Weather reports RTE

Echelle

Has anyone noticed that the RTE male weather Announcers (well , a lot of them)on radio and TV have added an eight day to the week....SAHURDAY.

fred funk }{

There the same batch of people who have aquired the "RTE" accent, Port-laiosAAAAGHHHHH instead of Portlaoise, and veh...hickle insteadd of vehicle if you know what i mean

superdudeman007

They're all professional planks anyway.

"Good Evening. . . *click*. . . Today saw mild weather around Ballinabackarseofnowhere. . . *click*. . . It will remain moderate. . . *click*. . . By the way RTE is running a weather photo competition... <waffle> etc etc

^ ^ BTW it takes them about 20 minutes to say that.

superdudeman007

fred funk }{ wrote:

There the same batch of people who have aquired the "RTE" accent, Port-laiosAAAAGHHHHH instead of Portlaoise, and veh...hickle insteadd of vehicle if you know what i mean

And RTE has to be pronounced "AAArgh Tee Eeh", not "Orr Tee Eeh" by announcers.

superdudeman007

And issue is pronounced iss - syue, not ish - u.

And sexual is pronounced sex - sual, not sek - shu - al.

DMC

You do like talking to yerself...

superdudeman007 wrote:

They're all professional planks anyway.

The people who presents the RTÉ's weather* are trained meteorologist first, and broadcasters second.

G'wan and have a go, if you think you can do any better?



*evening time on TV, they have trained presenters in daytime.

superdudeman007

Wish they'd stop telling us about the <insert big technical term her> that's pushing a load of rain over Czechoslovakia and the weather photo exhibition and just tell us the weather.

superdudeman007

DMC wrote:

G'wan and have a go, if you think you can do any better?

Given the opputunity, I will :rolleyes:

Wertz

superdudeman007 wrote:

Wish they'd stop telling us about the <insert big technical term her> that's pushing a load of rain over Czechoslovakia and the weather photo exhibition and just tell us the weather.

They're trying to tell you the weather :rolleyes:

Weather isn't just something that happens outside your bedroom window or up on the sugarloaf....what happens every where else effects what happens here.

Personally I find weather fascinating and like to hear technical terms being used...far too many reports/forecasts on other stations are dumbed WAY down to the point of "it's raining or it's sunny" TV3 and that arsehole Martin King being a prime example, ITV's weather coming a close second and even the BBC are getting crap of late (although their forecasts are always bang on).

As DMC mentioned all of RTÉ's weather folk are qualified meteorologists; a degree course in university which I believe takes 4 yrs .
People like Cusack and that other guy that winks a lot might not be as photgenic or Dort-accented as you'd like, but they know WTF they're talking about and do a fine job....also RTÉ's farming forecast of a sunday is a great resource for anyone who relies on weather forecast for their work (like me)

superdudeman007

Nuala Carey and Karina Buckley aren't Meteorologist and they still leave a gaping gap between "Good Evening" and "Well it was a BLUSTERY day in place X"

Wertz

Ah you're talking about the european weather?

Yeah fook that....piss off back to AA roadwatch or wherever they dug them up.
Blustery eh? Hardly a technical term now is it...:D

superdudeman007

Well I haven't used it in a while...

But really - look at the BBC where all of the weather presenters are meteorologists - not a plank in sight. They could drop the "HELLO THERE!!!" bit but you can't have everything...