RTÉ is a disgrace

I only watch Sport and occassionally the News on RTE.

Well you have access to BBC iPlayer but people south of the border don't, fair is fair

Rte as a state broadcaster is utterly disgusting. Zero talent, paid astronomical salary, obviously entwined with a political agenda. And forget all of that. Imagine if rte broadcasters had to start again as YouTube broadcaster with zero backing. They'd get 8 views. Rte has to be killed and lit on fire tonight and replaced with shipping forecast. I can't even believe rte exists and rotten old bitches and whatever get paid to talk about nothing. It's completely outrageous and indefensible.

RTE's output, especially at Christmas is truly woeful. Endless cooking programmes, think I spotted 3 of them between 6pm and 9 one evening recently. Like I know its Christmas, but that's just taking the piss. Reality TV drivel on nearly every night, the worst offender being that fittest family thing. And then to cap it off, it's Mrs Brown on a loop over the entire Xmas schedule. I won't even get into that Eamon and Bridget thing........or any number of other vehicles for RTE non entities stealing a living in Donnybrook.

Apart from the news and the very odd Irish interest documentary, I give the state broadcaster a wide berth. I record anything decent on the British channels and watch them minus ads in my own time. BBC4 and Channel4 often have something of interest. After that, Youtube has taken over for most of my viewing needs. I've got Premium, so no ads and you are watching content of actual interest to you, often with sky high production values.

I don't expect RTE to compete with heavyweight international media giants but outside of sport and current affairs, lets not pretend they are providing a balanced, good quality service either. So much of it is lowest common denominator rubbish, they are starting to resemble TV3 in the early days.

TLDR;

Ryan Tubridy is employed there. Enough said.

But that's not unique to RTE.

On BBC "Strictly Come Dancing" used to be a one night a week show.

But it has evolved into the show on Saturday, the results on Sunday, and a five day a week magazine show Monday to Friday.

I'm sure there are radio tie-ins in the UK also.

Same with all the ITV reality rubbish.

RTE1 in particular has just seemed to have given up trying. The same programme's repeated endlessly. I watch the six one occasionally. They can't even provide a full news bulletin during the summer and Christmas, presumably because they have to do holidays. Radio 1 shuts down completely and just plays music, embarrassing.

Sh1te programmes on all day the only thing I watch is the weather forecast which 9 times out of 10 is wrong.

the covid agenda put me off the crap for ever

You see that's the problem with RTE,stuck in the past. Dunno if we learned anything new with the Quinn documentary,but the civil war and FF FG rivalry has been dug up and flogged so many times it's time to have them cremated. Wonder how often they get repeated.

There's nothing on RTE to interest the under 70's.