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March 9, 2001
Irish Times Sctv Online Streaming The granting of a digital licence is seen as a matter of survival for [SCTV], as it is assumed that existing deflector licences will no longer be needed after DTT is rolled out.

Under its proposed new service, SCTV would use satellite based technology from French company MDS International to provide digital services to the company's existing customers... Last autumn, the company received a special three-month licence from the ODTR to test their new system, in which they claim to have made an initial investment of (pounds) 7 million (E8.9 million).

The tests were deemed successful and the results were included in its application for a licence last November.

The company's current rebroadcasting licence is due to expire by November this year. To meet its plan to roll out digital services from the end of 2001, it says it needs the licence before the summer.

February 15, 2002
Irish Times

Southcoast Community Television will apply for a licence to supply digital television services to 100,000 homes in Cork, Kerry and Waterford next month...

The firm has already invested EUR7 million in technology and conducted trials with MDS International.

According to Mr Hurley, the greatest challenge facing Southcoast will not be financial but is more likely to be slow movement by the telecoms regulator to create a licensing framework.

"We've already submitted a comprehensive licence application with all technical details back in November 2000," he said. "As time goes by we could miss the boat. . . we've been put on the backburner because we are not large."...

These services would operate on the 12 GHz band, the same one on which Sky operates. Sky told the regulator that if local firms were allowed to use this band it could lead to interference and loss of service for customers.

November 16, 2004
Irish Independent

SKY and cable television operators will face new competition in Munster and County Waterford from community-run company South Coast Television (SCTV), which has been granted a digital broadcasting licence by the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg).

The company estimates that its multi-channel MMDS services will be 10pc cheaper than competitors' packages.

November 26, 2004
New Media Markets

South Coast Television (SCTV), an Irish community-run television service that has been operating since 1985, has been granted a broadcasting licence to run a digital microwave multipoint distribution service (MMDS).

The licence, from the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg), will allow the company to move beyond its current four-channel analogue MMDS service, which uses UHF frequencies, to offer a full pay-television service that would compete with BSkyB and NTL...

The service, expected to launch in September 2005, may also offer pay-per-view films and video-on-demand services.

December 2, 2004
Business & Finance Magazine

After almost 20 years in business and having started by retransmitting British television signals into Carrigaline, Co Cork, South Coast Television has finally been granted a licence to transmit digital MMDS TV to Munster viewers as SCTV Digital. South Coast Television - the digital service will trade as SCTV Digital - will offer up to 60 channels'. This new licence brings the station into the big league of digital television but it is entering a shark pool of wellfinanced competition...

While the systems, technologies, bandwidths and gigahertz may differ between the different television parties in Munster, there is much choice for the Munster viewer.

September 12, 2005
Business World (Digest)

South Coast Television today launched SCTV Digital, a new company which aims to provide an independent, digital TV service for the Munster region.

September 16, 2005
Munster Express

http://www.munster-express.ie/050916/news8.html

SCTV chief executive Eric Curtis says that “in order to fund the transition from a relatively small, community-based analogue broadcaster to a province-wide digital service, SCTV Digital has opted to give current subscribers the chance to invest in the new company in a unique private share offering”...

The company, which received a digital broadcast licence from ComReg last year, will be the first Irish-owned digital television service. Its CEO says the share strategy “is very much in keeping with the ethos of SCTV” since its establishment in Carrigaline 20 years ago.

August 22, 2006
ComReg

http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0642.pdf

Commission for Communications Regulation hereby gives notice of its intention to amend the Programme Service Distribution Licence (‘the Licence’), issued to SCTV Digital...

3 centre frequencies will be added to the 5 centre frequencies currently licensed. The 8 licensed frequencies will be: 11739.0 MHz, 11788.0 MHz, 11817.0 MHz, 11856.0 MHz,11895.0 MHz, 11934.0 MHz, 11973.0 MHz, 12012.0 MHz

September 7, 2006
Irish Times

It looks like Chorus, the cable TV provider based in Munster, is facing a new competitor which originates in the community television sector. Southcoast Community Television is planning to offer a digital television service in the Munster area. The company is putting a EUR 5 million investment behind the project and has 25 transmitters throughout the region to roll out the service. A new company is to be set up called SCTV Digital Plc to develop the project.

September 14, 2006
Based on text from a web forum

The Avondhu

South Coast TV, Ireland’s third largest provider of terrestrial TV, announced this week details of its exclusive Digital Television service due to launch this month...

[George Kennedy, CEO South Coast TV:] “The organisation has spent the past 7 years and over € 800000 developing and testing a new hybrid delivery platform for local and multi-channel services with the co-operation of the state regulators Com-Reg. This licence was awarded to SCTV in 2004 and in the intervening time the necessary finance for the project has been raised by SCTV’s present subscribers/shareholders. This equipment is currently being installed and will be ready for the launch date of September 29th. The cost of phase 1 of the project is in the region of €5 million... SCTV Digital future plans include the provision of state of the art Broadband, Telephony and Interactive services.

February 27, 2007
Based on text from a web forum

Irish Examiner’s County supplement for the Cork area

TIME is running out for South Coast TV’s 10,000 viewers who will soon have to pay a minimum of €20 a month, plus a €100 deposit for a set top box, as the company’s pay-as-you-view system rolls out. “We will be cutting off the existing UHF system as digital is up and running, but this may not happen for a year or two,” said Liam Hurley, chief executive of South Coast TV...To overcome these problems, a new company, SCTV Digital, was set up and shares were offered to the public. Last week the new company’s plans came to fruition and a digital TV system using set-top boxes began operating in some of the existing SCTV areas and in new locations like Bishopstown and Ballincollig which were formally only served by Chorus and Sky... Liam Hurley says the system chosen by SCTV is “similar to satellite”, but at ground level. Like Chorus’s microwave system, MMDS, though, it needs a line of sight between transmitter and receiver, so it will take, according to Mr Hurley, until the end of the year to cover the whole of the greater Cork area.