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Dublin Horse Show 2014 on RTE

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    #2
    Ave Sodalis
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    This thread comes up every single year. There's always someone who isn't happy with the opening credits. Personally, I've never minded them.
    I also don't really care that one of the members of a team happens to have a famous father. Heck, her father could be jumping himself and I wouldn't think it would warrant a headline. Then again, I never really got the appeal of famous figures...
    Congrats to the USA on winning the Aga Khan and hard luck to the Irish team.


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    Go Harvey Go
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    sup_dude wrote: »
    This thread comes up every single year. There's always someone who isn't happy with the opening credits. Personally, I've never minded them.

    I didn't say I wasn't happy with these titles; I said I wasn't happy with the titles used beforehand. :);)

    I'm sure there were a lot of non-RTE people who liked those painty, waltzy titles - and I wouldn't disrespect any of them for that. Just as I wouldn't disrespect anyone who likes Sinead Desmond or Republic of Telly. :)

    It's just that I myself hated those titles, and still can't quite believe that RTE held on to them for as long as they did... :mad: :rolleyes: :o:)

    I also don't really care that one of the members of a team happens to have a famous father. Heck, her father could be jumping himself and I wouldn't think it would warrant a headline. Then again, I never really got the appeal of famous figures...

    The point I was making was not that RTE should be paying more attention to Jessica because of her dad - it was that they should be paying more attention to her because of her achievements in the last two days.

    I'd say the same for any non-Irish rider who happened to be doing extremely well at the RDS - regardless how famous their parents were.

    Talk about the Irish riders by all means - but don't dedicate at least two-thirds of each article to them unless there's a very good reason for doing so... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :);)


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    Go Harvey Go
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    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    Talk about the Irish riders by all means - but don't dedicate at least two-thirds of each article to them unless there's a very good reason for doing so... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :);)

    Like, for instance, when they take the first nine places in the Puissance, and Billy Twomey also wins the Accumulator. ;)

    Don't, however, type up and upload the article as though it all has to be done within two minutes... :rolleyes: :o;)

    http://www.rte.ie/sport/equestrian/2014/0809/636148-rds-round-up/


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    monflat
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    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    Like, for instance, when they take the first nine places in the Puissance, and Billy Twomey also wins the Accumulator. ;)

    Don't, however, type up and upload the article as though it all has to be done within two minutes... :rolleyes: :o;)

    http://www.rte.ie/sport/equestrian/2014/0809/636148-rds-round-up/




    The bit that annoyed me this yr was on Friday 5 pm news on national radio station sports news.
    The biggest day for irish showjumping with the competition being held in.Ireland.
    And

    The golf news came first
    The women's rugby next ( although they deserve a mention)

    News about an English soccer club.
    And finally
    " Ireland are lying 7th place in the RDS "



    I was raging. Like one sentence!!!


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    Go Harvey Go
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    monflat wrote: »
    The bit that annoyed me this yr was on Friday 5 pm news on national radio station sports news.
    The biggest day for irish showjumping with the competition being held in.Ireland.
    And

    The golf news came first
    The women's rugby next ( although they deserve a mention)

    News about an English soccer club.
    And finally
    " Ireland are lying 7th place in the RDS "



    I was raging. Like one sentence!!!


    Well, it's fair to say that RTE's commitment to show jumping is much less than it was 20 years ago...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJw1WQA7vxk


    ...or even 10, for that matter.

    'Cause in the mid-2000s, they showed highlights of all the other rounds of what was then the Samsung Super League.

    These highlights may have gone out at midnight on RTE2, but it still indicated a greater commitment to the sport than today.

    Today, all they show is the last three days at the RDS - and then only the biggest event on each day (Aga Khan, Puissance, Grand Prix), with barely five minutes of highlights from the other events... :(


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    Go Harvey Go
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    And as if to underline the above, they chose not to let the Grand Prix coverage overrun at all - meaning we only got a few seconds of Bertram Allen lifting the trophy before Robert Hall said a quick goodbye and they went straight to the RTE Sport endcap. :rolleyes:

    One day, perhaps, they'll become seriously interested in show jumping again. It's probably not very likely that they'll bring back that brilliant theme tune in any way, though...


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