Unconfirmed - Sky News Ireland service to be withdrawn

darkman2 · 31-10-2006 1:24pm #1

Hi, I am not a fan of this service but at least it was some sort of competition to the dross from RTE news. Employees are being briefed now on their futures. (Heard ths on 98fm)

What angers me here is the perception that this in some way justifies the ameteur ways of RTE news and we all know what I mean. The stupid mistakes and silly errors look like something we will have to get used to as there is no competition other then the tame TV3 news.

lodgepole · 31-10-2006 1:29pm

Sky News Ireland is awful. I have no problem losing 60 minutes of completely unnecessary Irish news when I can get all the news I need on RTE, TV3 and BBC. I'll put up with a few technical gaffs for that.

That said, some people I worked with jumped ship to take jobs in Sky News Ireland in the last six months, and I feel bad for them. Television jobs are hard to come by.

Chardee MacDennis · 31-10-2006 1:39pm

well at least i dont have to put up with having the momentary joy of seeing an hour of futurama on skyone at 6 taken away from me when i change over seeing sky news ireland instead...

Mossy Monk · 31-10-2006 3:42pm

so the people of Ireland arent interested in the sensationalist Murdoch bull**** that is Sky News

not surprising

parasite · 31-10-2006 3:50pm

apparently their viewing figures were 8,000 and 18,000 for their two bulletins !:eek:

Kojak · 31-10-2006 4:15pm

Call_me_al wrote:

well at least i dont have to put up with having the momentary joy of seeing an hour of futurama on skyone at 6 taken away from me when i change over seeing sky news ireland instead...

Agreed, I hate when that happens. If I wanted to watch Sky News I would watch Sky News. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

darkman2 · 31-10-2006 5:14pm

Im looking at this from the perspective of RTE. Like I said I didnt like SNI but at least it was some sort of competition. We need competition to force RTE to a higher standard where stupidity is actually punished and standards improve. Therefore I dont like any competition to RTE going down the drain no matter how drab it is.

Milktrolley · 31-10-2006 5:25pm

Seems to be true:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1031/sky.html
Plus several other sources.

And on the same day that TG4 celebrates ten years... Didn't Gráinne do well to jump ship! Did she know something that we didn't?

Mossy Monk · 31-10-2006 7:56pm

darkman2 wrote:

Im looking at this from the perspective of RTE. Like I said I didnt like SNI but at least it was some sort of competition. We need competition to force RTE to a higher standard where stupidity is actually punished and standards improve. Therefore I dont like any competition to RTE going down the drain no matter how drab it is.

RTÉ still have TV3 News to keep them on their toes

byte · 31-10-2006 8:10pm

Mossy Monk wrote:

RTÉ still have TV3 News to keep them on their toes

Heh. I haven't watched TV3 News in a long while. Is it just me or has TV3News got worse over the years? The newer graphics particulary I dislike. I'll not even go into discussing their presenters!

ZygOte · 31-10-2006 8:19pm

yay! thank god at long last, so tired of thinking im going to watch futurama only to see some idiot tellimg me about useless crap happening in ireland. buh bye.

i do however feel bad that people have to loose their jobs tho.

po0k · 31-10-2006 8:32pm

Samantha Libreri++

Nick_oliveri · 31-10-2006 8:59pm

Good, at least now they wont be able to take over my sky one with SNI!! Wtf was that about? Die already you POS channel/service!

Unconfirmed - Sky News Ireland service to be withdrawn

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