The slow demise of Aertel

dublinman1990

My mam was trying to look up the cinema listings on Aertel via Saorview a short while ago. When she keyed in '350' after she asked me a question to find them on the remote; they are officially gone probably for quite some time with a message appearing on the screen.

Here it is for all to see as is on Page 350.

For technical reasons the Cinema Listings are no longer available on Aertel.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

They are available on the RTÉ website at: www.rte.ie/entertainment.

That's a shame to know that these listings are officially gone off Aertel but it's not surprising. I did use it not that long ago back in May & June of this year to look up the times for films up in Stillorgan. With people using their smartphones to get that information instantly online; it was time for it not to stay for long when it was getting ever increasing smaller numbers in using it.

The page number for the cinema listings has disappeared completely from the Entertainment home page which is 300.

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dublinman1990 wrote: »

My mam was trying to look up the cinema listings on Aertel via Saorview a short while ago. When she keyed in '350' after she asked me a question to find them on the remote; they are officially gone probably for quite some time with a message appearing on the screen.

Here it is for all to see as is on Page 350.



That's a shame to know that these listings are officially gone off Aertel but it's not surprising. I did use it not that long ago back in May & June of this year to look up the times for films up in Stillorgan. With people using their smartphones to get that information instantly online; it was time for it not to stay for long when it was getting ever increasing smaller numbers in using it.

The page number for the cinema listings has disappeared completely from the Entertainment home page which is 300.

I called up Aertel in work recently, some were surprised it still existed others saying they hadn't used it in years, even 24 hour news channels are almost redundant, BBC and Sky news channels are more like Magazine programmes at times.

Atlantic Dawn

It should just be switched off, massive waste of money keeping it going.

Between 2014 and 2017, the service has cost €2.9 million to run but the national broadcaster now wants to redirect its efforts to online and mobile services.

https://www.thejournal.ie/aertel-rte-3974836-Apr2018/


That €2.9 million would keep the RTE Orchestras going for 3 months.

corkie

@dublinman1990

See the message here: - www(dot)rte(dot)ie/aertel//desktopxhtml/350-1.html


Go here: - https://entertainment.ie/cinema/