Say something nice about RTE

badabing106

RTE S late late show in the 60s,70s was an awakening for Ireland culturally. They weren't afraid to tackle taboo topics which was unheard of at the time. Homosexuality, Contraception, Religion. Nothing was off limits

Referring to Gay Byrne, Bishop of Galway Michael Browne called him "a purveyor of filth" after he asked a woman what colour nightie she wore on her wedding night.

Sal Butamol

No. They can fcuk off

Ulysses Gaze

Reeling in the Years

Padkir

Reeling in the Years is a quality show!

Padkir

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Reeling in the Years

God damn you!

whiskeyman

Take a hike Dee!

jonbravo

Paths to freedom

Star Bingo

Buzz McDonnell

mikhail

Their sports coverage is almost adequate, and some of their presenters are probably worth a fraction of the money they're on.

Oh, and I first saw Alien on TG4. Dunno what it has to do with Irish, but it's a damned fine movie.

Kivaro

At least they are consistent.

Consistently bad with their programming.
Consistently bad with their ultra-liberal presenter/reporter bias on social and political topics.
Consistently bad for overpaying their "talent".
Consistently bad in advocating for ever-increasing TV license fees (tax).

And that's all the nice things that I have to say about RTE.

Kivaro

whiskeyman wrote: »

Take a hike Dee!

Errr ..... that's exactly what Dee is looking for.

Sleepy

They pay their staff well.

One eyed Jack

Lyric FM alone is worth the licence fee.

BoroMan32

Reeling in the Years was good at the start, but every year has been reeled in so many f*cking times now.

OldMrBrennan83

I like it. I watch about 50 hours TV a week and a good 60-70% would be RTÉ.

limnam

The weather girl is a ride.

murpho999

Here we go with the RTE bashing.

No doubt lots of people will say that they never watch RTE.

So they never watch the Irish news, weather, any sports match etc.

I think the do a decent job, do some great documentaries in relation to Ireland.

The recent programmes by Charlie Bird, "After the headlines" has been a good watch as an example.

The one thing that annoys me in the station is the catholic bias.
Still doing the Angelus and falling over themselves with the Pope's visit this week.

Even 5 minutes ago they sent out an iOS app notification that the "Pope is excited to be coming back to Ireland", that is not news and worthy of a news flash.

jonbravo

limnam wrote: »

The weather girl is a ride.

TG4

Silentcorner

They are great at employing generations of the same families....

How Soon Is Now

Made for auld ones by auld ones.

freshpopcorn

Mary Kennedy!

grindle

murpho999 wrote: »

No doubt lots of people will say that they never watch RTE.

So they never watch the Irish news, weather, any sports match etc.

Almost never. Haven't seen a single second of RTE broadcasting for years besides whichever match is being shown in a pub when I'm there. Does that count when I'm not watching it?

Used to like Reeling in the Years though, nice nostalgia bombs.

NOVA MCMXCIV

They're really good at being the biggest shower of b*****ds in the whole entire universe.

El Weirdo

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Reeling in the Years

Which was a complete rip off of BBC's Rock and Roll Years, iirc.

Harry Palmr

It's not TV3/3e/Be3 and is in HD

OldMrBrennan83

El Weirdo wrote: »

Which was a complete rip off of BBC's Rock and Roll Years, iirc.

Which was shít. Reeling is deadly.

Sephiroth_dude

joanna donnelly

limnam

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

joanna donnelly

Is she another weather girl?

OldMrBrennan83

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

joanna donnelly

Nah, Siobhan Ryan.

AllForIt

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Mary Kennedy!

Mary Kennedy is a national treasure. God I hate that expression.

Star Bingo

BoroMan32 wrote: »

Reeling in the Years was good at the start, but every year has been reeled in so many f*cking times now.

They’re dredging for old wellies at this stage

whiskeyman

Patww79 wrote: »

I like it. I watch about 50 hours TV a week and a good 60-70% would be RT

Please let us know what 4.6hrs a day of programming on RTE you find enjoyable?

furiousox

Sharon.

OldMrBrennan83

whiskeyman wrote: »

Please let us know what 4.6hrs a day of programming on RTE you find enjoyable?

Whatever's on.

limnam

whiskeyman wrote: »

Please let us know what 4.6hrs a day of programming on RTE you find enjoyable?

All the programmes you watch, waiting for the weather

titan18

murpho999 wrote:

So they never watch the Irish news, weather, any sports match etc.

I mean After Hours is better for news really, and the weather forum is way better for weather.

As for sports, other than GAA, I'd imagine theres nothing you'll have on RTE that would be exclusive.

5rtytry56

CertainPrime Time programs and some more Prime Time investigates programs.

murpho999

grindle wrote: »

Almost never. Haven't seen a single second of RTE broadcasting for years besides whichever match is being shown in a pub when I'm there. Does that count when I'm not watching it?

Used to like Reeling in the Years though, nice nostalgia bombs.

So you never watch the news ?

I enjoy RTE. They have some good programmes.

murpho999

titan18 wrote: »

I mean After Hours is better for news really, and the weather forum is way better for weather.

As for sports, other than GAA, I'd imagine theres nothing you'll have on RTE that would be exclusive.

You rely on After Hours for the news? Bloody hell!

As for weather, so you didn't watch RTE news or weather during the snow in February or Storm Ophela?

As for sports, they have Ireland football matches and used to have the 6 nations.

Also, showed the recent hockey World Cup games.

I would also prefer to watch Irish coverage rather than English coverage of Irish team events.

murpho999

El Weirdo wrote: »

Which was a complete rip off of BBC's Rock and Roll Years, iirc.

But ran for much longer and had a much bigger Irish focus so more relevant to an Irish audience.
TV stations copy each other all the time,including BBC. Not a rip-off they buy and sell the rights and concepts.

freshpopcorn

AllForIt wrote: »

Mary Kennedy is a national treasure. God I hate that expression.

She's more like a fine wine to me!

pauliebdub

Their news and current affairs programming can be quite good sometimes as is their sports coverage.

Corby Trouser Press

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Reeling in the Years

Interestingly enough they are covering the 1970’s these last few weeks.

They were due to show the 1975 episode last night but instead showed a Gay Byrne Compilation programme.

So we had to wait til this evening for 1975.

The knock on effect of that is on Friday evening they will be showing 1978 instead of 1979 (the year of the visit of Papal visit of John Paul II).

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an editorial decision to not show the 1979 episode before the visit at the weekend.

flazio

Keeping most of the GAA coverage off British Sky Broadcasting.

TheValeyard

Liberals claim RTE pushes the conservative agenda


Conservatives claim RTE pushes the liberal agenda


If both side are unhappy then maybe they do something right.

titan18

murpho999 wrote:

As for weather, so you didn't watch RTE news or weather during the snow in February or Storm Ophela?

MT Cranium is more accurate and informative than RTE, as are several of the posters on the weather forum.

murpho999 wrote:

You rely on After Hours for the news? Bloody hell!

After Hours, Politics forum, recently updated threads on the front page, Reddit World news and what they're linking to and BBC site.

RTE isn't a great source of news tbh. Sure, look at the one with the 7 kids and the coverage for her.

murpho999 wrote:

As for sports, they have Ireland football matches and used to have the 6 nations.

Used to have is good. Also, why would I want to torture myself and watch Irish games.

murpho999 wrote:

Also, showed the recent hockey World Cup games.

So, did BT.

murpho999 wrote:

I would also prefer to watch Irish coverage rather than English coverage of Irish team events.

I'd rather watch the better coverage whichever that is. Find it better to watch the least biased one too. Commentary doesn't tend to be as annoying imo.

Donutz

Their news and current affairs programming is top class.

Their sports coverage is also brilliant but the amount of sports rights they have lost over the last number of years makes me worry if they will have anything left 5 years from now.

Fann Linn

Marian Finnucane.
Says it all really.

Corby Trouser Press

murpho999 wrote: »

The one thing that annoys me in the station is the catholic bias.
Still doing the Angelus and falling over themselves with the Pope's visit this week.

Even 5 minutes ago they sent out an iOS app notification that the "Pope is excited to be coming back to Ireland", that is not news and worthy of a news flash.

You’ve probably also got 10+ news alerts over last few weeks referring to “upcoming travel chaos” or the sexual abuse reports from Pennsylvania.

The media coverage has been overwhelmingly negative.

From my point of view there seems to be a concerted effort to discourage as many people as possible from attending.

TheValeyard

Man falls on ice.

DavidLyons_

I honestly cannot think of one redeeming thing about RTE. If they wish to persist with charging us for a license, it should be cut back to one tv channel showing news and current affairs and perhaps the odd documentary and maybe two radio channels - one for music (covering all genres with an audience) and one for news.

Tell the overpaid, freeloading gimps that the max salary on offer will be €100k - €150k and if they don’t wish to avail of same they can take their “talents” elsewhere if they feel they can do better.

Otherwise it should become a subscription service and those who want to pay for it are welcome to do so.

The Margaret Cash reporting (or lack of) is the final straw. Their mishandling of public and taxpayers funds is an utter scandal.