RTE News Now and RTE Jr Schedule

Sam Russell

I was looking at the RTE Guide (Christmas edition) and can find no mention of either RTE channel, but 27 daily listings for channels that are only found on pay-TV.

Anyone have a guess as to why that would be? Perhaps that is why Sean O'Rouke thought the RTE NN was a new channel back at ASO in October - RTE do not list it.

icdg

They're not published by anyone as far as I know. I'm not sure if RTÉ Commercial Enterprises Limited (by whatever name they're calling themselves this week) even makes them commercially available.

Of course, publishing them would be publicizing the fact that these two channels are almost 100% comprised of simulcasts and repeats.

Sam Russell

A version of RTE News Now, including adverts, is availble on Pearse Station, and probably other places. A version is also available on the internet but I doubt it is the same one.

My point is that RTE do not consider Saorview as the primary service. In other words, if it is not on Sky and UPC it does not matter and can be ignored. They refuse to consider programmes broadcast on these channels have been watched. If we now have RTE Jr (it has in fact been there for two years) why do a simulcast on RTE 2 HD? Why do a simulcast of the 6 O'clock News (and any other news broadcast) on RTE NN? Surely they can do better than this? Why bother?

icdg

Sam Russell wrote: »

A version of RTE News Now, including adverts, is availble on Pearse Station, and probably other places. A version is also available on the internet but I doubt it is the same one.

The service branded as "RTÉ News Now" and shown in Dublin terminal railway stations is not the same service as the RTÉ News Now channel that it is broadcast on Saorview, UPC, and (to answer your question) the internet. In fact apart from being a service of RTÉ News it shares nothing except a name with the RTÉ News Now television channel. Rather, it is a completely separate service developed for very large screens and is primarily text based though with some video clips too. It repeats every couple of minutes. No full programmes are shown on it.

My point is that RTE do not consider Saorview as the primary service. In other words, if it is not on Sky and UPC it does not matter and can be ignored. They refuse to consider programmes broadcast on these channels have been watched.

But both RTÉ News Now and RTÉjr are on UPC!

If we now have RTE Jr (it has in fact been there for two years) why do a simulcast on RTE 2 HD? Why do a simulcast of the 6 O'clock News (and any other news broadcast) on RTE NN? Surely they can do better than this? Why bother?

I wish they could. The ban on selling advertising on them means that they don't matter to the Sales department, at the very least. Until that changes they will always be sideshows for RTÉ. Their entire purpose in fact is to justify the existence of Saorview to a general public who couldn't care less about the "Digital Dividend" or the technical benefits.

Sam Russell

I wish our Minister for Communications etc. would reverse the decision made by the rump government that proceded this one (and bankrupt the country). They have slaveishly continued all the bankrupt policies of that corrupt and corrupted shower of *****.

So much was promised by him and his fellow party members, and none has been delivered. Even the small, no-cost items.

Carawaystick

Maybe one of the reasons they don't list rté jr is because rté are unable to get their own epg to show the correct times for this station.

"We are aware that there are inaccuracies with the EPG display of the programme titles for the afternoon listings on RTE Jr and are working to find a resolution to this problem. The scheduling of the programmes on the RTE Jr channel is different from RTE’s two principal channels, RTE ONE and RTE TWO. The channel is created using different technology and is based on a loop system which means that the timings are subject to slight changes as the afternoon schedule progresses."

is what I was told in January

Sam Russell

Carawaystick wrote: »

Maybe one of the reasons they don't list rté jr is because rté are unable to get their own epg to show the correct times for this station.

"We are aware that there are inaccuracies with the EPG display of the programme titles for the afternoon listings on RTE Jr and are working to find a resolution to this problem. The scheduling of the programmes on the RTE Jr channel is different from RTE’s two principal channels, RTE ONE and RTE TWO. The channel is created using different technology and is based on a loop system which means that the timings are subject to slight changes as the afternoon schedule progresses."

is what I was told in January

They must be still working on it. After all, what's another year?