RTÉ is a disgrace

RTE have a decent drama archive but their attitude to it is indeed disgraceful.

Would love to see the likes of The Burke Enigma on DVD. If it was made by ITV or BBC then a DVD release would be a certainty. [see www.networkonair.com]

Failing that, some repeats or even a streaming option would be good. But we get nothing.

RTE are no worse than any of the other terrestrial Irish and British channels ... if you were to rely on actual trad TV over Christmas you'd be miserable ... some desperate stuff across the board on all those non-RTE channels here ... sometimes the RTE content was actually better ...

In today's world ... one can be famous for just being famous ... that seeps into RTE but is endemic in UK and US too ... and often the argument is made when one discusses this pushing certain people at us ... that it did not happen in Uncle Gaybo's days ... I can assure you it did ... people were martyred or treated with (depending on your view) very regular appearances of the likes of Maureen Potter and Tom O'Connor back then ... not to mention Mrs Brown creator Brendan O'Carroll along with Boyzone being launched back then ...

I think RTE's funding should be generous but audited ... Tubridy and co should not be getting crazy salaries ... and money should not be spent on programmes people do not want or that have passed their sell by date ...

"Rte are no worse than others"

A great standard to measure yourself with.

How many people who say they don’t watch tv watch tv programs on the likes of the RTÉ player,od4 etc?

Depends a lot on who's presenting it. Some are sketchier than others on the details.

Also the graphics need updating to the twentieth century at least.

I agree with you about the weather forecast on RTÉ. It is not good for them to have to downgrade the quality of the weather maps sometimes when the cameras are in SD on the telly.

When I watch the TV weather forecasts; it has blocky text on it sometimes which is not a good broadcasting standard in 2023. The quality of the writing on the weather when looking at it up close on the TV is appalling.

The 5 day weather outlook is the only part of it that goes out in HD. The rest of it looks dreadful.

TG4 is a great station, not bad for a gang a muckers from Connemara, go h'an a mhaith ar fad, Bula Bus etc.

Agree. Close down Montrose and give its assets to the TG4 crowd in Galway.

.. Hidden Camera ... another jaded concept ... that and people imitating famous people ... seems to be all that they can do for comedy when Mrs Brown is not on ... did not watch the current version ... I remember the PJ Gallagher version ... called Naked Camera IIRC ... was the most unfunny thing of its era ... this from of comedy was fine back in the 1980s with Jeremy Beadle and even Mike Murphy ... but that Gallagher version and most likely that one one this Christmas are awful ...

They had that Mike Murphy’s best bits programme on for about the 25th time on New Year’s Day. About an hour or so later that breakfast crew hidden camera show got its repeat. I have to say Mike Murphy’s stuff from 30/40 years ago really showed them up for the dross that it was.

I only use RTE these days fleetingly, might randomly flick about and catch the odd thing, good dramas like Inside, but then again its a BBC import. It seems RTE has lost a flagship position of having good traditional music programmes eg, Come Whest..., Pure Drop, High Reel, the annual Fleadh Cheoill series, The Raw Bar and TG4 has taken over that position with some excellent trad coverage. Also classic rock programmes such as Under Ether, No Disco, The Eleventh Hour and the like. The Main Stage shows some promise if only they would get rid of the two annoying presenters and get someone experienced like Dave Fanning or Leagues O'Toole. Streaming TV otherwise is where its at, discovering some fantastic stuff on Apple TV at the moment.