rte off the air in the middle of a film

JoeB-

Has anyone else lost coverage of RTE right in the middle of Terminator 3?

I have... they are absolute muppets... I am going mad! :mad: :mad: :mad: I seem to remember they even announced they may be going off the air but who'd expect them to go off during a film!!!

This country is a joke... somehow I don't think the BBC would try this stunt...

Muppets!

Exit

Both RTE channels and TV3 seem to be off right now.

JoeB-

thanks for that Exit...
I can't believe it... the Terminatrix had just kicked Arnie's head off and then it goes to snow... has been off for the last 15 minutes... during a movie premiere.

I'm a little calmer now but my head is still wrecked...

Dub13

RTE had a warning about this tonight after the news.

lodgepole

Sometimes these things absolutely can't be helped. I work in transmission and it's happened to us occasionally. How long was the problem and what was on air instead? And what platform and region was it on?

JoeB-

The problem lasted for 50 minutes... RTE knew something was up because they had a warning before it happened after the news as per a previous post. Nothing was on air instead except snow... the platform was tv and the area was Dublin.

It's a joke, the film was over before RTE came back on... I am still very upset and am going to complain.. THIS HAPPENED DURING A MOVIE PREMIERE!!!

RTE should have ceased all tranmissions if this was a possibility... imagine buying a book where pages MAY OR MAY NOT be ripped out...

Cheers

lodgepole

By platform I mean was it NTL Analogue, Sky Digital etc.... If you saw snow I presume it was either analogue cable or aerial. I watched the beginning of the film on Sky Digital but turned it off before the scene mentioned.

Like I said, sometimes it simply can't be helped. I presume the issue was outside of the transmission department since nothing was going to air (if their server failed or was being restarted for example they would have played from tape). I assume there will be a press release.

Anybody have a recording of the warning they gave? I have a recording here of the Primetime debate but it doesn't have the preceding commerical break.

By ceasing all transmissions do you mean begin the film from the point at which it was taken off the air? Changing the time of transmission for the film may not have been an option, I don't know what kind of rights RTE paid for from the distributor.

JoeB-

Lodgepole wrote:

By ceasing all transmissions do you mean begin the film from the point at which it was taken off the air?

No, I mean not bothering to transmit anything at all during the period of potential outages.. or at least transmit something like music videos... where people haven't invested time in watching the start of a movie premiere... and it then goes off... transmitting a movie premiere during a period where outages are likely is silly in my opinion.

Maybe only certain areas of the country went off, if so it wouldn't be possible to stop the film during the outage and then continue after the outage... if it was nationwide then it would be better to restart the film after the outage so people get to see the end... I left my TV showing snow for 50 mins in case this happened... it didn't, RTE came back and the film was gone... :mad:

MagnumForce

It kept going on Sky Digital, all four terrestrial channels went off in my room so I went out to watch the end of Terminator 3 in the sitting room. I dont under stand why TV3 and TG4 went off too, surely they transmit completly independantly of eachother

lodgepole

The fact that nothing was transmitted in its place (testcard, apology, filler) and TV3 and TG4 also being off-air suggests that the issue wasn't in any of those stations, thus complaining to RTE would be pointless. The problem was more likely in NTL, or some other link in the chain before it got to your home. Their feed to Sky wasn't broken, so presumably the picture leaving RTE was perfect.

They may not have gotten the information in enough time to adjust their schedule so that the break took place during a less important piece of programming..

Mossy Monk

JoeBallantine wrote:

This country is a joke... somehow I don't think the BBC would try this stunt...

Oh this has happened to the BBC. It has probably happened to every channel on this planet at some stage. I think the problem here is some people don't have a clue what they are talking about. Do you really think RTÉ turned off their transmissions on purpose to annoy you. Other channels out of RTÉ's control went off too.

Femelade

i had been watching the film at my boyfriends house and i went home at 12, when got home (10 mins away) i went to bed and turned on the tv..but nothing..on all channels. i thought there was something wrong with my telly...

event

serves ye right for watching it

copacetic

Mossy Monk wrote:

Oh this has happened to the BBC. It has probably happened to every channel on this planet at some stage. I think the problem here is some people don't have a clue what they are talking about. Do you really think RTÉ turned off their transmissions on purpose to annoy you. Other channels out of RTÉ's control went off too.

in fairness all the terrestrial channels are broadcast by RTÉ NL, so it is possible that they were doing some work which would knock off all of them at least on analog.

Was it only analog that went or NTL too?

tampopo

I was out and missed any warning (if any) on the news.
Our main telly is broken and was watching on a portable on the rabbit ears terrestrial signal. Was mighty pee'd off when it went off.

Last year, when the tour de france (and wimbledon) were on TG4, the signal was incredibly snowy and getting a lot of bleed-in from another channel. I called TG4 and asked what's the story? They blamed RTE's broadcast, even though they are supposed to be separate entities. I called RTE and they blamed ntl's feed. What buck passing!

Turned out they were kinda right. It seems there was a digital radio signal begun, close to the existing signal, which was interfering. NTL came and renewed the wire from the front to the back of the house, where the feed to the telly enters the house and put a new box in too.

So in fairness they fixed that problem. I was ragin' that it looks like it was ntl's fault last night...

Mossy Monk

copacetic wrote:

in fairness all the terrestrial channels are broadcast by RTÉ NL

RTÉ NL although under the same umbrella is seperate to the television channels.

copacetic

Mossy Monk wrote:

RTÉ NL although under the same umbrella is seperate to the television channels.

so? apologies if I mis read your post but you seemed to be saying that TG4 and TV3 had the same issue so it was nothing to do with RTÉ?

If all terrestrials went off analog it was RTÉ NL who were doing work. It's nothing to do with TG4 or TV3 (or RTÉ1 or 2 for that matter).. They wouldn't have done it without reason, but am surprised they didn't do it at 4am or something rather than in the middle of programming...

lodgepole

copacetic wrote:

so? apologies if I mis read your post but you seemed to be saying that TG4 and TV3 had the same issue so it was nothing to do with RTÉ?

If all terrestrials went off analog it was RTÉ NL who were doing work. It's nothing to do with TG4 or TV3 (or RTÉ1 or 2 for that matter).. They wouldn't have done it without reason, but am surprised they didn't do it at 4am or something rather than in the middle of programming...

Was doing the work they needed to do viable at 4am? Sometimes in television things have to be done at a certain time or within a certain window and sometimes that means customers have to suffer. If they hadn't pulled anaologue transmission for 50 minutes during the film it may have failed for longer the next day. Unless somebody can detail the actual work that needed to be done there is no way for anybody to throw blaim at RTE for being incompetent.

Mossy Monk

copacetic wrote:

so? apologies if I mis read your post but you seemed to be saying that TG4 and TV3 had the same issue so it was nothing to do with RTÉ?

You did mis read it. I never suggested that at all. I said it had nothing to do with the RTÉ television channels.

copacetic

Mossy Monk wrote:

You did mis read it. I never suggested that at all. I said it had nothing to do with the RTÉ television channels.

ok, but that not what you said, you just said RTÉ.
maybe you could be a bit clearer in future, saying 'Other channels out of RTÉ's control went off too' doesn't make sense to me when RTÉ NL are in control.

standbyme

According to reports today on the radio, that it affected a lot of people across the country! & werent too pleased with it being a premiere, that's a first for RTE

Including me as i had it taped :mad: while trying to juggle The Panel+The App-You're fired etc.
But god knows (maybe he does) what happened to the other stations that went off as well

I was watching it on terrestrial telly btw up the country, so it affected other people as well, but i do know NTL has a bad history anyway.

If they ever tried to move/call here, my response would be Not Today Love its bad enough i've got Rundown Tepid Entertainment to keep me going :rolleyes:

Feral Mutant

Any chance they'll be showing it again for those of us who got cut off?

555guy

RTE said in their announcement after (or maybe before )the news that the work they were carrying out would affect the north east. I live in Kerry so thought grand I'll set the recorder and hit the hay only to find out that I'm now missing a chunk of the film ......
dont know why I'm bothered though ... RTE are sure to reshow ten million times over the next few years ....:D

Milktrolley

Hmmm... it's an interesting one alright. It'd be good to see the notification that followed the news, it has to be knocking about on one of the files on the website. I'll have to take a look.

As for this never happening to the BBC...

DMC

Aertel page 169 ftw.

http://www.rte.ie/aertel/169-01.html

Mullaghanish, in the South West, was off air for planned engineering works last night, as were Cairn Hill in Longford and Mount Leinster in the South East over the course of the week.

http://www.rte.ie/aertel/169-02.html

Its not surprising that engineering work is carried out at night during the summer.

prospect

JoeBallantine wrote:

This country is a joke... somehow I don't think the BBC would try this stunt...

Muppets!

Yeah, you are dead right.
Everything is perfect over in England. You never hear an English person complain about anything.

You should move over there, its great.. seriously.

:rolleyes:

arcade1

JoeBallantine wrote:

It's a joke, the film was over before RTE came back on... I am still very upset and am going to complain.. THIS HAPPENED DURING A MOVIE PREMIERE!!!

T3 has been on RTE before.

Mossy Monk

No it hasn't. It was the premiere the other night.