City Channel is a proposed cable television channel, intending to operate in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. They are licenced by the BCI for cable and MMDS operation, and have secured carraige on the formerly NTL owned digital cable system in Dublin. Coaxial Cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed... Dublin (Irish: Baile Ãtha Cliath),is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin region. ... The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) is the regulator of the commercial broadcasting sector in Ireland. ... Multichannel multipoint distribution service, also known as MMDS or wireless cable, is a wireless telecommunications technology, used for general-purpose broadband networking or, more commonly, as an alternative method of cable television programming reception. ... NTL (NASDAQ: NTLI) is a US listed company providing cable services. ...
CITY was purchased outright by CHUM in 1981 with the sale of Moses Znaimer's interest in the station.
The channelCITY broadcast on was changed from channel 79 to channel 57 on July 1, 1983, due to complaints that the station was interfering with mobile radio in the Toronto area, and so that channels 70 to 83 could be reclaimed for use by new AMPS mobile phones in the Americas.
CITY was also the first digital television station in Canada, using the ATSC DTV standard.
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