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Should RTE Gold replace RnaG on FM ?

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    #92
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Infoanon wrote: »
    Nothing to do with Ray Burke - your thinking of when RTE 2FM was threatened with becoming an educational channel - a move that would benefit Century 100 - now that is another story!

    According to Reeling in the Years it was the cut in advertising mins and the cap on advert revenue. Was it only 2fm on strike?


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    #93
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 5,992 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    By the way, you do know that Century Radio ceased broadcasting in November 1991 and the 2FM strike was in 1992. I remember thinking at the time that if the strike happened when Century was still there it might have won a new audience. If memory serves me right, 98FM was tuned into a bit more for the news at the time!

    Anyway, this seems to have gone a million miles away from the original topic. I would reiterate a point I made before. Could the airwaves not be shared between RTE Gold and RnaG, in order to facilitate both on FM?
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    #94
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    Anyway, this seems to have gone a million miles away from the original topic. I would reiterate a point I made before. Could the airwaves not be shared between RTE Gold and RnaG, in order to facilitate both on FM?

    RTÉ Gold could start at 7pm and run to 7am with bulletins as geailge. If advertising was to go on the channel the indos would be in uproar.

    The move would also have to go to the Minister for approval. RTÉjr's move from RTÉ2 took more than a year for a decision not to be made by pat rabbiitte and for RTÉ to withdraw the plans from Alex White.

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    #95
    SPDUB
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    Elmo wrote: »
    According to Reeling in the Years it was the cut in advertising mins and the cap on advert revenue. Was it only 2fm on strike?

    That may have caused the problems for RTE regarding shortage of cash but IIRC the immediate cause was RTE trying to reduce manning levels on camera crews


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    #96
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,984 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Elmo wrote: »
    If advertising was to go on the channel the indos would be in uproar.

    feck them. let these low rent rags spread their rabel. as long as RTE doesn't give in and ignore them thats all that matters.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #97
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    end of the road wrote: »
    feck them. let these low rent rags spread their rabel. as long as RTE doesn't give in and ignore them thats all that matters.

    Grand now all RTÉ need to do is put in a proposal for the change. Followed by Ministerial Approval.


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    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,968 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Elmo wrote: »
    According to Reeling in the Years it was the cut in advertising mins and the cap on advert revenue. Was it only 2fm on strike?

    Indirectly that was the cause of the strike as it caused a cash flow issue in Montrose. In the main it was proposals to cut down on staff both by way of modernising behind the scenes and as a consequence of the feared and proposed 20% quota for independent programming that led to the strike. In the long run the 20% was the possibly the best thing to have happened RTE as it led to an influx of new talented broadcasters who made fresh, innovative and excellent programmes.


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    #99
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    Indirectly that was the cause of the strike as it caused a cash flow issue in Montrose. In the main it was proposals to cut down on staff both by way of modernising behind the scenes and as a consequence of the feared and proposed 20% quota for independent programming that led to the strike. In the long run the 20% was the possibly the best thing to have happened RTE as it led to an influx of new talented broadcasters who made fresh, innovative and excellent programmes.

    Large majority of whom where ex RTÉ staffers.


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