[Rdd]

It was tried, twice during the 1990s, once as an experiment during Six One and once during the Friday edition of Nationwide.They were never able to make it work in the past, largely because of cable (and in those days MMDS) customers being fed from transmitters that weren’t local to them. Nowadays Sky would be an issue too and there’d be no appetite too uplink multiple versions. (It might be technically difficult to do - the Sky CAS was put in place before postcodes were introduced in ROI, and I *think* it sees ROI as one giant UK postcode).

Additionally, ILR sees local as being “its” territory - I’ve posted before about stations effectively basing themselves on having local exclusivity on being local - as opposed to the “Dublin bias” (that doesn’t really exist, but it suits them to big it up) of RTE.

On the VMTV thing, my comment was really intended as dig at the daily ten hours (that is not an exaggeration, as one look at the schedules will attest) of The Chase, rather than to suggest that VMTV didn’t broadcast news!