Sky cutting off film on Channel 4

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I was looking forward to watching 28 Days Later on Channel 4 on Sunday night (through Sky). I switched onto Ch 4 just as the previous program was finishing, and I watched the ads leading up to the film - no problem. All of a sudden, I got a blue screen with an error message which stayed for the duration of the film. All other channel were working fine.

Why would Sky or Channel 4 block a film being shown ?
 
jrewing said:
I was looking forward to watching 28 Days Later on Channel 4 on Sunday night (through Sky). I switched onto Ch 4 just as the previous program was finishing, and I watched the ads leading up to the film - no problem. All of a sudden, I got a blue screen with an error message which stayed for the duration of the film. All other channel were working fine.

Why would Sky or Channel 4 block a film being shown ?
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Channel 4 through Sky will not show everything-something about other Irish channels having first rights.
 
ClubMan said:
It was fine on NTL cable. What was the error message?
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I can't remember exactly, something along the lines of me not having authorization to view this channel.

I think CCOVICH may be right - RTE or TV3 may have the rights to braodcast this movie first in Ireland. Although that doesn't explain why you could see it on NTL cable...
 
jrewing said:
I think CCOVICH may be right - RTE or TV3 may have the rights to braodcast this movie first in Ireland. Although that doesn't explain why you could see it on NTL cable...
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It only applies to Sky as far as I am aware.
 
If this is the case then it would seem to undermine SKY's prominent advertising campaigns highlighting the fact that C4 is now available on their platform...? :(
 
ClubMan said:
If this is the case then it would seem to undermine SKY's prominent advertising campaigns highlighting the fact that C4 is now available on their platform...? :(
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Yes, but it's only really films that are affected as far as I am aware-plenty of other choices for films on Sky.
 
Yes - but it's surely misleading advertising at the very least.

I noticed this on Wikipedia but it may not relate directly to this specific incident?
From 4 December 2006 Channel 4 was officially available to Sky viewers in the Republic of Ireland; some programmes, mainly imports, are not aired on this channel variant, due to Channel 4 not owning the relevant broadcast rights within the country.
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Unless the likes of NTL are considered a broadcaster and hold the rights for these programmes (including the movie in question here) or something?
 
Channel 4 films are regularly blocked here.
I read somewhere it was to do with broadcasting rights.

For this particular case, that movie was on one of the other channels on Sky recently and a lot of movies seem to do the rounds, so keep a look-out & you'll probably find it listed elsewhere soon.

Maybe instead of a blank screen, they could show us even more re-runs of Friends.:rolleyes:
 
jrewing said:
I was looking forward to watching 28 Days Later on Channel 4 on Sunday night (through Sky). I switched onto Ch 4 just as the previous program was finishing, and I watched the ads leading up to the film - no problem. All of a sudden, I got a blue screen with an error message which stayed for the duration of the film. All other channel were working fine.

Why would Sky or Channel 4 block a film being shown ?
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Maybe you should try again on the 22nd July ;)
 
It's not just films - certain things are blocked in the mornings too - Friends at about 9am if memory serves me. Can't think of others off hand. Very annoying.
 
same with the Sopranos recently even though they were showing series 6 which was RTE last year!
 
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