I agree. RTE have a lot to answer for in terms of their expenditure, and a large degree of this expenditure is on wastage such as over-staffing and paying for poor-quality imported-programming along with silly investments such as so-called 'commissioned programming' which is inevitably produced and directed by non-RTE companies.
Something interesting about the new news is that the broom-cupboard is still in use!!! Last night's 'Late Summary' was a complete disaster with the presenter's hair giving the whole show away... even telling us humble viewers that they use blue-screens as opposed to green-screens.
Another thing that's been happening quite a lot lately is the DOG is getting screwed up quite often within certain bulletins. Friday's Nuacht was a disaster with the DOG, as it flashed to the center and then right of the screen, first in English and then in Irish. At last-night's Late Summary, the DOG appeared BEHIND the presenter, who casually rolled her elbow into it a few times.
So with all the pomp and ceremony (dimished by poor set design and poor graphics etc. in typical RTE fashion) more of the same is coming out of Montrose. The weather system still uses the old DOG and the idents still haven't kicked in. And shock horror, on one of this week's 6.1 'bulletins' a report completely froze and crashed, forcing the incumbent Dobbo to apologise (he's getting rather good at apologising, which is disconcerting in itself.)
Again, I ask you, is there ANYTHING we can do to help?? Surely a mish-mash of brains from this thread could come onto RTE (for free, because they're "poor") to help them with their now fledgling news service. The shocking thing is that the 'new' news is getting worse by the day, and at this rate, will need to be refreshed very very soon.
I can only equate it to a gangerous wound being dressed in a new band-aid. The wound will only get worse. It needs treatment or amputation.
You know, someone has already stated a while back that RTE
might
be monitoring this thread for viewer inputs. Do you think this is happening? If not, the Irish people on this thread can start some viewer's advisory club or some sort. (I would love to help, but I'm American )
Hello there, this is my first post here, glad to be with you all _____
First problems in the new set appared - this Wednesday Seamus had a little problem with reading the weather in Nuacht RTE (BTW: Look how Seamus "confidentially" have been looking into the camera to check if he is still visible). Also after the closing sequence a strange undefined picture appeared before the RTE News With Signing opening.
Just scroll it to 8:42 and watch _____
PS.: Irishmen! Who can tell me what is the correct writing and meaning of the words [commani diiv] agus [debrah masah tron honen]? (It would be great to understand at least something what The Glamorous Siun is saying )
First problems in the new set appared - this Wednesday Seamus had a little problem with reading the weather in Nuacht RTE (BTW: Look how Seamus "confidentially" have been looking into the camera to check if he is still visible). Also after the closing sequence a strange undefined picture appeared before the RTE News With Signing opening.
It's a bilingual blunderfest!
Hi there everybody! I've been reading all your insight over the past month or so and finally decided to weigh in.
Another day, another feck-up. I was waiting for this report on today's Six-One since I've a neighbour working there and I'm always interested seeing reports from my locality naturally enough. Scroll to 16:16 and imagine my disappointment. Of course they never returned to the item.
Why is it though that whenever TV3 make a mistake like that, and it's rare that they do, they're always quicker off the mark? Today at 5:30, a report about the gun amnesty failed to kick off - the still was on-screen for 5 seconds before Alan apologised. They returned to the item less than two minutes later. Here, RTÉ can be seen rewinding their report for 9 seconds. Few things are worse than the 50 second still we had recently though.
TV3 run a server based system, where everything is edited on about 15 workstations and sent to the studio playouts. There they have several play out machines run on ENPS so if one goes down, the other can still roll whilst the other is reset and even then if the play out machines both fail, you can playout from one of the souped-up edit workstations with talkback.
It could have just been the trigger wasn't sent from ENPS to start.
Chances are with that report it arrived just before it was due to go out and was being rewound before it was due for playout, but it just didn't make it in time to the start. Why they stayed on it so long is beyond me, perhaps they were hoping it was going to reach the start soon enough
RTE have gone digital at last, well... digital tape! DVC Pro I think they're on
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