Cutbacks required at RTE

political analyst

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Stop wasting money on DAB, it's a dead end.

DAB+ replaced it. No commercial channels use it , or DAB+ for that matter.
Few people have DAB+ receivers. Every car and smartphone has an FM receiver.

Will the analogue radio network in Ireland ever be replaced with digital?

political analyst

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Irish Sign Language is not English or Irish, it's a separate language so subtitles aren't a replacement. And Irish Sign Language is different to that in the UK too. And it's cheap telly to produce compared to outside broadcast or commissioning a series.

Not sure but I'd imagine it's one of those EU/ECJ things if push came to shove.

Surely, deaf people can read in the English language, can't they?! Seriously, do deaf people in the UK and Ireland not learn the English language?! If you can see, you can learn to read.

Elmo

political analyst wrote: »

Surely, deaf people can read in the English language, can't they?! Seriously, do deaf people in the UK and Ireland not learn the English language?! If you can see, you can learn to read.

This is a very very narrow view of communication.

The Deaf are very lucky now to have text messaging, email and the internet for communications. That doesn't take from that fact they they continue to use their own way of communicating verbally.

RTE have already cut their only deaf programming, which was slowly done away with over the past few years.

Lets suggest that RTE drop audio on RTE ONE +1 after all it carries subtitling.

lertsnim

political analyst wrote: »

Surely, deaf people can read in the English language, can't they?! Seriously, do deaf people in the UK and Ireland not learn the English language?! If you can see, you can learn to read.

Just because you don't get value from it is no reason to ditch News For The Deaf. Besides what would it save? Ridiculous idea.

Stasi 2.0

I see the need for news with SL but why does it need to be on a seperate news programme ?

Other countries have an early evening news programme with an inscreen SL interpreter but in Ireland we have a half hour news programne followed by a five minute highly abridged rehash with sign language.

Surely scrapping the separate bulletin and including sign language on the main news programme would serve everyone better ?

Dont know why people think closing News now or +1 channels is going to save vast amounts of money. Not a massive fan of +1 channels (they waste bandwidth and clutter up the EPG ) but they cost hardly anything to run.

As for celebrity presenters moving across the Irish sea it must be remembered that most of them are complete unknowns over there and its not as if the UK doesnt have talented broadcasters of its own.

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channelsurfer2

please delete. i posted in wrong thread by mistake. thanks