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RTE News - Ireland

(December 2008)

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LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
did anyone see pat keeny on the late late show last night? for the first time he actually looked like a good presenter
PH
Phen
Nice to see some use of the robot at the start and end of bulletins - adds nice variety aside from the railcam every time. They stopped using it properly months before the relaunch.

On one particular Nine a few days back, they left the robot extended up quite high and so it actually blocked the view of the railcam when it glided by at the end of the bulletin!
BR
breakingnews
Live at five with Jeremy posted:
did anyone see pat keeny on the late late show last night? for the first time he actually looked like a good presenter


The Senate debate? Yeah was excellent, Pat Kenny really excelled. That's what he's like on the radio with issues likes that, knows everything and asks the best questions.
RD
rdd Founding member
We may have won the Grand Slam, but the Recession continues - TV3 have now axed Sports Tonight, which reduces their live Irish programming by another 2 1/2 hours. This follows their axing of all weekend news bulittens late last year and their previous replacement of TV3 News at 6:30 with their ET clone, Xpose.

They **must** be in breach of their franchise committments by now, though I can't see the BCI doing much about it at this stage...
LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
Yeah saw that they're cutting jobs. Is nightly news with vincent browne taking over that slot?
RD
rdd Founding member
On a temporary basis at least, yes. The programme was cancelled at very short notice (a first in Irish TV I reckon) and TV3 had nothing to fill a 20 minute slot with, so they extended Nightly News last night.

Once the schedules have been sorted Nightly News will probably return to its previous lenght.
BR
breakingnews
Do we know which journalists have been let go? Any "big" names?
LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
I would actually like to see Nightly news take over the 20 minute slot and have the broadcast for 1 hour
BR
breakingnews
Pat Kenny announced he's leaving the Late Late tonight which I'm sort of sad about. But he will be doing another show on Monday nights to replace Questions and Answers.
PO
polo23
Just saw a promo for RTE's new business show called Smart Money
presented by Richard Crowley. It's starts on Saturday April 4th on RTE 2 @ 7.30
The promo showed Richard standing up in studio 3.
A weird airtime though and it's on RTE 2!
LJ
Live at five with Jeremy
Good budget cpverage. any views?
DA
davidmcg
Yeah, thought it was good. Prime Time with Brian Lenihan and some eejit from Fine Gael constantly interrupting him was classic, Miriam did well to keep them apart.

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