The Late Late Gay Byrne Irish Television Thread

They're both in Danger at this stage. they've lost basically all their top 20 shows. Out of the top 20 last week only 2 were Irish and one of them was wedged between two episodes of Coronation street. Coronation Street normally gets 350,000 a night but when you get down to number 20 the figure is around the 100,000 mark. The soaps and other ITV programmes are basically the only ones that bring in the amounts of viewers advertisers need. When they go they basically have nothing to offer advertisers.

The new evening show would have to be a lot better than their daytime output which no one appears to watch in any great number. The soap will only survive if they get Channel 5 or some other British Broadcaster to come in and co-fund it. Soaps cost a lot of money and take a while to bed in. They're starting a soap from scratch with no back up programmes what so ever.

X factor and Britains Got Talent (plus 10 eps of Downton) are the only surviving shows and they will only fill up 20 or so weekends a year. Remember that each Xfactor hour is stretched out on TV3 to 3 and 4 hours with repeat after repeat.

It's going to have to be a great presentation for the autumn if any advertiser is to stick with them.

It's basically ITV with extra Irish news. But they'll be providing 8 and half hours more Irish News in Primetime than TV3. Currently TV3 have no News from 6pm till 7am the next morning and No news whatsoever from 6.00pm on Friday till Monday Morning. (Tuesday If it's a bank holiday)

The big reason for TV3 to keep 3e alive in some way, shape, or form is it's very valuable EPG slots(105/106) that they will not want opening up for UTV to come and grab. UTV is otherwise doomed to be well down the Sky EPG (though they will probably get at least UTV NI's 110 slot on UPC and maybe even higher)

Well I would presume SKY will give them A EPG listing as high as possible. It basically means that ITV finally comes to SKY Ireland without having to go thru Other Channels.

It's likely to get Channel 9 on Saorview and it's very possible that RTE News Now will be moved up again as happened with 3e. That would mean that UTV would be on 6 which would be fine.

TV3 launches most exciting schedule yet

TV3 launches major new soap, 30 new shows and an array of new faces in its biggest schedule ever.

TV3 today confirms its 2014 Autumn Schedule and 2015 programming plans in a special presentation from Dublin’s Mansion House. TV3 and 3e will deliver a wide variety of new content across a number of key genres from ‘Entertainment and Lifestyle’ to ‘Sport & Events’, ‘News & Factual’, ‘International Acquisitions’ and ‘Soap and Drama’. TV3 Group will invest over 75% of its programming budget on home-produced content next year.

http://www.tv3.ie/entertainment_article.php?locID=1.803.813&article=143917

RTE Two reverts to its original name of RTE2 (it's fifth name change in 25 years) and gets a new look on Monday 22nd September. Though it appears green will remain the dominant colour.

http://m.rte.ie/ten/news/2014/0911/642985-watch-rte-2-launches-new-season/

Why do TV 3 continually brag about shows being made in their HD studio yet they don't have a HD channel to show them on? Their SD quality is terrible, so it's not as if recording it in HD makes it look better for SD viewers!

They apparently will go HD before the Rugby World Cup next year. I'll believe it when I see it!

Well I reckon you'll need cable if you want to see it. I doubt if they'll pay the fees to Saorview to broadcast a HD signal, and Sky still aren't broadcasting RTE 1 in HD.

If it's on HD in Dublin and Cork Cableland that will be enough for TV3 to say it's HD everywhere (everywhere that matters to TV3)

The first new RTÉ Two ident has aired. Very weird and with a lot going on, and no discernible theme. An old Department of Posts and Telegraphs telephone box is prominently featured. There was a very cringeworthy in-character continuity announcement from what appeared to be Damo (Andy Quirke) of Damo and Ivor fame.

Even more unorthodoxly, while a new DOG appeared at 5:30pm, at 7:00pm it was massively reduced in size and moved to the centre of the screen on HD, and SD lost its DOG completely. Quite odd. EDIT: The DOG was removed on HD shortly afterwards, so it appears to be some sort of error.

The DOG on RTE 2 HD has now come back on screen a few minutes ago although it does look very nice and compact while it is in the correct on-screen position.

I find the DOG a bit too bright and on the HD channel, it's not close enough to the corner, so is still off-putting. Don't know why they decided to put the HD pit at the top right, like a "to the power of" position in a maths equation.

I liked the look and style of the News Beat programme, like 60 seconds but sourt of double in length and it's only once a day which is good too. Not a fan of the idents, and the one off continuity announcer is not amusing at all either.

The channel looks out of place now beside RTÉ ONE, not just because of the ONE / 2 branding, but they look like two totally separate companies, no real branding carrying across apart from the RTÉ logo. Unless another change is planned for RTÉ ONE sometime soon?