterford and Galway.

What!? The first sentence makes no sense (besides the fact that Nickelodeon and TCC are two separate channels).

Much of the rest of the article makes little sense too. 91.85.133.50 (talk) 21:52, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Sofixit. Id suggest

1) Put all the MMDS stuff in a subheading (under history)

2) Explain better the evolution of ownership from a myriad of small independently owned local networks through mergers into an (international) conglomerate.

3) A brief mention of deflectors.

4) Regulatory issues. 17:41, 13 November 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.146.222.182 (talk)

5)The section on the 1984 report seems a tad excessive to the detriment of developments before or since.

6) The dates for establishment of networks in various towns contains a lot of inaccuracies. Parts of Dublin for example had cable well before 1974. The Dublin network was originally comprised of over a dozen local networks which over time merged (in both the physical and corporate sense) into the single network we have today -parts of the city **still** aren't cabled.

Oh and The Children's Channel (later Nickelodeon) shared a frequency with the Link channel. The kids stuff was on during the day and Link were on in the evening. 2A00:23C6:7F8A:BB00:C5AC:16F1:C171:C90C (talk) 15:45, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Waterford

This really needs to be clarified "Waterford, which initially delivered service to some 6,000 homes in 1974. It supplied an analogue service to an estimated 14 - 16,000 homes in Waterford City, along with almost 5,000 cable broadband customers, including VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephony services." Presumably it is not intended to say that VoIP was installded in the 70s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.150.96.2 (talk) 12:30, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Timeline subsection

A few omissions/inaccuracies in this section. The dates given for some towns refer to the dates the licence was awarded rather than the dates when the service was actually rolled out which in some cases was more than a decade later (if it ever happened at all !) while in the case of many parts of Dublin a service a service was rolled out several years before a legal framework was put in place (1974). Also some Irish towns had (still do ?) unlicensed cable networks (not to be confused with the UHF deflector/retransmission services) 2A00:23C3:70A:4100:D934:6BAD:971A:2E70 (talk) 11:22, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

The timeline provided was given to me from sources at Dail Eireann, who asked for details of cable television provision in the Irish republic in 1986. All details given were the best that could be found, and since the details were there, I thought this would be good to provide a basic level of information to this page. Yes, I do know cable television had arrived in Dublin pre 1974, as the Ballymun flats had been cabled in 1966, but RTE Relays launched in 1970, but again, I only wanted to use the Dail Eireann information, as this is from the official records of the Irish parliament. 82.1.226.213 (talk) 20:05, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

The Dail Eireann record refers to the awarding of licences rather than provision of service for example Ballina is listed as 1985 but the service only started to be rolled out (by a different company) eight years later. Castlebar still has no service despite an abortive rollout in 2000/1 I believe the situation in Ennis is similar. 81.132.143.127 (talk) 20:29, 31 October 2024 (UTC)