The UTV Ireland Thread

Dodge · 01-06-2015 12:06AM

Clitheroekid wrote: »

I was reading about the melee after the Motherwell Rangers playoff game online when an add for this stupid channel appeared showing Pat Kenny.What a waste of money,who cares whats on this rubbish channel?

Considering you're now commenting about their ads appearing online, I think you care more than anyone else

lertsnim · 01-06-2015 03:40AM

Dodge wrote: »

Considering you're now commenting about their ads appearing online, I think you care more than anyone else

I would say a tad obsessed.

Clitheroekid · 01-06-2015 12:12PM

lertsnim,explain what "a tad obsessed" means.

lertsnim · 01-06-2015 01:58PM

Clitheroekid wrote: »

lertsnim,explain what "a tad obsessed" means.

When a UTV Ireland advert produces something like your post then it is not a normal complaint. It is an advert. The only thing that replaced was another advert.

Clitheroekid wrote: »

There are people posting who have a soft spot for UTV Direland and who do not appreciate the frustration felt by UPCs captive audience.Get rand post some messages so thay UTV Media will get the message.No more smart assed stupid comments.Idiots like you deserve UTV Diremland.

Abusing people who don't share your thoughts shows you don't have an argument.

Because I don't share your dislike of UTV Ireland does not mean I have a soft spot for them. I believe their schedule is lazy and adds nothing to Irish broadcasting. What people like you seem to selectively forget is ITV is still available freely to anyone who wants it.

"Oh but my landlord won't allow me to have a dish". That's a case of tough luck, the same tough luck satellite viewers had for years when they had no ITV at all.

And UTV Direland, that's as childish as someone who says $ky or Sly instead of Sky.

Clitheroekid · 01-06-2015 02:49PM

You obviously have time to compose posts about nothing,lersnim.I recieve ITV HD on my own self installed system.I am in touch with the real world and a complaiont is a complaint .Full stop.Having the time to ananyse it says a lot about you.Do you ananyse all trivial comments made,it must be head wrecking to be such a nit picker.People must be wary of you in case you accuse them of saying something that collides with your comfort zone.

amdublin · 01-06-2015 08:48PM

MOD:
Quit the bickering please

Ally Dick · 01-06-2015 10:27PM

Why is Pat Kenny's show described as "In The Round" when the audience is only on one side ?

brian_t · 01-06-2015 10:36PM

Ally Dick wrote: »

Why is Pat Kenny's show described as "In The Round" when the audience is only on one side ?

It's recorded in the Round Room in the Mansion House in Dublin

the groutch · 02-06-2015 09:59AM

todolist wrote: »

Why was this chage made? Who's behind it? I pay UPC for ITV yet I get this bull****.

maybe if you complain they'll give you a €25 discount.

Puddle Q · 06-06-2015 06:40PM

Ah it's an awful channel. Completely pointless. I'd wonder what sort of analysis was done at all ahead of launch.

Muahahaha · 12-06-2015 03:06PM

More trouble for UTV Ireland
http://www.independent.ie/business/media/utv-news-at-530-gets-just-7000-viewers-31296693.html

UTV Ireland's news bulletin has suffered a turbulent time since moving to its 5.30pm slot, with just 7,000 people tuning in on Wednesday.
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Figures show that since moving to an earlier schedule time from the original 6.30pm slot, UTV Ireland's news programme has had an average viewership of just 17,500 a day.
This is in comparison to 'TV3 News: The 5.30', which has had on average 108,000 people watching the news bulletin every day.

Puddle Q · 12-06-2015 03:23PM

UTV Ireland will be gone by the end of the year. It's been a disaster.

Thargor · 12-06-2015 03:27PM

7000 people is shocking, you could give Galway/Cork/Limerick etc their own news and more people would tune in to watch.

There really is something a bit off about that UTV Ireland news though. Also where are TV3 getting 100k viewers for their news? I gave up on it years ago it was so amateur hour.

Harry Palmr · 12-06-2015 04:06PM

The station really will have to have one hell of an Autumn schedule cos this summer is clearly going to offer no respite.

lertsnim · 12-06-2015 05:55PM

5.30 is an incredibly stupid time for news.

Larbre34 · 23-06-2015 05:42PM

UTV Ireland issues profit warning, expected to lose £11.5m in Y1. Daytime and weekend viewing figures "disappointing"

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/utv-issues-warning-on-profits-for-new-irish-station-1.2260064

Surely that's completely unsustainable? They must have made more money when region specific advertising from the Republic paid to be on 'old' UTV?

Keep up the not watching folks, UTV NI will be back for Crimbo at this rate!!

As an aside, I was listening to Yates and Donoghue on Newstalk yesterday morning. Donoghue was slagging Yates for becoming a bit more dapper since his TV show was announced. "At least it won't be an unmitigated disaster like your TV career" says Yates!

FloatingVoter · 23-06-2015 06:29PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

UTV Ireland issues profit warning, expected to lose £11.5m in Y1. Daytime and weekend viewing figures "disappointing"

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/utv-issues-warning-on-profits-for-new-irish-station-1.2260064

Surely that's completely unsustainable? They must have made more money when region specific advertising from the Republic paid to be on 'old' UTV?

Keep up the not watching folks, UTV NI will be back for Crimbo at this rate!!

As an aside, I was listening to Yates and Donoghue on Newstalk yesterday morning. Donoghue was slagging Yates for becoming a bit more dapper since his TV show was announced. "At least it won't be an unmitigated disaster like your TV career" says Yates!

Yeah, I reckon whatever scam they're running won't outlast the current government - so Christmas or mid next year at the latest.
Do they pay UPC to put them on their EPG ? Otherwise, UPC would drop them once any contracts are up.
As always, any shows available on UTV proper can be downloaded 30-60 minutes after they air. Or you can wait 3 months to never to see them on ITV spud.

Clitheroekid · 24-06-2015 12:50PM

The news for UTV irel and goes from bad to worse.Utv Media must be trying to burn up surplus reserves.The company is playing a blinder.

Muahahaha · 24-06-2015 04:14PM

The viewing figures are woeful, there's nothing there to even be optimistic and to build an audience its that low currently. Can't see it lasting which is a shame but the blame must liewith poor decision making by ITV management thinking they could foist out of date TV on Irish audiences and actually make money out of it

Dodge · 24-06-2015 04:43PM

Muahahaha wrote: »

The viewing figures are woeful, there's nothing there to even be optimistic and to build an audience its that low currently. Can't see it lasting which is a shame but the blame must liewith poor decision making by ITV management thinking they could foist out of date TV on Irish audiences and actually make money out of it

It's a UTV decision, not an ITV one. And the distinction is important

FloatingVoter · 24-06-2015 04:48PM

UPC (Liberty Global) are in the running for buying TV3. Given that TV3 is the benefactor of the failure channel - it makes sense now that they rammed it down our throats. This was all about share price manipulation - ITV spud investors lose money, TV3 / Liberty Global stock goes up. Someone somewhere with a pocket calculator is making a fortune.
UPC will put UTV proper back on the EPG once the takeover is complete and relegate ITV spud to the back of beyond until it goes the way of Sky Arts 2.
If someone can tell me when the rights to Coronation Street lapse, that will be the last day of UTV Ireland.
Once again, commiserations to all the lower paid employees of the channel - it was better than JobScam for experience and a cruel intoduction to someone elses wicked game.

Skid X · 24-06-2015 11:15PM

Most of their scheduling and promotion has been terrible. It's hard to believe this is an offshoot of a company which has been running a successful TV station for years.

- Huge advertising campaign around "UTV Ireland - the new home for Graham Norton". Did they think viewers would forget they could watch Graham on BBC1 days earlier, or do they think their are untapped legions of viewers in the South who only have Saorview (but want to see Graham Norton?

- Pat Kenny being signed up for big money, and then only used on a dull overlong talk show which nobody noticed (when he should be doing Current Affairs)

- An obsession with Jeremy Kyle, sometimes four programmes a day

- Moving the early news to compete directly with TV3, thereby losing the handful of viewers they had.

etc etc.

Simon2015 · 24-06-2015 11:54PM

Skid X wrote: »

Most of their scheduling and promotion has been terrible. It's hard to believe this is an offshoot of a company which has been running a successful TV station for years.

- Huge advertising campaign around "UTV Ireland - the new home for Graham Norton". Did they think viewers would forget they could watch Graham on BBC1 days earlier, or do they think their are untapped legions of viewers in the South who only have Saorview (but want to see Graham Norton?

- Pat Kenny being signed up for big money, and then only used on a dull overlong talk show which nobody noticed (when he should be doing Current Affairs)

- An obsession with Jeremy Kyle, sometimes four programmes a day

- Moving the early news to compete directly with TV3, thereby losing the handful of viewers they had.

etc etc.

Its like they deliberately want the station to fail. Maybe its some sort of tax scam.

25-06-2015 09:18AM

I'm still waiting for UTV player on UPC on horizon box what is the hold up

Go Harvey Go · 25-06-2015 10:25AM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Yeah, I reckon whatever scam they're running won't outlast the current government - so Christmas or mid next year at the latest.
Do they pay UPC to put them on their EPG ? Otherwise, UPC would drop them once any contracts are up.
As always, any shows available on UTV proper can be downloaded 30-60 minutes after they air. Or you can wait 3 months to never to see them on ITV spud.

FloatingVoter wrote: »

UPC (Liberty Global) are in the running for buying TV3. Given that TV3 is the benefactor of the failure channel - it makes sense now that they rammed it down our throats. This was all about share price manipulation - ITV spud investors lose money, TV3 / Liberty Global stock goes up. Someone somewhere with a pocket calculator is making a fortune.
UPC will put UTV proper back on the EPG once the takeover is complete and relegate ITV spud to the back of beyond until it goes the way of Sky Arts 2.

Why "ITV spud"?

Worth pointing out that the division of ITV Studios that produces The Chase and other entertainment shows is called Potato...

http://potatotv.co.uk/

Clitheroekid · 25-06-2015 10:32AM

John Malone paid 16 billion us dollars for Virgin Media Cable in Britain 2 years ago.Deutche Telecom was purchased around the same time,8 M suscribers.Liberty Global can afford to invest in TV3 which will add to UTV Irelands problems.Utv Ireland has to suffer until existing contracts end.

FloatingVoter · 25-06-2015 11:57AM

Clitheroekid wrote: »

John Malone paid 16 billion us dollars for Virgin Media Cable in Britain 2 years ago.Deutche Telecom was purchased around the same time,8 M suscribers.Liberty Global can afford to invest in TV3 which will add to UTV Irelands problems.Utv Ireland has to suffer until existing contracts end.

Exactly....once the rights to Corrie are up for grabs again, TV3 will have the cash to splash and its goodbye to UTV Ireland. There'll probably be enough left over to hire Pat Kenny as he'll be looking for work.

lertsnim · 25-06-2015 12:26PM

How long is the contract for ITV Studios content? 10 years?

FloatingVoter · 25-06-2015 12:39PM

lertsnim wrote: »

How long is the contract for ITV Studios content? 10 years?

It'd never be that length. Even if it was, UTV Ireland will fold long before a decade is out. You can't run a station on the back of one imported soap.

Dodge · 25-06-2015 01:50PM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

It'd never be that length. Even if it was, UTV Ireland will fold long before a decade is out. You can't run a station on the back of one imported soap.

TV3 did....

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