Has RTE finally lost the plot?

LegacyUser

With their licence fee whinging,refusal to join sky despite falling ratings,and what i assume will be a no doubt dreadful winter schedule,have RTE dug their own grave?Preety obvious.

LegacyUser

seriosuly, who watchs rte for anything but the news anyway, i know i dont, and since they are even cutting the news, there gone, i dont think i licence fee is right unless at least teh majority of people watch it

LegacyUser

The only thing good about rte is the 2fm!!!!
And things are made worse when theres better programes on tv3 and they dont get a penny licence money while rte get both ad money + licence money!!

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Rebel18:
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And the licence fee doesn't pay for that!!

But I think 2FM is generally a pile of pants. If I could get decent Virgin Radio, BBC Radio 1 and Cool FM reception in the car down in Athlone, I wouldn't listen to 2FM at all.

LegacyUser

I dont really like 2FM much.Much of the music they play is rubish that was outta the charts last year.BBC Radio1 is alot better,with better DJs[the afternoon thingy with Chris Moyles is a right laugh]and good music.

LegacyUser

Taobh Tuathail on RnaG - it saves RTE totally. Great music.

LegacyUser

The reason why i mentioned 2fm because i heard joe duffy whos on rte radio one saying that rte is right to increase the licence money.

LegacyUser

Actually, RTE Radio 1 is pretty good. I listen to their current affairs every morning and evening on my way to/from work. I think its a lot more topical than Today FM.

It seems that RTE seem OK at radio and pretty disappointing at TV.

Mark.

Kix

I agree with Mark, RTE1 is very good in the mornings, which is the only time I listen to the radio. Now that I'm a bit older and not so tolerant of crappy pop tunes it's nice to have something grown up to wake up to.

K

LegacyUser

RTE has indeed lost the plot. But truth is, they lost it long ago. The re-launch of Network 2 simply hasn't worked with much of the programming available elsewhere. On the comedy front, they lost it when they axed THE END (i think that's what it was called...) with Barry Murphy and a host of Irish comedians. Now that was television...

LegacyUser

THE END (i think that's what it was called...) with Barry Murphy and a host of Irish comedians. Now that was television...[/B][/QUOTE]

The end - I remember that - pretty good - Barry Murphy's Stapleton impression (with the cardboard box for hair) always cracked me up. The programmes they showed on the end were pretty crap generally though.

LegacyUser

I just read through RTE'S Autumn schedule (story on the main ICDG site) and I have to say it good to see my license fee is being well spent (NOT!!). As has been said before, anything that might be worth watching is generally available elsewhere

Their refusal to go on Sky Digital (fast becoming the standard Digital platform - in Dublin anyway judging by the amount of new dishes) will be a VERY costly mistake for RTE - especially once the remaining UK Terrestrial channels (ITV/C4) join (slated for before the end of the year).

What grates on me tho is having to subsidise this channel even tho I hardly EVER watch it and certainly wouldn't miss it...bye bye RTE I think.

LegacyUser

i'd have to agree on the quality [or lack of] programming on RTE- pretty much non-existent. take telly bingo as an example. who watches that rubbish apart from old people with nothing to do? i only really watch RTE for the GAA, and i find the commentators for the most part to be awful. Brian Carthy on the radio is even worse.
While i'm talking about radio, i may as well mention that i don't listen to 2FM much at all- how those idiots dusty rhodes and rick o'shea got on air i'll never know. I am much more of a fan of BBC Radio1 and Moyles in particular, although Mark and the Boy Lard are great too and would whip 2FM alone in a fight any day.
Biggedy biggedy bong!

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The Boss

LegacyUser

I was in Dundalk a few days ago and the only houses that didnt have a minidish had a skyanalogue dish.Start worrying RTE.

Bard

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Ahhh c'mon...

when exactly WERE RTÉ ever actually "clued in"?

You'd have to -have- a plot in the first place to be able to lose it

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Bard

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LegacyUser

Well,i suppose RTE1 never had it but until a few yrs ago Network2 was fairly decent.

LegacyUser

who watches that rubbish apart from old people with nothing to do?

You are right! The only people I know who watch RTE are my parents and my parents in law' generation. They are truly doomed. In say, 5/10 years, they will not have a sustainable argument in relation to the regressive TV tax, as their viewing constituency will be largely gone, and younger people will not accept the need to subsidise RTE's plagiaristic drivel. Privatise them and be damned...

LegacyUser

who watches that rubbish apart from old people with nothing to do?

You are right! The only people I know who watch RTE are my parents and my parents in law's generation. They are truly doomed. In say, 5/10 years, they will not have a sustainable argument in relation to the regressive TV tax, as their viewing constituency will be largely gone, and younger people will not accept the need to subsidise RTE's plagiaristic drivel. Privatise them and be damned...I'll vote for ANYONE who has this as part of their manifesto at the next election (dream on for any politician to do something worthwhile...)

LegacyUser

Yeah,few ppl under 35-40 watch it idsay.Even now my mother only watches the news on it[while i on the other hand refuse to watch that little **** of a news that would have extended coverage if reports came in during the bulletin that Gerry Adams had a slight headache.]**** news.

LegacyUser

TV3 are a much better than RTE. Look at the ratings for evidence. RTE's top programme was Fair City with 300,000 and TV3's was Corrie with 500,000. Well done TV3 and keep it up.

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by klong:
i'd have to agree on the quality [or lack of] programming on RTE- pretty much non-existent. take telly bingo as an example. who watches that rubbish apart from old people with nothing to do? i only really watch RTE for the GAA, and i find the commentators for the most part to be awful. Brian Carthy on the radio is even worse.
While i'm talking about radio, i may as well mention that i don't listen to 2FM much at all- how those idiots dusty rhodes and rick o'shea got on air i'll never know. I am much more of a fan of BBC Radio1 and Moyles in particular, although Mark and the Boy Lard are great too and would whip 2FM alone in a fight any day.
Biggedy biggedy bong!


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Have to agree totally with you. GAA is the only thing I watch on RTÉ. As for 2fm, I do listen sometimes. As far as I can remember, Rick O'Shea and Dusty Rhodes were DJ's on Atlantic 252. Thankfully, I have Sky Digital which allows me to listen to BBC Radio 1, Virgin, Core, XFM, Heart, etc.
TV3 is currently the best Irish terrestrial channel IMO and I prefer watching TV3 News as I think RTÉ News is too dull and sour.

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WILL D

LegacyUser

it sounds bad but the only thing that will save rte's ratings is late night erotic movies. mark my words there the way of the future!!!

LegacyUser

Hmm we can only hope .Strangely enough i remember a few times a couple of months ago now seeing the odd film on TG4 like these.They werew some kinda French films set back a few centuries ago but very regularly they had some quite strong stuff!Thats Europeans for you-they use so called Artistic and Historical films as an excuse to make medium core porn.

LegacyUser

Why do we Irish always have a habit of knocking our own? Of course, RTE has its faults, but don't forget its budget is TINY in comparison with the BBC and ITV, so it's unfair to compare it with them. And just look and the CRAP that some of the SKY channels churn out, SKY ONE for example. By European standards, RTE is highly regarded and the licence fee is one of the lowest too!
As regards TV3, don't forget this is a FOREIGN station that just happens to have a licence to broadcast from Ireland - it's 40% owned by Granada TV, 40% owned by Canada's CanWest, and only 10% owned by some wealthy Irish businessmen.
RTE is owned by all of US!

LegacyUser

hmmm... I watch stuff on RTE a fair bit. A lot of their stuff is ****e but I'd say the exact same thing about TV3 and pretty much ever other channel (except maybe National Geographic!)

Everything is ****e except for the odd exception here or there

There you go. Topic can be locked now.

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You can imagine where it goes from here. --- He fixes the cable?

LegacyUser

I agree with marconi , if you think RTE is bad ,subject yourself to terrestial tv in most other ero countries and suffer...
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LegacyUser

That is funny.....RTE is owned by all of us ?

while technically true, it always appears to be very far from reality...
The general public actually has very little, if any say in anything that occurs in Montrose........and we have absolutely no say in what we pay to subsidise the company. The people who seem to own RTE are the old apparent stars like Gay Byrne and Pat Kenny - their salaries are amazingly high considering how badly the station is doing......I could go on all day about this stuff - but what's the point, until there is a major change in the management and the management style out there then nothing will change, it seems to be still run as a semi-state company and as such will never make profits etc.........

bkehoe

The only thing I look at on RTE1 is 'ER', and even that isn't really worth looking at as E4 on Sky have the same eps 4 days later, and much better quality and sound. I get my news from Sky News, usually Active, and any other viewing I do is on TV3 (Emmerdale and corrie, and sometimes their news), Sky1 (trek heaven ) UKGold, sometimes Sci-Fi, E4, BBC2, and the movies.
RTE has nothing unique for me, and my parents only basically look at it for news and Eastenders.

LegacyUser

Sky one is trek heaven!-liked Voyager,pity it had to end
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