I was just browsing around, and I saw this, from NRK, the Norwegian PSB:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Dagsrevyen.JPG It's small, like RTE, but it has the perfect colour scheme, and is modern. It shows that you can be cheap, but classy.
Anyone know anything about the rumoured TV version of Radio 1's
Morning Ireland
? I heard earlier in the year that it would be launched as part of the new season but I haven't heard anything about it since. Some Boardsies have joked about it being achieved by placing a few cameras in the radio centre during Morning Ireland. I think even that would be fine - much better than EuroNews, France 24, Ireland AM and reruns of daytime chat from the day before!
Could RTE not "sell" a GMTV-esque morning franchise to be run in the style of UKTV (but with news, if that's possible?)?
I was just browsing around, and I saw this, from NRK, the Norwegian PSB:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Dagsrevyen.JPG It's small, like RTE, but it has the perfect colour scheme, and is modern. It shows that you can be cheap, but classy.
Odd how different people see the same thing and react differently.
To me the greeny/blue backdrop, old man + younger woman presenting combo, wireframe globes with picture insets hard keyed over the studio with slides-on AND a wooden desk all look incredibly dated...
Very well implemented, quite classy, and good lighting etc. The astons, DVE boxes etc. are well implemented, and the regional studio in Bodo looked quite a bit more modern. (It didn't have the dirgy, dull green/blue mush look)
Scandinavian TV usually has very high production values - but some services are still incredibly conservative, and to UK viewers feel dated.
SVT have some very interesting ways of doing stuff though.
Anyone know anything about the rumoured TV version of Radio 1's
Morning Ireland
? I heard earlier in the year that it would be launched as part of the new season but I haven't heard anything about it since. Some Boardsies have joked about it being achieved by placing a few cameras in the radio centre during Morning Ireland. I think even that would be fine - much better than EuroNews, France 24, Ireland AM and reruns of daytime chat from the day before!
Could RTE not "sell" a GMTV-esque morning franchise to be run in the style of UKTV (but with news, if that's possible?)?
I think what might work well would be to have BBC NI and RTE co-produce a morning program. I'm sure RTE and the BBC have co-produced stuff before, and it might work well.
Anyone know anything about the rumoured TV version of Radio 1's
Morning Ireland
? I heard earlier in the year that it would be launched as part of the new season but I haven't heard anything about it since. Some Boardsies have joked about it being achieved by placing a few cameras in the radio centre during Morning Ireland. I think even that would be fine - much better than EuroNews, France 24, Ireland AM and reruns of daytime chat from the day before!
Could RTE not "sell" a GMTV-esque morning franchise to be run in the style of UKTV (but with news, if that's possible?)?
I think what might work well would be to have BBC NI and RTE co-produce a morning program. I'm sure RTE and the BBC have co-produced stuff before, and it might work well.
The BBC and RTE have co-produced dramas in the past - wasn't Ballykissangel a prominent example?
"Radio on the TV" is difficult to get right. It has been tried since the 1970s (the BBC trialled a thing called Radiovision ISTR) and Chris Evans had a simulcast of his Virgin show on Sky One didn't he?
The difficult thing is to make things work on both networks equally well - even something as simple as running live-voiced VT with effects is an issue - as the effects often mean nothing to the radio audience and sound odd, but if you run the VT mute on TV it looks strange... If you're not careful you just end up with a webcam pointing at a radio studio - which is hardly compelling TV.
I guess a NI/ROI Breakfast co produced and co-anchored in Dublin and Belfast would be good, with a ROI opt out from RTE and Newsline optouts for NI. It could work well, and would be a great example of co-operation between the 2 countries.
I guess a NI/ROI Breakfast co produced and co-anchored in Dublin and Belfast would be good, with a ROI opt out from RTE and Newsline optouts for NI. It could work well, and would be a great example of co-operation between the 2 countries.
Be interesting to see how much it would cost though... The BBC ditched the separate News 24 and BBC One Mon-Fri Breakfast programmes in 2000 to reduce duplication and save money. I doubt they could justify a new split - for 2.5 hours a day (i.e. 12.5 hours per week?) just for a small proportion of the viewing audience, and I doubt BBC NI could afford it from their own regional budget.
I'm not familiar with what RTE do for their 0600-0830 Breakfast programming - but AIUI it isn't a News/Feature mix with a lot of original production, as the BBC currently produce in London? I'd be interested to know how much RTE currently spend to fill this slot - I'd imagine it was minimal compared to the BBC's network spend?
Breakfast is not a cheap show to make for a networked show - reducing the budget as much as would be required to produce it on a regional budget (and without the network resources in London - such as the full newsgathering operation, distributed desktop editing system, centralised feed recording operation etc.) would be interesting. Funding it at the level of a network show would be politically interesting - and probably quite difficult to justify in the current reduced licence-fee circumstances...
I'm not familiar with what RTE do for their 0600-0830 Breakfast programming - but AIUI it isn't a News/Feature mix with a lot of original production, as the BBC currently produce in London? I'd be interested to know how much RTE currently spend to fill this slot - I'd imagine it was minimal compared to the BBC's network spend?
They currently spend a sum total of zero! Well, not really, but basically whatever it costs to clear the rights to a whole load of repeats...
RTÉ One Monday, 20th August 2007:
06:15 Nationwide
06:40 EuroNews
06:50 Neighbours
07:15 Hart to Hart
08:15 All Creatures Great and Small
So, a repeat of the previous night's Nationwide, one recent import, and two 1980s imports! It is the summer though, in the winter part of that slot would be a repeat of the previous day's Afternoon Show so it would look a little more home-produced.
RTÉ Two show a load of mostly imported kids shows during this period, including (incredously) the early 1980s cartoon She-Ra!
RTÉ have been promising a breakfast news programme for about ten years now. Still to materialise, through a combination of not having the money to do so and the unions wanting a doshload of cash to do it.
RTÉ have been promising a breakfast news programme for about ten years now. Still to materialise, through a combination of not having the money to do so and the unions wanting a doshload of cash to do it.
I'm just amazed at how RTÉ can't do it, TV3 have done it and they've been on for a less amount of time in comparison to RTÉ. I'm sure if it can be done in the UK it should be possible in Ireland, especially from the State broadcaster.
RTÉ have been promising a breakfast news programme for about ten years now. Still to materialise, through a combination of not having the money to do so and the unions wanting a doshload of cash to do it.
I'm just amazed at how RTÉ can't do it, TV3 have done it and they've been on for a less amount of time in comparison to RTÉ. I'm sure if it can be done in the UK it should be possible in Ireland, especially from the State broadcaster.
What, the same UK with a population of 60+million and TV budgets of ridiculous money, and the same Ireland with a population of 3 million? Hmmmm.