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RTÉ News !!Rant Alert!!

Telefís · 2005-03-06 05:04:37

Apologies for the length of this rant – have to admit to being a bit scared at it myself - it kinda got out of control the more enraged I got :) Here’s a list of the host of faults I find with RTÉ Television News – having observed and been generally obsessed with it over many years. Some are bigger than others, and you'll…

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#32 09-03-2005 11:49am
Telefís

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Forgot to mention perhaps the funniest technical feck-up RTÉ News have made.
It happened only fairly recently, about 6 months ago when News Two was just finishing.

We got the wide of the studio and the sig tune was playing away. The camera taking the wide shot slowly zoomed out and tilted up as standard, but it kept going! Gradually we saw more and more set, and more, and more, then some droopy wires from the ceiling came into view, then the bottom of a lamp or two, then it overshot the set and some scrappy black curtain culd be seen, then the concrete/clad walls of the studio, now all lighting was in view, then we saw the flourecent tubes of the standard lighting and finally the ceiling itself complete with clumps of lamps, cables and the lighting grid It was an absolute joke, it completely shattered the whole illusion of television; the viewers must be scarred for life
So so funny cause it lasted for ages and Presentation didn't even bother to cut early...:D
The camera control board must have jammed or the op fell asleep, again...

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