Location
The company and its studios are located in Ashbourne, County Meath, Republic of Ireland. They also have studios based in London, UK. The channel is broadcast free-to-air, therefore viewers do not need to have a Sky subscription to view the channel. Despite being Irish-owned, it is not licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) but instead by the UK's Ofcom to "Creative Sounds UK", who are based in Northchapel. This is not unheard of amongst Irish channels, as well as those from other countries with restrictive broadcasting legislation, such as Sweden. It is presumably due to BCI's requirements that a high percentage of programming must be Irish produced.
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