Thread:The Testcardiologist/@comment-3004323-20180722214814/@comment-31524231-20181105204352

A weird idea I had: Neighbours, Home and Away and Shortland Street have always aired in Ireleise on RTÉ's channels, which meant that the GRT (until 2008), ITV (UTV and Juvernian) and (recently) Channel 5 are legally forbidden to air the series in the region. Though here one of RTÉ's channels adopted the 5:35pm repeat.

The cause for this is because RTÉ IRL bought Home and Away before ITV did, I had this idea for months now. Northesian still airs Shortland Street because it has links to TVNE. SBS can still air Shortland Street too, thus making it unavailable in Newland and Lanzes.