TG4...do you watch it?

Irish_polizei

Haha....i clicked never heard of it thinking that half of after hours would have done the same.....ohh how wrong was I !! :rolleyes:

Rich1691

no

It even had the Cork senior hurling final on last Sunday...what other Channel is going to broadcast that? TG4 also has True Blood on in the early hours!

jassha

no

find it very good for sport. Especially for regional games not being covered by national broadcasters. Ie. connacht rugby. online coverage and especially quality of picture on line is very good

Kimono-Girl

no

i love it! i watch programmes on it such as ros na rún, gossip girl, cold case, south park, two and a half men...and now it has rugby also..that's better then tv3's offerings anyways!

civis_liberalis

no

jassha wrote: »

online coverage and especially quality of picture on line is very good

1200kbps max and it can adjust up and down according to your connection speed on the fly.

Watching a match I've missed on tg4.tv is great because the quality is much superior to... the rté player for example. A person has to take the load that would be on the rte servers and that of tg4's into account though. You'd be talking about much smaller numbers, so I'm not giving out about rté.

th3 s1aught3r

no

Onesimus wrote: »

I think it should be taken off the air and replaced with some better channel to be honest.

I turned it on one night, and it was meant to be a rock show on. All I saw was an eighties wedding dance and some aul one singin behind the mic.

its a poor and boring channel can anyone persuade me otherwise? :pac:

Are you for real ?
TG4 is a MUCH BETTER channel then any of the other terrestial channels

BotFly

no

Best national station.
Superb documentaries.

laugh

no

orourkeda wrote: »

What's the irish for rugby is a pain in the sphinc?

I advise a large suppository 3 times a day for 2 weeks and not watching rugby.

Pauleta

I watch League of Ireland football, The Tour De France and they have Magners league rugby now a days as well.

Dostoevsky

no

Average-Ro wrote: »

I'll give it a go:D

Firstly the poor and boring comment: TG4 only get a tiny fraction of the money the RTE and TV3 get, but in my opinion, they manage to do do much more with it. As was already mentioned, their documentaries and factual programs are fantastic and far out do the other channels. Ros na Rún is the best Irish soap by far, it deals with more contemporary issues than the likes of Fair City. There's a reason Ros na Run is the one being broadcast in America, and not Fair City;)

I always thought that their dramas did well to keep in touch with RTE, but recently I see the dramas improving as well. "Rasaí na Gaillimhe" (while I wasn't a huge fan) was a big indication of how far they've come and it shows that they can take on RTE, and beat them, in thr drama sector as well. If you don't believe me, wait until "Corp & Anam" comes out in January; that show will make waves.

You turned it on one night and saw something you didn't like? That could happen to every channel; TG4 cater to a very wide demographic so they need different shows for different audiences, I'd just say it was bad timing on your part:p

I really think TG4 is the best channel we have; the products they import (The Wire, Oz, True Blood) and the products they create (Na Cloigne, Rasaí na Gaillimhe, An Crisis, Corp & Anam) are astounding considering the pittence they get every year. Makes you wonder what exaclty RTE spend their vastly superior budget on.

BTW, this isn't a rant at you OP, I juat felt like accepting your challenge:D

I've just realised it's impossible to 'thank' a post twice. Well said.

mikemac

no

Aifric is a great show
Very funny and clever, been going for a few years now

But the best show was an undertaker going around in his hearse, I don't know the name of it or if it's still on.

JerryHandbag

no

feelingstressed wrote: »

For years now, new televisions tune themselves in

The days of scanning bands are long gone

Well TV3 didnt appear when I did the autoscan on my new telly, and therefore I didnt bother to go find it by tuning in manually. Perhaps my telly is trying to tell me something.

mikemac

no

You have a wise television so, looking out for you :cool:

brummytom

no

Their music programmes are fantastic, regularly watch them on the TG4 player

JerryHandbag

no

Even the cailíní are lovely....the girls on Ros na Run, the continuity announcers, the newsreaders. Much nicer looking than those Xpose bimbos :rolleyes::p

byhookorbycrook

no

Ros na Rún is fantastic, love it, love it ,love it! For those with better Irish, if you look at the subtitles and then listen to Séamus, you'll see some of his lines are rather milder in translation then they are in Irish.

Morninglory

no

The Gaa coverage is excellent and much better than RTE. It's occasionally has a movie that I would watch until the end.

FouxDaFaFa

no

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Ros na Rún is fantastic, love it, love it ,love it! For those with better Irish, if you look at the subtitles and then listen to Séamus, you'll see some of his lines are rather milder in translation then they are in Irish.

This is one of the things I love about RnaR, they get away with murder with the things lost in translation.

Kimono-Girl

no

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

This is one of the things I love about RnaR, they get away with murder with the things lost in translation.

i don't think they are lost in translation though...

in reverse south park where "you killed kenny you bastard" became "a ubh lofa"

i think ros na rún do it intentionally for those that understand it, otherwise he is simply varying off script!

fontanalis

feelingstressed wrote: »

Aifric is a great show
Very funny and clever, been going for a few years now

But the best show was an undertaker going around in his hearse, I don't know the name of it or if it's still on.

CU Burn?

JerryHandbag

no

I useda love this show, hopefully it returns for another new series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Km3N-J1uQ0

PeterIanStaker

no

Not only do I not watch it, but I spy on my neighbours through their curtains, and if I see them watching TG4, I report them to Michael McDowell as possible dissidents.





*not*

squeakyduck

no

I used to watch it for spongebob....with subtitles! :rolleyes:

squod

should be taken off the air

Chick who reads the news is a fox. Oh yeah baby.

jimmycrackcorm

no

I'm not into soaps but I'd watch Ros Na Run ok. Good documentaries.
For the money put into it they do a really good job.

chin_grin

should be taken off the air

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tg4+weather&aq=f

Dionysus

no

Nowadays, I rarely watch TV - perhaps once or twice a month. But here are some of the things which make TG4 stand head and shoulders above any other TV station:

1. Although nobody has mentioned this yet, I loved their non-English language movies. Particularly, I loved all those great, great French movies such as Jean de Florette and its sequel Manon des Sources. Superb, amazingly moving films. Have been a regular in Laser since.

2. Their documentaries, as has been said many times here, are exemplary. Fíorscéal is particularly informative.

3. I love their Irish cultural documentaries - for instance, many years ago they did a documentary which covered how people in Conamara celebrated some feast or other by chasing and then killing a pig. I mentioned it to older Irish people and all of them knew about this tradition. I had never heard of it. I also love their reshowings of Come West Along the Road and the superb Hands series, which showed us a huge number of traditional Irish crafts and traditions such as how people built boats traditionally. It's a refreshing (and educational) break from America's Next Top Model or Britain's Got Talent. And don't mention Big Brother.

4. I'm not mad about sport at all. But I admire the way TG4 shows not the inter-county matches but the small parish matches across Ireland, in both football and hurling. I also think it's cool that they show the regional matches in rugby rather than the big matches, and that they show Spanish soccer rather than (the dominant) British soccer. All of these add something to Irish broadcasting and for that TG4 should really be commended.

TG4 is one of the few areas of society where we're getting value for our money. It, along with National Geographic, adds something to my knowledge of the world. TV3, in contrast, is abysmal.

brennan1979

no

I think TG4 is far and away the best broadcaster in Ireland. My Irish is poor but it doesn't stop me enjoying a lot of the shows on the channel. It's a shame that so many people have such a prejudice against the Irish language that they won't even watch the station. I feel if they did they would be pleasantly surprised by the quality and variety of programming they deliver.

In terms of Irish historical and current affairs documentaries, Irish language programming (I'm including Scannál), is streets ahead of anything RTÉ or TV3 deliver in English.

The only criticism I would make is about their website. A lot of their shows are only up on their online player for a short period (with Mobs Mheiricaeá for example, only two of the episodes are currently available) and also you can't watch the programmes in one piece, they're split into segments.

This is a shame because they have such a great back catalogue of programming it would be fantastic if they were available online.

TG4 dispels the notion that Ireland can't produce good television and really shows RTÉ up for the wasteful incompetents they are.

brennan1979

no

Dionysus wrote: »

Nowadays, I rarely watch TV - perhaps once or twice a month. But here are some of the things which make TG4 stand head and shoulders above any other TV station:

1. Although nobody has mentioned this yet, I loved their non-English language movies. Particularly, I loved all those great, great French movies such as Jean de Florette and its sequel Manon des Sources. Superb, amazingly moving films. Have been a regular in Laser since.

2. Their documentaries, as has been said many times here, are exemplary. Fíorscéal is particularly informative.

3. I love their Irish cultural documentaries - for instance, many years ago they did a documentary which covered how people in Conamara celebrated some feast or other by chasing and then killing a pig. I mentioned it to older Irish people and all of them knew about this tradition. I had never heard of it. I also love their reshowings of Come West Along the Road and the superb Hands series, which showed us a huge number of traditional Irish crafts and traditions such as how people built boats traditionally. It's a refreshing (and educational) break from America's Next Top Model or Britain's Got Talent. And don't mention Big Brother.

4. I'm not mad about sport at all. But I admire the way TG4 shows not the inter-county matches but the small parish matches across Ireland, in both football and hurling. I also think it's cool that they show the regional matches in rugby rather than the big matches, and that they show Spanish soccer rather than (the dominant) British soccer. All of these add something to Irish broadcasting and for that TG4 should really be commended.

TG4 is one of the few areas of society where we're getting value for our money. It, along with National Geographic, adds something to my knowledge of the world. TV3, in contrast, is abysmal.

+1
TG4 seem to understand what's required of a public service broadcaster far more than RTÉ do.

ShamoBuc

no

There is very little on RTE 1 that I would watch - apart from Reeling in the Years!! Net 2 - apart from GAA- has little also - CSI's are getting sooooo predictable. TV3 - you must be joking - a rehashed UTV. TG4 has fantastic sport coverage - particularly GAA - club level throughout the winter is brill - ladies football - camoige, aussie rules and now of course the rugby. Their sport coverage alone is better than most of the ' best of' programmes on the other 3 put together.
I have the free to air uk channels and to be honest I watch them alot - TG4 gets most - about 80% - of the viewing between the other 4 channels.
I also hear they have some very good programmes in Irish - not much need for a poll really - TG4 is quite clearly the best channel we are producing - cinnte!!

Diabhal Beag

no

Watch all the GAA matches on there. It's way better than TV3 anyways.

mikemac

no

TG4 is taxpayers money well spent.

Maybe Minister for Communications Eamonn Ryan can look at forcing RTÉ and their massive budget to look what at TG4 produce on a very small budget.

No need for presenters with "premiership football" salaries
Plus the weather girls on TG4, ah sigh!!

Edit; anyway RTÉ always say if they cut salaries their stars will quit. And go to where?
Joe Duffy gets 400k a year. Philip Boucher Hayes filled in for a few weeks this summer was even better. Give him 100k and the daily slot.
Marian Finucane gets over 500k. Rachael English on RTÉ is even better, again give her the job for 100k and will do and even better job

ShamoBuc wrote: »

I also hear they have some very good programmes in Irish -

Check out Ros na Run (possible lack of fadas, sorry) and Aifric
And C U Burn, all fantastic

And that show on the Galway Races, the name is in the thread further back

bnt

Where's the option for "only when they show good foreign films"? I don't understand Klingon, but at least the movies have subtitles. :pac:

MardiB

TG4 uses their budget so well. Great foreign and indie movies. They always show GAA matches. Scannell and fiorsceal are topnotch. They were the first Irish channel to show the ire and this was before it got really popular. I think they are doing a great job.

dory

no

123balltv wrote: »

no I never watch it my parents only watch it for the films then they switch it off when the foreign language comes on

That's the language we have here, along with English. Welcome to the country. Where you from?

pajero12

no

Watch all the gaelic matches on it! they have lots of county finals on!

kowloon

Used to watch films on TG4 more often than the other three channels, have some interesting foreign films that RTE and TV3 would never show because of the subtitles.
Has TV3 ever even aired a documentary?

Don't watch it anymore, although that's mainly due to d'internet.

ballsymchugh

kowloon wrote: »

Used to watch films on TG4 more often than the other three channels, have some interesting foreign films that RTE and TV3 would never show because of the subtitles.
Has TV3 ever even aired a documentary?

this is as good as it gets as regards a documentary on tv3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9al-mpqXjc

efb

no

TG4>RTÉ1>RTÉ2>watching paint dry>TV3

Micky Dolenz

I watch a fair bit of TG4, now it also has the Rugby. I think they do a great job.

alanatoday

no

I watch Tg4 for Survivor. Excellent tv programme.