'It may take viewers from RTE's 9 O'Clock news but that's not the intention'

sexmag · 30-08-2018 7:22am #1

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/it-may-take-viewers-from-rtes-9-oclock-news-but-thats-not-the-intention-colette-fitzpatrick-on-virgin-media-news-8pm-bulletin-37263948.html

Colette said, "It may well take viewers [from RTE], but that's not the intention. That's not the reason behind it. It's to go it alone. It's an hour earlier. It's not the intention. If it does, it does, but it's not the reason."

I had to laugh as this is most blatent lie ive seen

Korvanica · 30-08-2018 7:29am

Good. **** RTE. Spending my TV License fee to show the Head of Diddlers for the whole of last weekend. Deserve to lose viewers.

Cabaal · 30-08-2018 7:31am

So this is a non-thread,

if they want to show news at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm or 10pm. Who cares?

If they do have an intention then who cares, competition is good

Lord Glentoran · 30-08-2018 7:33am

Will VMT1 pay tribute to TV3's early years by slathering its presenters in Kabuki-like make up?

KevRossi · 30-08-2018 7:34am

Their main evening feature will start at 8.30, which makes sense if you want a good film or 2 one hour anchor programmes.

Working hours have changed for a lot of people with longer commuter times and many people starting work at 8. Means they are going to bed a bit earlier than 10-20 years ago.

jaykay74 · 30-08-2018 7:34am

That gives RTE exclusive coverage of the news that occurs between 8pm and 9pm. Risky move.

KevRossi · 30-08-2018 7:36am

jaykay74 wrote: »

That gives RTE exclusive coverage of the news that occurs between 8pm and 9pm. Risky move.

News is changing. Its far more instantaneous and were getting it off social media. So it doesn't matter as much as a few years ago.

A good move on their part IMO

yabadabado · 30-08-2018 7:36am

Someone tell Collete there is a rolling news service so makes **** all difference when her show goes out.

Also if its like previous versions of TV3 news then RTE have absolutely nothing to fear.

UsBus · 30-08-2018 7:46am

KevRossi wrote: »

Working hours have changed for a lot of people with longer commuter times and many people starting work at 8. Means they are going to bed a bit earlier than 10-20 years ago.

Lot of people can only dream of starting work at 8.00
Its 7.00 or 7.30 if your lucky enough

TV3 news has always been absolute tripe...Brain dead reporters outside the criminal courts with the same monotone no matter what trial they are covering..If I need to see any major news at 8 I'll turn on Sky news or check my phone.

Signore Fancy Pants · 30-08-2018 7:47am

It's AnchorMAN not AnchorLADY!!!

jayobray · 30-08-2018 7:51am

If I need to see any major news at 8 I'll turn on Sky news or check my phone.[/QUOTE]

The Sun with moving pictures? :eek:

Mrcaramelchoc · 30-08-2018 7:52am

Damn it I wish the one with the big rack was presenting it.

yabadabado · 30-08-2018 7:53am

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

Damn it I wish the one with the big rack was presenting it.

Who ?

and pics

30-08-2018 8:02am

jaykay74 wrote: »

That gives RTE exclusive coverage of the news that occurs between 8pm and 9pm. Risky move.

Haha but tv3 have exclusivity to the 7-8 slot now. Now that schools have gone back they’ll be full blown riots trying to get the kids to go to bed early.

Will be old news come 9pm

dublinman1990 · 30-08-2018 3:31pm

Virgin Media said they had a big commitment to news & current affairs content. Their new website even from today still shows that commitment is still lacking the presence of a proper news website for their viewers when compared to RTÉ's offering of news & current affairs on it's own website. This new bulletin at 8 will probably give a small dent in VM' viewership but the news output will still be largely the same as all of the other bulletins on VM's other bulletins on their other channels.

It still tells us that RTÉ is still the kingmaker for producing high quality news & current affairs content in this country everyday of the week.

VM News will get a bigger slice of that audience if they get their act together if they want to up their game in this area.

sexmag · 30-08-2018 3:37pm

dublinman1990 wrote: »

It still tells us that RTÉ is still the kingmaker for producing high quality news & current affairs content in this country everyday of the week.

Lay off the wacky tobacky there tubridy