Irish Satellite Television Channels Costa Blanca Spain

Irish Satellite Television Channels are transmitted from the same group of UK TV satellite as BBC, ITV and Sky TV channels.

The Irish channels on the UK TV satellites, are spread across the four satellites, Astra 2a, Astra 2B, Astra 2D and Eurobird 1.

All channels currently require a Sky viewing card to view.

Irish TV channels such as RTE One, RTE 2, TG4 and TV3 are on the weaker Astra 2D satellite, and will require a big dish to be able to receive these channels. They are also on the weak Horizontal polarisation, and therefore may not be available all day. In fact in My area of the Costa Blanca, the reception of these Irish TV channels is slightly worse than reception of the UK BBC2.

Some of the Irish versions of UK TV channels are also difficult to receive at certain times of the day. This is because they are on the North beam of the Astra 2a and Astra 2B satellite, and so reception will be weaker during the afternoon. This will affect channels such as Sky 1 Ireland, Sky Sport 1 Ireland, of the frequencies on Astra 2D are the ones that require a "big dish".

Other channels such as 3e are available on a smaller satellite dish.

The Irish Sky TV channels are only available to view with Sky viewing cards that are registered at an address in Ireland.

The Irish Sky channels are located on several frequencies.