City Channel

Elmo

Just wonder what views (if any) you have on City Channel.

It is fairly cheap production, but they do have a few long term shows such as Dublin Today which is Capital D meets Ireland AM with a 6th of the budget.

Elmo

Anyone?

kraggy

Absolutely pointless channel.

And that late night show with the tarts asking people to ring them at exhorbitant cost is a disgrace.

We're becoming more like Britain by the day.

jdivision

I don't like the restaurant stuff cos they're universally positive, presumably because they're paid for.

Elmo

kraggy wrote: »

Absolutely pointless channel.

And that late night show with the tarts asking people to ring them at exhorbitant cost is a disgrace.

We're becoming more like Britain by the day.

Yeah, I would say they are cheaper in Britain

They also appear on TV3 and 3e. So lets forget them and look at the rest of the programming.

Boydsey14

A shot in the dark.... I get this 'city channel' while in browsing mode. The accents do my head in.

Anyone know how I can exclude/delete this channel forever?????
P-LEASE?!?!

Elmo

Boydsey14 wrote: »

A shot in the dark.... I get this 'city channel' while in browsing mode. The accents do my head in.

Anyone know how I can exclude/delete this channel forever?????
P-LEASE?!?!

The newer STBs don't have that feature, I assume your watching on an old NTL box where city channel appears in the top right hand corner. (Get a new STB with the new software).

What's wrong with the accents? The channel is more annoying, perhaps its all the sales pitches!

Boydsey14

UPC is my supplier...

Some of City Channel's main presenters overdo their Dublin 4 accents. Judy Gilroy is sometimes hard to understand, she's so posh. You'd never suspect Olive Geoghegan was from Galway - she sounds just like Gilroy..

Jimmy Greeley invented sycophancy, Kennedy's show is littered with foul language and that's followed by the Hooker Show!

City Channel is cheap and tawdry, and I have to listen to their crap while browsing for a decent programme to watch.

There must be a way to rid my TV of this vomit inducing channel.

How do I block CityChannel??? Anyone???

Elmo

Boydsey14 wrote: »

UPC is my supplier...

How do I block CityChannel??? Anyone???

UPC are partners of some kind in City Channel (City Channel is exclusive to UPC!).

There are a number of things you can do:

1. Move to Sky.
2. Get rid of UPC Digital and stick with Analogue
3. Get a new UPC Digibox or ask them can you get a new UPC epg, they still use pace boxes with the new User Interface.

I assume that you are still using the Green and Purple NTL User interface????

And if none of that suites you press mute.

Corsendonk

jdivision wrote: »

I don't like the restaurant stuff cos they're universally positive, presumably because they're paid for.

Yeah the restaurant show is just one long infomercial. My NTL box keeps sticking on the channel.

ordinary_girl

I've watched the Tour America show a few times, mainly because I daydream of being in America. The two girls who present it are hilarious though, it's like they're trying to out do each other's D4 accents. They're also very unconvincing actors, I don't think they've been on any of the cruises or resort holidays they claim to have been on. It's like they make it up as they go along!

Elmo

ordinary_girl wrote: »

I've watched the Tour America show a few times, mainly because I daydream of being in America. The two girls who present it are hilarious though, it's like they're trying to out do each other's D4 accents. They're also very unconvincing actors, I don't think they've been on any of the cruises or resort holidays they claim to have been on. It's like they make it up as they go along!

Where they also on Ireland AM?

ordinary_girl

Elmo wrote: »

Where they also on Ireland AM?

Don't have a clue, they could've been. The only time I usually see Ireland AM is for the first hour of it where they have barely any guests on. Still, those two girls seem hilariously awkward.

Boydsey14

Elmo wrote: »

UPC are partners of some kind in City Channel (City Channel is exclusive to UPC!).

There are a number of things you can do:

1. Move to Sky.
2. Get rid of UPC Digital and stick with Analogue
3. Get a new UPC Digibox or ask them can you get a new UPC epg, they still use pace boxes with the new User Interface.

I assume that you are still using the Green and Purple NTL User interface????

And if none of that suites you press mute.

Thanks Elmo... I'll live with it.

KingBot

The Warehouse isn't a bad show in all fairness. Doing for young bands and comedians what RTE never will !

Elmo

KingBot wrote: »

The Warehouse isn't a bad show in all fairness. Doing for young bands and comedians what RTE never will !

You could say the same about TV3.

Boydsey14

"The Warehouse isn't a bad show in all fairness. Doing for young bands and comedians what RTE never will !"

Agreed! And the presenter is a funny dude. I could tell him my worst joke and he'd be fallin about! Well, maybe?

But the rest.... Main presenter calls Walkinstown... Walkinstine!

Elmo

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055520967

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City Channel to close over advertising slump

Elmo

Sad to see it go TBH. Hope they get an Irish replacement for the service.

The main mistakes were 24hours of 1hour or less of actual content and Online presences was absent or not well developed

Mr_Ekan

To be fair, apart from new idents & a bit more of a web presence there seems to have been very little attempt to save the channel...and this has to lie at the door of senior management out there.

The failure to invest in new programming, even public domain film or freshening up their music shows, could hardly inspire sales staff, and given the number of direct advertisers who are on Setanta there is obviously still some market out there for direct TV sales.

Oh well, hindsight from the outside is 20:20.

Elmo

Mr_Ekan wrote: »

To be fair, apart from new idents & a bit more of a web presence there seems to have been very little attempt to save the channel...and this has to lie at the door of senior management out there.

The failure to invest in new programming, even public domain film or freshening up their music shows, could hardly inspire sales staff, and given the number of direct advertisers who are on Setanta there is obviously still some market out there for direct TV sales.

Oh well, hindsight from the outside is 20:20.

I don't know I think it is Foresight rather then Hindsight. The problems have been well outlined here on boards.

I am still trying to find their website.

Mr_Ekan

The website is down, and has been since the first announcement of the proposed re-structuring a few weeks ago.

Elmo

Mr_Ekan wrote: »

The website is down, and has been since the first announcement of the proposed re-structuring a few weeks ago.

Why? Doesn't make sense to remove the website.

Elmo

City Channel demise stresses harsh reality

By Ciarán Hancock
Business Affairs Correspondent

ONE MORE THING: THE DEMISE of the Dublin-based TV station City Channel is yet another blow to the independent commercial broadcasting sector.

It highlights that this State is too small to support standalone operations such as City Channel.

Founder David Harvey ran as low-cost an operation as he could from its Sandyford base and worked hard to drum up business, yet he couldn’t make it work.

It even had the backing of US-based Liberty Global, which owns UPC Ireland.

City Channel isn’t the first Irish TV station to run into trouble. Remember Channel 6? It was launched with great ambitions in 2006 but was eventually offloaded to TV3, where it has been successfully rebranded as 3e.

Music station Bubble Hits also bit the dust and Setanta Sports was forced to retreat from the UK a couple of years ago after overpaying for premium sports rights.

Thankfully, the Irish business was saved by founders Mickey O’Rourke and Leonard Ryan, with the help of concert promoter Denis Desmond.

Even Setanta’s Irish business though has been slimmed down.

TV3 has enjoyed considerable ratings success in the past couple of years. However owner Doughty Hanson is out of pocket on the investment, having paid €265 million at the peak of the boom.

The shakeout in Irish TV is now largely complete but what of commercial radio here? Can Ireland support six national stations, half a dozen regional operators and 27 local channels? Sadly, I fear we all know the answer to that question.

Not sure about this TBH but thought it worth the post.

Boydsey14

It's just past 8 o'clock on Saturday night and City Channel are showing a film called Good Cop Bad Cop. This film contains nudity, bad language, violence and two people having sex in a lane-way. I know, I've seen it before and I'm disgusted it's being shown before the watershed! Seems City Channel don't give a damn about our kids.

jmcc

Boydsey14 wrote: »

It's just past 8 o'clock on Saturday night and City Channel are showing a film called Good Cop Bad Cop. This film contains nudity, bad language, violence and two people having sex in a lane-way. I know, I've seen it before and I'm disgusted it's being shown before the watershed! Seems City Channel don't give a damn about our kids.

You see the high number of replies to your post? You were the channel's only viewer. Most people aren't even aware that it exists and the rest don't care.

Regards...jmcc

KingBot

Boydsey14 wrote: »

It's just past 8 o'clock on Saturday night and City Channel are showing a film called Good Cop Bad Cop. This film contains nudity, bad language, violence and two people having sex in a lane-way. I know, I've seen it before and I'm disgusted it's being shown before the watershed! Seems City Channel don't give a damn about our kids.

I'm sure it's because the channel is on a week long loop. No one is in charge of the station anymore and the clocks went back an hour. This film used to start at 9pm. The station will be shut down soon I'm sure. Probably just wrangling through legal shut down procedures.

mike65

I was babysitting over for my sister who switched to NTL from SKY (mainly a bundle thing on their part I think) and flicked on City Channel a few times through the evening. I could not see any reason for it to exist. Clearly many channels seem to be marginal enterprises but this one took the biscuit. Rotten picture quality to boot.

Elmo

And it makes room for RTÉ 1+1.

It's a pity that this channel didn't have something going for it rather then just an EPG slot.

RTÉ 1+1 is too far up IMO.