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RTE Demographics

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  • #32
    Koloman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    If anything it's too Northern Ireland centric! Why does RTE need 4 NI correspondents when every other media outlet is reducing their NI activity? There so bored up there now I wouldn't be surprised to see Tommy Gorman reporting on a cat stuck up a Belfast tree!


  • #33
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    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:

    Bigger concentration?

    Imagine it like this: 100 villages of 100 people versus 1 town of 10000 people.

    Where will you get the bigger news stories?


  • #34
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    mike65 wrote: »
    RTE had no hand act or part in that. Or Father Ted (for the really slow)

    It's an Irish name of an Irish town. Forgive me for assuming that it was Irish (and possibly RTE) programming; I for one do not watch any of the above mentioned. Go intimate that someone else is of inferior intelligence elsewhere.
    Yag reuoY wrote: »
    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.

    Can't argue with that. But there is obviously an audience for it. If it didn't get the numbers surely it wouldn't be on the air?


  • #35
    Yag reuoY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Yag reuoY


    Miss Lockhart wrote: »
    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.

    The BBC(and other local services in other countries) proviede a local news service.

    OR,TE News, 'Dourbblin'. :mad:


  • #36
    genericguy
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    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.

    that's a shít, pointless question. oh, and i see what you did with your username, but if you look at it closely, you'll notice that you failed.


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  • #37
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    Yag reuoY wrote: »
    The BBC(and other local services in other countries) proviede a local news service.

    OR,TE News, 'Dourbblin'. :mad:

    They are much larger countries!

    Can you give us some examples of news stories from outside Dublin that RTE hasn't covered?


  • #38
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    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:

    The Maori people of Western Samoa.


  • #39
    Yag reuoY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Yag reuoY


    genericguy wrote: »
    that's a shít, pointless question. oh, and i see what you did with your username, but if you look at it closely, you'll notice that you failed.

    My user-name failures have been established many times already.

    The point is, RTE claims to be a national broadcaster, but this is absurd considering 90% of programming occurs within the confines of Dublin.

    Time to end this madness. :mad:


  • #40
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Yag reuoY wrote: »
    My user-name failures have been established many times already.

    The point is, RTE claims to be a national broadcaster, but this is absurd considering 90% of programming occurs within the confines of Dublin.

    Time to end this madness. :mad:

    Where are you getting this figure of 90%?

    Surely you can understand the logic of other posters here. Being that if a high percentage of the population live in one place, it stands to reason that a high percentage of the news coverage will be covered and based in said place.


  • #41
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    people actually watch rte news for the news and not sharon ni bheolain

    gtfo


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  • #42
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    OP , did you mess up your username ?

    Sorry off topic :pac:


  • #43
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Yag reuoY wrote: »
    The BBC(and other local services in other countries) proviede a local news service.

    OR,TE News, 'Dourbblin'. :mad:

    BBC serve a demographic 15 times larger than RTE's.


  • #44
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Kasabian wrote: »
    OP , did you mess up your username ?

    Sorry off topic :pac:

    Indeed, someone who though it clever to have Youre Gay backwards as a user name and then spells it wrong is not someone to engage with for very long.


  • #45
    Yag reuoY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Yag reuoY


    JaxxYChicK wrote: »
    Where are you getting this figure of 90%?

    Surely you can understand the logic of other posters here. Being that if a high percentage of the population live in one place, it stands to reason that a high percentage of the news coverage will be covered and based in said place.

    The percentages are imbalanaced.

    When in my home country(The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) I am afforded news from my locality without having to suffer that of my captial.

    While I am prepared to admit this may not be possible for RTE, at the very least I'd expect somewhat of a balance when it comes to news on a national level, from a supposed national broadcaster.

    From the opinions expressed here, I guess this isn't necessary for you lot. :pac:


  • #46
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    Yag reuoY wrote: »
    The BBC(and other local services in other countries) proviede a local news service.

    OR,TE News, 'Dourbblin'. :mad:

    BBC has a regional news for places like Yorkshire and London which have populations of millions. What they don't do is provide a local news service for places like Somerset because it would be retarded.


  • #47
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Yag reuoY wrote: »
    The percentages are imbalanaced.

    When in my home country(The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) I am afforded news from my locality without having to suffer that of my captial.

    While I am prepared to admit this may not be possible for RTE, at the very least I'd expect somewhat of a balance when it comes to news on a national level, from a supposed national braodcaster.

    From the opinions expressed here, I guess this isn't necessary for you lot. :pac:

    It's necessary when it constitutes news. So you're saying RTE should provide news coverage of something insignificant that happens in one of the other twenty-five counties at the expense of what, a slot that could have been given to a murder/shooting/high court ruling?

    If it's newsworthy it gets on the news, simple as. If you don't like it watch the news coverage from your own country.


  • #48
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    sock puppet wrote: »
    BBC has a regional news for places like Yorkshire and London which have populations of millions. What they don't do is provide a local news service for places like Somerset because it would be retarded.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/

    There's a dedicated radio station as well (BBC Somerset) with lots of local news.


  • #49
    Yag reuoY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Yag reuoY


    JaxxYChicK wrote: »
    It's necessary when it constitutes news. So you're saying RTE should provide news coverage of something insignificant that happens in one of the other twenty-five counties at the expense of what, a slot that could have been given to a murder/shooting/high court ruling?

    If it's newsworthy it gets on the news, simple as. If you don't like it watch the news coverage from your own country.

    I often see utterly pointless news reported from 'Dorblin Zooe' and the like.

    If RTE claimed to be a National Dublin Broadcaster I wouldn't have a problem; however...:pac:


  • #50
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    JaxxYChicK wrote: »

    If it's newsworthy it gets on the news, simple as. .


    This is the opposite of true. The people of montrose really couldn't be arsed travelling anywhere.


  • #51
    sock puppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭sock puppet


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/

    There's a dedicated radio station as well (BBC Somerset) with lots of local news.

    I presumed he meant news on TV. There are enough regional radio stations here. No need for for RTE to expand any further.


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  • #52
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    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.

    That's because RTE employees hire their relatives, who all live in Donnybrook.
    CorkMan wrote: »
    The Maori people of Western Samoa.

    What are Maori doing in Western Samoa?


  • #53
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Polynesian_Migration.svg/1000px-Polynesian_Migration.svg.png


  • #54
    siltirocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭siltirocker


    I had very little interest in this as i listened to local media myself for news. However in work they always had the Independent about and i was astonished at how Dublin-centric it was. When i brought this up with my co-workers they just chuckled at me and recommended i pay more attention to the RTE news coverage.

    I won't go into much detail but i'll give an example. A village in West Cork is nearly lost to a mud slide and east county Galway is under (in some parts) 15-20 ft of water with major towns like Gort and Claregalway disaster zones with the army brought in to help - barely a mention on RTE (infact they almost seemed to find that Cork town scenario as gas craic 'cause it's was "SOOOO RANDOM LOIKE!"). Then some tit in Smithfield slips on the ice and bangs his head out shopinng and booya! NATIONAL CRISIS *COUGH*in Dublin*COUGH*.

    That really got to me. The fact that a lot of my family/friends/contacts in Dublin didn't know half the extend of the weather West/South West during that period due to RTE is beyond poor IMO. Sure a mate of mine from Arklow thought his Aunt was taking the piss when she said she her house in Kilcolgan was beyond living and destroyed. He thought 'sure it was only a bit of ice on the road wasn't it?'.


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