RTÉ ONE, 2, Junior, and Player

Just reading that RTÉ's coverage of the one of the hurling games when out on RTÉ2 on Sky in Irish, however only quickly glanced at the article am I safe to assume that those watching that game on Sky happened to be on the RTÉ News channel?

Also why simucast the game on the News Channel?

AFAIK RTÉ also provide the commentary as part of the audio options on RTÉ2, so there is no real need for this simulcast on the RTÉ News Channel (Easier to call it RTÉ News Now TBH).

RTE broadcasting a movie at the moment in lieu of The Late Late Show. Movie is The Wedding Planner. The image quality is poor - almost like an SD copy that was upscaled. The ads actually look better!

Not the first time I’ve seen this happen. Did they cheap out and only buy the rights to SD versions??

I don't recall seeing any promotion for RTÉ on GAA Go. I have seen RTÉ say if a game will be on GAA Go though when they are saying what games are on a particular weekend.

If it is mentions during a game, as such to say, "the next game will be on GAA GO" then this is an issue, I can understand that RTÉ and VMTV came to agreement to highlight when games were on each others channels for the six nations but I don't think RTÉ could legitimate think that such promotions on RTÉ Sports' coverage of GAA could allow them to highlight if the next game is on GAA GO.

However if RTÉ are playing coverage from GAA GO and the logo is on screen I have no issue with this.

I assume the arrangement will continue with RWC 2023 also.

Anyway nothing to see here 😂

Seriously ! That is crazy programme buying.

Perfect VMTV / TV3 / Commerical fodder. RTÉ's only daytime show is on holidays for the next 4 months, while RTÉ news and CA will start short days over the next few weeks, if RTÉ were actually spending good money on prime time content it might be forgivable but they are not. It's not just because its Silly Season.

Clearly out to sell themselves to the public.

Jesus. The conspiracy theory forum is over here:

So it looks like RTÉ are releasing details on a daily basis, I wonder what's happing in RTÉ for them to spread the autumn launch over the next few weeks!

Just to mention that RTÉ KIDS is slowly being used on some branding, I think it started at Christmas. TRTÉ is still in use but RTÉ2 idents during programming.

Strange they are replacing Home And Away with Shortland Street as Home and Away takes a break.

It is probably inevitable that broadcast media in its current form will dissappear altogether in the future, to be replaced entirely by streamed consumption over telecom channels, fibre and 4/5G, and perhaps some version of satellite. If you consume your 'radio" in your car via android auto, Spotify or Tune in, and your viewing at home from Players, Disney, Netflix etc, then the future is already here.

I witnessed the opening and the closing of the 405 line analogue TV service, watched the screen blank as they turned off the 625 line analogue, tuned in for the end of Medium wave, and the Long wave services, and just recently sat and waited for the Aertel to vanish.

Oddly though, my analogue pulse dial telephone still works, but this is an anomaly, there are no strowger exchanges in operation, in this case my router provides the analogue termination and the virtual landline on Voip. I thing Eircom still supply this landline virtually also, at the premises, but there are no dial pulsed PSTN technologies in use.

Its a bit like the Saorview tuner built into a scart plug I have that can supply RTE to an old analogue portable TV set that still (just about) displays images. Neither used for years, but I can't bring myself to bin it. It's crazy how a daily used technology like VHS can become a museum piece in barely 25 years. I have a working cassette tape player still on a mini music centre, these tend to die from age when rubber drive components perish and break. A cassette has sat in it for countless years now, appropriately, a cheap KTel Horslips compilation.

We've seen extraordinary progress really, yet the Russians are fighting a war with some machine guns designed in 1906. Butchers tools haven't changed It seems.

It will remain I've no doubt, but its delivery will be very much different, and it's structures may well change, with the various public service genres independently funded and delivered without a single 'national' overseer or branded broadcast network, but perhaps hosted by third party streaming services who might bid for the content, or contract to supply it. Thus publicly funded free to air content could have one or many homes.

A look at media consumption habits of the present upcoming generations gives us a glimpse into the future, and I don't see that as being material broadcast once live to 6 million but consumed by only a few tens of thousands. Nor do I envisage consumers having to sign up to 7 or 8 streaming services, rather delivery services will emerge that might well be like a pick n mix, like smart channel hopping of your determined preferences. AI driven no doubt. 'RTE' might well exist, but be completely different for any given user, as it tailors it's output based on your profile. I'll probably be senile by then, so I'm not too worried.

They had a bit of a Christmas schedule. I am assuming the Irish Hidden Camera show was a repeat, though it was due to get a full season run.

It was largely supported by HSE's HI programme over the years, they pulled out last year over concerns that people might lose weight.

RTÉ News had The Best FIFA Awards 2023 on last night.

What is noticeable about is that RTÉ remove the tickers for such shows, showing that even they agree that the tickers aren't valuable to anyone.

And then their is the DOG/BUG if you were to be strict on DOG/BUG RTÉ News's one would be the same size and transparency as ONE and 2, but its smaller and more transparent, if only RTÉ ONE and 2 could follow RTÉ News.

But if it is a news channel surely RTÉ during the show could have the news logo with the time and also a ticker on the bottom of the screen.

Either way their decision about the RTÉ News channel on non-news programmes shows that they themselves have issues with the look of the channel.