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Budget cuts at RTE?

  • 07-08-2014 11:34AM
    #1
    Uthur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 415 ✭✭


    has the length of RTE's news broadcasts all been cut in two this week or were they always this short?? :D


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  • #2
    paulbok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,373 ✭✭✭paulbok


    Garth Brooks fiasco over with, so no other news to report.


  • #3
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Nothin much happening now....according to etr


  • #4
    comongethappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭comongethappy


    Uthur wrote: »
    has the length of RTE's news broadcasts all been cut in two this week or were they always this short?? :D

    They only employ 2,300 staff, producing several hours of content a day.

    So when a few go on holiday, tbe other 2,000+ can't be dealing with 30 mins of filler.


  • #5
    black & white
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭black & white


    AFAIR it's always down to 30 mins for August.


  • #6
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Its about time RTE started cutting its cloth. It should start with Tubridy and then that ar$e Duffy.


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  • #7
    Iang87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Iang87


    pity they wouldnt cut the black hole that is the RTE orchestra.


  • #8
    Bummer1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Bummer1234


    Are they showing reeling in the years at 6.30 again? Thats a hard bet program!!


  • #9
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Nobody cares


  • #10
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Don't get RTE anymore, so Dobbo could be doing a gig in his birthday suit for all I know. Excellent value for €160 per year.


  • #11
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Iang87 wrote: »
    pity they wouldnt cut the black hole that is the RTE orchestra.

    One of the few divisions of rte that has any merit


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  • #12
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    They had that RTE Now (the news one?) channel on the TV in work today, it's awful. There were two stories in the "Entertainment" section and one was "Domhnall Gleeson jokes about the secrecy surrounding Star Wars Episode VII"

    THAT WAS IT!! They didn't even have the joke. How is that news?


  • #13
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Much prefer TV3's more relaxed attitude,shame the programs are so bad.
    RTE's inability to change and drag itself out of the 1950's is annoying,but they get a lot of viewers for some programs simply because they're Irish I presume.


  • #14
    farmerjj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭farmerjj


    Uthur wrote: »
    has the length of RTE's news broadcasts all been cut in two this week or were they always this short?? :D

    Happens every summer.


  • #15
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    They were looking for job bridge interns or slaves a few a weeks ago. Two of them to slave away in the video library department.

    So yeah, budget cuts in rte if they're using job bridge.


  • #16
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Eh, I prefer nationwide to reeling in the years. Love dem human interest stories.


  • #17
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Fair City should surely be cut before the news. Thats 30 mins of needless waste right there.


  • #18
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Talking of budgets and rte...

    Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

    Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits talking Shiite about taxes:mad:


  • #19
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Talking of budgets and rte...

    Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

    Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits :mad:

    that was THE WORST :mad::mad::mad:


  • #20
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    cloud493 wrote: »
    Eh, I prefer nationwide to reeling in the years. Love dem human interest stories.

    I actually watch and enjoy both. You could put them on in place of the Late Late.

    How come my emoticons have gone?

    ANd how come I can't bold stuff?


  • #21
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    I actually watch and enjoy both. You could put them on in place of the Late Late.

    How come my emoticons have gone?

    ANd how come I can't bold stuff?

    Nationwide with Mary Kennedy mmmmmmm. Wait.
    Put her on the Late Late.


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  • #22
    jjbrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    kneemos wrote: »
    Much prefer TV3's more relaxed attitude,shame the programs are so bad.
    RTE's inability to change and drag itself out of the 1950's is annoying,but they get a lot of viewers for some programs simply because they're Irish I presume.

    Its a pity TV3 doesnt do news on the weekend Id be watching it instead of RTE

    Didnt they save a million or two by Pat Kenny's departure for newstalk?


  • #23
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Talking of budgets and rte...

    Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

    Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits talking Shiite about taxes:mad:

    Yes, as children it was awful and we only had two channels...


  • #24
    Fudge You
    Closed Accounts Posts: 978 ✭✭✭Fudge You


    Uthur wrote: »
    has the length of RTE's news broadcasts all been cut in two this week or were they always this short?? :D



    Its because the Dail is on holdiays.
    And for the last few years, Reeling in the years has been on straight afterwards.


  • #25
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    They do because nothing apparently happens in August, even if history shows the opposite.


  • #26
    Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Snake


    Mrs Garth Brooks wrote: »
    They were looking for job bridge interns or slaves a few a weeks ago. Two of them to slave away in the video library department.

    So yeah, budget cuts in rte if they're using job bridge.

    Your comment makes me feel sick.

    Your name made me throw up.

    The stupidity of your comment is baffling. JobBridge doesn't mean budget cuts, it means they're trying to do something productive and help some unemployed people get in the door of the work industry.


  • #27
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #28
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    paulbok wrote: »
    Garth Brooks fiasco over with

    I can't wait for Reeling in the Years 2014!


  • #29
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I can't wait for Reeling in the Years 2014!

    Hmm, if the 2000s series showed it anything it's that the 2010s will feature RTE clapping themselves on the back about everything, and selectively showing certain clips which shows the lads in Donnybrook were right about it all along.

    In the case of Brooks, I imagine they'll portray the country as having gone completely mad (slightly true) and that RTE had no part to play in fuelling the flames of it. And the music will be ****e cheapo stuff that they'll have no bother getting the licensing for when it comes to DVD time.


  • #30
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Talking of budgets and rte...

    Any one remember when they used to cut zig and zig/the den and show the bloody budget instead?

    Gettin in from school, school bag dumped in kitchen, telly on in anticipation of ninja turtles on r Scooby doo, only to see a bunch of **** in suits talking Shiite about taxes:mad:
    It was Playschool for me, interrupted by the British budget, but I remember the feeling all right.


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  • #31
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    RobertKK wrote: »
    They do because nothing apparently happens in August, even if history shows the opposite.

    True that, August was clean up and reconstruction month after Galway was liberated from the Indians.


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