List of channels on Saorsat (Ireland)

Saorsat is the free-to-air satellite service for the Ireland ('Saor' meaning free in Irish Gaelic). It is run by 2RN (formerly called RTÉNL) a subsidiary of RTÉ and is designed to compliment the digital terrestrial television (DTT) service, Saorview. This is to infill the areas that cannot get good DTT reception due to terrain issues and as such it mirrors the Irish DTT PSB multiplex. There is the possibility of other broadcasters joining the service in the future but as the intended audience is small, this may not be viable for commercial channels such as TV3.

Saorsat is available on the Eutelsat KA-SAT 9A, which is a narrow-band satellite with a spot beam over Ireland. The parameters for the transponder are: frequency 20.185GHz, DVB-S2 QPSK, symbol rate 25000, polarisation Left circular (not V or H), FEC 1/2. Because of frequency re-use on adjacent spot beams for other countries, it is difficult to receive Saorsat service outside of the Irish footprint. The is no EPG system associated with Saorsat.