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RTE want to close Aertel

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  • #2
    beejee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    I check the aertel more than I watch RTE, no joke.


  • #3
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,922 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    I thought Aertel ended nearly 20 years ago? Wasn’t that the thing pre internet


  • #4
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,432 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Do you need an approved box for Aertel?
    Used to be dead handy for results.


  • #5
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    So that was the plan all along: rural broadband was a cunning ruse to distract from scrapping aertel. Machiavellian subterfuge.


  • #6
    Gonad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Gonad


    Aertel is still a thing ?

    Anyone remember the quiz on the bbc one ? Think it was called bumblebee or something along those lines :)


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  • #7
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭touts


    How the **** do you get Aertel? 20 years ago there was a button on the remote. Now I've a smart TV and can get everything except Aertel.


  • #8
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,909 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    i think you need an approved Saorview box to get it? teletext, or whatever the old technology was called, was done away with when they went digital


  • #9
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    You can get it online here:

    https://www.rte.ie/aertel/


  • #10
    HBC08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,985 ✭✭✭HBC08


    beejee wrote: »
    I check the aertel more than I watch RTE, no joke.

    I genuinely do this too,
    It's on the app/site for those wondering.


  • #11
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    The early 90s called their looking for aertel


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  • #12
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,432 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    The early 90s called their looking for aertel


    Was it on a Nokia 6210i?


  • #13
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,257 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    You can get it online here:

    https://www.rte.ie/aertel/

    When you click on the page number ie. 220 for soccer it brings you just to the RTÉ soccer website, quite weird and pointless.


  • #14
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    touts wrote: »
    How the **** do you get Aertel? 20 years ago there was a button on the remote. Now I've a smart TV and can get everything except Aertel.
    Any TV including smart TV I've purchased still has a text button on the remote control and provided you have an aerial connected it should load the MHEG version of Aertel.


  • #15
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    kneemos wrote: »
    Was it on a Nokia 6210i?

    I'm not fully up on the numbers was that one gold front if so... Yes it yes it was as rte would have only had the best....


  • #16
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,124 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    How on earth does it cost a six figure sum to operate yearly? Seriously?


  • #17
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    sugarman wrote: »
    Aertel is Teletext, it went digital with the switchover.
    Wasn't it always digital, even in analogue TV days, just like the stereo audio carriers.


  • #18
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,384 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Gonad wrote: »
    Aertel is still a thing ?

    Anyone remember the quiz on the bbc one ? Think it was called bumblebee or something along those lines :)

    Bamboozle, was on c4's.


  • #19
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,432 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Why is it an attack on rural Ireland?
    If that's not a stupid question.


  • #20
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Switch it off. Users will adapt in about 1 week


  • #21
    CrabRevolution
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭CrabRevolution


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why is it an attack on rural Ireland?
    If that's not a stupid question.
    If you're a TD from outside Dublin wanting to stay in the headlines and get re-elected, it's crucial that your reflexive response to just about everything is to call it an attack on rural Ireland.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,250 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why is it an attack on rural Ireland?
    If that's not a stupid question.
    Digital services without broadband.

    On the cost there is presumably people or one well paid one employed to update it.


  • #23
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,909 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    did they ever get rid of radio 1 on atlantic 252?


  • #24
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,324 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    How on earth does it cost a six figure sum to operate yearly? Seriously?

    2 staff would cost that


  • #25
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,879 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Errortel more like ...


  • #26
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Gonad wrote: »
    Aertel is still a thing ?

    Anyone remember the quiz on the bbc one ? Think it was called bumblebee or something along those lines :)


    Channel 4?
    sQREzCK.jpg


  • #27
    paleoperson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    beejee wrote: »
    I check the aertel more than I watch RTE, no joke.

    Can I ask why? Like what possible benefit does it have?

    The only thing I could think of is that on the web there's so much stuff that you can get swamped pretty quick, while with aertel you're given just the essentials. But they would have to be really well-written.


  • #28
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,432 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Digital services without broadband.

    On the cost there is presumably people or one well paid one employed to update it.

    You can get the bloody thing on your phone.


  • #29
    VeVeX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭VeVeX


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    How on earth does it cost a six figure sum to operate yearly? Seriously?

    You cant get someone to scratch their arse in a semi state for less than €50,000 a year. There's probably a whole legacy department in RTE running aertel. Its a decrepit dinosaur from top to bottom and should be disbanded in its entirety. If the employees are as good as their pay cheques suggest they'll have no problem getting jobs elsewhere.


  • #30
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,519 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Be cheaper to give everyone broadband in the end...


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  • #31
    Doblin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭Doblin


    This never took off https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0717/890917-aertel-interactive/


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