RTÉ ONE, 2, Junior, and Player

I see that RTÉ have a new sponsorship for their Movies rights who are now with Coca-Cola. Did the previous sponsorship deal with Tesco Ireland finish up with RTÉ recently?

It became RTÉ entertainment, but AFAIK they have drop the entertainment news update on the News Channel, and only have movie interviews (by two of the most nervous interviewers).

RTÉ Radio 1 has been given a shiny lick of paint

Monday Night Live starts the Monday after next (3rd of Oct) for an 8 week run, to replaced in 2023 with live audience debate programme. I assume from press release that they won't have an audience for MNL.

David McCullagh, Sharon Tobin, Louise Byrne and Mark Coughlan

I like Sharon Tobin, I think she'd be good for a Q and A type show.

Did any of the presenter ever get a full time chat show from that, I think Kenny Live was a progression in the 1980s but the 2000s version lead nowhere, I think there was a 2 or 3 year gap before Tubrity Tonight.

It's the same for Saorview

New Zealand I think was mentioned in one of the articles but in relation to one of their broadcasters. Amazon seemed only to realate to UK and US. are we under UK!

Where Amazon is concerned we are not under the UK. Prime Video has differences between the Ireland and UK libraries.

RTÉ ONE's audiences are massively down, I assume this is the reason for the takeover of schedule of this documentary, a winter WC doesn't help RTÉ really, and they might be worried if audience don't return to them following the WC in December.

According to Paul Williams in yesterday's Indo, the Quinn Country doc would have been shown last January but RTÉ postponed it after receiving, in the same week as the sentencing of those who abducted Kevin Lunney, a letter in which the Mannok directors - including Lunney and his brother - expressed concern that the airing of certain allegations that were made by Quinn potentially inflame the small group that has intimidated and attacked them.

This is not what RTÉ are saying at the moment Re: RTÉ Guide and other commercial parts of the organization.

Promos heavily toward RTÉ ONE and Sport rather than 2, but of course Sport is mainly on 2.

There's an Android TV version, not sure why you can't see it, you might be better asking on the shield thread in android forum.

It doesn't have live streams though.

RTÉ GOLD is available on Saorview. Though I am surprised that RTÉ don't look for a temp licence for the station on FM every now and then.

RTE had Gold running 24/7 on DAB radio for relatively little outlay, but in their wisdom discontinued it last year. DAB is perfect for niche stations like that, but the BAI licencing authority make the process of independent digital broadcasting prohibitively complicated.

So RTÉ are including +1 with these figures but they are a good bit higher then the 15+ on media live

TLLS - 429,300 + 19,300 on Player

TTTS - 422,700 + 68,300 on Player

DWTS - 525,000 + 17,200 on Player

Fair City - 395,000

Room to Improve - 442,000

She took €50,000 in moving expenses. She cut funding to Children's Content by 50% when she said RTÉ were not cutting funding, her predecessor having cut it by 25% just before she arrived, she continue Noel Curran's policy of funding 2fm from the licence fee, she made no real reforms to staffing at RTÉ (though something she was left with, but she seem to do nothing), she cut news programming from RTÉ2, she cut funding to Drama.

There has to be a balance but she balanced nothing, her cuts to two core PSB genres (Children's and Drama) and while defending pay to the top stars and adding funding to RTÉ 2FM, while cutting funding to LyricFM (something RTÉ pretended they were going to axe, then move from Limerick, and then when they received an increase in funding they cut the funding to lyric in any case).

RTÉ have plenty and they could do plenty but they tend to play it safe, and an increase in funding either through proper collection of the licence fee or from the exchequer won't stop the problems that exist.

The DG's job seem like a retirement role, you'd think they do something creative.