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(December 2008)

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RD
rdd Founding member
They are based in Castlebar, which is where the Midlands North West count is (still) going on. As I say that constituency covers the entire top half of the State and includes some counties actually on the east coast (as well as several Dublin Bus routes). They still have three seats to declare and the possiblity of a recount. the sheer lenght of this count is making a traditional election programme difficult to do.

As for Irish TV, very few people actually in Ireland are aware they even exist despite some marketing recently, they appear to be quite firmly aimed at ex pats anyway.
Last edited by rdd on 27 May 2014 7:52am
ST
stuartfanning
rdd posted:


As for Irish TV, very few people actually in Ireland are aware they even exist despite some marketing recently, they appear to be quite firmly aimed at ex pats anyway.
Irish TV is on Eircom's eVision TV service in ROI as well on Sky.
RD
rdd Founding member
Not exactly at the top of the EPG on Sky, and eVision is new and very few people actually have it. They were meant to go on UPC at the start of May but never launched.
CH
chinamug
rdd posted:

As for Irish TV, very few people actually in Ireland are aware they even exist despite some marketing recently, they appear to be quite firmly aimed at ex pats anyway.


You're right about that. It's normally seems to be a 24 hour version of RTE's Nationwide, but with an even far lighter touch. It does appear to have the financial backing to develop into something better but it's a very long way from that. It makes the Show on Saturday all the stranger. TV3 have given up on News at the weekend so the only place to go was RTE and that had no results service on TV or Radio on Saturday Night, at a time when results were flooding in from all over the country.

While IRISH TV's effort was poor (Sat link seemed to break up a lot) it was still an effort. I will say a lot of people in Cork and Kerry watch the Irish Music programmes. However, they call it channel 191 rather than it's actual name.
CA
Cando
chinamug posted:
RTE and that had no results service on TV or Radio on Saturday Night, at a time when results were flooding in from all over the country. .


Not really. The by-elections were wrapped up for the 9 o clock news and the European seats couldn't be announced until Sunday (and the tallys/ exit polls for them had been dissected since 9am). Coverage was repetitive enough already. There really was no need for any show, all you would have had was the pundits repeat the same stuff across the day.
For the locals counting continued in most places but final results were minimal and always are.You would end up having to over analyse every single council for content and all of them outside Dublin showed the exact same thing. It wasn't until Sunday evening that the popular vote could even be decided.
Also the resources were tight, outside the big European count hubs there was very few correspondents at the actual counts as some had to follow 3 or 4 councils (Teresa Mannion, Cathy Halloran).
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BK
bkman1990
I am feeling that the set for RTE News has been looking a lot smaller since it's relaunch began last April.

Is there any chance that the guys at RTE News and Current Affairs will incorporate their new colour background into the remainder of the set and show it on screen as they did with the 2009 to 2014 look?
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RD
rdd Founding member
Incredibly, RTÉ News Now still retains the old look. Given that the channel is run on a shoestring its probably understandable though it wouldn't cost them a whole pile to change it, since all it really is is a sidebar, bottom bar and an ident.
BK
bkman1990
I just read that Brian Dobson made a mistake on the RTE News at Six One this evening



I also read this article which was about some of the graphics that failed from the previous RTE News look. I think I saw these pictures before they came live on air after a commercial break and I never even told anyone about them until now.

http://www.dailyedge.ie/rte-news-graphics-studio-fail-1190814-Nov2013/
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CH
chinamug
Cando posted:
chinamug posted:
RTE and that had no results service on TV or Radio on Saturday Night, at a time when results were flooding in from all over the country. .


Not really. The by-elections were wrapped up for the 9 o clock news and the European seats couldn't be announced until Sunday (and the tallys/ exit polls for them had been dissected since 9am). Coverage was repetitive enough already. There really was no need for any show, all you would have had was the pundits repeat the same stuff across the day.
For the locals counting continued in most places but final results were minimal and always are.You would end up having to over analyse every single council for content and all of them outside Dublin showed the exact same thing. It wasn't until Sunday evening that the popular vote could even be decided.
Also the resources were tight, outside the big European count hubs there was very few correspondents at the actual counts as some had to follow 3 or 4 councils (Teresa Mannion, Cathy Halloran).


In fact that's not the case at all. Between 6 and 12 midnight on that night most of the councils up and down the country had results flooding in. I Followed the action online, on local radio stations and on Newstalk. What should have happened is a two hour show earlier in the day and then coverage from 4 till midnight or 1am. RTE News Now completely stopped covering News that night, as repeating bulletins would have been pointless. If there was one night you actual did need a news service that was it. Instead it was repeat after repeat of Nationwide and non current stories.
CA
Cando
chinamug posted:
Cando posted:
chinamug posted:
RTE and that had no results service on TV or Radio on Saturday Night, at a time when results were flooding in from all over the country. .


Not really. The by-elections were wrapped up for the 9 o clock news and the European seats couldn't be announced until Sunday (and the tallys/ exit polls for them had been dissected since 9am). Coverage was repetitive enough already. There really was no need for any show, all you would have had was the pundits repeat the same stuff across the day.
For the locals counting continued in most places but final results were minimal and always are.You would end up having to over analyse every single council for content and all of them outside Dublin showed the exact same thing. It wasn't until Sunday evening that the popular vote could even be decided.
Also the resources were tight, outside the big European count hubs there was very few correspondents at the actual counts as some had to follow 3 or 4 councils (Teresa Mannion, Cathy Halloran).


In fact that's not the case at all. Between 6 and 12 midnight on that night most of the councils up and down the country had results flooding in. .

AS I said previously final results were minimal on the Saturday night, which was why Newstalk was dominated by RTE commissioned exit polls for Europe and the by elections. Which had been covered relentlessly at that stage.IIRC Limerick was the only major council to have completed their count and that was at 4-5 am on Sunday morning.
CH
chinamug
Cando posted:
chinamug posted:
Cando posted:
chinamug posted:
RTE and that had no results service on TV or Radio on Saturday Night, at a time when results were flooding in from all over the country. .


Not really. The by-elections were wrapped up for the 9 o clock news and the European seats couldn't be announced until Sunday (and the tallys/ exit polls for them had been dissected since 9am). Coverage was repetitive enough already. There really was no need for any show, all you would have had was the pundits repeat the same stuff across the day.
For the locals counting continued in most places but final results were minimal and always are.You would end up having to over analyse every single council for content and all of them outside Dublin showed the exact same thing. It wasn't until Sunday evening that the popular vote could even be decided.
Also the resources were tight, outside the big European count hubs there was very few correspondents at the actual counts as some had to follow 3 or 4 councils (Teresa Mannion, Cathy Halloran).


In fact that's not the case at all. Between 6 and 12 midnight on that night most of the councils up and down the country had results flooding in. .

AS I said previously final results were minimal on the Saturday night, which was why Newstalk was dominated by RTE commissioned exit polls for Europe and the by elections. Which had been covered relentlessly at that stage.IIRC Limerick was the only major council to have completed their count and that was at 4-5 am on Sunday morning.


Okay by that logic no Irish election should be covered until the day after counting so. Usually in a general election there are no final results until day two of counting. However, the first, second and third counts do matter to people around the country. That's why Local radio and websites were very active.
BK
bkman1990
The RTE News set had been used to broadcast the special commemorative ceremony of WWI from Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin with a special green coloured background for the programme. There were some history experts on the subject of WWI in the newsroom who were analysing on the day's events with Brian Dobson.

I had seen only the last ten minutes of that programme on Thursday afternoon myself. I had watched President Michael D Higgins making his speech to the crowds who attended the ceremony in Glasnevin.

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