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RTE TWO (1978)

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  • #2
    Copyerselveson
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    Had Conor Cruise O'Brien had his way the purpose of the second channel would have been to rebroadcast BBC 1 NI in its entirety but when FF came to power in 1977 that idea was thankfully dumped. In its very early days RTE made a good effort with RTE 2 but the presentation style didn't vary from RTE 1 and a lot of the schedule was indeed taken up with live re-broadcasts of UK programming. Printout was a decent newspaper review and other home produced programming like Aisling Geal and World Week were worthwhile.

    RTE 2 really took a hit quality wise after 1981 - the schedule was truly dire from then apart from MT USA - until the Network 2 rebrand in 1988.


  • #3
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    Copyerselveson wrote: »

    RTE 2 really took a hit quality wise after 1981 - the schedule was truly dire from then apart from MT USA - until the Network 2 rebrand in 1988.

    I think RTE 1 output was dire over that time as well, if I recall correctly.


  • #4
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,431 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    MT USA
    She's got legs, she knows how to use them.
    She never begs, she knows how to choose them.
    She's holdin' leg wonderin' how to feel them.
    Would you get behind them if you could only find them?
    She's my baby, she's my baby,
    yeah, it's alright.

    She's got hair down to her fanny.
    She's kinda jet set, try undo her panties.
    Everytime she's dancin' she knows what to do.
    Everybody wants to see if she can use it.
    She's so fine, she's all mine,
    girl, you got it right.

    She's got legs, she knows how to use them.
    She never begs, she knows how to choose them.
    She's got a dime all of the time,
    stays out at night movin' through time.
    Oh, I want her, said, I got to have her,
    the girl is alright, she's alright.



    Good night!


  • #5
    Onthe3rdDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Onthe3rdDay


    Copyerselveson wrote: »
    Had Conor Cruise O'Brien had his way the purpose of the second channel would have been to rebroadcast BBC 1 NI in its entirety but when FF came to power in 1977 that idea was thankfully dumped.

    To be fair that's basically what the people wanted. The only real reason RTE2 was set up was to provide a choice for those without access to UK stations. The various new Irish programmes that were broadcast on the station could easily have been accommodated on the one channel.
    Copyerselveson wrote: »
    In its very early days RTE made a good effort with RTE 2 but the presentation style didn't vary from RTE 1 and a lot of the schedule was indeed taken up with live re-broadcasts of UK programming. Printout was a decent newspaper review and other home produced programming like Aisling Geal and World Week were worthwhile.

    RTE 2 really took a hit quality wise after 1981 - the schedule was truly dire from then apart from MT USA - until the Network 2 rebrand in 1988.

    The first 3 or so year weren't bad at all but the station was always in crisis after 1981, basically because RTE really didn't have the resources to run 2 TV stations. There was serious consideration given to closing it down on more than one occasion and If we had won the eurovision in the mid 80's it's almost certain that would have happened.

    Remember we didn't even enter the eurovision I think in 1985 because RTE was so short of cash.


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