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Should the 20% News & current affairs rule be abolished ?

  • 08-10-2017 2:36pm
    #1
    Joe Duffy.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭


    I think it shouldn't because I think it would be such a shame when ilr stations like Clare FM & Tipp Fm would inevitably tune into a bad version of Atlantic 252 .


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  • #2
    Einstein A. Gogo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Einstein A. Gogo


    No. If the 20% rule was abolished we'd end up with voicetracked musak shows all day long.


  • #3
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,316 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Yes, I don't see the necessity for every station to be doing essentially the same news bulletin on the hour.


  • #4
    Einstein A. Gogo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Einstein A. Gogo


    Loafing Oaf wrote:
    Yes, I don't see the necessity for every station to be doing essentially the same news bulletin on the hour.


    The 20% has nothing to do with the hourly news bulletins. The 20% is usually made up of the morning local news and current affairs programming and evening sports news.


  • #5
    marno21
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    I think it needs to be applied differently.

    It is warranted on some stations such as the ILRs, but if a station is licenced to provide a music service such as 4FM why does it have to be broadcasting Niall Boylan twice daily to fill a quota? Surely it would be more marketable if it had a consistant sound and left the talking to every other station?


  • #6
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    There are already exemptions given for stations that are weaker financially; the single source new supplier makes it utterly pointless and it needs to go.


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  • #7
    SimonMaher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭SimonMaher


    Einstein A. Gogo wrote: »
    The 20% has nothing to do with the hourly news bulletins. The 20% is usually made up of the morning local news and current affairs programming and evening sports news.

    For music stations, the news bulletins are very much part of the 20%! I remember many days of sitting with my stopwatch in Phantom counting out the minutes to hit the target. We had 17 news and sports bulletins an hour of average 6 minutes each which burned up 102 of our required minutes a day. The rest was made up of our magazine show and a stack of random features to get us up to the magical 184. Utterly pointless quantitative measure, made even more so by the fact that all stations now use a single source (Newstalk).

    As another poster said, a number of stations now have derogations on the 20% which knocks it down by half or whatever and the lions share of that would be made up in bulletins and a few whats on guides and job spots :)

    Simpler times :)

    Simon


  • #8
    Infoanon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,769 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Einstein A. Gogo wrote: »
    The 20% has nothing to do with the hourly news bulletins. The 20% is usually made up of the morning local news and current affairs programming and evening sports news.

    job spots / entertainment news / traffic reports etc along with the news bulletins all contribute to the 20% rule.

    You could be very cynical about why the rule was brought in - and how it was used against Capital 104 in the early days... - its long past its sell by date and needs to go.


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