Presentation studios in RTE Donnybrook

A couple of pictures I found of the smaller news studio

If this smaller studio is cheaper to run and takes fewer production staff to operate it, which it probably does, then it makes complete sense to use it for the shorter lunchtime bulletins during August. I don’t believe that RTÉ will drop their 1pm news next August. The current arrangements for News in August have been place for many years now.

why is there a shorter news in August?

Largely from what I gather they just haven't really maintained their studios, this move across to the TV building was started a few years ago, and had nothing from I can see to do with this new direction.

I think RTE should bring back in vision continuity on both RTE One & 2

That seems like a bit of a push TBH. Your telling me that RTÉ can't have staff go on AL during the other months of the year? This is 4 weeks in total that they go off the air for, you'd assume that the average AL days in RTÉ is around 25 like most other companies, this is at least 20 of those days.

Your also telling me that RTÉ cannot organise for people to fill during the month of August?

And I don't buy the bit about a slow domestic news month due to many of parts of the state on the holidays, there is other news outside those state bodies.

They have plenty of slots to add RITY to with out dropping the news in august, wonder why TV3/VMTV never came up with the tired old excuses.

Anyway back to my main point these studios are largely not in use because RTÉ axed many of the programmes and links that were once use them, and that largely goes back to RTÉ mismanagement of the service it provides IMO.

I know RTÉ reduce their news in august ever year, they don't give any reason for this, just excuses. In the same way as the give no reasons as to why the dropped so many TV news bulletins over the last decade, which in turn seems to have cause RTÉ not to use these studios, I wonder when was the last time that they used these studios. Perhaps they are used for the Morning Weather reports, I wonder if they are broadcast from these studios?

While viewing trends have changed and had changed by the time THE DEN as a brand was dropped, these segments could live on YouTube and Tictok. And while many might think children may not be interested in this type of content they may happen by it or they ignore it, by making it you give people jobs and experience.

Saturday morning shows were often abandoned by RTÉ, fearing they might produce TV that wasn't all that good, and suggesting people preferred to watch those types of programmes on the BBC or ITV.

RTÉ cut funding to children's programming by 50% in 2016, after saying they would not and that they were committed to Irish Children's content. They reduced by a further 25% in 2017 and it remains around €5m per year since, all coming from independent producers, largely the same amount of money they always invested into children's independent productions.

RTÉ have tendered for someone to look after their RTÉ KIDS you tube channel. They publish about 1 a day to that channel. Those programme inserts could easily help that channel on you tube and other social media platforms. This idea that RTÉ shouldn't produced programming for children because streamers have taken over is just giving up, which is what RTÉ have done resulting in streamers taking over.

Largely because RTÉ axed their news bulletins, not that there is no requirement, just they aren't doing them.

IMO live or in vision continuity links for children provided more than just links to children's content. RTÉjr could easily have a link with a character talking about the letter B, this would then be cut for social media, particularly youtube and tic tok. It is a cheap way of generating such content. Same goes for TRTÉ links, you bring back Pet Vet, Draw with Don and that segment goes on to youtube etc.

To turn around and saying "well the competition don't do this" would be like the Director General of RTÉ saying about Comedy

"Comedy is a very tricky genre, not just for us, most commercial broadcasters have pulled out of it, because it’s too hit and miss, and it’s expensive as well."

I doubt RTÉ would ever think like that about any genre!

That old chestnut. No they didn't.

By default they refused the show. The creators knew that RTÉ would never commission it why would you offer it to a broadcaster not really developing comedy (and back then they were better at developing comedy then they are now).