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Saorview is Ireland's national DTT service. The Irish word saor means "free"; thus it is a partial calque of Freeview, the name of the DTT service of the United Kingdom. Saorview is available from 64 DTT transmitters covering 98% of the population as of the end of Q3 2012.
All HD channels in Ireland broadcast at 1080i. There are currently two channels available to Saorsat viewers, three channels available to Saorview viewers, one-hundred-and-eleven channels available to Sky Ireland viewers and sixty-six channels available to Virgin Media Ireland viewers on their respective EPGs.
By 2012, SAORVIEW offered 98% coverage for all channels. This was a significant improvement in free-to-air television coverage. [21] Similar services such as Saorview available in the United Kingdom (i.e. Freeview) and other parts of Europe are not compatible with Ireland's DTT service. [22]
Ireland currently uses the DVB-T standard with MPEG-4 compression. MHEG-5 is also used for epg and interactive services. The Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007 assigned one multiplex to RTÉ to ensure the continued availability of the four former free-to-air services in Ireland – that is, RTÉ 1, RTÉ 2, TG4 and TV3. RTÉ then established and ...
Channel 3 - (Later known as Channel D) was a short-lived Dublin based television station broadcasting from July 1981 to November 1981. It was a pirate TV channel . Nova TV - this was another Dublin pirate TV channel that was broadcast for a short time in the 1980s.
The channel was made available since May 2010 on train services within Dublin city and surrounding regions under a special agreement between CIÉ and RTÉ. [7] Previously, Sky News provided such a service. Since October 29, 2010 the channel is available free-to-air to 98% of homes throughout the Republic of Ireland through Saorview.
The channel was first launched on a trial basis on Saorview. The pilot channel later launched on UPC Ireland on November 15, 2011. [5] By September 2014 UPC confirmed a 20% growth in viewership of the channel on their service. [8] The channel later became available on Sky Ireland on 17 September 2014.
Virgin Media Ireland confirmed it would launch a new channel in August 2022, at a Virgin Media Showcase event. The channel is currently available on Saorview , Virgin Media and Sky . The channel made it to Virgin Media Play on the 2nd of September, 2024, following the rebrand.