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RTE are thick

  • 19-03-2011 5:45pm
    #1
    Kevin joyce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭


    Just watching some radio videos on youtube, I didnt know to laugh or cry at the rte 6.1 news report from easter o8 about the medium wave tx closing down, The reporter asked a man working in a COMPUTER shop when was the last time somebody come in looking for a medium wave radio.


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  • #2
    HarryPotter41
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭HarryPotter41


    Kevin joyce wrote: »
    Just watching some radio videos on youtube, I didnt know to laugh or cry at the rte 6.1 news report from easter o8 about the medium wave tx closing down, The reporter asked a man working in a COMPUTER shop when was the last time somebody come in looking for a medium wave radio.


    Three years ago that was most likely an ELECTRICAL shop as much as a COMPUTER shop so calm down


  • #3
    Kevin joyce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭Kevin joyce


    HarryPotter41 wrote: »
    Three years ago that was most likely an ELECTRICAL shop as much as a COMPUTER shop so calm down

    No it was not, it would never have sold any kind of radios. Look at the video on youtube for yourself


  • #4
    NinjaTruncs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭NinjaTruncs


    Why are you watching news that is 3 years old?

    4.3kWp South facing PV System. South Dublin



  • #5
    HarryPotter41
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭HarryPotter41


    NinjaTruncs wrote: »
    Why are you watching news that is 3 years old?


    shhhh.... :-)


  • #6
    HarryPotter41
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭HarryPotter41


    Kevin joyce wrote: »
    No it was not, it would never have sold any kind of radios. Look at the video on youtube for yourself


    You know this because you shopped there regularly?


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  • #7
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Kevin joyce wrote: »
    No it was not, it would never have sold any kind of radios. Look at the video on youtube for yourself


    Link please or GTFO.:p


  • #8
    clln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭clln


    Have to disagree with the OP.
    RTE might have far too many 'Prima Donna's' getting far too much wages,but their coverage on Radio (and TV) of the General Election was second to none IMO.

    Their experts on politics are far from being 'thick'.
    they do not tend to 'jump the gun' with results like many Nations Public Service Broadcasters do.

    their expertise is only matched by their humour,but the humour is only used while they wait for counts to come in.
    by any standards they were superb on results day.
    credit were it is due,When they remember that they are a PSB they cannot be beat, IMO.


  • #9
    Agonist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Agonist


    clln wrote: »
    Have to disagree with the OP.
    RTE might have far too many 'Prima Donna's' getting far too much wages,but their coverage on Radio (and TV) of the General Election was second to none IMO.

    Their experts on politics are far from being 'thick'.
    they do not tend to 'jump the gun' with results like many Nations Public Service Broadcasters do.

    their expertise is only matched by their humour,but the humour is only used while they wait for counts to come in.
    by any standards they were superb on results day.
    credit were it is due,When they remember that they are a PSB they cannot be beat, IMO.

    Did you watch any previous elections on RTE? Through the evening and night when the presenters had gone home to spend their money? They were absolutely dire. I reckon they upped their game this year because Boards and The Journal plus twitter etc. shamed them into it. Back in 2002 I was gobsmacked by how impossible it was to find any kind of regular updates. The Internet wasn't so big then but the radio and tv had the same facilities as they have now, so why has it suddenly become possible for them to match the newer media?


    In saying that, yes, RTE was brilliant this year.


  • #10
    Kevin joyce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭Kevin joyce


    NinjaTruncs wrote: »
    Why are you watching news that is 3 years old?

    Because im an anorak and proud of it


  • #11
    Kevin joyce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭Kevin joyce


    HarryPotter41 wrote: »
    You know this because you shopped there regularly?

    The name of the shop is The Click computer store. The point is why would somebody ask for a mw radio in a computer shop? radios with mw are very easy to find on display in electrical shops.


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  • #12
    Kevin joyce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭Kevin joyce


    Lapin wrote: »
    Link please or GTFO.:p

    Just search RTE medium wave news report on youtube


  • #13
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,113 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Are you 14 or something?

    In the grand scheme of things, this is beyond irrelevant. They needed someone for a soundbyte, and Cantec/Click would have been the nearest electrical retailer.


  • #14
    HarryPotter41
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭HarryPotter41


    Kevin joyce wrote: »
    The name of the shop is The Click computer store. The point is why would somebody ask for a mw radio in a computer shop? radios with mw are very easy to find on display in electrical shops.

    Right, so you never stood in the place so you have no idea what they sold back then. Good, all I needed to know.


  • #15
    NinjaTruncs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭NinjaTruncs


    Kevin joyce wrote: »
    Because im an anorak and proud of it
    Well pull yourself together and get over it.

    4.3kWp South facing PV System. South Dublin



  • #16
    bbability
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭bbability


    I'm closing this thread because I'm not really sure what it's about to be honest. Airing on the aide of caution perhaps but closed anyway.


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