RTE prog times

JDxtra · 01-07-2009 6:20pm

RTE are just bad time keepers! They often chop many of the adverts around the 8.30pm weekday show so they can hit the news at 9pm. Must cost a small fortune in lost revenue. Not updating the EPG data live due to a lack of resources is a poor excuse.

JDxtra · 01-07-2009 6:23pm

...and why at the end of the 9pm news bulletin do they say "the next news is on RTE 2 at 11.07 this evening". No need to be so specific, we know you could miss that by +/- 10 mins. :-)

thebman · 01-07-2009 9:10pm

Meh, they are pretty good most of the time to be fair.

I rarely watch RTE anymore but I've rarely noticed them being late, certianly it is rare that they would be over 5 minutes late.

They used to be horrible for it when I was in secondary school because I remember thinking how crap they were but they have gotten much better in recent years.

MOH · 07-07-2009 1:47pm

whirlwind wrote: »

As i said back on the first page Eastenders is a 28 min bbc programme that rte stick a 3 min add into the middle of. therefore to offset the the fact that it becomes essentially a 35 min programme they start it at 19.28 or 19.58 always. It there just changed the schedule to reflect they need 35 mins to show it then the problem would be solved.

That actually makes sense, but means RTE consistently publish a program schedule that they know to be wrong, which is unacceptable.

My advice, if you are recording eastenders on rte give it 4 mins early and a few after too.

I actually had Sky+ set to allow 5 minutes before every recording, to to compensate for RTE's muppetry but that was wasting disk space on everything except RTE programmes (and even at that didn't always catch them anyway) , so changed it back to a minute which generally works fine.

Dodge wrote: »

Or record it on BBC without ads...

I usually do, but since RTE is first listed in the EPG with BBC 2 pages down I get lazy sometimes

Spiritoftheseventies · 07-07-2009 1:50pm

whirlwind wrote: »

As i said back on the first page Eastenders is a 28 min bbc programme that rte stick a 3 min add into the middle of. therefore to offset the the fact that it becomes essentially a 35 min programme they start it at 19.28 or 19.58 always. It there just changed the schedule to reflect they need 35 mins to show it then the problem would be solved.

My advice, if you are recording eastenders on rte give it 4 mins early and a few after too.

thats all very well but its when you record a full series that you run into problems. my digital service gives me the option by pressing one button. off course when i did record series i found that two episodes did not record fully. wrote to them about it once and they blamed it on the schedules that channel in question gave them.

copacetic · 07-07-2009 2:12pm

BBC messed up top gear on Sunday. I think they thought the tennis was going to run late so they adjusted epg for Top Gear to start at 8.15. Then they changed there minds and started it at 8 instead. Either way I missed the first 15 minutes..

Our man in Havana · 07-07-2009 2:14pm

Ah so it was not just me then. :mad: BBC fail.

doh.ie · 08-07-2009 12:35am

JDxtra wrote: »

...and why at the end of the 9pm news bulletin do they say "the next news is on RTE 2 at 11.07 this evening". No need to be so specific, we know you could miss that by +/- 10 mins. :-)

Have to say, this bugs the crap out of me as well. Anne Doyle's always doing her "The late news is on RTE TWO at 23 minutes past eleven..." And I always think, "For God's sake! 11.20 or 11.25 - frickin' round it up and no one will notice or miss out!"

You can just imagine the schedulers handing over a sheet daily with the time circled and the RTE Newspeople thinking, "Oh, we must put it in exactly" with the news editor checking the audiocue and also agreeing that this is a perfectly normal way to give out a time, and then Anne herself never wondering why it's so specific.

Meanwhile, over on RTE Radio 1, I've yet to hear the news at 9am or 10am ever quite hit the top of the hour.

Basically, annoying.

Also, must remember to get a life.

NormanNicetouch · 08-07-2009 11:13am

JDxtra wrote: »

...and why at the end of the 9pm news bulletin do they say "the next news is on RTE 2 at 11.07 this evening". No need to be so specific, we know you could miss that by +/- 10 mins. :-)

Anne Doyle always says "and finally a reminder that the news on RTE2 will be at 14 minutes past 11" (or whatever time). Like, a shagging reminder? As if we all knew it would be at 14 minutes past 11 instead of 11.10 as advertised everywhere, but there's a chance we might just forget? Plus I'm really not that sad (OK I am) , but I'd guess that if I actually checked what time News on Two started every night, it would be any time except the one Anne actually says.

MOH · 10-07-2009 1:55pm

NormanNicetouch wrote: »

Anne Doyle always says "and finally a reminder that the news on RTE2 will be at 14 minutes past 11" (or whatever time). Like, a shagging reminder? As if we all knew it would be at 14 minutes past 11 instead of 11.10 as advertised everywhere, but there's a chance we might just forget? Plus I'm really not that sad (OK I am) , but I'd guess that if I actually checked what time News on Two started every night, it would be any time except the one Anne actually says.

Maybe she should just say "a reminder taht the new on RTE will not be at 14 minutes past 11" - that's far more likely to be accurate.

NormanNicetouch · 10-07-2009 2:09pm

Last night Anne Doyle had the nerve to say "and a reminder that the news on two will be at one minute to 11". It was advertised for 11.00. And nobody could be arsed to schedule another trailer so it actually started on time as they would on any other station in the world? It's like they're deliberately trying to wind you up sometimes.

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