Senator Gerard craughwell wants RTE to save Atlantic 252

Cube98 · 10-03-2021 5:00pm #1

We have over 600k people unemployed but this tub of lard who is on full pay is thinking about a radio station that closed 20 years ago https://mobile.twitter.com/EndaOKane/status/1367592325216563201

Vic_08 · 10-03-2021 7:27pm

Cube98 wrote: »

We have over 600k people unemployed but this tub of lard who is on full pay is thinking about a radio station that closed 20 years ago https://mobile.twitter.com/EndaOKane/status/1367592325216563201

It's not long dead Atlantic 252. It's RTE 1 broadcast on 252 LW, the argument is that a significant number of mainly elderly emigrants still use this as a way of listening to RTE in Britain.

AFAIR the figure given before was that it cost RTE about €250k a year to keep the LW transmission going, so less than the salary of Tubbs or Dee Forbes.

Is it worth paying for? I don't know. Is it anywhere close to the worst waste of licence-payers money in RTE? No.

end of the road · 10-03-2021 8:18pm

i'm sooooooooooo outraged.
oh just soooooooooo outraged.

nope couldn't care a less given the thread title and post by the op is inaccurate.

Quantum Erasure · 11-03-2021 3:01am

end of the road wrote: »

nope couldn't care a less given the thread title and post by the op is inaccurate.

Did ye watch the video?

Agent Coulson · 11-03-2021 4:17am

I listen to Atlantic 252 now give me my money!

An Claidheamh · 11-03-2021 4:42am

An unapologetic former British army paratrooper being an Irish senator in the first place is laughable, yet alone he tried to run for President after swearing an oath to serve the British queen

He's an old union hack

Nothing new to gring to anything

He can pay for it, or they can get internet if they want to listen to RTÉ

Grab All Association · 11-03-2021 5:04am

Much prefer they saved DAB. It’s embarrassing that we are regressing whilst the whole world is switching/has to digital. 2RN needs to be taken under the remit of the Department of Communications and carriage fees abolished. Obviously we’d never attract half as many channels as freeview/freesat, but opening up the platform would attract some much needed competition in the market.

paw patrol · 11-03-2021 11:10am

An Claidheamh wrote: »

An unapologetic former British army paratrooper being an Irish senator in the first place is laughable, yet alone he tried to run for President after swearing an oath to serve the British queen

He's an old union hack

Nothing new to gring to anything

He can pay for it, or they can get internet if they want to listen to RTÉ

some waffle off you
he is the only politician that has consistently fought for better conditions for our armed forces. But don't let your blinked view stop you

he offered to run against mickey d to stop a coronation of mickey d without contesting an election - to offer people a choice and democracy to function

but yeah...boo him...the fiend

Montage of Feck · 11-03-2021 12:25pm

Grab All Association wrote: »

Much prefer they saved DAB. It’s embarrassing that we are regressing whilst the whole world is switching/has to digital. 2RN needs to be taken under the remit of the Department of Communications and carriage fees abolished. Obviously we’d never attract half as many channels as freeview/freesat, but opening up the platform would attract some much needed competition in the market.

It would probably end like italian tv only cheaper.

Dom the chemist · 14-06-2022 3:40am

Fatso was also one of those people who was calling for zero covid as recently as Easter 2021.

end of the road · 14-06-2022 4:55pm

so what? who cares? it's 2022 now.

Senator Gerard craughwell wants RTE to save Atlantic 252

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