The Virgin Media Television thread

I had to stop at " TV3, Ireland’s most successful commercial broadcaster,"

gordongekko wrote: »

I had to stop at " TV3, Ireland’s most successful commercial broadcaster,"

Seeing as its the only Irish commercial broadcaster what are they measuring their 'success' against?

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

http://www.tv3.ie/entertainment_article.php?locID=1.803.813&article=133822

no comment. it speaks for itself really.

Wow. That was underwhelming! Don't you just love their definition of 'new talent' i.e. the same old faces just on TV3 rather than RTE!!

TV3 are great, they don't try to shake me down for money every other week.

Also they now have extra 20% terrestrial coverage and a 2nd Channel terrestrially. They should be minting it

They're extending the News At 12.45 by 15 minutes, so it'll become the News At 12:30 now.

That might mean the end of Midday, unless they move it to 11:30am.

Hard to know though when that will come into place.

TV3 = Foreign, debt ridden, constantly bending and breaking rules on content, constantly making spurious claims about transmission costs and never fulfilled their Analogue Licence properly. Bailed out by Irish taxpayer.
UTV = Sort of Irish, not owned by ITV. Owns many Irish Radio stations.

Charles Slane wrote: »

According to - http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/media-and-marketing/tv3-unveils-red-rock-harbour-town-soap-1.1786995

"The broadcaster said it was in talks with platform operators to carry a high-definition (HD) version of the channel ahead of the tournament."

On Newstalk Breakfast this morning, TV3's Jeff Ford said it would be launching the HD channel early next year
http://newstalk.ie/player/shows/Breakfast/52653/jeff_ford_on_the_new_tv3_schedule (last 15 secs)

That news talk interview

TV3 18 years on the air

"We don't have the experience to produce a soap ourselves"

He desperately tries to avoid using the term "across the pond", realising that he's from across the pond and some of the writers are from across the pond, sad that neither RTÉ nor TV3 developed scriptwriters.

Also you'd have to question why TV3 haven't try to engage their audience in the last 5 months, yet are continuing to rely on coro st and emmers.

Sam Russell wrote: »

Lesley Burrowes? Didn't he write The Riordans and Glenroe? Does he not live here?

Wesley Burrowes did create the Argi-Trilogy of The Riordans, Bracken and Glenroe. He does live here, but he retired in the Mid-1990s. He is Irish. In general RTÉ and TV3 haven't developed scriptwriters over the years.

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Any plans to scrap the abomination that is Ireland AM ?

They probably add an extra hour. :eek:

"Ireland AM" should be banned by Regulator. It's a wall to wall scam. No chance they will drop it. Probably their most profitable program with those fake quizzes and virtually 100% product placement.

According to the Times they have hired someone from comunicorp to replace one of the departing staff.

Not covering the Local and European Elections in my view will count as a big loss in viewership figures for that particular weekend for starters. And that is a big shame because viewers would want to know what sort of political landscape is being looked at for Europe and the locals in the future.

With a big change coming towards us in Irish Politics coming in for that weekend, TV3 are meant to cover the story to provide us with a different viewpoint on the day rather than the rest of us having to contend to stick with a one sided agenda from RTE to provide us that coverage.

With a channel having no news or current affairs output to happen on any weekend is a big loss for them. From a viewers point of view It doesn't gain them any popularity in doing so. It loses viewers from having to listen to a different news agenda and because they are a commercial broadcaster they would lose ad revenue along the way from people not watching their channel when their news output is meant to fill a decent part of their schedule.

But we know from our point of view. The news output from TV3 at the weekends has been rubbish from the very time it cut off their week in review programme they had on sunday nights. If TV3 are to say that news coverage is becoming more expensive for them to run than in my view they would need to put together an expenditure review of their news department underway to see whether or not it is cost effective for them to run it in the long term.

If they don't continue with News or Current Affairs they would either need to a get a content only licence from the BAI rather than sticking with a PSB licence and let UTV have it or close up shop altogether because they don't seem to me to be running their channels in a confident manner.

Elmo wrote: »

According to the Sunday Business Post
3. Jeremy Kyle and some Children's Court Programme from the US from 10 to 11:30
4. Midday starts at 11:30

I wished they would move away from Jeremy Kyle by now. They're not going to have it by January anyway, so they should be trialling a few new chat shows, or trying out something different at this slot. They can burn off any remaining JK episodes on 3e.

Any idea what the court programme is called?

Judge Judy should really be cut down to just one episode a day - it's been nearly 15 years of double episodes every day. Again they should be using these slots to try out new shows (imported or not), and so JJ at 4:30 and a new show at 5 makes sense to me.

Midday's name should be changed - something along the lines of The Irish View (similar to America's The View). I'd put that on a 1pm, and then move Late Lunch Live off to maybe a 6:30pm slot, changing the name again slightly. And when Emmerdale leaves - extending it outwards for half an hour to 7:30pm.