Yes, you read that correctly. I am actively suggesting that RTE puts their online news channel, RTE News Now, onto Astra 2 alongside their other channels, but with one notable difference. Whilst RTE1 and RTE2 are on the Irish Bonus Pack, and not available to UK viewers, they should put RTE News Now free-to-air on both the Sky platform and the Freesat platform.
All this would be though is a precursor to the eventual launch of the long planned RTE International. RTE said they hoped to launch it by the end of 2009, but that obviously hasn’t happened. So far, no word on when RTE International will launch.
Also, a word of advice to RTE about RTE International. Don’t immediately worry about creating a whole new news service for it, you don’t have to do a “BBC World News” straight off the bat. Get the news bulletins that air on RTE1 and RTE2 onto the channel. Get an RTE News: Breakfast programme to air between 7am and 9am. The fact that RTE1 doesn’t have a breakfast news programme is shameful, and getting more shameful every week, that such a programme fails to launch.
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