RTE Demographics

Yag reuoY

Does anyone know the distribution of RTE employees depending on to their county of origin? IE No. of employees based on where they're from?

I have a horrid feeling it's slightly Dublin-centric.

RoundyMooney

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Does anyone know the distribution of RTE employees depending on to their county of origin? IE No. of employees based on where they're from?

I have a horrid feeling it's slightly Dublin-centric.

Surely not!

super_furry

You get Nationwide. That should be more than enough for your kind.

gurramok

Slightly Dub-centric? What are you high on?

Has anyone ever heard an 'alright bud accent' presenting the news on RTE?!

I_AmThe_Walrus

RTE's target demographic are 70+'s.

TV3's target audience is significantly younger but still ****ty programming.

TG4's watchers are getting smaller and smaller.... :rolleyes:

FlutterinBantam

Thankfully no!

jester77

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Does anyone know the distribution of RTE employees depending on to their county of origin? IE No. of employees based on where they're from?

I have a horrid feeling it's slightly Dublin-centric.

A nice cup of barrys tea and some chocolate biscuits should help those feelings... just don't turn on the TV

kev9100

Obviously its dublin centric, its the capital city for feck sake;).

Kensington

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Does anyone know the distribution of RTE employees depending on to their county of origin? IE No. of employees based on where they're from?

I have a horrid feeling it's slightly Dublin-centric.

Their studios are located in Donnybrook, in County Dublin.
Surprisingly, a large proportion of their employees are from Dublin, or have lived in, or just outside Dublin for quite some time.

sron

gurramok wrote: »

Slightly Dub-centric? What are you high on?

Has anyone ever heard an 'alright bud accent' presenting the news on RTE?!

Dub-centric, not Central-Dub-ric.

ejmaztec

I thought they were all cuntry people.

gurramok

Kensington wrote: »

Their studios are located in Donnybrook, in County Dublin.
Surprisingly, a large proportion of their employees are from Dublin, or have lived in, or just outside Dublin for quite some time.

Where did you dream this one up from?!

sron wrote: »

Dub-centric, not Central-Dub-ric.

Errr, da bud accent can be found in Sandymount as well as Tallaght

ejmaztec wrote: »

I thought they were all cuntry people.

+1

Yag reuoY

kev9100 wrote: »

Obviously its dublin centric, its the capital city for feck sake;).

You see, they justify their existence by claiming they are a national broadcaster, yet I don't see this in their programming.

I'm not Irish, but why, for example, should someone from Galway subsidise something as utterly rubbish as Fair City?

It doesn't make any sense, from any perspective.

mike65

Joe Duffy is Dub as you get, full of windy opinion.

mike65

Yag reuoY wrote: »

You see, they justify their existence by claiming they are a national broadcaster, yet I don't see this in their programming.

I'm not Irish, but why, for example, should someone from Galway subsidise something as utterly rubbish as Fair City?

It doesn't make any sense, from any perspective.

Bracken, Riordans, Glenroe, Killnaskuddy?

Miss Lockhart

Being from Dublin, I always thought they were targeting folk from the country, since 99% of what they show is of zero interest to me or anyone I know.

Now you're saying country folk don't like that rubbish either and you think they're Dub-centric?

Who exactly are they targeting so?! :pac:

Jaxxy

Yag reuoY wrote: »

You see, they justify their existence by claiming they are a national broadcaster, yet I don't see this in their programming.

I'm not Irish, but why, for example, should someone from Galway subsidise something as utterly rubbish as Fair City?

It doesn't make any sense, from any perspective.

Well Dublin people also subsidized such quality programming as Glenroe and Ballykissangel. What's your point?

mike65

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

Well Dublin people also subsidized such quality programming as Glenroe and Ballykissangel. What's your point?

RTE had no hand act or part in that. Or Father Ted (for the really slow)

Yag reuoY

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Being from Dublin, I always thought they were targeting folk from the country, since 99% of what they show is of zero interest to me or anyone I know.

Now you're saying country folk don't like that rubbish either and you think they're Dub-centric?

Who exactly are they targeting so?! :pac:

It just seems that every second news report has some inbred Dub attach 'Dooblin' at the end of each segment. That and pretty much every programme.

Maye it's just me imagining things. :pac:

ejmaztec

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Being from Dublin, I always thought they were targeting folk from the country, since 99% of what they show is of zero interest to me or anyone I know.

Now you're saying country folk don't like that rubbish either and you think they're Dub-centric?

Who exactly are they targeting so?! :pac:

Their bank accounts with their pay-cheques. They don't give a toss about anything else.

Pherekydes

Yag reuoY wrote: »

I'm not Irish, but why, for example, should someone from Galway subsidise something as utterly rubbish as Fair City?

I'm from Dublin, and I don't see why someone from Dublin should subsidise rubbish like Fair City, either.

Miss Lockhart

Yag reuoY wrote: »

It just seems that every second news report has some inbred Dub attach 'Dooblin' at the end of each segment. That and pretty much every programme.

Maye it's just me imagining things. :pac:

To me it seems that the majority of their programmes (apart from Fair City) involve mostly non-Dublin issues.

Yag reuoY

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

Well Dublin people also subsidized such quality programming as Glenroe and Ballykissangel. What's your point?

My point is, no such crap should exist.

:pac:

I'd rather have NO such programming just for the sake of a decent news service.

Not going to happen when RTE is controlled by the government.

Yag reuoY

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

To me it seems that the majority of their programmes (apart from Fair City) involve mostly non-Dublin issues.

Watch tomorrow's news and tell me how many reports are from out of Dublin - that will set you straight.

Pherekydes

Yag reuoY wrote: »

It just seems that every second news report has some inbred Dub attach 'Dooblin' at the end of each segment. That and pretty much every programme.

Maye it's just me imagining things. :pac:

You do realise that one third of the population lives in the greater Dublin area, so you might expect more of the national news to occur in this area.

mike65

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Watch tomorrow's news and tell me how many reports are from out of Dublin - that will set you straight.

News happenings outside Dublin? :eek: How dare the rest of the world have stuff going on.

mohawk

mike65 wrote: »

Bracken, Riordans, Glenroe, Killnaskuddy?

Bracken and the Riordans?? How old are you? Some us weren't alive back in the stone age.
Thankfull glenroe is gone a long time.

Miss Lockhart

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Watch tomorrow's news and tell me how many reports are from out of Dublin - that will set you straight.

But if I watch the news from other countries (and I do, daily) I see a majority of reports from the capital city there too - seems normal to me. That's where the government and main centres of finance etc are, as well as quarter the population, so it is the location for lots of stories.

Every day I see lots of reports from outside Dublin - if that's where the events happened.

mike65

Old enough to have been a fan of the Riordans in that queasy Sunday night 8 pm way!

Yag reuoY

Pherekydes wrote: »

You do realise that one third of the population lives in the greater Dublin area, so you might expect more of the national news to occur in this area.

I understand that. I'd be pretty happy if 66.6% of the news pertained to the rest of Ireland.

It doesn't. :mad:

Miss Lockhart

Yag reuoY wrote: »

I understand that. I'd be pretty happy if 66.6% of the news pertained to the rest of Ireland.

It doesn't. :mad:

Of course lots of news happens outside Dublin, but I think a majority of news of national importance (when you only have 30 mins to report it) happens in the Dublin area.

Koloman

If anything it's too Northern Ireland centric! Why does RTE need 4 NI correspondents when every other media outlet is reducing their NI activity? There so bored up there now I wouldn't be surprised to see Tommy Gorman reporting on a cat stuck up a Belfast tree!

Pherekydes

Yag reuoY wrote: »

I understand that. I'd be pretty happy if 66.6% of the news pertained to the rest of Ireland.

It doesn't. :mad:

Bigger concentration?

Imagine it like this: 100 villages of 100 people versus 1 town of 10000 people.

Where will you get the bigger news stories?

Jaxxy

mike65 wrote: »

RTE had no hand act or part in that. Or Father Ted (for the really slow)

It's an Irish name of an Irish town. Forgive me for assuming that it was Irish (and possibly RTE) programming; I for one do not watch any of the above mentioned. Go intimate that someone else is of inferior intelligence elsewhere.

Yag reuoY wrote: »

My point is, no such crap should exist.

:pac:

I'd rather have NO such programming just for the sake of a decent news service.

Not going to happen when RTE is controlled by the government.

Can't argue with that. But there is obviously an audience for it. If it didn't get the numbers surely it wouldn't be on the air?

Yag reuoY

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

But if I watch the news from other countries (and I do, daily) I see a majority of reports from the capital city there too - seems normal to me. That's where the government and main centres of finance etc are, as well as quarter the population, so it is the location for lots of stories.

Every day I see lots of reports from outside Dublin - if that's where the events happened.

The BBC(and other local services in other countries) proviede a local news service.

OR,TE News, 'Dourbblin'. :mad:

genericguy

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Does anyone know the distribution of RTE employees depending on to their county of origin? IE No. of employees based on where they're from?

I have a horrid feeling it's slightly Dublin-centric.

that's a shít, pointless question. oh, and i see what you did with your username, but if you look at it closely, you'll notice that you failed.

Miss Lockhart

Yag reuoY wrote: »

The BBC(and other local services in other countries) proviede a local news service.

OR,TE News, 'Dourbblin'. :mad:

They are much larger countries!

Can you give us some examples of news stories from outside Dublin that RTE hasn't covered?

CorkMan

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Being from Dublin, I always thought they were targeting folk from the country, since 99% of what they show is of zero interest to me or anyone I know.

Now you're saying country folk don't like that rubbish either and you think they're Dub-centric?

Who exactly are they targeting so?! :pac:

The Maori people of Western Samoa.

Yag reuoY

genericguy wrote: »

that's a shít, pointless question. oh, and i see what you did with your username, but if you look at it closely, you'll notice that you failed.

My user-name failures have been established many times already.

The point is, RTE claims to be a national broadcaster, but this is absurd considering 90% of programming occurs within the confines of Dublin.

Time to end this madness. :mad:

Jaxxy

Yag reuoY wrote: »

My user-name failures have been established many times already.

The point is, RTE claims to be a national broadcaster, but this is absurd considering 90% of programming occurs within the confines of Dublin.

Time to end this madness. :mad:

Where are you getting this figure of 90%?

Surely you can understand the logic of other posters here. Being that if a high percentage of the population live in one place, it stands to reason that a high percentage of the news coverage will be covered and based in said place.

rossie1977

people actually watch rte news for the news and not sharon ni bheolain

gtfo

Kasabian

OP , did you mess up your username ?

Sorry off topic :pac:

Pherekydes

Yag reuoY wrote: »

The BBC(and other local services in other countries) proviede a local news service.

OR,TE News, 'Dourbblin'. :mad:

BBC serve a demographic 15 times larger than RTE's.

mike65

Kasabian wrote: »

OP , did you mess up your username ?

Sorry off topic :pac:

Indeed, someone who though it clever to have Youre Gay backwards as a user name and then spells it wrong is not someone to engage with for very long.

Yag reuoY

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

Where are you getting this figure of 90%?

Surely you can understand the logic of other posters here. Being that if a high percentage of the population live in one place, it stands to reason that a high percentage of the news coverage will be covered and based in said place.

The percentages are imbalanaced.

When in my home country(The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) I am afforded news from my locality without having to suffer that of my captial.

While I am prepared to admit this may not be possible for RTE, at the very least I'd expect somewhat of a balance when it comes to news on a national level, from a supposed national broadcaster.

From the opinions expressed here, I guess this isn't necessary for you lot. :pac:

sock puppet

Yag reuoY wrote: »

The BBC(and other local services in other countries) proviede a local news service.

OR,TE News, 'Dourbblin'. :mad:

BBC has a regional news for places like Yorkshire and London which have populations of millions. What they don't do is provide a local news service for places like Somerset because it would be retarded.

Jaxxy

Yag reuoY wrote: »

The percentages are imbalanaced.

When in my home country(The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) I am afforded news from my locality without having to suffer that of my captial.

While I am prepared to admit this may not be possible for RTE, at the very least I'd expect somewhat of a balance when it comes to news on a national level, from a supposed national braodcaster.

From the opinions expressed here, I guess this isn't necessary for you lot. :pac:

It's necessary when it constitutes news. So you're saying RTE should provide news coverage of something insignificant that happens in one of the other twenty-five counties at the expense of what, a slot that could have been given to a murder/shooting/high court ruling?

If it's newsworthy it gets on the news, simple as. If you don't like it watch the news coverage from your own country.

Donkey Oaty

sock puppet wrote: »

BBC has a regional news for places like Yorkshire and London which have populations of millions. What they don't do is provide a local news service for places like Somerset because it would be retarded.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/

There's a dedicated radio station as well (BBC Somerset) with lots of local news.

Yag reuoY

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

It's necessary when it constitutes news. So you're saying RTE should provide news coverage of something insignificant that happens in one of the other twenty-five counties at the expense of what, a slot that could have been given to a murder/shooting/high court ruling?

If it's newsworthy it gets on the news, simple as. If you don't like it watch the news coverage from your own country.

I often see utterly pointless news reported from 'Dorblin Zooe' and the like.

If RTE claimed to be a National Dublin Broadcaster I wouldn't have a problem; however...:pac:

squod

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

If it's newsworthy it gets on the news, simple as. .

This is the opposite of true. The people of montrose really couldn't be arsed travelling anywhere.

sock puppet

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/

There's a dedicated radio station as well (BBC Somerset) with lots of local news.

I presumed he meant news on TV. There are enough regional radio stations here. No need for for RTE to expand any further.