topic Re: RTE in Sky Stream

RTE

Jim1610 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:57:41 GMT

Why are some RTE channels sometimes blocked recently on Sky. Not happened before nor on terrestrial.

Re: RTE

TimmyBGood — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:22:16 GMT

Presumably you are watching in Northern Ireland?

Broadcast terrestrial television and satellite broadcasting cannot be 'blocked' because it doesn't stop at lines drawn on a map: the long-standing reciprocal agreement between the Republic and the North is a defacto recognition of that. Glass/Stream use can be precisely geolocated, and where a channel on one side of the border doesn't have trans-national distribution rights for particular content this becomes significant.

Re: RTE

Jim1610 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:59:21 GMT

Thank you very much for your reply. I agree with your analysis which makes full sense, however the number of blocked programmes has suddently increased; are random and possibly occur on some occasions at the start of a programme and then unblock!!

Re: RTE

Chrisee — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:31:09 GMT

@Jim1610 thst is down to RTE who control what they feed to Sky. It will very as the rights packages change between orogrammes. Typically if a UK channel like ITV fir example has the same programming even if broadcast at the sametime RTE has to blank it for UK viewers.