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RTE Choice- whats your opinion?

  • 22-02-2012 04:01PM
    #1
    Cardinal Richelieu
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    What are listeners opinions on this channel? I like it especially NPR, CBC and the various European English programs they play which offers an alternative to the drivel of Mooney etc. They also have the odd good RTE history documentary from the archives. On the downside they repeat programs too frequently and in such a short space of time. The evenings are wasted by playing repeats of RTE 1 morning shows.


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  • #2
    PacMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭PacMan


    Overall its not a bad station.
    However I would prefer more of NPR and would really enjoy an overnight relay of the BBC world service. Old RTE Radio docs would be a nice addition aswell.

    Recently I have been hearing 30 minutes of the same repeated programme from Derek mooney, where he interviews Peter thatchell. Repeating this in the same time slot each night is lazy radio. Also for the past 3 days now, as a filler, whilst waiting for to relay a programme from WRN, they played the same song, from Sting. Really !

    So in short. More NPR, more old RTE docs, Less WRN, and more overnight BBC World service.


  • #3
    Sebey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭Sebey


    I think it's great to see RTE doing a station like this. I find that Irish media in general is quite inward looking for such a small but economically open country.

    I have listened to it a few times. I listen to Radio mainly on my iPad using radio sites or the TuneIn app. The sechdule is wrong in the app(maybe someone from RTE can fix this?) so that kind of put me off listening to it that often since I can't know what's playing.(It appears to be the sechdule of WRN london at times)

    However I do enjoy listening to it when I do.


  • #4
    GSF
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    PacMan wrote: »
    So in short. More NPR, more old RTE docs, Less WRN, and more overnight BBC World service.

    I find the endless discussions on RTE Radio 1 and NewsTalk on the bondholders and banks to be pretty soul destroying after a while (particularly the ones with the politicians on the panels). BBC WS is a real antidote to the single topic agenda on RTE1 and even on BBCR4. It doesnt always get it right but the breadth of the coverage is quite amazing. The Global Business programme with Peter Day blows away anything from George Lee or the Today fm/ Newstalk equivalents.


  • #5
    Brian CivilEng
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭Brian CivilEng


    I enjoy RTÉ Choice, but it's something that I would have appreciated much more 10 years ago. I listen to so much BBC R4 and NPR directly on the internet now, that it's probably not necessary. It's the best of the DAB stations though.


  • #6
    LordSutch
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    I agree with the previous poster when he says "It's the best of the DAB stations" in Ireland. However, I receive my radio stations via my satellite box, this gives a massive choice of radio stations including all the BBCs, which I'm sorry to say makes RTE Choice an also ran.

    If you only have a DAB radio, then RTE Choice is Great!


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  • #7
    Technocentral
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    I agree with the previous poster when he says "It's the best of the DAB stations" in Ireland. However, I receive my radio stations via my satellite box, this gives a massive choice of radio stations including all the BBCs, which I'm sorry to say makes RTE Choice an also ran.

    If you only have a DAB radio, then RTE Choice is Great!

    I agree, it also strikes me that if you have access to DAB signal you most likely have access to net and can listen to all of World Service and NPR as you see fit (I do), making those parts of their offering redundant, still, they do play some good RTE archive stuff .


  • #8
    jthrppel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭jthrppel


    I have been listening to RTE choice soon after they started their broadcasts. RTE choice has a new programme line up. One change that I noticed is that the bbc programme OUTLOOK has been taken off from the 7pm slot and replaced with a repeat of the Pat Kenny show which is also repeated elsewhere on rte dab around the same time. There are many more RTE repeats over the weekend. Car talk repeat on Saturday mornings. But they still do the NPR and CBC and a limited amount of BBC. Since change I also prefer to listen to other internet based streams of BBC and NPR. Tunein.com is a good site to look for a lot of such broadcasts in one place. There are other streaming outfits and of course direct from the broad caster.
    Hopefully RTE will re-broadcast more current affairs programmes from BBC, CBS, CBC, C-SPAN and some other european broadcasters such as the Germany, Netherlands or France. Otherwise more and more similar minded listeners will move to internet broadcasters.
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