RTE TWO going to bed early

Bebo Rocks

RTE Two switches to euronews everynight now at 1.30am.

Mountjoy Mugger

No. It doesn't. Tonight it's at 2.30am - Fri/Sat it's at 1.35am

iseegirls

Sure no-one watches telly after 1am anyway :rolleyes:

patrickmooney

You'd think they'd use it to repeat prime time shows (not the current affairs one now) during that overnight slot. Doesn't RTE realise that everyone has RTE News Now, which overnight also shows Euronews. At least TG4 shows France24, you'd think RTE could do something more creative, especially over Christmas when folk tend to watch more TV.

mackersdublin

patrickmooney wrote: »

Doesn't RTE realise that everyone has RTE News Now, which overnight also shows Euronews.

RTÉ News Now isn't available to Sky customers, although Euronews is

Elmo

mackersdublin wrote: »

RTÉ News Now isn't available to Sky customers, although Euronews is

Why isn't it?

RTÉ seem to have cut down there amount of imports.

Sam Russell

RTE News Now is only a 'sort of' channel since the rump FF Government, on its last day in office before they all retired on big pensions, decided to prevent RTE deriving any advertising revenue from two of its four digital channels. Since that decision, RTE have lost any interest in developing RTE NN and it is in limbo.

They need RTE 2 daytime to be free of childrens programmes and RTE 1+1 to be a full channel. They also need to be allowed to have advertising on RTE NN so they can afford to run it as a news channel, not just a simulcast news channel showing endless repeats of newscasts on other channels.

Perhaps, the minister (Rabbitte) might revisit this matter, but it is nearly three years and he has not done so yet.

Elmo

Sam Russell wrote: »

RTE News Now is only a 'sort of' channel since the rump FF Government, on its last day in office before they all retired on big pensions, decided to prevent RTE deriving any advertising revenue from two of its four digital channels. Since that decision, RTE have lost any interest in developing RTE NN and it is in limbo.

They need RTE 2 daytime to be free of childrens programmes and RTE 1+1 to be a full channel. They also need to be allowed to have advertising on RTE NN so they can afford to run it as a news channel, not just a simulcast news channel showing endless repeats of newscasts on other channels.

Perhaps, the minister (Rabbitte) might revisit this matter, but it is nearly three years and he has not done so yet.

Minister Rabbitte is due to shortly announce weather or not RTÉ can move RTÉjr programming from RTÉ Two. We may talk about the rump of the FF government but perhaps Minister Rabbitte can have a good aul cry at his predecessor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2sioK9Fcek

Sam Russell

That clip shows how tattered and torn our political system is. A minister with no shame, being harangued by a current minister with no shame.

There should be a 90 day sunset clause put into every decision made by ministers after the Dail has been disolved, and such decisions would have to be affirmed by the new incoming Government, or they wither. There are too many last minute appointments made to Government jobs, and dodgy decisions that benefit vested interests at our expense, by outgoing ministers after the election is lost. [And I am refering to most Governments over the last fifty years!]

Elmo

I know but it is something that I remember often because we see that Ministers don't really care, and if they can't get a small thing like broadcasting right then what's the hope for the rest of the policies for more important issues.

Sam Russell

To solve most problems, three solutions are suggested. One is quite good, the second - not so good, and the third is really quite awful. When the government is faced with such a selection, they will invariably put off the decision until they can come up with a fourth choice that is truly awful and could not be worse. This they then implement this truly awful solution, explaining that this is the best solution they could come up with taking account of the circumstances that now prevail.

The example in broadcasting would be:
1. Ray Bourke capping the advertising revenue available to RTE
2. The BAI.
3. The refusal to let RTE advertise on RTE NN.
4. The decision to warehouse €81m of TV3 debt.
5. The refusal to pursue the VAT on Sky subscriptions.
etc etc etc

Elmo

Sam Russell wrote: »

1. Ray Bourke capping the advertising revenue available to RTE

In fairness to Ray Burke he had it in for RTÉ so he was doing what was right for him and FF as he saw it, I mean you can't really say that any Ministers in charge after him had any real motivations, bar Micheal D. Higgins (TnaG, Section 481).

Sam Russell

Ray Burke was convicted of corruption and gaoled for it, so no fairness due there.

May the Lord save us from Ministers with motivations, as they tend to be in the same direction as Ray Burke's (but that does not apply to Michael D. who was always pationate about the Irish Language and poetry).

Elmo

Sam Russell wrote: »

Ray Burke was convicted of corruption and gaoled for it, so no fairness due there.

I was being sarcastic.

Sam Russell

Fair enough, but for someone who was convicted of corruption and gaoled for it to be still getting a state pension of over €100,000 a year requires a bit more than a bit of sarcasm.

He set up for Century Radio to get a sweetheart deal from RTE for their network coverage for next to nothing. He then capped RTE's income from advertising to shore up Century Radio, but they went bust anyway.

Elmo

Your right I underestimate what I said I was been satirical

icdg

Look this thread seems to have gone way off topic and turned into a "bash a random politician" thread, and this isn't the Politics forum. Think its time to put it to bed early