Poll: Ireland's Worst TV Channel

Cruel Sun

Out of RTE 1 & 2, TG4 and TV3 which one do you think is the worst?

Personally it would be between TG4 and TV3 for me, but because TG4 promotes are native language I would have to deem TV3 the worst.

Choose carefully, the channel with the most votes will be destroyed.

don ramo

the only way to find out is if everyone here would actually sit down in front of there TVs and watch each channel for one 24hr period at a time,

i honestly dont think i could bring myself to watch over 3 hours of any terrestrial channel,

wp_rathead

TV3
why?
This and this

Only saving grace for that channel is Vincent Browne

Cruel Sun

don ramo wrote: »

the only way to find out is if everyone here would actually sit down in front of there TVs and watch each channel for one 24hr period at a time,

i honestly dont think i could bring myself to watch over 3 hours of any terrestrial channel,

To be fair RTE has got some good shows and the sports on it is pretty good too. I'd say it's better then most other countries terrestrial channels.

GarIT

RTE One, theres never anything entertaining on it and they still show the angelus on it before the news.

Also, nobody watches TG4 but were all afraid to admit its crap.

EDIT: RTE Two is probably my favourite channel, its in there with E4 and Sky Sports F1 HD anyway. It has some really good stuff, Love/Hate, Republic of telly, The Savage Eye.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

wprathead wrote: »

TV3
why?
This and this

Only saving grace for that channel is Vincent Browne

Jesus, those threads - first one had over 4,000 posts in less than 2 weeks!

TV3 for me aswell for their shameless regurgitation of shows such as "Are you better off on the Dole", X Factor etc etc. It is the tabloid of TV channels

Please Kill Me

Martin_94 wrote: »

Choose carefully, the channel with the most votes will be destroyed.

Do ya promise????

Hard to pick one as they're all sh!te in their own way, but having to pick just one - has to be RTE1. Just a waste of air time!

telekon

Too easy to attack TV3. They do ok-ish for the limited budget they operate on. There's a lot of cheap crud like 'Dublin Housewives' but at the same time, I can raise you a 'Fade Street'.

RTE get 90-95% of the licence fee, advertising revenue, the backing of the government and STILL incur huge losses. This cosy cartel irritates me a whole lot more than TV3, which actually has to be fiscally responsible and provide programming according to its budget.

I vote RTE2, its only good for sport. That's it.

tv3 for to many reason psychic tv is one reason

therewillbe

GarIT wrote: »

RTE One, theres never anything entertaining on it and they still show the angelus on it before the news.

Also, nobody watches TG4 but were all afraid to admit its crap.

I always tune in for the Weather Girls;)

therewillbe

Deleted User wrote: »

tv3 for to many reason psychic tv is one reason

Scary or what!!:eek:

SimonLynch

TG4 has good stuff, very good documentary on separate murders of two Jewish men in Dublin in 1923 this evening. TV3/e cut their cloth so I had to turn off when xpose came on and go back later for the kind of stuff that Sky used to put on 9ish. RTE I'd only bother with for the lovely Mary Kennedy on Nationwide, she's got some colour back in her cheeks since they let her out of the studio

Liamario

Let's be fair, they are all pretty ****. It's like trying to decide whose piss is the most piss like.

30txsbzmcu2k9w

Who´s voted RTE? Sure it could be better but at least there´s home grown stuff.

TV3 is just one banality after another. Vacuous imported trash.

The only Irish stuff I´ve seen on TV3 is sensationalist hackneyed muck, like Cocaine Wars (based on grade-A bellend Mick McCaffrey´s piece of crap book) or that rubbish on dogging.

Budget is no excuse. I´d be willing to overlook their piss-poor production values if they actually had some subject matter that wasn´t completely retarded.

DuckStab

What's wrong with TG4? Considering the miniscule budget they have they produce some pretty decent programming, not to mention the overseas shows they had the initiative to import like Oz (before Channel 4), The Wire (years before any other station), Breaking Bad etc. They've done more for the Irish language than any of the other channels (not to mention the stagnant education system), and although that's regarded as irrelevant by many, I feel it's important.
And admittedly a geeky thing to say but it also has by far the best, most creative idents out of all the channels. Oh and some gorgeous womenfolk too

kingtiger

I have deleted TV3 from my Sat receiver, its a joke of a channel

JamesReeves

Tg4

super_furry

TV3 is a toilet. It's has all the sensibilities of The Sun newspaper with the budget of the Tallaght Echo.

SimonLynch

Lilian Tall Dandruff wrote: »

Who´s voted RTE? Sure it could be better but at least there´s home grown stuff.

TV3 is just one banality after another. Vacuous imported trash.

The only Irish stuff I´ve seen on TV3 is sensationalist hackneyed muck, like Cocaine Wars (based on grade-A bellend Mick McCaffrey´s piece of crap book) or that rubbish on dogging.

Budget is no excuse. I´d be willing to overlook their piss-poor production values if they actually had some subject matter that wasn´t completely retarded.

How very dare you,


Mick McCaffrey's not a bellend, he's a putrid piece of bile spewing, incident-inventing




dog turd masquerading as a journalist.

JP Liz V1

Gotta be TV3

mike65

I take it no one watches 3e? The channel that slipped down the back of the sofa.

GarIT

I actually like TV3, I just dont get the people here. Subject matter? pfft.... Give me durty Talla burds anyday.

Richard Dower

Came to register my utter hatred and loathing for all things TV3.

FouxDaFaFa

I don't get the hate for tg4, I think it's the best channel we have by a long shot. First to import shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad, great documentaries and sports coverage, decent soap (Ros na Rún) and lots of fun shows that they somehow manage to make with no budget (Paisean Faisean, O tholg go tolg, Daithí ar Route 66).

tv3 is probably the worst for me because they're lazy. Lots of repeats and shows taken from itv. Although, to be honest, I would have more sympathy for them than rte. rte have such money and resources at their disposal and they fall short.

Colmo52

TV3 /thread

p.oconnor

TV3 by a country mile, at least the rest try and serve all sections of society. TV3 have gone down the Talifornia/Xpose route and in my opinion that is that in regard to the entire channel, would not loose any sleep if the BCI withdrew TV3's licence and it was replaced by UTV on the sky epg.

starviewadams

RTE2,besides the football everything they show is either imported British/American garbage or home made (usually involving a Seoige or Craig Doyle) garbage.

TG4 showed Breaking Bad and The Wire for the first time over here,plus they have some interesting documentary's from time to time so they're okay by me.

RTE1 is just the nepotism and old boys club,have no time for it.

Only thing I watch on TV3 is Vincent Browne,but I've nothing against whatever output they have because it's not massively funded by the taxpayer.

iguana

TG4 is a fantastic channel, especially considering their budget, and I say that as someone's who's Irish language ability runs to asking if I can go to the toilet, please. They make a lot of high quality drama and documentaries and are often very adventurous with their subject matter. Whoever chooses their imports has a great eye for quality tv so they spend their budget well. And they air their best shows at decent times instead of burying most of them like RTÉ tend to do.

I would desperately love for the bulk of the license fee to be handed to TG4 and for them to be the national broadcaster. They'd have the potential to make it a world class channel.

FouxDaFaFa

iguana wrote: »

They'd have the potential to make it a world class channel.

I really believe that is true. They make such a high volume of content and it's very rarely bad. Imagine what they would do if they had the budget?

GastroBoy

GarIT wrote: »

Also, nobody watches TG4 but were all afraid to admit its crap.
.

Yes, so afraid, you'd have the gaeltacht inquisition after you if you did :rolleyes:

s_carnage

TV3 for me just because of their choice of football commentators. Time after time ruins a perfectly good CL match. I've had to change over to ITV now Tuesday nights.

Besides sports I don't watch any of the channels and would much prefer to have a choice between paying the licence fee and not getting the channels. Would be a very easy choice.

Owen_S

s_carnage wrote: »

TV3 for me just because of their choice of football commentators. Time after time ruins a perfectly good CL match. I've had to change over to ITV now Tuesday nights.

Besides sports I don't watch any of the channels and would much prefer to have a choice between paying the licence fee and not getting the channels. Would be a very easy choice.

Agreed, they have basically ruined 50% of the Irish Champions League coverage, which is a shame because RTE provide better analysis than the British counterparts.
The amount of material targeted at the brain dead is also alarming(psychic readings, Xposé etc.)

kitakyushu

Agreed re TV3 CL coverage. It's the only time I even watch that channel and when I do it's on mute during the game. Plus I just go do something else rather than watch their analysis.

manutd

TV3, was sick in bed last week, turned on the TV, Ireland AM, Midday, The Morning Show all are badly make up, badly researched.

But they do show 3 hrs for Ireland AM, 1 hrs for TMS and 1+a bit for MD. RTE did not have anything like that in the morning and are better without them.

p.oconnor

Can everyone ever remember TV3 showing a Natural history/historical or Science documentary?. They show about 10 crime documentaries every year and then just rename and repeat them every few nights. Can you imagine if TV3 could not lean on ITV for the soaps, there would not be one show that would be in the top 20 in the overall ratings.

... and I agree sport on the channel is unwatchable, would only watch it as a last resort.

RandolphEsq

TV3; I'll ignore the tripe "Ireland's Saggy Fannies" type programmes and say it is because of their absolutely awful football coverage.

mike65

Dave McRedmond reckons TV3 does really well with its budget, it probably does when compared to RTE (who's programmes are not much better made but are on rather less tabloidy material) but that doesn't excuse its coverage of European football or the mere existence of Xposé

splashthecash

This poll is bull**** - 68% pick TV3?!

I'd say if people were to honestly say how often they actually watch TG4 you would see a very low percentage....it just people don't want to bad-mouth it because it promotes the Irish language. And if you don't watch it, how can you know how good\bad it really it's programmes are?

I watch TG4 every now and then and find the progamming very dull and uninspired. Their GAA coverage & breaking bad is their only saving grace.

Miguel_Sanchez

splashthecash wrote: »

This poll is bull**** - 68% pick TV3?!

I'd say if people were to honestly say how often they actually watch TG4 you would see a very low percentage....it just people don't want to bad-mouth it because it promotes the Irish language. And if you don't watch it, how can you know how good\bad it really it's programmes are?

I watch TG4 every now and then and find the progamming very dull and uninspired. Their GAA coverage & breaking bad is their only saving grace.

Their documentaries are of a very high standard. They've got a lot more going for them than TV3 - and the people who work for them know how to put a program together. The in-house stuff made by TV3 looks, sounds and is awful with very few exceptions.

Remember - just because other people don't agree with you doesn't mean they're wrong.

kingtiger

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Their documentaries are of a very high standard. They've got a lot more going for them than TV3 - and the people who work for them know how to put a program together. The in-house stuff made by TV3 looks, sounds and is awful with very few exceptions.

Remember - just because other people don't agree with you doesn't mean they're wrong.

don't forget the weather girls

*drools*

splashthecash

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Their documentaries are of a very high standard. They've got a lot more going for them than TV3 - and the people who work for them know how to put a program together. The in-house stuff made by TV3 looks, sounds and is awful with very few exceptions.

Remember - just because other people don't agree with you doesn't mean they're wrong.

I certainly wasn't implying people who didn't agree with my view were wrong - I was just very surprised by the poll results.

ScumLord

It's so difficult to chose the worst, they're all so bad.

TG4 is by far the best. Maybe it's just that I can't understand Irish but everything about the channel seems to work, look and feel better than the rest of RTE. I only watch savage eye and republic of tele on RTE player. My TV is long gone.

Haven't really ever sat through anything on TV3.

cricketfan

TV3 are just an embarrassment for anyone with a level of intelligence, with the obvious exception of Vincent Browne. The rest is downmarket pap which surely their presenters, Cagney, etc, must acknowledge, but hey, it's a good money earner for them.

If you read The Sun or The Mirror then it must be right up your street. Tabloid TV.

Kev_2012

TG4 isnt the worst, it has celtic league rugby! Although the commentary is in Irish, so I haven't a clue what they are saying.

AnonoBoy

Kev_2012 wrote: »

Although the commentary is in Irish, so I haven't a clue what they are saying.

"He's throwing the ball, he's running with the ball, now it's a scrum, offside etc."

Sappa

I can't believe rte2 got less votes than tg4.
Tg4 is a great station with way better shows and movies than Rte

arg2011

Their home-grown/produced programming is tabloid trash at its worst. That and their football commentator ranks as rank.

Tulipout

TV3
Not only do they repeat program's on regular basis but they repeat possibly the worst program's ever made.

Cruel Sun

RTE 2 went to sh!t after socky left.

kub

Thank You Martin94 for starting this thread. I have to agree with the vast majority here TV3 is absolute rubbish. If it was not for their feed from ITV and Vincent Browne they would be gone (more of a pity actually).

Cruel Sun

kub wrote: »

Thank You Martin94 for starting this thread. I have to agree with the vast majority here TV3 is absolute rubbish. If it was not for their feed from ITV and Vincent Browne they would be gone (more of a pity actually).

It's Ireland AM, the morning show and that abomination Xpose that are the worst.