The Northern Ireland TV Thread

The TV Room Said......


[QUOTE] Or:

(a) human error
(b) some clueless twit not knowing what they're doing
(c) crap equipment
(d) crap equipment that's not properly maintained

...it is a *very* rare occasion these days when I tune in to find a flawless junction on UTV.

To lose an entire ad break due to technical malfunction on one occasion is bad enough. How many times though in the last few weeks?

In my own line of work, if we suffered similar technical issues, serious questions would be asked - and guaranteed, after one serious occurrence, workarounds would be put in place to prevent a repeat performance.

And I'm sorry but all this nonsense about making the best of a bad situation - i.e., UTV having to cope with a dirty network feed and late changes to timing of junctions. Even the weakest Con Dirs at BBC N. Ireland were able to produce a better result in similar circumstances for years.

There are a string of issues with UTV. Give it up Peter. You cannot defend the indefensible.

And...they want to take over SMG. Don't make me laugh.
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Mike McGonagle
The TV Room [/QUOTE]



I agree with you there i think UTV has old machines

Gav:
"Having to do their own ECPs for 'Insight' must be taking it out of the poor craters."



I noticed UTV changed the Corrie end credits so they read 2004 at the end and feature the correct Cadbury's sponsor film - still not the same as the credits for last night's episode, and UTV still crashed in to their ECP clunkily.

And very imaginative and subtle introductions by Gillian Porter last night. "Now on UTV, Coronation Street". You don't say!

And is Audra pregnant? She looks it.

centralfan345:
"And they feature Young viewers drawings..."

No, that's BBC Newsline that does that.

btw, Are you I'm ITV Crazy on the TV Ark forum?

Excellent! some vintage, export-strength, continuity mayhem from UTV! Poor little Gillian Porter!

I caught Sunday afternoon's parade of cock ups, and it really makes you wonder how UTV consistently beat BBC NI in the ratings, when the latter's output and presentation is comparatively so flawless.

Northern Ireland loves its soaps - and with more soaps in primetime, UTV wins because of the ITV network offering. Mind you, the gap is narrowing and in the local programmes stakes, BBC Northern Ireland claimed 15 of last year's top 20 programmes.

At least in terms of local programmes, the amount of regional programming BBC NI produce is represented in the Top 20 show lists compared to the minimal output of local programmes on UTV, all of which seem to involved news.

I didn't see "The Issue" last week, but from the looks of the trailers, it's turning into another version of Insight instead of being a Sunday afternoon rival to the Politics Show.

I see UTV has added again gone beyond the "wee six" and has added a couple of scenes from Donegal to its repertoire of 'logos'.

Still, it is ULSTER Television I suppose ....

It was basically 'Sunday Issue', but with a less silly set and different titles.

The difference between BBC NI and UTV is that, if you took the popular and populist ITV programmes out of UTV's Top 20, there would be nothing left, whreas for BBC NI, if you took out the network stuff, there would still be some sort of schedule. Not all of it good, by any means, but a schedule nonetheless.

Then again, out cut of the licence fee is rather more generous than that at UTV's disposal - certainly after the priority shareholder value cut is taken away.

The 10.55 ITV News summary was transmitted (all of it) in the wrong format. It was arced to 14:9 for 4:3 (black bars top and bottom) and the whole thing was then stretched to 16:9.

From the talk about RoI ads on UTV...

Do UTV own that Dublin Q102 station that is currently being advertised? With the bad re-edit of the Lighthouse Family's "Lifted"?

If so, why are we getting ads for a radio station you are hardly likely to pick up in Northern Ireland?!?!?!?!

UTV do indeed own "Dublin's Q102". Virtually no one at all in NI could pick that up, so it seems that exclusively RoI adverts on UTV are condoned by UTV themselves.

Does UTV now have more viewers in the Republic of Ireland than in the six counties?