Rte 1 NOW

amdublin

What the heck

groovie

It's code we are being invaded.

Skid X

Freaky :eek:

Irish Ukranians, Not Russians? What?

Frank Lee Midere

Wtf are ye all talking about?

groovie

Needs a good drum track but not bad. Our Eurovision song?

lertsnim

A synopsis of what you are on about would be nice.

groovie

Turn on rte 1 and see

Westernyelp

That was really weird

Irish Ukranians not Russians --- 15 mins almost!!

F-Stop

Ah, thank you Loreal, we are worth it.

groovie

I kinda liked it.

amdublin

lertsnim wrote: »

A synopsis of what you are on about would be nice.

Says it in the title.

Rte 1 NOW.

Well for the last 10 mins anyway....

Washington Irving

lertsnim wrote: »

A synopsis of what you are on about would be nice.

The words "Irish Ukrainians, not Russians" are being repeated on a loop on RTE 1 and have been for the last 10-15 minutes.

amdublin

Westernyelp wrote: »

That was really weird

So wierd

geeksauce

wtf, that is super weird

groovie

Won't get that back.

Molester Stallone

It's over now, but it only seemed to be on sky, RTE2 hd wasn't looping here

Washington Irving

Molester Stallone wrote: »

It's over now, but it only seemed to be on sky, RTE2 hd wasn't looping here

You were on the wrong channel.

Skid X

Fixed now.

I liked it better when there was someone saying "Irish Ukranians not Russians" over and over again.

You had to be there

lertsnim

groovie wrote: »

Turn on rte 1 and see

If it was that easy I would have done so.

tinkerbell

WTF :eek:

Molester Stallone

Washington Irving wrote: »

You were on the wrong channel.

I meant RTE1 saorview

Pinch Flat

Thats the new ring tone sorted

F-Stop

Skid X wrote: »

Fixed now.

I liked it better when there was someone saying "Irish Ukranians not Russians" over and over again.

You had to be there

It's OK, I recorded it.

groovie

lertsnim wrote: »

If it was that easy I would have done so.

It was that easy.

groovie

F-Stop wrote: »

It's OK, I recorded it.

YouTube beckons. Chance favours the prepared mind.

BabysCoffee

What the????

I didn't see it but it sounds so weird

Skid X

It'll be worth watching RTE1+1 in about 40 minutes to see it again.

CrinkElite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3dJEUYqOoc

mjjcffree

unbelieveable no one in rte watches that crap, should be ashamed of themselves
national channel and no one monitoring it.

Patty O Furniture

Can someone post a screen cap, as i've sky only or maybe it'll be up in youtube soon, will it be on the rte player?

Skid X

IF YOU TUNED into RTÉ One television this evening, you might have noticed something a little repetitive going on.
While RTÉ’s Prime Time should have been playing, viewers were treated to a loop of “Irish Ukrainians, not Russians” for more than ten minutes.
However, Managing Director, RTÉ News and Current Affairs Kevin Bakhurst explained that technicians had been working to be fix the problem but were unable to rectify it for some time.

http://www.thejournal.ie/rte-one-prime-time-irish-ukrainians-not-russians-1343378-Mar2014/

lukesmom

They let it loop for 10 whole minutes, why didn't they stop it?????? Weird!

lertsnim

groovie wrote: »

It was that easy.

Let me turn on this invisible television here. Oh you could have turned on the stream online you will say. Poor 3G connection says no to that plan.

Any other suggestions?

Patty O Furniture

Here it is on youtube

& trending now on twitter

NormanNicetouch

I'm sure there must have been a few heads around the country who had had a few yokes, woke up in front of this and thought they had gone on a mad trip.

Bloe Joggs

Normally with a fault like that any TV station would kill the feed and send out a Test Card. Not that I really mind either way but I'm puzzled as to why they didn't do that. Weird.

Skid X

According to the twittery people it briefly started up again during Scott and Bailey just now on RTE1

afatbollix

Is it across all platforms? Like sky, Soarview, Soarsat and UPC??

Or was it only on SKY?

F-Stop

Edit

Patty O Furniture

"What Have The Russians Ever Done For Us"

afatbollix

Bloe Joggs wrote: »

Normally with a fault like that any TV station would kill the feed and send out a Test Card. Not that I really mind either way but I'm puzzled as to why they didn't do that. Weird.

Only a senior person would decide that and well they would be all at home. By the time they would of had the right people on the phone by the sounds of it they got it fixed.

F-Stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgAuXffjIu8

Because you're worth it.

Cork boy 55

Irish ukranians not russians

Fuzzy Clam

afatbollix wrote: »

Is it across all platforms? Like sky, Soarview, Soarsat and UPC??

Or was it only on SKY?

I didn't notice it on Saorview. I was wondering what McCullagh was going on about when he mentioned problems with sound.
It was unprofessional of RTE to kill the program in the way they did.

Wonder will this make the RTE News tomorrow lol

FouxDaFaFa

This could be a stupid question but I wasn't watching PT, was someone in the middle of saying a sentence containing the phrase "Irish Ukrainians, not Russians" which then became a loop or did the loop interrupt an unrelated sentence?

F-Stop

Not sure, when I switched to RTE 1 it was in full swing, it sounded like it was part of the initial interview. I thought maybe someone used the wrong audio file and had made it fill the time for the interview, but then it went over the studio stuff and into the ads. It then went on for more than 10 minutes, which is pretty crazy - I cannot understand why no one is monitoring what is going out live. Seems like not just one person, but a whole team were asleep at the helm while a live show was airing (Is Prime Time live, maybe not, shenanigans either way). Have to pay my TV licence this week... awesome.

brian_t

It was repeated an hour later on RTE+1

F-Stop

Brilliant

Fuzzy Clam

brian_t wrote: »

It was repeated an hour later on RTE+1

On Sky? It wasn't repeated on Saorview.