rte to outsource children's programming

lalababa

Is this another degradation of rte services? What are the ramifications?

Agent Coulson

lalababa wrote: »

Is this another degradation of rte services? What are the ramifications?

Better children's programming maybe?

lertsnim

lalababa wrote: »

Is this another degradation of rte services? What are the ramifications?

More work for independent producers? They're not getting rid of children's programming.

Leprechaun77

lertsnim wrote: »

More work for independent producers? They're not getting rid of children's programming.

Some of the programming is pure rubbish but there are some ok ones that my kids seem to like. The quality does seem to have gone down a bit over the last few years. I don't know whether budgets have anything to do with it, but once they don't turn it in to another generic kids channel like all the other clones....might as well outsource the 9 o'clock news too 😉

No doubt they will get rid of the minions on the bottom of the ladder and those at the top will be re-housed somewhere else in the organisation....it's sort of what happens in most companies...

Occono

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/many-were-in-tears-abrupt-end-to-rt%C3%A9-programmes-for-young-1.2880910

Duggie2012

this is probably a good thing. but i never understood this whole cost saving thing. back in the day of the den that was hardly a big money drain on the finances. you had a presenter and 2 puppets who worked there anyway. why was this not maintained.

Lovely Bloke

Didn't they outsource their programming to Eastern Europe in the 80s too?

I remember those communist propaganda shorts masquerading as cartoons very well.

Duggie2012

could we get round the twist and teenage mutant ninja turtles back please....ahh the memories

McLoughlin

Duggie2012 wrote: »

could we get round the twist and teenage mutant ninja turtles back please....ahh the memories

Don't you mean hero turtles ?

StringerBell

Yep, Ninja was deemed too much for the little Irish minds to take!

Duggie2012

StringerBell wrote: »

Yep, Ninja was deemed too much for the little Irish minds to take!

was it, i can't remember. i remember it used to be on a friday evening at 5.30 on the den. had the pj's and all

darkdubh

Lovely Bloke wrote: »

Didn't they outsource their programming to Eastern Europe in the 80s too?

I remember those communist propaganda shorts masquerading as cartoons very well.

They should bring them back along with the Halas & Batchelor Autobahn animation and weird shorts featuring stop motion circus clowns hanging themselves.

seamus

It's a different environment now. Back in the 80s and 90s you only had RTE and maybe BBC & ITV if you were lucky. There was a captive audience of kids resulting in iconic memories like Bosco, fortycoats and the Den. Programmes that may as well have been constructed out of lollipop sticks and glue for the amount of money that went into them. What they lacked in production quality they made up for with insanity.

But now between all the dedicated kids' channels and everyone having 100+ channels, the same kind of amateur stuff we all grew up with just won't hold kids' attention.

This should be a good shot in the arm for people who want to work in this area. RTE has a long history of sticking with the same old people time and time again and not trying to attract new blood.

It's incredible that we have such a poor quality of children's TV programming when Ireland has some globally-renowed animation studios producing children's content for foreign markets.

Occono

StringerBell wrote: »

Yep, Ninja was deemed too much for the little Irish minds to take!

British. Ireland obviously got the same tapes.

iguana

seamus wrote: »

But now between all the dedicated kids' channels and everyone having 100+ channels, the same kind of amateur stuff we all grew up with just won't hold kids' attention.

You must be one of those incredibly lucky/smart parents who's child hasn't found immense entertainment from watching youtube videos of people opening eggs with toys in them, adults playing with toys or video games or kids talking about toys. The lowest production values you could possibly imagine and yet millions of children find them utterly hypnotic.