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What is Irelands best TV station?

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  • #62
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    City Channel ?

    There are/were other cable/local/satellite/pirate channels too but not sure which (if any) are still around

    RTE JR and +1 are effectively the same channel (timeshare) besides +1 channels are a rather pointless waste of space for people who cant figure out how to record stuff.

    city channel is only regional.... not everyone can view that channel in ireland


  • #63
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    So the consensus is that TG4 is the best irish channel by a country mile, yet has an audience share of 2.2% and falling. I'm finding it hard to square that circle.


    How many people here who have said it is the best actually watch it on a regular basis?

    TG4 is well and away the best, and I watch it every day;)


  • #64
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    City Channel ?

    There are/were other cable/local/satellite/pirate channels too but not sure which (if any) are still around

    RTE JR and +1 are effectively the same channel (timeshare) besides +1 channels are a rather pointless waste of space for people who cant figure out how to record stuff.

    city channel is only regional.... not everyone can view that channel in ireland

    Not everyone can receive 3e either.


  • #65
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,877 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    I voted TV3.

    I don't ever watch it. I just prefer it to the others because it doesn't cost me money.

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  • #66
    justme7136
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭justme7136


    Is that all we have :confused:


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  • #67
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Sleepy wrote: »
    I voted TV3.

    I don't ever watch it. I just prefer it to the others because it doesn't cost me money.

    Free stuff and ****e are usually one and the same alright.

    Take out ITV's "reality" :rolleyes: rubbish and TV3 would have nothing. Well, bar Vinnie Browne, maybe.


  • #68
    justme7136
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭justme7136


    Everyone so excited about tv3 last night, tallaght fornia like come on did anyone like that crap


  • #69
    Mike 1972
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    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Sad indeed. A few years back the good people of Donegal saw fit to elect a TD who vowed to ensure that they could continue to receive BBC and ITV illegally.
    Now they have their British TV legally they elect Sinn Fein.

    To be fair the constituency in question (Donegal SW) is a three seater and its entirely possible that the folks who voted for Gildea were not necessairly the same folks who voted for Doherty ?


  • #70
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,226 ✭✭✭Solair


    It depends what you're looking for.

    Irish news / current affairs : RTE 1 / RTE online.
    Documentary / international news : BBC 2.
    General Entertainment : Channel 4.

    BBC can be embarrassingly bad too : The One Show ?! Cash in the Attic ... (shudder).
    BBC Radio 4 ... (tries hard to keep eyes open while listening)

    RTE 2 can also sometimes give E4 a run for its money in terms of US imports.

    I don't think BBC NI really can compete with RTE in terms of local output. Any BBC NI output tends to be not great, the BBC UK-wide output is usually excellent though.

    As for TV3 ... Vincent Brown can sometimes turn out to be quite interesting, but it reminds me of badly produced US PBS local news.

    TV3 : PLEASE learn how to do lighting!!!


  • #71
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Owl Tickler wrote: »
    That's because it's cool to say TG4. I bet they all watch RTE or TV3 more.
    Oh yes. The 'its cool to be' line
    Normally found in the same area as
    Its cool to be gay
    Its cool to be an atheist
    Its cool to attack the poor catholic church
    Its cool to (insert anything to have an opinion on but which you cannot artriculate a defense of)


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  • #72
    44leto
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    I have hundreds of channels, it takes me ages to find out there is nothing on.

    I suppose SKY+ is my TV channel.


  • #73
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Its cool to attack the poor catholic church

    Given that they are one of (if not THE) the biggest landowners in the world you could have come up with more appropriate adjectives to prefix the organisation in question.
    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Not everyone can receive 3e either.

    Or RTE1 or 2 or TG4 or (especially) TV3.....lucky sods :pac:


  • #74
    Sleepy
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    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Free stuff and ****e are usually one and the same alright.

    Take out ITV's "reality" :rolleyes: rubbish and TV3 would have nothing. Well, bar Vinnie Browne, maybe.
    My point was I don't ever watch those channels*. I resent having to pay a TV license/broadcasting charge to fund three out of the four of them.

    Most of my television viewing is of satellite channels: History, Biography, National Geo, Discovery etc. Quite fond of Channel 4 too.

    *the one exception tends to be the Late Late Toy Show.

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  • #75
    Seanie06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Seanie06


    Tg4 gan dabt!!


  • #76
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    TV3 value for money wise certainly.


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