The Late Late Gay Byrne Irish Television Thread

I would move the AU soaps to RTÉ One and use 6-7pm for Ellen, which used to air on TV3/Virgin Media One

(Spot the TV3 dog)

Ellen's show is useless at 10.00am on RTE 1, no one watches it, and so moving it to RTE 2 in the early evening will be a smart move. Tea time talk show, but how far behind US transmission is RTE? A few days, weeks?

Months in fact, I watched it about a month ago on RTE One and they were showing September/October 2018 episodes.

RTÉ2+1 is launching from 7pm this evening. It's platforms are Channel 12 on Saorview & Saorsat.

RTÉ2+1 has also appeared on Sky Ireland EPG today.

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A video loop is being displayed now before the 7pm launch.

Why can't they be closer to US transmission? Money I presume. ITV2 are closer in transmission I believe with 2019 shows airing.

I have next week's RTÉ Guide on hand. Ellen is being broadcast on both RTÉ One at 10:05am & at 5pm on RTÉ2 from next Monday. That is ridiculous. Why is there a need to show it twice during the weekday. Is it a lack of content for RTÉ on hand to use for their channel. The Simpsons is officially confirmed for the 4pm double bill. But there is not much change anywhere else in RTÉ2's schedule from Monday. It still has RTÉjr & TRTÉ programmes baked into it throughout the week as per usual.

Not launched on the Sky EPG for me yet.

Re the new schedule, I’m not sure why they’re moving the older kids programmes to airing while they’re at school. It’s shame for those of us that grew up with the Den that RTÉ are now vacating that time slot, but maybe they feel there’s no point competing with the dedicated kids channels.

They don't want kids shows on RTÉ 2 at all, but they aren't allowed to remove them. The BBC were able to move all kids programming to a dedicated channel but ministers don't feel it is in the public's interest for RTÉ to follow this example. If you can receive RTÉ 1 and 2 then you can receive RTÉ Junior so I don't see how it's a problem.

To be fair, the kids programmes I’m referring to are the TRTE rather than RTEjr audience, ie the “tweens” (who are typically in school till 3:00pm). Think it’s a mistake for RTÉ to abandon that audience.

But I agree the RTEjr programmes should now go from RTE2, with ASO on Virgin Media now well under way there will be very few that can pick up one and not the other.

RTE have nothing to fill their 10.00am slot on RTE 1 with and so have kept Ellen there, and I bet they will provide the excuse, if you missed it at 10.00am, then catch up at 5.00pm on RTE 2. They bought the rights to the show, so they are making use of it, thinking airing it at 5pm will attract the tea time crowd who might watch The Chase or Pointless and instead would want to watch three month old episodes of Ellen. Instead of watching newer ones on ITV 2 which is available via satellite in the republic.

Well ITV 2 isn't on any satellite platforms in ROI, it can be tuned in manually of course, but the majority of viewers wouldn't know or care about that, they just watch what they have available to them.

You be surprised how many watch ITV2 in the Republic, if for no other reason other than Family Guy and American Dad. There are about 30% of houses that either have reception via Free to Air Sat or Freeview and they'd all be aware of all the ITV's and channel 5 stations that are available. It's only Cable customers that would have limited access to various ITV stations. There are a lot of people watching the Six Nations outside of Dublin on ITV as it's in HD while Virgin Media One is only available in SD to a lot of people. As for SKY everyone I know getting it installed up to recently made sure that UTV/ITV and the rest of the ITV's were tuned in to the other channels.