Budget cuts at RTE?

Uthur

has the length of RTE's news broadcasts all been cut in two this week or were they always this short??

paulbok

Garth Brooks fiasco over with, so no other news to report.

Sunnyisland

Nothin much happening now....according to etr

comongethappy

Uthur wrote: »

has the length of RTE's news broadcasts all been cut in two this week or were they always this short??

They only employ 2,300 staff, producing several hours of content a day.

So when a few go on holiday, tbe other 2,000+ can't be dealing with 30 mins of filler.

black & white

AFAIR it's always down to 30 mins for August.

Buona Fortuna

Its about time RTE started cutting its cloth. It should start with Tubridy and then that ar$e Duffy.

Iang87

pity they wouldnt cut the black hole that is the RTE orchestra.

Bummer1234

Are they showing reeling in the years at 6.30 again? Thats a hard bet program!!

Buona Fortuna

Nobody cares

No Pants

Don't get RTE anymore, so Dobbo could be doing a gig in his birthday suit for all I know. Excellent value for €160 per year.

suicide_circus

Iang87 wrote: »

pity they wouldnt cut the black hole that is the RTE orchestra.

One of the few divisions of rte that has any merit

FunLover18

They had that RTE Now (the news one?) channel on the TV in work today, it's awful. There were two stories in the "Entertainment" section and one was "Domhnall Gleeson jokes about the secrecy surrounding Star Wars Episode VII"

THAT WAS IT!! They didn't even have the joke. How is that news?

kneemos

Much prefer TV3's more relaxed attitude,shame the programs are so bad.
RTE's inability to change and drag itself out of the 1950's is annoying,but they get a lot of viewers for some programs simply because they're Irish I presume.

farmerjj

Uthur wrote: »

has the length of RTE's news broadcasts all been cut in two this week or were they always this short??

Happens every summer.

Mrs Garth Brooks

They were looking for job bridge interns or slaves a few a weeks ago. Two of them to slave away in the video library department.

So yeah, budget cuts in rte if they're using job bridge.

cloud493

Eh, I prefer nationwide to reeling in the years. Love dem human interest stories.

foxy farmer

Fair City should surely be cut before the news. Thats 30 mins of needless waste right there.

Banjo String

Talking of budgets and rte...

Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits talking Shiite about taxes:mad:

wp_rathead

Banjo String wrote: »

Talking of budgets and rte...

Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits :mad:

that was THE WORST :mad::mad::mad:

Buona Fortuna

cloud493 wrote: »

Eh, I prefer nationwide to reeling in the years. Love dem human interest stories.

I actually watch and enjoy both. You could put them on in place of the Late Late.

How come my emoticons have gone?

ANd how come I can't bold stuff?

foxy farmer

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I actually watch and enjoy both. You could put them on in place of the Late Late.

How come my emoticons have gone?

ANd how come I can't bold stuff?

Nationwide with Mary Kennedy mmmmmmm. Wait.
Put her on the Late Late.

jjbrien

kneemos wrote: »

Much prefer TV3's more relaxed attitude,shame the programs are so bad.
RTE's inability to change and drag itself out of the 1950's is annoying,but they get a lot of viewers for some programs simply because they're Irish I presume.

Its a pity TV3 doesnt do news on the weekend Id be watching it instead of RTE

Didnt they save a million or two by Pat Kenny's departure for newstalk?

RobertKK

Banjo String wrote: »

Talking of budgets and rte...

Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits talking Shiite about taxes:mad:

Yes, as children it was awful and we only had two channels...

Fudge You

Uthur wrote: »

has the length of RTE's news broadcasts all been cut in two this week or were they always this short??

Its because the Dail is on holdiays.
And for the last few years, Reeling in the years has been on straight afterwards.

RobertKK

They do because nothing apparently happens in August, even if history shows the opposite.

Snake

Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »

They were looking for job bridge interns or slaves a few a weeks ago. Two of them to slave away in the video library department.

So yeah, budget cuts in rte if they're using job bridge.

Your comment makes me feel sick.

Your name made me throw up.

The stupidity of your comment is baffling. JobBridge doesn't mean budget cuts, it means they're trying to do something productive and help some unemployed people get in the door of the work industry.

Fred Swanson

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mikemac1

paulbok wrote: »

Garth Brooks fiasco over with

I can't wait for Reeling in the Years 2014!

c_man

mikemac1 wrote: »

I can't wait for Reeling in the Years 2014!

Hmm, if the 2000s series showed it anything it's that the 2010s will feature RTE clapping themselves on the back about everything, and selectively showing certain clips which shows the lads in Donnybrook were right about it all along.

In the case of Brooks, I imagine they'll portray the country as having gone completely mad (slightly true) and that RTE had no part to play in fuelling the flames of it. And the music will be ****e cheapo stuff that they'll have no bother getting the licensing for when it comes to DVD time.

No Pants

Banjo String wrote: »

Talking of budgets and rte...

Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits talking Shiite about taxes:mad:

It was Playschool for me, interrupted by the British budget, but I remember the feeling all right.

Adamantium

RobertKK wrote: »

They do because nothing apparently happens in August, even if history shows the opposite.

True that, August was clean up and reconstruction month after Galway was liberated from the Indians.

Banjo String

RobertKK wrote: »

Yes, as children it was awful and we only had two channels...

Yeah why did the kids TV have to suffer surely the beige cardigan brigade searching fcuking going for gold with henry kelly or whatever used to be on back then, prob fcuking switched over to the budgget anyway .:mad:

jjbrien

Banjo String wrote: »

Yeah why did the kids TV have to suffer surely the beige cardigan brigade searching fcuking going for gold with henry kelly or whatever used to be on back then, prob fcuking switched over to the budgget anyway .:mad:

You mean the god awful live at three....

selfstarter

Banjo String wrote: »

Talking of budgets and rte...

Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits talking Shiite about taxes:mad:

i do'nt get this? zig & zag were on rte 2 & the budget was on rte 1

michael999999

Banjo String wrote: »

Talking of budgets and rte...

Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits talking Shiite about taxes:mad:

We would have been better off if Zig and Zag had been setting the budgets.

The country may not be ****ed now!

michael999999

GrayFox208 wrote: »

Your comment makes me feel sick.

Your name made me throw up.

The stupidity of your comment is baffling. JobBridge doesn't mean budget cuts, it means they're trying to do something productive and help some unemployed people get in the door of the work industry.

Ya while Joe bleeding Duffy earns 300k a year and gets about 8 weeks holidays!

lertsnim

Banjo String wrote: »

Yeah why did the kids TV have to suffer surely the beige cardigan brigade searching fcuking going for gold with henry kelly or whatever used to be on back then, prob fcuking switched over to the budgget anyway .:mad:

Budget coverage was on both RTE channels. Analysis on RTE 1 with live Dail coverage on RTE 2

jjbrien

lertsnim wrote: »

Budget coverage was on both RTE channels. Analysis on RTE 1 with live Dail coverage on RTE 2

Sure didnt they also cancel the den when there was horse racing on too

Snake

michael999999 wrote: »

Ya while Joe bleeding Duffy earns 300k a year and gets about 8 weeks holidays!

You'd take that package and more if you had to listen to oul wans talk on about how "there was no texting in our day Joe. We didn't get pregnant and 17, well we did but that was the norm Joe. That's not how things should be now a days Joe . "

Snake

jjbrien wrote: »

Sure didnt they also cancel the den when there was horse racing on too

They cancelled everything when there was anything "major" going on. I can only assume they want to watch the world burn.

AnonoBoy

August is always silly season, always has shorter news broadcasts.

It seems like some people don't have a memory of more than a year.

Everything will go back to normal in September.

rainbowtrout

It's always 30 minutes of news at 6pm followed by Reeling in the Years at 6.30 in the summer.

foggy_lad

WHAT! some of ye had two telly channels growing up?? All we had was Telefís Éireann and that was in black and white cos the telly was only monochrome.

FloatingVoter

In fairness to RTE they're just doing the Middle East repeating loop at the moment. Sky is doing the South African guy nobody ever heard of endlessly.

Whens Keelin whatshername back in the mornings ? She was an improvement on the pasted-on smiles over at TV3.

Jimmy Garlic

I have an idea for a programme... RTEs top celebs and Bosco go up the Dublin mountains to the hellfire club to hold a seance to get in contact with Gerry Ryan.

FloatingVoter

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I have an idea for a programme... RTEs top celebs and Bosco go up the Dublin mountains to the hellfire club to hold a seance to get in contact with Gerry Ryan.

Which would be embarrassing. He faked his death. Himself and Elvis are up there smoking all that gear that they found on the sub off the Cork coast. Don't tell anyone.

No Pants

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I have an idea for a programme... RTEs top celebs and Bosco go up the Dublin mountains to the hellfire club to hold a seance to get in contact with Gerry Ryan.

Could make a series out of it. Each week they hold a seance for a different, deceased Irish celebrity. If the celebrity in question isn't dead yet, there's a chance there for a spin-off show.

I'm obviously borrowing heavily from Bill Hicks' idea for a TV show; "Let's hunt and kill Billy Ray Cyrus".