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Archive:List of channels on Cablelink
The company began operations in 1970 as RTÉ Relays, a subsidiary of Raidió Teilifís Éireann. It carried four channels – RTÉ Television, BBC1, BBC2, and Ulster Television. In 1984, the company merged with Dublin Cable Systems, itself the product of a merger of Marlin Cable with Phoenix Relays. In 1986, the Irish government began to allow Irish cable companies to carry non-terrestrial (i.e. satellite) services. In the same year, RTÉ merged all of its cable operations (including two other cable companies, Galway Cablevision and Waterford Cablevision) to form Cablelink Limited.
As Cablelink, the company was Ireland's largest cable company by far, and expanded to a fifteen channel service (plus premium channels) gradually. In 1990, Telecom Éireann acquired 60% of the company from RTÉ. The biggest controversy the company managed to embroil itself during this time was a dispute with British Sky Broadcasting over carriage fees for Sky One and Sky News. This led to the two channels being pulled from the platform from 1992 to 1994. The "return of Bart Simpson" was prematurely announced by Cablelink several times before the channels actually reappeared.
The company also wished to develop broadband services in 1997/1998 but there was an embargo on developing and selling Internet services by the main shareholders, Telecom Éireann, but the management felt if it were developed and a trial launched then there would be no stopping this. To conceal this from the Board, they hired a small Dublin company The Communications Interactive Agency to manage and run the trial. To this end all purchases of equipment and Internet Services were done in their name. At the time they were one of the first to demonstrate VOIP in Ireland as a commercial service which was done by the then managing director Alex Gogan at the Press Launch, by dialling live the Speaking Clock in New York using Net2phone.com service.
At the time they were one of the first companies in Europe to trial and launch Broadband services. What stopped the trial from becoming a full roll out across their network was the purchase by ntl:. It took the company almost four more years to integrate NTL Broadband service.
As these are analogue channels, there is no actual channel number order, but this list shows a typical channel list order from 1 May, 1998.
Receiver
Typically Cablelink receivers were put on a wall near the TV. The cable wire came from outside the home. One could use Cablelink TV services by connecting an aerial cable from the T.V. connection to the back of the TV. Similarly, one could connect a FM receiver to the F.M. Radio connection (sunken into box) to connect an aerial input into a radio listen to radio channels. The Cablelink box mimicked an aerial signal and used very high frequencies (VHF) and ultra-high frequencies (UHF) settings on televisions capable of receiving analogue signals to tune into TV channels. It also mimicked an FM signal to tune into radio stations.
Key
Package | Description |
---|---|
Basic TV service | The basic subscription |
All The Movies | Adds Sky Movies and The Disney Channel. Customers who were not subscribed to this package had these channels scrambled. |
All The Sports | Adds Sky Sports channels. Customers who were not subscribed to this package had these channels scrambled. |
Pay-per-view | Adds pay-per-view channel for 24 hours on date of event. Customers who were not subscribed to this package had this channel scrambled. |
Television channels
Channel number | Logo | Channel name | Owner or parent company | Notes | Hours | Frequency | Package |
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1 | RTÉ One | Raidió Teilifís Éireann | 24 hours | 192 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
2 | Network 2 | Raidió Teilifís Éireann | (Network 2 later became RTÉ Network 2 and later RTÉ2) | 24 hours | 176 MHz | Basic TV service | |
3 | TnaG | Teilifís na Gaeilge | (TnaG later became TG4) | 24 hours | 248 MHz | Basic TV service | |
4 | BBC One (Northern Ireland) |
BBC | 24 hours | 216 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
5 | BBC Two (Northern Ireland) |
BBC | 24 hours | 224 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
6 | UTV | Ulster Television plc | 24 hours | 200 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
7 | Channel 4 | Channel Four Television Corporation | 24 hours | 56 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
8 | Nickelodeon | Viacom | 06:00-19:00 | 208 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
Link | Cablelink | Notice board with Dario G - "Sunchyme" on repeat. | 19:00-20:30 (Mon-Thu) 22:15-06:00 (Mon-Thu) 22:15-23:00 (Fri-Sun) 00:30-06:00 (Fri-Sun) | ||||
Euro News - Main evening news broadcast from: ZDF (20:30-21:00), TVE (21:00-21:40), Rai Uno (21:40-22:15) |
20:30-22:15 | ||||||
Dublin Weekend - Dublin Weekend (19:00-19:45 & 23:00-23:45) EUro Week (19:45-20:30 & 23:45-00:30) |
19:00-20:30 (Fri-Sun) 23:00-00:30 (Fri-Sun) | ||||||
9 | Sky One | BSkyB | 24 hours | 232 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
10 | NBC Europe | General Electric | 24 hours | 48 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
11 | MTV | Viacom | 24 hours | 256 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
12 | Sky News | BSkyB | 24 hours | 184 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
13 | TV5 Europe | TV5 | French language | 24 hours | 288 MHz | Basic TV service | |
14 | Eurosport | TF1 Group Canal+ Group Havas Images |
24 hours | 64 MHz | Basic TV service | ||
15 | Mosaic | Cablelink | Broadcast mosaic of 12 channels at a time, see Mosaic example. Audio was classical music. | 24 hours | Basic TV service | ||
16 | The Disney Channel | Disney (50%) Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (50%) |
24 hours | 320 MHz | All The Movies | ||
17 | Sky Movies Screen 1 | BSkyB | (Sky Movies Screen 1 later became Sky MovieMax then Sky Movies Max) | 24 hours | 280 MHz | All The Movies | |
18 | Sky Movies Screen 2 | BSkyB | (Sky Movies Screen 2 later became Sky Premier and Sky Movies Premier) | 24 hours | 272 MHz | All The Movies | |
19 | Sky Movies Gold | BSkyB | Free channel with All the Movies subscription. (Sky Movies Gold later became Sky Cinema (and Sky Cinema 2) and then Sky Movies Classics before becoming defunct to be able to launch Sky Movies Select and Sky Movies Disney) |
24 hours | 296 MHz | All The Movies | |
20 | Sky Sports 1 | BSkyB | 24 hours | 264 MHz | All The Sports | ||
21 | Sky Sports 2 | BSkyB | 24 hours | 304 MHz | All The Sports | ||
22 | Sky Sports 3 | BSkyB | 24 hours | 312 MHz | All The Sports | ||
23 | Pay Per View | Cablelink | Occasional | 352 MHz | Pay-per-view |
Mosaic example
The Mosaic channels switched from showing certain channels as described in the tables below. Channels with a yellow label were included with the basic subscription and channels with a green text label required an additional subscription.
Image: Mosaic example with all basic subscription channels from 21 July, 1996
BBC One | BBC Two | UTV | Channel 4 |
RTÉ One | Link schedule | Nickelodeon/Link | |
Network 2 | NBC Europe | ||
Sky One | Sky News | MTV | Eurosport |
Image: Mosaic example with basic and extra subscription channels from 21 July, 1996.
BBC One | BBC Two | UTV | Channel 4 |
RTÉ One | Link schedule | Sky Sports 1 | |
Network 2 | Sky Sports 2 | ||
Sky One | Sky Movies Screen 1 | Sky Movies Screen 2 | Sky Movies Gold |
FM radio channels
External links
- Cablelink Website (from 1 May, 1998 via Wayback Machine / Internet Archive)