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Onthe3rdDay wrote: »To be fair in any commercial broadcasting organisation across the world Sales and promotional people are usually close to the top, it's not just an Irish thing. If the vast majority of Sales people walked out of a local or National Radio station here it would be almost as big a problem.
Then the CEOs and Programme managers need to make sure that the meet with their customers and clients and know who they are and what they want. Otherwise when a Sales person leaves they take your customers with them.
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I think TV3 get away with a lot in relation to this debate about RTÉ's one sided agenda. TV3's original news was very much the same as RTÉ's, I don't really see much difference between the news on Local Radio Stations, the Commerical National Radio Stations than we get from RTÉ. In actual fact I would say many Locals are far more FF and FG than RTÉ are.
It is difficult for RTÉ to have to put up with all sides saying they are being treated unfairly.
It also helps that Vincent Browne can give TV3 some creditability but in general TV3 is much like the rest of the Irish media filled with consensus. Unable to ask hard questions in fear that they might insult a future employer.
Aren't you forgetting the fearless Ursula, bane of all politicians??
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channelsurfer2 wrote: »and a brand new Crossfire Celebrity Special, featuring Karen Koster, Elaine Crowley, Anna Daly and Ciara Doherty – which of the TV3 beauties will come out on top?
some celebrities they are!
Saw that programme! Sinéad Desmond appeared instead of Anna Daly.
One of the final questions was 'What TV programme does Mark Cagney
present?' It was asked of Sinéad Desmond, his co-presenter!! You could
hear the howls of 'Fix! Fix!' from Elaine Crowley, who was the other finalist.
I honestly could not blame her.
To give Sinéad her due, she did not feel it was kosher and shared her winnings
with Elaine - both of them had nominated charities.
Was it a coincidence or deliberate to have had all women contestants on Celebrity
Crossfire? It presented quite a contrast to the regular quiz, in which most of
the participants are men! No male 'celebrities' available for Saturday night's
Quiz? A serious lack of women willing to take part in the regular Crossfire??
Just asking!!
While the format for Crossfire is quite good, I have rarely seen such a lack of
balance in gender and age among the participants. On quizzes such as The
Chase, Pointless, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and even the shortlived
' The Lie', you would see a good balance of male/female, young/old, thin/fat,
black/white, tall/small among the 'quizzees'. Crossfire only seems to accept
Thirty something males, for the most part, it seems to me. I guess the all
female celebrity version was a sop to us women who love quiz shows but
have been expressing our dismay at the mostly male make up of Crossfire.
On second thoughts, perhaps I am giving too much credit to the presenter/
producer.
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Onthe3rdDay wrote: »*Casting is underway and the soap is Due to start shooting in October. Now I was under the impression that they were going to start shooting the soap in August. Is this going to be one of those things that's always 3 months away from been shot?
As someone pointed out earlier, It might have been you, TV3 maybe looking for BAI Sound & Vision Funding, the BAI will announce their latest round of funding in Sept. Also just quote Michael O'Keeffe at the Oireachtas on DCTV:-One of the challenges in funding a company such as DCTV is its funding model appeared to be very much based on securing money from the sound and vision fund and from other schemes. There is a question mark over whether such a model is sustainable because the sound and vision fund is a competitive grant awards scheme and how one can base one's funding to such an extent on securing money from a scheme of that nature is challenging. They have bought time until February to continue with the service. Between now and then, we will explore with them whether there are ways to continue but they need to look at their funding model because one cannot rely on one scheme to be the mainstay of a funding model
@ Brooke 2 did you not dig a big enough hole the last time
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Haha! So, I am not the only person to whom this thought occurred!
Ah I though you were that person. It was on the "Things that Annoy you the most thread" in after hours. I thought it was one of those over the top feminist tropes that occurs so much with media, I don't give out about how Midday and Xpose are women only. But a good quizshow that happens to have more male contestants gets a people talking :rolleyes: May as well continue to dig!0 -
Saw that programme! Sinéad Desmond appeared instead of Anna Daly.
One of the final questions was 'What TV programme does Mark Cagney
present?' It was asked of Sinéad Desmond, his co-presenter!! You could
hear the howls of 'Fix! Fix!' from Elaine Crowley, who was the other finalist.
I honestly could not blame her.
To give Sinéad her due, she did not feel it was kosher and shared her winnings
with Elaine - both of them had nominated charities.
Was it a coincidence or deliberate to have had all women contestants on Celebrity
Crossfire? It presented quite a contrast to the regular quiz, in which most of
the participants are men! No male 'celebrities' available for Saturday night's
Quiz? A serious lack of women willing to take part in the regular Crossfire??
Just asking!!
While the format for Crossfire is quite good, I have rarely seen such a lack of
balance in gender and age among the participants. On quizzes such as The
Chase, Pointless, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and even the shortlived
' The Lie', you would see a good balance of male/female, young/old, thin/fat,
black/white, tall/small among the 'quizzees'. Crossfire only seems to accept
Thirty something males, for the most part, it seems to me. I guess the all
female celebrity version was a sop to us women who love quiz shows but
have been expressing our dismay at the mostly male make up of Crossfire.
On second thoughts, perhaps I am giving too much credit to the presenter/
producer.
There's no agenda I would assume with the normal run of Crossfire. The UK Quizshows have the same problem, Men apply to quizes 3 and 4 times more. I'm Talking here about shows where questions are asked. Not the likes of Deal or No Deal. You can't force women on if they don't apply. Obviously in the UK the companies have the time and workforce to balance out the situation. To be fair to TV3, they don't have the resources (or the actual right people applying)
As for the show that went out last night, that was very sexist. They were only put on the show because they were female and good looking?? From their own press release...
and a brand new Crossfire Celebrity Special, featuring Karen Koster, Elaine Crowley, Anna Daly and Ciara Doherty – which of the TV3 beauties will come out on top?0 -
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Ah I though you were that person. It was on the "Things that Annoy you the most thread" in after hours. I thought it was one of those over the top feminist tropes that occurs so much with media, I don't give out about how Midday and Xpose are women only. But a good quizshow that happens to have more male contestants gets a people talking :rolleyes: May as well continue to dig!
So, how many women have you noticed on Crossfire, Elmo?
Midday and Exposé are aimed at the female demographic, I believe.
I have not remarked about sports programmes, which are majorly
watched by men.
Crossfire is a quiz programme, as is The Chase, Pointless, WWTBAM? -
even 'The Lie'. As such, it is watched by a male/female, young/old, etc.,
audience. I just happen to believe that those taking part should be
representative of that diversity.
If you wish to embark on another 'rant', be my guest!!
As far as I am concerned, I have made my point!!0 -
Onthe3rdDay wrote: »There's no agenda I would assume with the normal run of Crossfire. The UK Quizshows have the same problem, Men apply to quizes 3 and 4 times more. I'm Talking here about shows where questions are asked. Not the likes of Deal or No Deal. You can't force women on if they don't apply. Obviously in the UK the companies have the time and workforce to balance out the situation. To be fair to TV3, they don't have the resources (or the actual right people applying)
As for the show that went out last night, that was very sexist. They were only put on the show because they were female and good looking?? From their own press release...
and a brand new Crossfire Celebrity Special, featuring Karen Koster, Elaine Crowley, Anna Daly and Ciara Doherty – which of the TV3 beauties will come out on top?
I did not realise that that was their own press release! Who do they think they are?
Fox News?
Re quiz shows - I would not class the likes of Deal Or No Deal as a quiz programme.
Tried to look at it once and abandoned it after a few minutes. I am referring to
'proper' quiz shows, such as Pointless, which does not seem to have any
difficulty attracting people of both sexes and all ages and standards of IQ.
I have previously mentioned other shows where there was much more diversity
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