RTE Demographics

Yag reuoY · 19-08-2010 10:45PM #1

Does anyone know the distribution of RTE employees depending on to their county of origin? IE No. of employees based on where they're from?

I have a horrid feeling it's slightly Dublin-centric.

RoundyMooney · 19-08-2010 10:48PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Does anyone know the distribution of RTE employees depending on to their county of origin? IE No. of employees based on where they're from?

I have a horrid feeling it's slightly Dublin-centric.

Surely not!

super_furry · 19-08-2010 10:49PM

You get Nationwide. That should be more than enough for your kind.

gurramok · 19-08-2010 10:49PM

Slightly Dub-centric? What are you high on?

Has anyone ever heard an 'alright bud accent' presenting the news on RTE?!

I_AmThe_Walrus · 19-08-2010 10:50PM

RTE's target demographic are 70+'s.

TV3's target audience is significantly younger but still ****ty programming.

TG4's watchers are getting smaller and smaller.... :rolleyes:

FlutterinBantam · 19-08-2010 10:50PM

Thankfully no!

jester77 · 19-08-2010 10:51PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Does anyone know the distribution of RTE employees depending on to their county of origin? IE No. of employees based on where they're from?

I have a horrid feeling it's slightly Dublin-centric.

A nice cup of barrys tea and some chocolate biscuits should help those feelings... just don't turn on the TV

kev9100 · 19-08-2010 10:51PM

Obviously its dublin centric, its the capital city for feck sake;).

Kensington · 19-08-2010 10:53PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Does anyone know the distribution of RTE employees depending on to their county of origin? IE No. of employees based on where they're from?

I have a horrid feeling it's slightly Dublin-centric.

Their studios are located in Donnybrook, in County Dublin.
Surprisingly, a large proportion of their employees are from Dublin, or have lived in, or just outside Dublin for quite some time.

sron · 19-08-2010 10:53PM

gurramok wrote: »

Slightly Dub-centric? What are you high on?

Has anyone ever heard an 'alright bud accent' presenting the news on RTE?!

Dub-centric, not Central-Dub-ric.

ejmaztec · 19-08-2010 10:53PM

I thought they were all cuntry people.

gurramok · 19-08-2010 10:55PM

Kensington wrote: »

Their studios are located in Donnybrook, in County Dublin.
Surprisingly, a large proportion of their employees are from Dublin, or have lived in, or just outside Dublin for quite some time.

Where did you dream this one up from?!

sron wrote: »

Dub-centric, not Central-Dub-ric.

Errr, da bud accent can be found in Sandymount as well as Tallaght

ejmaztec wrote: »

I thought they were all cuntry people.

+1

Yag reuoY · 19-08-2010 10:57PM

kev9100 wrote: »

Obviously its dublin centric, its the capital city for feck sake;).

You see, they justify their existence by claiming they are a national broadcaster, yet I don't see this in their programming.

I'm not Irish, but why, for example, should someone from Galway subsidise something as utterly rubbish as Fair City?

It doesn't make any sense, from any perspective.

mike65 · 19-08-2010 10:58PM

Joe Duffy is Dub as you get, full of windy opinion.

mike65 · 19-08-2010 10:59PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

You see, they justify their existence by claiming they are a national broadcaster, yet I don't see this in their programming.

I'm not Irish, but why, for example, should someone from Galway subsidise something as utterly rubbish as Fair City?

It doesn't make any sense, from any perspective.

Bracken, Riordans, Glenroe, Killnaskuddy?

Miss Lockhart · 19-08-2010 10:59PM

Being from Dublin, I always thought they were targeting folk from the country, since 99% of what they show is of zero interest to me or anyone I know.

Now you're saying country folk don't like that rubbish either and you think they're Dub-centric?

Who exactly are they targeting so?! :pac:

Jaxxy · 19-08-2010 11:00PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

You see, they justify their existence by claiming they are a national broadcaster, yet I don't see this in their programming.

I'm not Irish, but why, for example, should someone from Galway subsidise something as utterly rubbish as Fair City?

It doesn't make any sense, from any perspective.

Well Dublin people also subsidized such quality programming as Glenroe and Ballykissangel. What's your point?

mike65 · 19-08-2010 11:01PM

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

Well Dublin people also subsidized such quality programming as Glenroe and Ballykissangel. What's your point?

RTE had no hand act or part in that. Or Father Ted (for the really slow)

Yag reuoY · 19-08-2010 11:03PM

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Being from Dublin, I always thought they were targeting folk from the country, since 99% of what they show is of zero interest to me or anyone I know.

Now you're saying country folk don't like that rubbish either and you think they're Dub-centric?

Who exactly are they targeting so?! :pac:

It just seems that every second news report has some inbred Dub attach 'Dooblin' at the end of each segment. That and pretty much every programme.

Maye it's just me imagining things. :pac:

ejmaztec · 19-08-2010 11:05PM

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Being from Dublin, I always thought they were targeting folk from the country, since 99% of what they show is of zero interest to me or anyone I know.

Now you're saying country folk don't like that rubbish either and you think they're Dub-centric?

Who exactly are they targeting so?! :pac:

Their bank accounts with their pay-cheques. They don't give a toss about anything else.

Pherekydes · 19-08-2010 11:05PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

I'm not Irish, but why, for example, should someone from Galway subsidise something as utterly rubbish as Fair City?

I'm from Dublin, and I don't see why someone from Dublin should subsidise rubbish like Fair City, either.

Miss Lockhart · 19-08-2010 11:05PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

It just seems that every second news report has some inbred Dub attach 'Dooblin' at the end of each segment. That and pretty much every programme.

Maye it's just me imagining things. :pac:

To me it seems that the majority of their programmes (apart from Fair City) involve mostly non-Dublin issues.

Yag reuoY · 19-08-2010 11:06PM

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

Well Dublin people also subsidized such quality programming as Glenroe and Ballykissangel. What's your point?

My point is, no such crap should exist.

:pac:

I'd rather have NO such programming just for the sake of a decent news service.

Not going to happen when RTE is controlled by the government.

Yag reuoY · 19-08-2010 11:07PM

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

To me it seems that the majority of their programmes (apart from Fair City) involve mostly non-Dublin issues.

Watch tomorrow's news and tell me how many reports are from out of Dublin - that will set you straight.

Pherekydes · 19-08-2010 11:08PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

It just seems that every second news report has some inbred Dub attach 'Dooblin' at the end of each segment. That and pretty much every programme.

Maye it's just me imagining things. :pac:

You do realise that one third of the population lives in the greater Dublin area, so you might expect more of the national news to occur in this area.

mike65 · 19-08-2010 11:08PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Watch tomorrow's news and tell me how many reports are from out of Dublin - that will set you straight.

News happenings outside Dublin? :eek: How dare the rest of the world have stuff going on.

mohawk · 19-08-2010 11:09PM

mike65 wrote: »

Bracken, Riordans, Glenroe, Killnaskuddy?

Bracken and the Riordans?? How old are you? Some us weren't alive back in the stone age.
Thankfull glenroe is gone a long time.

Miss Lockhart · 19-08-2010 11:10PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

Watch tomorrow's news and tell me how many reports are from out of Dublin - that will set you straight.

But if I watch the news from other countries (and I do, daily) I see a majority of reports from the capital city there too - seems normal to me. That's where the government and main centres of finance etc are, as well as quarter the population, so it is the location for lots of stories.

Every day I see lots of reports from outside Dublin - if that's where the events happened.

mike65 · 19-08-2010 11:10PM

Old enough to have been a fan of the Riordans in that queasy Sunday night 8 pm way!

Yag reuoY · 19-08-2010 11:11PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

You do realise that one third of the population lives in the greater Dublin area, so you might expect more of the national news to occur in this area.

I understand that. I'd be pretty happy if 66.6% of the news pertained to the rest of Ireland.

It doesn't. :mad:

Miss Lockhart · 19-08-2010 11:13PM

Yag reuoY wrote: »

I understand that. I'd be pretty happy if 66.6% of the news pertained to the rest of Ireland.

It doesn't. :mad:

Of course lots of news happens outside Dublin, but I think a majority of news of national importance (when you only have 30 mins to report it) happens in the Dublin area.

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