RTÉ News

Yes September is going to be an exciting month for presentation fans.
RTÉ One as a station has not had a full scale rebrand for six years now, with Sept 2003 only heralding a relatively low key set of new idents (the introductory part before programmes) which were not overly dissimilar to the Sept 2000 set. So this September is going to be very interesting.
A lot of water has passed under the bridge in Ireland over the course of this time, so it'll be fascinating to see how RTÉ reflects modern Ireland in 2006, but moreover how it views itself and the image it wishes to convey to the public.

So we'll have a brand new station identity, a brand new News look which is particularly exciting as all news relaunches are , including all summaries and short bulletins too.

Prime Time will probably be given the same treatment. At present it barely even has a 'look' - rather they've a vague scheme of redness that alters from programme to programme, including the ghastly 'set' and graphics, both of which change as they please to suit programme requirements. This has to stop. They've no distinctive identity at all save the cheap and crass intro titles.

Also the Late Late may get a new look - another hideous set that's been around for three years now. Pat probably only has three years left in him, so now's the time to change. In general in the industry I think the current Late Late set is regarded as one of the great travesties of modern Irish broadcasting, and should be dealt with accordingly this September. Whether it will is another matter....

And also The Week in Politics will get a new look too - probably in line with whatever News image is conjured up.

Maybe even The View will be tarted up, given its muted set and graphics have been around a good while now.

All in all, a very exciting time

Do you think the revamp will include a few presenter changes too? Anne Doyle maybe?

i saw that **** up. whoever was running the autocue deserves a beating

Most certainly RTÉ News's extent of coverage or journalistic integrity are not in question here (aside from a rather left-leaning, liberal editorial line) - rather it is their often appalling production values as originally noted by Ray777.

That's not to say there aren't excellent people there too, very well aware of the impact of decent presentation - Seán Wheelan, Europe Editor is fantastic and complies excellent reports with an equally impressive camera operator/editor.
Emma O'Kelly, Education Corr is equally professional and delivers some great stuff, as is the Nothern office with Tommie Gorman, Brendan Wright and Declan McBennett - they too generally make informative, reflective and insightful reports making use of best practice news gathering and presentation techniques.
Alas HQ in Montrose is nothing short of a shambles.

Maybe and maybe...

Watching Nine tonight, yet another missed cue at the start :rolleyes:

Oh go on then, here's some links. I said I wouldn't, but really and truly this matter is deserving of wider public attention. It is disgraceful the utter muck RTÉ is allowed to churn out to us on a nightly basis. All of the links below are of studio operation disasters, all mostly fixable, but really it is in matters of reporting and broader presentation issues that RTÉ's problems really lie, matters that are difficult to encapsulate with incidents like these.
It is also important to point out that just about all of these events are production-based, and nothing to do with the poor old presenters (except Aengus of course).

So not only do we have Aengus MacIncompetent himself as posted above from the other day, but also this hilarious incident from a while ago. This was posted on Boards before - scroll to 0.40:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0119/1news/1news56.smil


Poor Bryan with this from the other day. Autocue/running order yet again. Scroll to 43.00:

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2135470.smil



Poor Una with a pathetic VT feck-up last weekend. Scroll to 5.06:

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2136659.smil



Not a funny clip, but the extraordinarily appalling audio of the 1916 coverage - created by none other than RTÉ's own generators!

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2132259.smil


Anne Doyle forced to read headlines to camera the other week because the titles and headlines VT was down:

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2133860.smil


Six One three weeks ago and what a disaster!!! Note the appalling direction and hear the director flapping about the place in Bryan's earpiece. Bryan also forced to read the headlines to camera as the headline package was down again. Scroll to 1.04:

[url]rtsp://streaming2.rte.ie/2006/0413/6news-119377-200.rm[/url]


Poor Eileen - it could happen to the best of us, but it's funny anyway . Scroll to 21.05:

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2120844.smil


Anne Doyle telling an anecdote about the Pope to Justin Treacy the sports reader during a report beacuse her mic was accidentally turned back on. Scroll to 14.53:

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2090673.smil


Posted this hilarous one of Sharon Ní Bheoláin before. Again it can happen to anyone, and isn't really fair to post it, but I think she's a poor newsreader so tough! . Scroll to 28.35:

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2082758.smil


An hilarous Six One below in which everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Presentation (the main station control section) was having big problems on RTÉ One during Six One, and so is was disaster after disaster. Here's that appalling weathercaster Gerry Murphy being cut up during Six One while rehearsing for his bulletin . Scroll to 41.55:

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2076536.smil

And scroll on to 50.10 for an RTÉ One screen shot appearing during the bulletin. This programme also suffered sporadic blackouts about three times.


Watch Bryan closely, then Sharon's trying not to laugh. Scroll to 1.00 minute in:

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2108044.smil


Not to mention countless others. Welcome to the wonderful world of RTÉ News.

Telefís you crack me up! These are all genuine classics! More than enough for a 'Best of' DVD at least once a year. Probably even monthly.

From yesterday and this evening come these mess ups:

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2165560.smil (16 August)
It's not a great one by any means, but scroll to 27:20*, and see Sharon get conflustered. Keep watching through the credits - it's hard to tell with the quality of this clip, but I swore yesterday evening I saw her rip out her earpiece. Judge for yourself. She certainly seems to be holding something in her hand after she reaches into her hair.

*The exact position may change if the ad breaks are edited out, which I assume RTÉ will do in time. It's right before the credits, in any case.


http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2165815.smil (17 August)
Scroll to 7:12, where we see 'Eurovision News' menus once again - amazingly it seems to go unnoticed!

munkeehaven wrote:

If Derek Mooney likes him,He can't be that bad

boards.ie already has one crowd suing for libel, are ya looking for a second?

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2069147.smil
From August 23rd last year. This was the second night of The Rose of Tralee, so presumably this bulletin would have commanded higher viewing figures. The autocue, seemingly, doesn't match the running order. Scroll to 10:41