WTF happened to Network 2 ?

Tara45

I'm stuck with the four channels of the apocalypse for my sins ... RTE1, Network2, TV3 and TnG. So you might say that my range of entertainment possibilities is fairly narrow.

For the past week or so, I got a message in white writing at the top of the screen when i watched network 2 " this channel is going off air, please retune to channel 52 " or something like that.

Tonight, just in time for the Liverpool game - network 2 is now off air completely. I can get around 10% reception on channel 14.

What's going on and how do i retune my telly ?

PurpleBerry

It's called "RTé 2"

Tara45

I thought it was rebranded to network 2 around 10 yrs ago, no ?

My tv only has a sound control and a channel control.

How do I retune it ?

Answers in a forum post, before the match ends pls ...

burgess1

Tara45 wrote: »

I thought it was rebranded to network 2 around 10 yrs ago, no ?

Yes, and then back to RTÉ Two about 5 years ago.

Are you using an aerial or what?

Dirk Gently

Tara45 wrote: »

Answers in a forum post, before the match ends pls ...

http://www.justin.tv/directory/sports/soccer?kind=live&order=hot&lang=en

Aidric

Tara45 wrote: »

I thought it was rebranded to network 2 around 10 yrs ago, no ?

Welcome to 2004.

legendal

"TnG" became TG4 quite awhile back too...

Try retuning your TV to channel 52, might be an idea :pac:

Loveless

"RTÉ 2, as it was then known, Ireland's 2nd channel, started in November 1978. In October 1988, it underwent a total facelift in it's new guise of Network 2. A further relaunch occurred in November 1997, aiming it squarely at the 16-34 age group."

Mossy Monk

Tara45 wrote: »

What's going on and how do i retune my telly ?

Do we guess the make and model of your tv? You should have tuned your tv when you first saw the message.

trishw78

Tara45 wrote: »

the four channels of the apocalypse for my sins ...

That's the best description I've ever heard had me laughing at my computer screen.

Sounds like the transmitter in your area is closing down and switching to UHF. I thought all that was done by now?

midgetflynn

this happened to my house as well,we tuned in 52 and the tuned in 2 and the message went away

ScumLord

That sucks dude. You'll miss the repeat of everything they showed on Monday.

I too only have the 4 Irish channels on terrestrial. I can't tune them in either but each channel is on the tele a few times. Did you try flicking through all your channels it might be saved further up.

Where are you both out of interest?

MagicMarker

Karsini wrote: »

Where are you both out of interest?

The 80's apparently.

murpho999

Tara45 wrote: »

I thought it was rebranded to network 2 around 10 yrs ago, no ?

My tv only has a sound control and a channel control.

How do I retune it ?

Answers in a forum post, before the match ends pls ...

Ok, just keep turning the rabbit ears until you see Gay Byrne hosting The Late Late Show then you've got RTE 1

If you see Ian Dempsey with Zig & Zag on Dempsey's Den then you have
Network 2

Hope this helps

missingtime

Loveless wrote: »

Awww

Wertz

OP, sounds to me like you have one of those TVs that you tune from the remote. If (like me) the original remote has been lost and replaced with a universal one then you could well be screwed. If you have the original remote then play around with all the buttons until you find the ones that retune it...usually they are somewhere near the 4 coloured buttons for fast text and usually they will utilise the coloured buttons themselves. Your RTÉ2 is currently tuned in on another channel where RTÉ2 once broadcast on, which is now only operating intermittently.

You know it's going to be hella fun when they start turning off the analogue services to complete the switch to digital...

Our man in Havana

Moved to where a real answer will be forthcoming.

GerardKeating

Karsini wrote: »

Where are you both out of interest?

In one of the DTT threads, there was mention of some frequency changes due to DTT trials, so maybe the OP is in Cork maybe...???

I know one of the SCTV "deflectors" changed frequencies, wasn't aware of any RTÉ changes though.

Rippy

Cork alright!
RTE 2 from Collins barracks switched from 49 to 52 to accommodate testing of DTT mux on 49 from Spur Hill.
Post make and model of TV or even better photos of TV and remote and may be able to help.

watty

And location!

Kitty-kitty

I have this problem too, I'm in the centre of Cork city and we'd been getting that message across the top of our screen for two weeks. Problem is, our TV is so ancient that it doesn't have room for 52 channels. We have 20. We tried retuning it but got nothing.

I can only assume (being that we only have 20 channel slots) that it was being broadcast along with our picture...

Mossy Monk

Your tv will be able to scan all channels. It can store 20 of them. What tv do you have?

e17

Kitty-kitty wrote: »

I have this problem too, I'm in the centre of Cork city and we'd been getting that message across the top of our screen for two weeks. Problem is, our TV is so ancient that it doesn't have room for 52 channels. We have 20. We tried retuning it but got nothing.

I can only assume (being that we only have 20 channel slots) that it was being broadcast along with our picture...

You do not need 52 channels you only need 4 for the local services a couleof others for Sat or VCR Ch52 refers to a frequency which has changed for TV2 from 695.25Mhz to new Ch52 719.25Mhz so you should be able to retune your tv

watty

Though some sets they don't make it easy.

It was simpler when a panel popped open behind the 6 buttons with knob for each button.

watty

watty wrote: »

Though some sets they don't make it easy.

It was simpler when a panel popped open behind the 6 buttons with knob for each button.

Except when you needed to change bands.

I remember we had a Bush television when I was a child, band I/III/UHF selection was done using jumpers on the tuner itself which required opening the set! Though we had an 8 channel Luxor one later on which allowed the bands to be switched by holding the button in and turning it.

L1011

watty wrote: »

Though some sets they don't make it easy.

It was simpler when a panel popped open behind the 6 buttons with knob for each button.

I had a Nordemende - from its original, French owned era not its current Irish owned one - which not only had this (12 buttons, with a tuning knob for each), it had an IR remote control and a SCART.

One conflicted wee TV, not sure if it wanted the 60s or the 80s!

Joe Kname

Karsini wrote: »

...Though we had an 8 channel Luxor one later on which allowed the bands to be switched by holding the button in and turning it.

Yeah, I remember the box we had when I was a kid - a Bush, I think -which was tuned in much the same way same except you pulled the button out. Unfortunately, it was the 70's and as tellys in those single-channel days came pretuned, nobody knew how to tune in RTÉ 2 when they were testing until someone noticed that if you pushed the button in slowly and held it in the right position, you could get Bruce Forsythe on Friday night.

So my first memory of RTÉ 2 was being strongly encouraged (he said euphemismistically :rolleyes:) by my elder siblings to sit in front of the telly and hold the button in position for two hours.

Young people today, they don't know how easy they have it...:D

DMC

RTÉ 2 back in 1978 started with high hopes. Lots of Brit imports.

Then came Johnny Logan in 1980.
Then came the cuts
Then came The Beechcombers
Then came Film Board of Canada gubbins
Then came Switch on to Social Welfare

And there it stayed until the relaunch as Network 2 in October 1988. Network 2 wasn't just a shot in the arm for bealach á dó, it was a heart, lung, kidney and liver transplant at once. At a stroke, all childrens programming and sport left RTÉ 1, giving it a huge chance to open its schedules.

So when it was renamed back to RTÉ TWO, I just hoped it wouldn't slide back into depression.

History may well repeat itself.

barnicles

BTW, OP,did you get it sorted?