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Weekend bulletins & scheduling

(March 2016)

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CI
cityprod
RTE broadcast the early evening news at 18:01 on both Saturday and Sunday.

The Nine O'clock News is also fixed on Sundays at, surprisingly enough, 9pm.

The Saturday equivalent is, however, a moving feast depending upon the RTE One schedule.


The difference with Six-One being that whilst the main weekday editions are 59 minutes, the weekend editions are 29 minutes, with a significant portion of that time being assigned to Sports News.

Another difference on RTE is that whilst the weekday One O'Clock bulletins are 25 minutes, the weekend ones are only 5 minutes, basically an extended summary, and I think as well presented from the summary studio rather than the main studio.
LS
Lou Scannon
RTE broadcast the early evening news at 18:01 on both Saturday and Sunday.


Why is it specifically aired at one minute past the hour? Confused
LX
lxflyer
The angelus bell is broadcast at 18:00 every day on RTE1.
LS
Lou Scannon
The angelus bell is broadcast at 18:00 every day on RTE1.


Well, I just had to Google to find out what the blithering flip that's all about. Confused

I initially thought you were making some surreal quasi-Latin joke about this person
http://www.new-magazine.co.uk/dynamic/15/451x567/35228_1.jpg

Is a bell rung continuously for a whole 60-seconds, or what?
Last edited by Lou Scannon on 19 March 2016 9:14am
LX
lxflyer
Yes that's exactly what happens - it's a relic of Ireland's catholic tradition.
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/rte-angelus-undergoes-major-revamp-for-an-ever-changing-modern-ireland-34122649.html

Here's the older version:
http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/681-history-of-rte/708-rte-2000s/289926-the-angelus-office/

It's also broadcast twice daily on RTE Radio 1 at 12:00 and 18:00.
AN
Andrew Founding member
There are pretty much no recent clips of The Angelus on YouTube that aren't spoofs , but it's basically a bell chiming over thoughtful reflective pictures, used to have more of a religious theme in the past, but it's less so these days.
RS
Rob_Schneider
See Terry Wogan and more recently Mel Gideroyc at Eurovision. They feel like they have to be saying something if the EBU feed is not.


Well, Wogan on his radio show was a total master at using long silent pauses to great effect, sometimes comedic, sometimes reflective. That for me was his greatest skill as a broadcaster .


Then why did he have to babble over everything at Eurovision? He regularly opened the mic mid-song and I'm amazed the EBU didn't clamp down on the BBC for it.
RS
Rob_Schneider
See Terry Wogan and more recently Mel Gideroyc at Eurovision. They feel like they have to be saying something if the EBU feed is not.


The EBU feed is commentary free though - and designed to accommodate commentators (of which there are many)...

In recent years the BBC commentators have had to voice over host presenters even when speaking English to point out differences in UK voting to most of the rest of Europe (SMS not being allowed in the UK for instance), where the host presenters are saying things that don't apply in the UK (or in the case of a non-voting semifinal, reminding audiences that they can't vote when the hosts are exhorting them to...)


Two things.

One - the BBC need to come into the 21st century and allow it.
Two - Astons?
RD
rdd Founding member
Just as an aside, RTE aired the Angelus bells on Good Friday and Easter Saturday last year (and I think the year before?), even though Church bells aren't rung on those days. Seemingly the justification is that it's not the Angelus any more, but a generic "moment of reflection". They still bill it as "the Angelus" in listings.
RI
Richard
See Terry Wogan and more recently Mel Gideroyc at Eurovision. They feel like they have to be saying something if the EBU feed is not.


The EBU feed is commentary free though - and designed to accommodate commentators (of which there are many)...

In recent years the BBC commentators have had to voice over host presenters even when speaking English to point out differences in UK voting to most of the rest of Europe (SMS not being allowed in the UK for instance), where the host presenters are saying things that don't apply in the UK (or in the case of a non-voting semifinal, reminding audiences that they can't vote when the hosts are exhorting them to...)


Two things.

One - the BBC need to come into the 21st century and allow it.
Two - Astons?


Presumably the BBC have a policy against text voting (not just for Eurovision) due to the potential for multiple voting.
DO
dosxuk

The EBU feed is commentary free though - and designed to accommodate commentators (of which there are many)...

In recent years the BBC commentators have had to voice over host presenters even when speaking English to point out differences in UK voting to most of the rest of Europe (SMS not being allowed in the UK for instance), where the host presenters are saying things that don't apply in the UK (or in the case of a non-voting semifinal, reminding audiences that they can't vote when the hosts are exhorting them to...)


Two things.

One - the BBC need to come into the 21st century and allow it.
Two - Astons?


Presumably the BBC have a policy against text voting (not just for Eurovision) due to the potential for multiple voting.


SMS's not being delivered within the voting window is the bigger issue, especially since they'll still be charged. The UK networks are set up to slow down if there are a lot of texts to deliver, so there's no guarantee of exactly when a message will be delivered.
DE
deejay
Yup. Ever tried sending (or receiving) a sms message at something like Glastonbury? They often take hours and end up arriving in the middle of the night. Not great if your message was "going to the loo, where shall we meet?"

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