RTE Radio Are A Disgrace!

mike65

Call me mad but I expect the "National Broadcaster" to have some news in the morning. Morning Ireland has fecked off totally for the week (I guess).

Only a hour from Pat Kenny from 9-10 is keeping any sort of news/current affairs going at the moment. If BBC did this there would be hell to payand a resignation.

Mike.

DMC

In fairness... Today on BBC Radio 4 is being edited by Fergie, the Duchess of York and Bono this week......

mike65

Thats still a news/current affairs prog with added "side features" thats all. The worlds (geographically) largest natural disaster is unfolding and Montrose is out to lunch.

Its like 1989 when RTE missed the Romanian uprising cos it happpened over Christmas.

Mike.

Greenman

mike65 wrote:

Call me mad but I expect the "National Broadcaster" to have some news in the morning. Morning Ireland has fecked off totally for the week (I guess).

Only a hour from Pat Kenny from 9-10 is keeping any sort of news/current affairs going at the moment. If BBC did this there would be hell to payand a resignation.

Mike.

I'd second that and Newstalk 106 weren't that great either over the Xmas, all I heard was a repeating tape!!!!

karlh

it's a shame we live in a country where the vast majority care about nothing but themselves, money, lattés and Dido.

it is very strange. we're lucky enough to have a free press and a broadly independent national broadcaster......amazing how the basics are watered down once we get comfy.

yes im bitter.

Mossy Monk

bitter but with a smile which is important

karlh

yeah i'm bitter but i can laugh at the state of things and myself for not emigrating sooner. working on it!

see they want to put warnings on pints now! :rolleyes:

frodi

I agree that it's a disgrace. Once our politicians lay low for a few days RTE turns off any reasonable news coverage. Things may be quiet here but life stil goes on in the rest of the world. Could it be that our overpaid presenters want to spend more time with their families over xmas. Tough! It's the same during August when the news room goes into sleep mode just cause a few politicians disappear.

RTE need to lose the provincial attitude and wake up to the fact that they are a national broadcaster.

jhegarty

mike65 wrote:

Romanian uprising cos it happpened over Christmas.

i think you mean ... cos it happend outside dublin....

6:01 news is for dublin news... i suppose everyone ouside the pale has nationwide...

is_that_so

Morning Ireland seems to have reappeared but 5-7-live was 5-6-live today
5-7-Live is a little less Dublin-centric so would not agree that all programs are Dublin-centric

That aside and slightly off-topic aren't RTE holding forums/discussion about future of broadcasting or even this

Elmo

That aside and slightly off-topic aren't RTE holding forums/discussion about future of broadcasting or even this

The link is about "The forum on Broadcasting" which took submissions from the public, indo. producers, indo. radio stations, TV3, TG4, RTE and the cable operators. (It happened in 2002).

TV3's submission http://www.tv3.ie/corp.htm. I cannot find TG4 submission.

Since then they have created the RTE Audience Committee with representives from all around the country. http://www.rte.ie/about/organisation/audiencecouncil.html

But I am in total agreement RTE News should run the same hours year round. If they expect to have a News TV channel they should show that they know what 365/24/7 news means.

DMC

In that case, I'm sure that Sky News viewers are thanking the channel for the continued (and well produced) coverage of the South Asian tsunami that has saved them for the annual "review of the year" loop the channel catches itself in at this time of the year.

jhegarty

DMC wrote:

In that case, I'm sure that Sky News viewers are thanking the channel for the continued (and well produced) coverage of the South Asian tsunami that has saved them for the annual "review of the year" loop the channel catches itself in at this time of the year.

i don't think there is anyone one these boards who wouldn't rather suffer "review of the year" in order that there is was nothing to report from asia this week...

Ulsterman 1690

Romanian uprising cos it happpened over Christmas.

And the news page on RTE's website didnt get any updates on Christmas day

BrianD

I also notice that when a politician or other individual makes a statement on an independent station, RTE now use the following phrase "... speaking on commercial radio". They even have the gall to say this on 2FM news - a station that is 100% commercially driven has no public service remit or purpose whatsoever.