What chanel is TV3 on Sky?
A dispute occurred with British Sky Broadcasting over a refusal to assign Channel 6 EPG channel 106 (the position the station had on both NTL and Chorus) on its SkyDigital system, which was used by one of its flagship channels, Sky1 or 105 (a still vacant slot between TG4 and Sky One), next to the other Irish channels. Instead Sky offered to place Channel 6 in the 200s at the bottom of the entertainment category as it was a general entertainment channel, and did not carry any public service remit, this being Sky’s justification for placing the four Irish terrestrial channels in positions 101-104, as (unlike NTL or Chorus) they are accountable to Ofcom in the UK rather than the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland. The moving of Sky1 would also have been complicated further, as its sister channels Sky2 and Sky3 would also have to be reallocated to new positions. As a result, Channel 6 was launched outside of the Sky package.
