About The Act
The Act gives Irish national public service broadcasters, Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) and TG4, digital terrestrial television obligations and also mandates the licensing of multiplexes for carriage on the RTÉ multiplex of Irish free-to-air channels (one, later two multiplexes, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland for other interested broadcasters using free-to-air and pay-tier multiplexes (three, later four) and ComReg. (ComReg would regulate non big screen TV type services such as Mobile TV)
It addition to digital television broadcasting and analogue television switch-off it gives RTÉ new obligations requiring RTÉ to set up and cater through a digital television channel carrying programmes across various platforms such as terrestrial, satellite, cable and IPTV providing television programmes to Irish citizens living abroad.
Such a channel is intended to carry domestic created programmes through a channel under the working title RTÉ International.
Read more about this topic: Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007
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