List of channels on Saorsat (Ireland)

Saorsat (stylised as SAORSAT) is the free-to-air satellite service for the Ireland ('Saor' meaning free in Irish Gaelic). It is run by 2RN (formerly called RTÉNL) a subsidiary of RTÉ and is designed to compliment the digital terrestrial television (DTT) service, Saorview.

Saorsat was launched for the 2% of households that cannot receive Saorview due to not being able to get good DTT reception due to terrain issues. Saorsat mirrors the Irish DTT PSB multiplex, with the exception of Virgin Media One, Virgin Media Two, Virgin Media Three and Sky News which are only available on Saorview. There is the possibility of other broadcasters joining the service in the future but as the intended audience is small, this may not be viable for commercial channels.

Saorsat is available on the Eutelsat KA-SAT 9A, which is a narrow-band satellite with a spot beam over Ireland.

Because of frequency re-use on adjacent spot beams for other countries, it is difficult to receive Saorsat service outside of the Irish footprint. The satellite setting parameters are:

Name	Setting
Frequency	20192.5 MHz
Polarisation	L
Symbol Rate	12500
FEC	5/6
Standard	DVB-S2
Modulation scheme	QPSK

Channel List

These are the channel numbers as listed on 2RN's website, but since Saorsat does not use LCNs the actual order may differ.

TV

EPG No.	Logo	Channel name	Notes	Owner/parent company	Broadcast hours	Format
1		RTÉ One HD		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	1080i HDTV
2		RTÉ2 HD		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	1080i HDTV
3		RTÉ News SD		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	16:9 SDTV
4		TG4 SD		Teilifís na Gaeilge	24 hours	16:9 SDTV
7		RTÉjr SD		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	07:00 - 18:45	16:9 SDTV
9		Tithe an Oireachtais (Oireachtas TV) SD		Oireachtas Commission	Weekdays: 09:00 - 00:00	16:9 SDTV
11		RTÉ One +1		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	16:9 SDTV
12		RTÉ2 +1		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	Mon-Fri: 19:00-02:30 Sat-Sun: 12:00-02:30 (Times vary slightly, depending on schedule)	16:9 SDTV

Radio

EPG No.	Logo	Channel name	Notes	Owner/parent company	Broadcast hours	Format
21		RTÉ Radio 1 🔊		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	Audio
22		RTÉ 2fm 🔊		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	Audio
23		RTÉ Lyric FM 🔊		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	Audio
24		RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta 🔊		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	Audio
25		RTÉ Radio 1 Extra 🔊		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	Audio
26		RTÉ Pulse 🔊		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	Audio
27		RTÉ 2XM 🔊		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	Audio
28		RTÉjr Radio 🔊		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours (RTÉjr Radio: 07:00-21:00 RTÉ Chill: 21:00-07:00)	Audio
		RTÉ Chill 🔊	RTÉ Chill is labelled as a programme on RTÉjr Radio.
29		RTÉ Gold 🔊		Raidió Teilifís Éireann	24 hours	Audio

See also

UK & Ireland

• Master list of digital television channels
• Master list of satellite television channels

• Discovery+
• Netgem TV
• Now
• RTÉ Player (Some content restricted to Ireland & Northern Ireland only)
• Sky Glass & Sky Stream
• Sky Q

UK only

• BBC iPlayer
• Channel Four Television Corporation (Channel 4 & music channels)
• Freesat
• Freeview
• Freeview stream
• ITVX
• Pluto TV
• Samsung TV Plus
• Stream from Virgin Media
• Virgin Media
• YouView on BT
• YouView on BT (Internet mode)

Ireland only

• Saorsat
• Saorview
• Virgin Media
• Vodafone TV

Radio

• BBC Sounds (Available globally)
• Global Player (Available globally)
• Irish Radioplayer (Officially available in Ireland via apps only. On Android devices, APK can be downloaded and used worldwide)
• RTÉ Radio (Available globally)
• UK Radioplayer (Available globally)