RTE (Network) 2 Shuts Down for Olympics

Ernest

It appears from published schedules that RTE (Network) 2 has decided to virtually close down for the duration of the Olympic games!. All normal programmes are cancelled for all times all night! Instead the station becomes a total sport station with wall to wall sport, manily Olympics, from late afternoon until late night!.
Even the British channels have not lost all sense of proportion like this.
I, for one, think this is a disgrace and removes all remaining claims that RTE 2 has any public service function.

flogen

while extra sport shows tends to happen during the olympics, perhaps this is the first sign of RTE 2's new angle... more sport. Frankly, I dont care what they do with the channel as long as they keep the 2 or 3 shows I watch on it. Trying to cut off Setanta isnt PSB, mind you, leave that up to the commercial channel.

Besides, what are we missing anyway? re-runs of Upwardly Mobile?

flogen

aidan_walsh

perhaps this is the first sign of RTE 2's new angle... more sport.

Its the same thing that happened four years ago, and four years before that. Its just an Olympics thing, once the games are over it'll all die down again.

ixoy

Yeah I noticed too - sport takes over all. Having said, I'm not too bothered this time given:
i) Olympics are every four years
ii) It's only two weeks
iii) It's the summer so there's little on I watch (programs I'm missing are: CSI: Miami, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order, and I still get 2 Law & Orders this week).

It's annoying but it's not gonna last long.

Cabaal

doodle_sketch wrote:

Its the same thing that happened four years ago, and four years before that. Its just an Olympics thing, once the games are over it'll all die down again.

Yes it'll die dopwn again untill
- The Tennis season
- The snooker season
- The Football Season
- The Rudgy Season
- The Golf Season

They cancel whatever they want to show any of the above and its bloody annoying!

Cork

ixoy wrote:

iii) It's the summer so there's little on I watch (programs I'm missing are: CSI: Miami, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order, and I still get 2 Law & Orders this week).

It's annoying but it's not gonna last long.

I'll miss Law & Order too. I think that programmes on at 9.30 and 10 pm should not be effected by Olympic coverage but RTE seem to be going for blanket olympic coverage.

This is not the first time that particuler ststion has messed good programmes around.

smoke.me.a.kipper

Cabaal wrote:

The Tennis season

i hated wimbledon taking away the den for 2 weeks. hated it.

aidan_walsh

smoke-me-a-kipper wrote:

i hated wimbledon taking away the den for 2 weeks. hated it.

And now your lucky if they show the final...

But still, watching the rain not only out the window, but also on the telly for two weeks... Those were the days...

Guy:Incognito

Cabaal wrote:

Yes it'll die dopwn again untill
- The Tennis season
- The snooker season
- The Football Season
- The Rudgy Season
- The Golf Season

They cancel whatever they want to show any of the above and its bloody annoying!

Great isnt it. The more sport the better imo.

aidan_walsh

Stekelly wrote:

Great isnt it. The more sport the better imo.

Two words. Get Sky.

Mossy Monk

i think its great they let the olympics take over the schedules

Rockerette

meh.
home and away is on a 5 week break so i aint bothered....

yes.
home and away.
quiet you there laughing at me.

Deaners

It can only be a good thing, some of RTe's schedules are utter crap.

damnyanks

If it didnt get the backing that it does they wouldnt show it

Flukey

Network 2 has been the main sports channel for a long time. There is nothing new in this.

Zoton

doodle_sketch wrote:

Two words. Get Sky.

Are sky even covering the olympics?

Stephen

don't think so - probably because they can't get MEGA EXCLUSIVE HYPER LEET coverage, so people aren't going to bother paying them to watch something they can see for free on terrestrial channels anyway.

leeroybrown

Are sky even covering the olympics?

The Olympics is syndicated to hundreds of free terrestrial and non-subscription satelite channels around the world. Sky's philosophy is to corner the market in advance, not to compete in it openly.

Televised sport is very popular in Ireland and with the exception of people who dislike having sport on TV most are reasonably happy with the variety of events that make up the Olympics. RTE2 always tends towards showing a lot of sport and the effect is amplified this week with the Olympics starting, the GAA championships reaching the latter stages, the Premiership restarting. COunt yourselves lucky that RTE didn't have some rights for the US-PGA golf.

Zoton

I think its great myself. Its just a pity i have to be at work, otherwise i'd be at home all day watching the olympics. Its a bit ridiculous that Sky Sports aren't showing any of it. With over 3 channels deidcated to sport, they dont give even one over to cover the largest sporting competition in the world. :rolleyes:

SprostonGreen

Great, they'll probably postpone Six Feet Under until after the Olympics just like they did during €uro 2004.

therecklessone

Cork wrote:

I'll miss Law & Order too. I think that programmes on at 9.30 and 10 pm should not be effected by Olympic coverage but RTE seem to be going for blanket olympic coverage.

This is not the first time that particuler ststion has messed good programmes around.

You've changed your tune, you were whining about RTE's schedule not being public service broadcasting, now you want them showing commercial shows?

Mossy Monk

too much show jumping for my liking. seems to be on every time i turn on network 2

Ludo

SprostonGreen wrote:

Great, they'll probably postpone Six Feet Under until after the Olympics just like they did during €uro 2004.

According to DigiGuide...no SFU for a few weeks.
I think the olympic coverage RTE are providing is great by the way.

Flukey

It is a good thing the Olympics aren't on Sky, or none of us would be able to see it, unless you like being totally ripped off. They would easily win the gold medal for ripping people off! I like to watch sport, so I would never get Sky Sports. Their efforts have served to take a lot of sport off television. The exclusive rights on things means they don't really compete. Their idea of competing is like saying "We'll all have a race, but only the one that pays the most can run in it." So that is not competing.

Elmo

Well it is only every 4 years.

I think the channel should have been rename RTÉ Sport for the duration of the Olympics, change the DOG/BUG to suit. Oh RTÉ's marketing people missed out on that one didn't they.

As for the other shows on RTE/NETWORK/RTE NETWORK/RTE N/N2, we get repeats of Friends god forbid that friends be of the TV for a week or two. :mad: I like friends and all but please the series has finish let it go for awhile.

Six Feet Under is on at a ridculus time anyway I am surprised the Olymics effected it.

ixoy

Elmo wrote:

As for the other shows on RTE/NETWORK/RTE NETWORK/RTE N/N2, we get repeats of Friends god forbid that friends be of the TV for a week or two. :mad: I like friends and all but please the series has finish let it go for awhile.

Umm who mentioned Friends? What are you talking about? We're talking about all programs, Friends just being one (which none had mentioned anyway) being taken off including shows I actually do watch, as per my previous post. Now I can hack it for the duration of the Olympics, given it's got a broader appeal than another-fcuking-soccer tournament but I'm wearing my pleasant psycho smile if RTE do this much more this year....

Big Ears

Zoton wrote:

I think its great myself. Its just a pity i have to be at work, otherwise i'd be at home all day watching the olympics. Its a bit ridiculous that Sky Sports aren't showing any of it. With over 3 channels deidcated to sport, they dont give even one over to cover the largest sporting competition in the world. :rolleyes:

5 channels dedicated to sport : Sky Sports 1+2+3+Extra+News .

are they even allowed to show it , because they are not allowed to show major soccer tournaments .(internationel ones)

Personnally I love the Olyimpics being on so much , but then again im one who just cant understand when people say they don't like any sport............any for feck sake , theres so many . :eek:

FFS! RTE2 has one more episode of Six Feet Under's third season to show and it gets overtaken by the Olympics. Gah!!! Its an episode I have been gearing up to see for ages.

LFCFan

It's great thay there's so much sport on. Beats all the mind numbing boring reality tv crap that seems to have taken over. The Olympics would be a lot better though if we had some medal hopes. Ireland is a disgrace when it comes to sport.

frodi

I love all the sports being on. But why can't they show a better selection instead of the usual predictable ones. Go for the ones that you don't see very often. Gymnastics is not a sport Poncing around does not a sport make. Personally I'd love to see more martial arts. The only bits you see at present is when some Brit gets knocked out of Judo

Guy:Incognito

doodle_sketch wrote:

Two words. Get Sky.

Already have it. but the more the merrier.

Elmo

Umm who mentioned Friends? What are you talking about? We're talking about all programs, Friends just being one (which none had mentioned anyway) being taken off including shows I actually do watch, as per my previous post.

Ummm I mentioned Friends. Sorry.

My point being that RTE/RTE NETWORK/RTE N/N2 generally have Friends and the simpsons on no matter what the hell is on. Nothing gets in the way of those two shows on RTE/RTE NETWORK/RTE N/N2 not even the olympics. And that there are other show which RTE could show during the times that they are usually on.


(no one else has mentioned the simpsons, I am just bring them in to make a point)

Now that I have got that out of the way, may I say how surpised I am that Friends was not shown on RTE because of the Olymic Games this monday. :rolleyes:

I have no problem personally with all the sport on N2 since the schedule is so bad I hadn't noticed that they got rid of most of their programming.

Big Nelly

Elmo wrote:

Ummm I mentioned Friends. Sorry.

My point being that RTE/RTE NETWORK/RTE N/N2 generally have Friends and the simpsons on no matter what the hell is on. Nothing gets in the way of those two shows on RTE/RTE NETWORK/RTE N/N2 not even the olympics. And that there are other show which RTE could show during the times that they are usually on.


(no one else has mentioned the simpsons, I am just bring them in to make a point)

Now that I have got that out of the way, may I say how surpised I am that Friends was not shown on RTE because of the Olymic Games this monday. :rolleyes:

I have no problem personally with all the sport on N2 since the schedule is so bad I hadn't noticed that they got rid of most of their programming.

Wats ur point here? first thing you mention is that they always play Friends or Simpsoms in there usual spots even with Olympic games on then in the next paragraph you mention that Friends wasnt on? :rolleyes: also Simpsons is usually on at 6 and hasnt been on all weekAnyway its alright Sports fans! International footie on tonite to keep us all amused! I am that Withdrawn for footie actually watched da England U21 game last nite ......ahhhh

SprostonGreen

I'm looking forward to the Javelin, Discus etc,

Track and field is the term, I believe.

Elmo

Wats ur point here? first thing you mention is that they always play Friends or Simpsoms in there usual spots even with Olympic games on then in the next paragraph you mention that Friends wasnt on?

Put simple N2's scheduling is crap.

Take example Law And Order (Cork Mentioned that show) is on on a wednesday night, and is taken of the air for Sport (Champions League) while on monday, tuesday and thurday night N2 show Friends. Would it not be better to fit in a show such as Law and Order on a Tuesday night and forget about repeating Friends.

My point N2 scheduling is ****.

Tuesday night could look like this

9 - Law and Order CI
10 - 24
11 - Six Feet Under (They show it later than that at the moment)

Or they could always have Law and Order Start at 8.

Flukey

Well if you don't like sport, Friends or the Simpsons, there are other channels to watch or get away from the TV altogether. As to Sky having 5 sports channels, it is not much use if you have to be ripped off in order to see them. No thanks, I have more sense. I'll stick to the terrestial channels rather than lining Mr. Murdoch's pockets for him.

Bri

All this Olympics is brilliant.

N2 is never really top of my list of channels to watch - now I have it on all the time. I agree it's taken over but that's a positive move. People like Gary O'Toole make the coverage of swimming (which is undeniably really exciting) better than BBC because of all the analysis. Love it - dunno what I'll do when track and field *yawn* take over.

The main criticism I'd have is the sports - the majority of Ireland have BBC by now and there's little to be gained by showing the same events as the BBC. Interactive is what we need!

P.S. Don't BBC show just as much Olympics as RTE? Just because they alternate the channel it's on - I don't recall ever having to wait for it to start on BBC. If they split RTE's coverage people would moan even more.

Elmo

Don't BBC show just as much Olympics as RTE? Just because they alternate the channel it's on - I don't recall ever having to wait for it to start on BBC. If they split RTE's coverage people would moan even more.

Very, True, All RTE have done is put the den on RTE One during the day.

The main criticism I'd have is the sports - the majority of Ireland have BBC by now and there's little to be gained by showing the same events as the BBC

True but not everyone, also I think the do show some different things on RTE to BBC. But Why should RTE show different aspects of the Games? It's not like the BBC have paid rights to show it in Ireland. (I am sure someone is now going to point out that the Beeb have sat Rights)

sceptre

Bri wrote:

P.S. Don't BBC show just as much Olympics as RTE? Just because they alternate the channel it's on - I don't recall ever having to wait for it to start on BBC.

They show more in their own efficient way - those in Sky digital land can press the red button and get a choice of four screens pretty much all day long, regardless of what they're actually showing at the time.

Bri

sceptre wrote:

They show more in their own efficient way - those in Sky digital land can press the red button and get a choice of four screens pretty much all day long, regardless of what they're actually showing at the time.

I'm one of those people who use the nice little red button - I don't get why NTL digital dont' get it but anyway - still doesn't disprove my point. The Olympics is on the normal terrestrial BBC One or Two all the time too - it's not like they show loads of other non-sports stuff and just have the interactive option alone.

Elmo: All I meant by that was RTE don't seem interested in covering a few of the more obscure events, even during off-peak hours. I'm sure ratings dominate but! I know both channels edit their feed and so you can get an event 15 mins later on channel. But variation would be nice!

Mossy Monk

sceptre wrote:

They show more in their own efficient way - those in Sky digital land can press the red button and get a choice of four screens pretty much all day long, regardless of what they're actually showing at the time.

how great is that. turned it on this evening and there was uninterrupted womens beach volleyball all for free too