RTE EPG last night

dmeehan

what was the story with the RTE1 EPG last night?
they stuck in Only Fools and Horses (how bad!) and juggled the rest of the schedule about

Did I miss some announcement earlier in the day?

Put simply, they didn't want their flagship sunday night programme treasure island clashing with an hour long wedding special coronation street on TV3-so they moved things about at short notice.
Such things often happen in the UK to prevent clashes when the major soaps there do specials, but not so often on RTÉ.
If I was in TV3, I'd be chuffed that they were forced to do this

Being ineffecient, they changed the 171 listings on Aertel but for got about Sky guide.
mm

dmeehan

Originally posted by madman
Being ineffecient, they changed the 171 listings on Aertel but for got about Sky guide.
mm

yeah i noticed that, i had to resort to using text to find out what was on
idiots

Mossy Monk

that's why the EPG was out by about an hour late last night :mad:

RTÉ are idiots

ShaneOC

Lads, calm down. So the EPG was a bit out of whack on Sunday. As far as I have seen this is the first time that there has been a mistake with the EPG for the terrestrials. If it begins to happen regularly then fine, complain and call them idiots, however as a once off aren't we all entitled to make a mistake.

In my opinion RTÉ (and TV3 / TG4) are very good at using the EPG correctly. I was amazed to see the amount of series linked programmes available from day one.

dmeehan

well the timing of rte leaves a lot to be desired
numerous times i have been watching a program for about 3-4 mins when the reminder pops up to tell me my program is about to start

which isnt very helpful if you have set the video to record it

atgate

The reason the timings are always going out is becuase RTE show a fair amount of live programming. It is much easier to keep on schedule if you only show exact tv half-hour or tv hour long shows. Also the program makers don't always tell VT the correct timing of their programming and this happens from independant as well as in house suppliers.

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Mossy Monk

Originally posted by ShaneOC
If it begins to happen regularly then fine, complain and call them idiots

i already have. i have noticed it happen quite a bit especially in the small hours when i tend to watch the telly the most :mad:

Culchie Boy

Rte are fairly good with the epg but they love bulls***ing us G.A.A fans every so often by putting in the saturday and sunday game in in their normal postion then i say horay we have got the game on sky no fooling around up on the chimney trying to improve the snow storm on terrestrial. I add it to the personal planner wake up the next morning and search fo saturday & sunday and "No listings availble" I could ring that fella's neck i said once!

Regards Culchie Boy

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