Watching UK news at 10 o'clock in the Republic.

political analyst

Of those viewers in the Republic who watch a UK news bulletin at 10 o'clock, which one do most of them watch?:

BBC News at Ten
ITV News at Ten
Sky News at Ten

Of those viewers, would many have watched ITV News at Ten before UTV Ireland replaced UTV NI on UPC? Or is it the case that viewers in the Republic who wanted to see world news from an external perspective had abandoned the ITN service on the ITV network in favour of the BBC and Sky News, especially after the ITN 10 o'clock bulletin was axed in 1999?

Johnboy1951

I never watch Sky News ....... not for years.

BBC, ITV, RTE, TV3 yes but not religiously at any particular time.
I will often browse others too ..... Euronews, France24, RT etc.

political analyst

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

I never watch Sky News ....... not for years.

BBC, ITV, RTE, TV3 yes but not religiously at any particular time.
I will often browse others too ..... Euronews, France24, RT etc.

What did you dislike about Sky News?

bobbysands81

political analyst wrote: »

Of those viewers in the Republic who watch a UK news bulletin at 10 o'clock, which one do most of them watch?:

BBC News at Ten
ITV News at Ten
Sky News at Ten

Of those viewers, would many have watched ITV News at Ten before UTV Ireland replaced UTV NI on UPC? Or is it the case that viewers in the Republic who wanted to see world news from an external perspective had abandoned the ITN service on the ITV network in favour of the BBC and Sky News, especially after the ITN 10 o'clock bulletin was axed in 1999?

Generally don't watch British daily news as a stabbing in Greenwich or a petrol station robbery on the Wirral is fairly irrelevant to me. I don't understand why folk watch Sky News constantly. It's mostly culturally irrelevant. It says nothing to me about my life.

However, relevant feature items that they do can be informative and interesting.

bobbysands81

political analyst wrote: »

What did you dislike about Sky News?

It's lack of news about Ireland would be my main factor.

No point watching news if it's irrelevant to your life. In general Sky News is irrelevant to people living in Ireland.

Johnboy1951

political analyst wrote: »

What did you dislike about Sky News?

I didn't like the way it was presented presented mostly, but the content only interested me about 10% of the time (guess as it has been a while).

STB.

political analyst wrote: »

Of those viewers in the Republic who watch a UK news bulletin at 10 o'clock, which one do most of them watch?:

BBC News at Ten
ITV News at Ten
Sky News at Ten

Of those viewers, would many have watched ITV News at Ten before UTV Ireland replaced UTV NI on UPC? Or is it the case that viewers in the Republic who wanted to see world news from an external perspective had abandoned the ITN service on the ITV network in favour of the BBC and Sky News, especially after the ITN 10 o'clock bulletin was axed in 1999?

The time is a misnomer. Viewing habits by Irish of UK news programmes has radically changed with the proliferation of dedicated free to air news channels like BBC NEWS, Sky News, RT, CNN, etc, which can be switched to any hour, not to mention the influence online news/twitter etc. There is not the same loyalty that goes with audience figures for RTE news at 6 and 9. RTE News now channel hasn't caught on yet and is mainly a loop.

AwaitYourReply

STB. wrote: »

The time is a misnomer. Viewing habits by Irish of UK news programmes has radically changed with the proliferation of dedicated free to air news channels like BBC NEWS, Sky News, RT, CNN, etc, which can be switched to any hour, not to mention the influence online news/twitter etc. There is not the same loyalty that goes with audience figures for RTE news at 6 and 9. RTE News now channel hasn't caught on yet and is mainly a loop.

I tend to prefer itv News at Ten on itv mainly because of it's style and delivery of all the UK based news bulletins going out at that hour. BBC News channel presentation and marketing (especially since they moved from BBC Television Centre to New Broadcasting House in London in 2013) is impressive not to mention the iconic BBC News channel top-of-the-hour Countdown vt & theme music is very well produced and quite catchy.

RTÉ News Now probably has only ONE exclusive bulletin of it's own and that usually goes out LIVE at 11:00pm Mon-Thurs weekdays. Most if not all other bulletins are simulcast with RTÉ One TV on that never-ending loop. RTÉ badly need to be permitted to generate an advertising revenue stream on services like RTÉ News Now, RTÉ junior and their digital only radio stations but they have been unable to do so to date.

Arthur Daley

BBC news at ten usually. Although the itv news at ten is not bad every now and then. There is huge overlap between our news and british news. When you have both options you are well served to pick and mix, without becoming too parochial in views by sticking with the irish news only.Major irish stories like 1916 commemoration or the election or gay marraige vote will make the british news also.

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bobbysands81 wrote: »

It's lack of news about Ireland would be my main factor.

No point watching news if it's irrelevant to your life. In general Sky News is irrelevant to people living in Ireland.

This is very true... I've also noticed that Sky News has tended to carry less and less news content relevant to the Republic of Ireland in recent years. The abrupt fallout when they gave staff very short notice indeed of the planned closure of Sky News Ireland some years ago has probably left a sour taste. They axed the entire weather forecast presentation team led at one time by Francis Wilson go quite suddenly too. I think people always expected the main UK terrestrial channels like BBC News/itv News/Channel 4 News/Channel 5 News to provide token coverage on Ireland affairs but Sky News was different as it was a satellite tv channel that was also reaching out beyond the UK to places like Ireland because it regarded this country as being one of it's key growth markets in terms of growing Sky Digital subscriptions.

I have drifted towards BBC News channel at other times of day to avoid the frequent Sky promos and regular commercial breaks. In the early days Sky News had different programmes at 30mins past most hours with brief news headline updates 15mins later and a full bulletin at the top of the hour. Some exceptions were longer 60 minute shows like Live at 5 or Sky World News Tonight (remember Scott Chisholm/Chris Mann/Selina Scott) which was a late evening news programme in the days before Sky News at Ten came about after ITN News at Ten on itv was axed all those years ago.

political analyst

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

RTÉ News Now probably has only ONE exclusive bulletin of it's own and that usually goes out LIVE at 11:00pm Mon-Thurs weekdays.

I think that it's also aired on Friday night (in addition to the News Extra that is still aired for the benefit of those who watch the Late Late Show). There are also bulletins in the middle of the morning and at midday on News Now.

AwaitYourReply

political analyst wrote: »

I think that it's also aired on Friday night (in addition to the News Extra that is still aired for the benefit of those who watch the Late Late Show). There are also bulletins in the middle of the morning and at midday on News Now.

I thought I tuned in one Friday at 11:00pm and it seemed like an earlier bulletin and then I remembered it was because of News Extra coming up following The Late Late Show. Over the years, Network News on RTÉ 2 was NOT broadcast on Friday nights either - I think there was some trade union industrial dispute some years ago and I think one of the resolutions to the dispute was that there would be no further late night news programme going out on RTÉ 2 on Friday Nights and I think that's where Late News Extra commenced over on RTÉ One. In those days RTÉ One always had "Late News" headlines every night but Friday you had Late News Extra which was a bit longer as there was no longer Network News/Newsnight on RTÉ 2 on Friday nights after the trade union dispute was settled.

Ah right, I thought they might have been simulcasts with RTÉ One in the form of news headlines. Interesting to know they have now THREE of their own. RTÉ News Now channel needs major investment or it will become a complete joke and become more & more irrelevant in a rapidly changing world.

icdg

That's an odd one - I can't see why it would matter to the unions what channel the late night news went out on, given that staff would have to be in anyway. Now if the resolution was that no late news was being broadcast at all then I would understand.

twinklerunner

bobbysands81 wrote: »

It's lack of news about Ireland would be my main factor.

No point watching news if it's irrelevant to your life. In general Sky News is irrelevant to people living in Ireland.

Its only Irish 'coverage' is ads and the occasional mention in the weather forecast .. where it differentiates between the forecast in Northern Ireland and the Republic.

twinklerunner

political analyst wrote: »

Of those viewers in the Republic who watch a UK news bulletin at 10 o'clock, which one do most of them watch?:

BBC News at Ten
ITV News at Ten
Sky News at Ten

Of those viewers, would many have watched ITV News at Ten before UTV Ireland replaced UTV NI on UPC? Or is it the case that viewers in the Republic who wanted to see world news from an external perspective had abandoned the ITN service on the ITV network in favour of the BBC and Sky News, especially after the ITN 10 o'clock bulletin was axed in 1999?

I used to watch the BBC News at 10, but recently I've started watching ITV's News instead. I really like Tom Bradby's style of presenting and they have also recruited some old BBC reporters (Robert Peston, etc)

Elmo

RTÉ2 basically dropped its Newsnight/Network News/News2/RTÉ News on 2 in favour of NewsFeed and the move of the reduced 10 minute bulletin to RTÉ News Now.

At least as far back as 1997 RTÉ2's news did not air on Friday night when it moved to 11pm instead a longer late night bulletin on RTÉ ONE following TLLS, with late night news on One Monday to Thursday. Does RTÉ simulcast the late night RTÉ ONE news on news now?

also in relation to 2 news aired at 7:Cursai, 8: Bulletin, 11:Network News, Market Place and 2fm bulletins on The Beat Box/2TV. Now it is reduced to 2 short bulletins at 7 and 8!

political analyst

Elmo wrote: »

At least as far back as 1997 RTÉ2's news did not air on Friday night when it moved to 11pm....!

That was the case also before 1997.

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Elmo wrote: »

RTÉ2 basically dropped its Newsnight/Network News/News2/RTÉ News on 2 in favour of NewsFeed and the move of the reduced 10 minute bulletin to RTÉ News Now.

At least as far back as 1997 RTÉ2's news did not air on Friday night when it moved to 11pm instead a longer late night bulletin on RTÉ ONE following TLLS, with late night news on One Monday to Thursday. Does RTÉ simulcast the late night RTÉ ONE news on news now?

also in relation to 2 news aired at 7:Cursai, 8: Bulletin, 11:Network News, Market Place and 2fm bulletins on The Beat Box/2TV. Now it is reduced to 2 short bulletins at 7 and 8!

News Extra on Friday Nights following The Late Late Show is the only night you will find a late night bulletin on RTÉ One TV these days as far as I know - RTÉ One axed it's Late News Summary on all other nights probably because RTÉ News Now has a late live bulletin at 23:00hrs on weeknights anyway and they need to justify the purpose of that channel.