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Hatton Cross Central (West) Midlands Today 8 October 2019 5:08pm

Social media seems to be (but actually, shouldn't be taken in isolation) the yardstick for what viewers want and think.

It's a bit like tracking, that ILR stations used to use to formulate playlists, and was one of the most unreliable and flawed ways to do it.

If tv stations take social media at its word, nothing would change, badly rating programmes would never get pulled off air, and when something really bad happens, that programme would continue like nothing had happened.

Case notes see - Show, The Jeremy Kyle and aftercare of participants.
After the terrible events earlier this year, judging by some of the comments on Twitter and Facebook and Digital Spy when ITV quite correctly dropped the show, you'd think the end of the world was heading at great speed, and only bringing back the show in its original form would save it from the huge asteroid..

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London Lite Founding member London London 8 October 2019 5:40pm

It's a difficult one. Expanding Ireland AM and The Six O'Clock Show make sense, but Elaine is no way a direct replacement for a British daytime show with a reasonable budget and decent booking power.

Great to see VM ticking more of those Irish hour boxes, but it does seem a mistake to replace ITV acquisitions for cheaper home made formats.

JK

JKDerry UTV Newsline 8 October 2019 6:24pm

Couldn't they have moved This Morning and Loose Women simulcasts to VM Three - thus allowing Irish viewers continued access to these shows, and knowing they can easily transfer them back to VM One if the new schedule tanked?

It seems VM just did not want to pay the re-transmission fees to ITV plc and dumped the two shows in order to save money, and use a bit of the cash saved to extend their home produced output per day.

VM is really trying hard to outdo RTE in terms of live daily content - and yes, they are doing a lot more, but more home produced content does not mean quality is going to be good and ratings high.

I bet this new weekday schedule will be dropped or at least altered come January 2020.

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TVLand UTV Newsline 8 October 2019 11:11pm

JKDerry posted:

Couldn't they have moved This Morning and Loose Women simulcasts to VM Three - thus allowing Irish viewers continued access to these shows, and knowing they can easily transfer them back to VM One if the new schedule tanked?

It seems VM just did not want to pay the re-transmission fees to ITV plc and dumped the two shows in order to save money, and use a bit of the cash saved to extend their home produced output per day.

VM is really trying hard to outdo RTE in terms of live daily content - and yes, they are doing a lot more, but more home produced content does not mean quality is going to be good and ratings high.

I bet this new weekday schedule will be dropped or at least altered come January 2020.

I’m sorry but I just can’t see them dropping it. It would be admitting that they did something wrong, something that VM don’t like doing.

JK

JKDerry UTV Newsline 8 October 2019 11:13pm

TVLand posted:

JKDerry posted:

Couldn't they have moved This Morning and Loose Women simulcasts to VM Three - thus allowing Irish viewers continued access to these shows, and knowing they can easily transfer them back to VM One if the new schedule tanked?

It seems VM just did not want to pay the re-transmission fees to ITV plc and dumped the two shows in order to save money, and use a bit of the cash saved to extend their home produced output per day.

VM is really trying hard to outdo RTE in terms of live daily content - and yes, they are doing a lot more, but more home produced content does not mean quality is going to be good and ratings high.

I bet this new weekday schedule will be dropped or at least altered come January 2020.

I’m sorry but I just can’t see them dropping it. It would be admitting that they did something wrong, something that VM don’t like doing.

Channels swap, drop and change schedules all the time, especially if the ratings are poor and they are losing ad revenue. You can bet your last €uro that if VM see a significant ratings drop and ad revenue drop, This Morning and Loose Women will return in 2020.

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TVLand UTV Newsline 10 October 2019 1:03am

RTÉ have opened new TV and Radio studios in the basement of Government Buildings in Dublin. Áine Lawlor presented her show on Radio One from there on Tuesday evening and multiple interviews with Politicians after the Budget were done by satellite from there on RTE TV News.

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Hatton Cross Central (West) Midlands Today 10 October 2019 6:31am

If you've spent money on building tv and radio studios in the basement of the seat of power in Ireland - why do you still need a satalite truck to get the pictures back to Dunnybrook ?

Would have thought all the output both visual and audio would be sent directly via a dedicated fibre optic line.

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Steve in Pudsey Yorkshire Look North (Yorkshire) 10 October 2019 7:34am

Possibly they are using it before it's technically fitted out using an sng truck?

Write that down in your copybook now.

Inspector Sands 10 October 2019 9:19am

These days it doesn't even need to be a dedicated fibre link, you'd assume that both the Irish Government and RTE would have a decent bandwidth Internet connection to stream something half decent quality

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JKDerry UTV Newsline 10 October 2019 1:44pm

Inspector Sands posted:

These days it doesn't even need to be a dedicated fibre link, you'd assume that both the Irish Government and RTE would have a decent bandwidth Internet connection to stream something half decent quality

RTE are traditionalists by heart - I remember one RTE technician saying to me that he was surprised that in nearly every studio based programme you will notice RTE still insist on having table microphones - The Late Late Show, Prime Time, Ray D'arcy Show etc all have them, whereas in the UK very rarely will you see a table/desk microphone, as they all rely on clip on mics on presenters and guests - RTE insist on the old style mics too. I always remember seeing the Gay Byrne Late Late Show on Channel 4 in the early 1990s, and they had huge stick microphones on Gay's desk.

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globaltraffic24 Central Reporting Scotland 11 October 2019 6:17pm

JKDerry posted:

Inspector Sands posted:

These days it doesn't even need to be a dedicated fibre link, you'd assume that both the Irish Government and RTE would have a decent bandwidth Internet connection to stream something half decent quality

RTE are traditionalists by heart - I remember one RTE technician saying to me that he was surprised that in nearly every studio based programme you will notice RTE still insist on having table microphones - The Late Late Show, Prime Time, Ray D'arcy Show etc all have them, whereas in the UK very rarely will you see a table/desk microphone, as they all rely on clip on mics on presenters and guests - RTE insist on the old style mics too. I always remember seeing the Gay Byrne Late Late Show on Channel 4 in the early 1990s, and they had huge stick microphones on Gay's desk.

That's as much a style thing, as a technical requirement. It's one albeit small way of RTE appearing more influenced by European TV than British. French TV continues to insist on desk mics and it's almost always for no reason other than aesthetics.

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TVLand UTV Newsline 12 October 2019 9:59am

Ireland AM have announced that they’re holding an event basically the same as “This Morning Live” in the UK. It’s called AM Live (stylised am:Live) and it’s being held at the Ballygarry House Hotel & Spa in Tralee, Co. Kerry on the 10th of November. Tickets are €85.
Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/am-live-tickets-74622902109?aff=ebdssbeac
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