Reeling in the Years 2000?

FreshCoffee

The last time RTE1 cycled through "Reeling in the Years" I noticed they completely missed the year 2000 (going straight from 1999 to 2001.


So I was keeping an eye on the schedule this time round and just over a week ago I noticed that once again they had scheduled 1999 this weekend on (last) Saturday evening and 2001 this evening (coming up shortly at 7pm) and once again skipping 2000!



I was curious and emailed info@rte.ie about a week ago to try and find out but got no answer except an automated acknowledgement saying that RTE is generally innundated with emails and may never reply (or that was the jist of it).


So does anyone know or have any insight into why RTE seems to no longer show Reeling in the Years for the year 2000? Perhaps some unique copyright issue arose?

jimbobaloobob

FreshCoffee wrote: »

The last time RTE1 cycled through "Reeling in the Years" I noticed they completely missed the year 2000 (going straight from 1999 to 2001.


So I was keeping an eye on the schedule this time round and just over a week ago I noticed that once again they had scheduled 1999 this weekend on (last) Saturday evening and 2001 this evening (coming up shortly at 7pm) and once again skipping 2000!



I was curious and emailed info@rte.ie about a week ago to try and find out but got no answer except an automated acknowledgement saying that RTE is generally innundated with emails and may never reply (or that was the jist of it).


So does anyone know or have any insight into why RTE seems to no longer show Reeling in the Years for the year 2000? Perhaps some unique copyright issue arose?

Maybe an issue has arisen with music used or a news item that's been overturned in courts or something. Denis o brien features in a lot of them so it's possible.

Charles Ingles

Couldn't make one for that year due to y2k virus

FreshCoffee

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Maybe an issue has arisen with music used or a news item that's been overturned in courts or something. Denis o brien features in a lot of them so it's possible.

Seems hard to believe that after so many years of broadcasting it RTE suddenly found a problem. I'm beginning to think someone accidently wiped the tape and they are afraid to tell anyone :eek:

Thargor

A single song would be enough to throw a spanner in the works, probably someone died since it was last broadcast and their estate jacked up the prices or something like that.

brian_t

Programme One: Reeing In The Years – 2000

Reeling In The Years begins its fifth series by showcasing the hits and the headlines of the year 2000, when fears over the computer ‘Millennium Bug’ proved groundless. It was the year that saw U2 get the Freedom of Dublin, an award that allowed Bono and The Edge to graze their sheep on St Stephen’s Green. The American presidential election descended into political farce in November, when George W Bush and Al Gore fought a legal battle over a handful of votes in the state of Florida.

Irish rugby got a bright new star when 21 year-old Brian O’Driscoll scored three tries in a 27-25 victory over France in Paris, while Sonia O’Sullivan took silver in the 5000m at the Sydney Olympic Games in Australia.

In Abbeylara, Co. Longford, an armed siege ended in tragedy as Gardaí shot dead John Carthy. The year 2000 also saw the Concorde air crash and the ‘Kursk’ submarine disaster. In Dublin, angry shareholders confronted Eircom management at the company’s AGM, while lobbyist Frank Dunlop made a series of startling revelations at the Flood Tribunal and a nationwide taxi strike brought chaos to Ireland’s cities and airports.

As reports indicated that Ireland’s booming economy was now creating over 100,000 new jobs a year, Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy introduced a series of record tax cuts. Westlife equalled the Beatles’ record of successive UK Number One hits with their first seven singles, Gay Byrne presented the RTÉ version of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’, and Dubliner Anna Nolan was among the residents of the first-ever ‘Big Brother’ house on Channel Four.

Reeling In The Years – 2000 includes music from Ronan Keating, Chicane, U2, Toploader, The Corrs, Blink 182, Blue, and Westlife.

https://presspack.rte.ie/2010/10/17/reeling-in-the-years-the-2000s-new-series/

rubadub

FreshCoffee wrote: »

Perhaps some unique copyright issue arose?

probably.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeling_In_the_Years#Copyright_and_DVD_release

Copyright and DVD release

Each edition of Reeling in the Years opens with the logo and the featured year on top. The above example shows the 1984 edition.
In the past, RThad said that, because of the number of clips from external companies used in the series, it would be infeasible to release it on VHS or DVD. It claimed that securing "video clearance" for each clip and song would make any release prohibitively expensive. RTdid consider releasing an altered version of the programme which would only contain the images and music that they owned the rights to, but that "the programme would only be half as good then, it wouldn't be anything like the shows that went out on air, and we'd end up disappointing people."[43]

However, in October 2008, RTannounced that they would be releasing a DVD of a cut-down version of the 1980s material. Reeling in the 80s[2] is an altered version of the programme which contains only the images and music that the producers were able to secure rights to, and it runs to about 150 minutes (versus 240 minutes for the original series).[2][44] It does, however, contain some original material that has been unearthed since 1999, and which has greater significance now, such as footage of former Prime Minister Brian Cowen.

Reeling in the 90s was released on 13 November 2009,[1] while Reeling in the 70s was released in November 2010.

The Reeling in the decades Boxset was released in 2011 which collected the 70s, 80s and 90s DVDs in one boxset.

DVD discography
Reeling in the 80s (2008)
Reeling in the 90s (2009)
Reeling in the 70s (2010)
Reeling in the 60s never issued yet

brian_t

But surely releasing the programme on DVD is a completely different issue to repeating the programme on Television.