Sky advertises that UTV now available in ROI

West BritonWest Briton Posts: 176
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Sky is currently running low key newspaper adverts in the Republic of Ireland, promoting "Sky TV from just €10.75 a month for your first 3 months". There is a strapline stating "UTV is now available free-to-air on digital satellite" with a footnote explaining that it has to be manually tuned.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 4,266
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    Wonder if UTV will put U105.8 on Sky(Radio)?
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 283
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    Sky doesn't broadcast UTV in ROI, but you can manually tune it. Sky don't support this really though...
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 332
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    Why are Sky advertising it in all their adds (Ireland) then? :confused:
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 4,940
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    Why are Sky advertising it in all their adds (Ireland) then? :confused:
    Because Chorus Cable spent loads of cash on advertising that they had UTV and Sky didn't. And most people with Sky would take the tuning in of UTV through other channels over atrocious analogue cable every day.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,379
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    And the main thing is that its free...
  • givecreditgivecredit Posts: 488
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    Why are Sky advertising it in all their adds (Ireland) then? :confused:



    Because Sky know that one of the main reasons that people were not switching from NTL/CHORUS to Sky was that UTV was not available on Sky. Now that has all changed. Even poor chorus had to change their National advertising campaign. "Must have Channels not available on Satellite, Chorus Sports" :)
  • BexTechBexTech Posts: 12,957
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    Why are Sky advertising it in all their adds (Ireland) then? :confused:

    Because Sky can mention the fact that other broadcasters are available via Digital Satellite, if it helps their sales.

    The post was Sky doesn't broadcast UTV. UTV themselves broadcast the channel, it just happens that if you have a Sky Digibox you can pick it up.

    Sky do NOT broadcast UTV, UTV do.
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