length of ad breaks on rte1 - tonight

swoofer

Anyone else noticed that the length of the ad breaks on rte1 tonight was obscene about 6 mins!!! I thought there was a law against this.

Talk about ruining a good programme, RTE get a life.

gb--

andrew3

Its always been excessive they never seem to want to come back!

-- although I hate this break for the news bit there doin now

- although it's fe@kin typical of RTE to adopt what ITV dropped

its a pain in the ass when you try and record a movie on a 2 hour dvd because if you forget you miss the end of the movie - and if you dont it means you have to schedule the recording twice to skip the news!
and if you sky+ it, it eats a heap of space from your hard-drive! 13% for 1hr 20min movie!!!!!

I think sky plus is a tool tv cant do with out! - I never mean to plug things from sky! just as the ad says you schedule your own tv channel!

did anyone flick just after midnight on the new years - both stations broke to commercial less than 5 minutes after! -- all the other british stations had music - even the nbc in the states didnt do that! i begrudge payin that licensce fee - cant even stand the presenters! were do they dig them up (it has to be damp)

did u see the moring show on tv3 (makes me wanna turn over in bed, although im usually gone before it even starts!) dryer than the a day old slice of toast! - what personnel ads did their HR advertise ( dry, nothing to say presenter required for sub-mediocure news cast?)

Gordon

It's ten minutes here in Greece for the high viewing times on popular channels.

Mossy Monk

IIRC Turkish TV had ads for up to 20 minutes at a time

i agree about the news in the middle of a film. i think RTÉ should be banned from doing it seeing as viewers pay a license fee (most do anyway)

BrianD

They shouldn't be banned from doing it as RTE has always been dual-funded since the commencement of TV broadcasting. It was accepted then that a licence fee alone would not fund the provision of television service. Plus as a monopoly, advertisers neede to have access to the TV medium like elsewhere in the world.

Anyhow, do they still show ad's on Christmas Day? I recall that at least the movies were uninterrupted in the past. They are probably trying to make up for 'lost slots' over the xmas period to keep the ad agencies happy.

DMC

RTÉ still never have ads on Christmas Day.

watty

Thw worst trend started by Sky and now copied by ITV is the US idea of ad break 1 or 2 minutes before end of program. It really spoils Detective dramas or series with cliffhangers etc. It spoils everything. No break should be allowed near start or end of a program.

swoofer

a day later and with the replies I feel better. Its a shame that we have so many ***heads in charge of RTE, the whole object appears to be " never give the viewer what they want and they are so stupid they will watch anyway"

Its my view its all a ploy to make us buy the DVD.

One good thing came out of it. The wife has vowed never to watch anything live that has ads in it, whoppee I am a happy chappy. Thank you rte. I can record everything now and whizz through the ads.

HNY all

gb--

Charlie

watty wrote:

Thw worst trend started by Sky and now copied by ITV is the US idea of ad break 1 or 2 minutes before end of program. It really spoils Detective dramas or series with cliffhangers etc. It spoils everything. No break should be allowed near start or end of a program.

Have you ever tried watching abc1 (man, Kelly Ripa is hot!!!:rolleyes: ). They have an ad after the main part of the program is over and then come back to show for the little sketch before the credits roll. They then show the first 2 minutes of a program, and then another ad. It wreaks havoc with me when i'm fast forwarding at X30 on sky+, you never now when an ad is going to pop up:mad:

Telefís

DMC wrote:

RTÉ still never have ads on Christmas Day.

Really?!? Well in all the years........I never knew this, has it always been like that?! Suffice to say the television is rarely on on Christmas Day in our house
What a fascinating snippit of information!


There are indeed contraints on the amount of advertising RTÉ can show per hour, however this can be shifted about the place so that on exceptional occasions it is clumped together in very long breaks, maybe as the result of a backlog, or a programme that went before where it wasn't appropriate to interrupt. This is very rare though, and last night was an exceptional occurance - it tends to happen in holiday periods/bank holidays etc.

We're very lucky here - RTÉ have comparitively few ad breaks, and their durations are usually short too. I think commerical broadcasters are allowed even more minutes per hour than RTÉ, which is fair enough.

Indeed overall, if there's one thing RTÉ have always done well, I think it is their commerical operations. By and large they are considerate to the viewer, short in duration, factor in exceptional elements such as sensitive programming, and they are consistant in what they do. And compared even to ITV who have a public service remit, RTÉ are far superior in their lack of advertising. A good comparision is the hour-long programme - there's three ad breaks in the UK during such a production, with only two on RTÉ (though films can differ alright). And a great many of RTÉ's half-hour programmes feature no ad break at all.

Agreed about interrupting films for news though - a nasty nasty practice.

Round Cable

Telef&#237 wrote: »

Really?!? Well in all the years........I never knew this, has it always been like that?! Suffice to say the television is rarely on on Christmas Day in our house
What a fascinating snippit of information!

RTÉ have never shown a paid ad on Christmas Day. Pity about the other 364 though.

JohnC.

watty wrote:

Thw worst trend started by Sky and now copied by ITV is the US idea of ad break 1 or 2 minutes before end of program.

I can't say I've ever noticed that on Sky, and I watch several shows on Sky One regularly. In an hour long slot, they usually have the final ad break about 10 minutes to the hour.

JohnC.

BrianD wrote:

They shouldn't be banned from doing it as RTE has always been dual-funded since the commencement of TV broadcasting. It was accepted then that a licence fee alone would not fund the provision of television service. Plus as a monopoly, advertisers neede to have access to the TV medium like elsewhere in the world.

It wasn't a call for a ban on ads. It was call for a ban on having the news in the middle of a movie.

Our man in Havana

DMC wrote:

RTÉ still never have ads on Christmas Day.

Nor news or weather, even aertel goes awol.

NorthDown

Yep can confirm the "Pirates of the Caribbean" had no ad breaks - I recorded it on my hard drive / dvd recorder. Wonderful bit of technology - plays things at 1.5 times their normal speed with sound - can fly through ads. The Bill (ITV - 1 hour) can be easily watched in 35 minutes!

DMC

Bond-007 wrote:

Nor news or weather, even aertel goes awol.

Half right. Aertel and www.rte.ie/news/ might go for the day, but there are two TV news bulletins and hourly bulletins continue on radio.

Capt'n Midnight

Bond-007 wrote:

Nor news or weather, even aertel goes awol.

Someone from the DEN probably runs around and pops in the next prerecorded show.

BrianD

Kahless wrote:

It wasn't a call for a ban on ads. It was call for a ban on having the news in the middle of a movie.

News? This was not mentioned in the original posting!!!

JohnC.

BrianD wrote:

News? This was not mentioned in the original posting!!!

There was no mention of banning ads either. The only thing where a banning was mentioned was for news in the middle of a movie, so when you mentioned "They shouldn't be banned from doing it..." I had to assume you were referring to the only thing which a banning was called for.

Capt'n Midnight

Maybe they could do a picture in picture thing, 1/9th of the screen with adds 24/7. Yes it would be annoying but you'd get used to it.

And there would be no more ad breaks !!


Italian TV, during football matches if the ball goes out of play oftentimes they'll stick in 3 second AD :rolleyes:

JohnC.

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Maybe they could do a picture in picture thing, 1/9th of the screen with adds 24/7. Yes it would be annoying but you'd get used to it

Sssshhhhhh! Don't even whisper that in case someone hears it!

Anyway, there is no way I'd watch a channel which cuts off a corner of the picture like that. Widescreen being cropped to 4:3 is bad enough, but that would be too much.

watty

Kahless wrote:

Sssshhhhhh! Don't even whisper that in case someone hears it!

! Absolutely!

Kahless wrote:

Widescreen being cropped to 4:3 is bad enough, but that would be too much.

Of course 4:3 cropped to Widescreen is equally bad.

In fact changing OAR (Original Aspect Ratio) is bad. We need to get used to black bars.

bungeecork

Ad breaks in Australia are OK-ish generally, although they do have a style all of their own. However for movies, all the channels play the same game. No breaks in the first 45 minutes to an hour, then once you're hooked - breaks every 4 minutes for 5 minutes. I exaggerate only slightly, I promise you.