RTE

[Jim1610]

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

[TimmyBGood]

@Jim1610 

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.

[Jim1610]

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!!

[Chrisee]

@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.