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icdg · 17-09-2025 10:00PM

They did.

That was the first year of the “exclusive week” concept which sees Champions League games being played on a Thursday, as well as the usual Tuesday and Wednesday in Matchday 1.

Europa League gets its turn next week with matches on both Wednesday and the usual Thursday.

deezell · 03-10-2025 09:33AM

More TG4 than RTE, but sad to see the programme maker Mochán Magan has died at 54, and of Prossie cancer of all things. I'd often come across his programmes when there was only shyte on Rte1 and 2, and subtitles are fine by me. I'd even get a good few of the Irish words that weren't beaten out of me in school in the 60s.

Get the PSA test lads, you could be completely symptomless, yet if psa is high, you might have a very high score in a subsequent biopsy and be an urgent case for treatment. I should know.

Delta2113 · 05-10-2025 10:05AM

I find the timing off today's Presidential debate very odd. Yes it's the regular time for The Week in Politics but surely it could have been done LIVE say after the 9 o'clock news.

dulpit · 05-10-2025 10:43AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123879274#Comment_123879274

Why? It's not the only debate, seems a handy time for a Sunday

Delta2113 · 05-10-2025 11:07PM

It's hardly Primetime (don't mean the show).

thesandeman · 06-10-2025 12:53AM

It's looking like the next debate can be held in the women's Jacks. It will save RTE a few quid on the set anyway.

RoTelly · 07-10-2025 09:06AM

Have to agree with @Delta2113 , @dulpit, no real reason why the TWIP wasn't live on Sunday at 10:30. However, the bigger mistake was that RTÉ repeated that debate after Jim Gavin withdrew.

While RTÉ I don't think ever had a late night news on a Sunday night it just shows that the cuts to RTÉ TV programming have left them unable to organize a news special about that news on Sunday night.

I don't believe this is due the RTÉ "financial difficulties*" but large due to their own past decisions on news programming over the last decade.

*least we forget that much of those difficulties come from RTÉ themselves.

thesandeman · 07-10-2025 09:19AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123885022#Comment_123885022

Virgin were worse. They were still promoting an interview with Jim up to 9pm last night.

dulpit · 07-10-2025 09:20AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123885022#Comment_123885022

Sunday night is not a night for current affairs in Ireland. Sunday morning is, we have TWIP and the Brendan O'Connor show on RTÉ as well as Anton Savage on Newstalk.

Midweek primetime will be covered too.

I have to agree though - showing the debate after the withdrawal was a weird call.

Delta2113 · 07-10-2025 09:39AM

It's only in the last few years RTE started showing TWIP LIVE - before that it was recorded and shown late on Sunday night (now the repeat showing).

RoTelly · 07-10-2025 11:09AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123885126#Comment_123885126

Is it live on a Sunday morning every Sunday?

RoTelly · 07-10-2025 11:15AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123885061#Comment_123885061

IMO it wasn't a weird call it was typical of RTÉ, it is apathy towards viewers and their schedule. It always has been.

Delta2113 · 07-10-2025 11:46AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123885396#Comment_123885396

Yes live every Sunday during it's season.

dulpit · 07-10-2025 02:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123885416#Comment_123885416

They have a politics show that is on every Sunday morning. Why would they change that to accommodate a debate? There will be more debates on at night-time before the election…

RoTelly · 07-10-2025 02:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123886039#Comment_123886039

You miss understanding me, I am agreeing with your point that, it was weird that RTÉ decided to carry the repeat after Jim withdrew from the race. But I don't think it is weird for RTÉ.

As for you point about TWIP, it start back in the 1990s and was a pre-record, was initially airing after the news, and tookover from Farrell (Brian Farrell's weekly political programme). Slowly afair it moved to 5:30 before ending up in the current early afternoon time. I think it was always recorded at the early time and shown at 5:30, and the current live show is about a decade old. Or at least this is how it seemed to me.

While the show itself has now become part of the "weekend politics" it is not unusual that a broadcaster due to the nature of something important move a show to a different time slot.

To me because most people will have watched at 10:30 and because TV election debates are usual on in prime time, I would have moved it to the later time and repeated it the next morning.

Or if I had a Monday night Q&A type show I might use that as forum for a Debate, but RTÉ have cut that and don't seem to be replacing it.

icdg · 10-10-2025 11:35AM

Probably the biggest “at one time” schedule upheaval at Radio 1 since Gay Byrne left, with new hosts in virtually every time slot. Kieran Cuddihy has been poached from Newstalk to take over Liveline, while the word apparently is that Sarah McInnerney, who probably would have gotten that job otherwise, will be going to Morning Ireland.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1010/1537838-rte-schedules/

I think they are making a mistake finishing Drivetime at 6pm mind, and the sports show is probably an hour earlier than it should be, and I do wonder how long that will last.

deezell · 31-10-2025 07:06PM

Just half-watching the weather at the end of the 6-one news, and I distinctly heard the weather woman point to the animated chart which she said was showing the 'Ray D'Arcy quence' . Did Ray get a job with the met office? What's a quence? Is it some type of weather disturbance <MOD EDIT: No suggestion this is the case>

RoTelly · 01-11-2025 01:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123952062#Comment_123952062

Met Éireann. (Just to be pedantic).

But on RTÉ ONE, I see one of their Daytime TV hosts got into the top ten earners, I think this might be one of the reasons it only airs for 8 months of the year.

deezell · 01-11-2025 04:09PM

Ah!!! It wasn't 'Ray D'Arcy quench,' it was 'Radar Sequence' ! I thought my ears were playing tricks. Poor Ray, probably doesn't fit the D4 profile of the place, being just a blow-in from Kildare, like myself when I worked there. He was blown out, without the help of a status orange storm.

mackersdublin · 01-11-2025 06:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123953559#Comment_123953559

RTÉ One
RTÉ2
RTÉ News
RTÉjr

Just to be pedantic. Bottom of the page - https://www.rte.ie/tv/

RoTelly · 02-11-2025 11:14AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123954433#Comment_123954433

Well when you notice a mistake on RTÉ's website :) I will have to email info@rte.ie haha. I am sure Ray and Daithi very worried about these type of errors!

icdg · 02-11-2025 01:14PM

Let’s leave the pendantary there, thanks.

deezell · 02-11-2025 01:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123956683#Comment_123956683

Or 'pedantry' even! Sorry, sorry.... mea culpa.

RoTelly · 02-11-2025 09:23PM

Suppose should mention that RTÉ2 is 47 years old, today.

deezell · 02-11-2025 09:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123957648#Comment_123957648

1978, remember it well. Big recruitment drive that spring for techhies, there was a mass exodus from the Signal Corps. where I was a gainfully employed tech, working for a pittance. Most, myself included, moved to RTE, others to an expanding Aer lingus, and their computer offshoot, Cara Computers. RTE2 was under construction. 2FM planned for '79. Exciting times I recall. Desperate inflation and income tax at the time, mortgage rates 12.5% if you could even get approval. You've opened the old memory well with that post I can tell you.

Digifriendly · 08-11-2025 06:31AM

No live or even proper OB coverage of Munster's famous win over NZ in 1978 due to RTE putting all their resources into beginning of their second channel. All we have is filmed highlights of match with commentary by Fred Cogley. A big faux pas surely by RTE.

icdg · 08-11-2025 08:08AM

Not justifying it at all but you have to remember in those days there was very little live rugby on TV at all other than internationals. It wasn’t like today when we expect all provincial games to be live.

Even for internationals you could only expect really Ireland’s games to be live - you would get delayed coverage of the other game, which often kicked off at the same time or perhaps an hour apart and you’d see the first or second half of it live and (if it was the first half) the second delayed.

The kind of coverage we’ll be seeing today between TNT, RPTV, and Premier would be a pipe dream in 1978.

deezell · 08-11-2025 08:17AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123971326#Comment_123971326

This was 1978. Have you any idea of the resources needed in 1978 to transmit and record an outside broadcast? The amout of staff, the amount and physical size of the equipment involved. Days of prep and teardown. Nowadays a passable broadcast/recording of a live match can be done by two guys with gear from a small van. In my later working days I recorded and streamed conferences with only myself at the helm. It's down to cost, and boy was it costly in '78.

In '79 during the Pope's visit I spent an entire working day ensconced on the top floor of Trinity college with the late broadcaster and former head of RnaG Pádraic Ó Raghallaigh, and all just to broadcast a 6 second radio clip in Irish as the Pope swished past us up Dame st. After that we went to the pub for the rest of the day. I retrieved my old ford Cortina and my small boot of audio kit from the College at 12.30 in the morning, the night porter opened the big wooden doors and the front gate leading to Dame st, and we proceeded grandly out, from where I ferried a very tipsy Pádraic home to Stillorgan, where we sat up half the night with his family watching the Pope's procession on repeat on RTE1. Heady days

Digifriendly · 08-11-2025 10:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123971384#Comment_123971384

BBC NI had live second half coverage of most of Ulster's home Irish Inter Provincial matches and of their matches against major touring sides in 1970s. I personally attended many of those games.

Also was there not extensive RTE OB coverage of GAA matches in the same decade?

icdg · 09-11-2025 12:31AM

Not live no. RTE only ever showed live the All Ireland Semi-Finals and Finals in both codes until the late 1980s.

The Sunday Game did not begin until 1978 and in its early years really did only cover one game.

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