The Irish General Election

Watching RTE One on the website there is a lovely analogue-style splat when the commercial break slide is taken down to return to the programmes.

They are using Shine by Years and Years as their theme.

Also this:

.@RTENews get the best people 😂 #GE16 pic.twitter.com/oZoI6LTt5B

— Clare Cullen / 'Clisare' (@Clisare) February 27, 2016

I've been watching the election coverage via the RTÉ Election website, which I believe is a stream of RTÉ News Now, and am struck by how many graphics they have moving around the screen - a sidebar on the right hand side and at the bottom, a news ticker and astons. It is quite distracting and is making it quite hard to concentrate on what anyone is saying.

You won't get all of that if you watch the RTE One stream. http://www.rte.ie/player/gb/live/8/

TV3 have a seat count and ticker running on all their programmes.

RTE's programme now on BBC Parliament. I assume they are rebroadcasting Dsat

They have a countdown timer on during the breaks and are showing some of their own filler material.

I suspect they have a proper feed along with a feed of gallery talkback so they can get in and out of breaks cleanly.

The one hit at 19.38 wasn't very clean. Graphic into break sting, then cut to a black screen with 'RTE.IE commercial break' caption in white, before the BBC Parliament break filler vt

So BBC Parliament appear to be putting out the RTE webfeed.

It's not the same feed as the web feed is in HD and has the 'RTE ONE HD' DOG, the feed to BBC Parliament is in SD.

The countdown on the break at 1938 got into trouble at the end, it got to 0:00 then decided to climb up again to 0:02.

It's done that at every break though!

Just noticed a clock had appeared on one of the top level strap on the lower thirds, which I don't recall seeing before.
Reminds me of the original on screen clock from News 24 in style and colour..

The clock was there before the One O'Clock News but disappeared after, and has only reappeared in the last hour or so.

Whole programme covering Irish General Election from 11am. Sky channel 979.

With quite a number of seats still to fill RTE election coverage now scheduled to run on until 6:00pm.

I am not sure how anyone can take TV3 seriously as a news/current affairs player if they think running a banner is a sufficient way to cover such an important (dare I say historic) event.