John M. Ryan

RTE has a WordPress Blog

Surprised they are not self hosting, but there you go…. We plan to live blog the events surrounding the world’s biggest party, aka Barack Obama’s Inauguration as the 44th president of the United States. More than four million people are expected to crowd into the Washington Mall to witness the event with millions more around [...]

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In the name of the Fada

In the name of the Fada premiered on RTE TWO yesterday (well premiered may be a bit of an overstatement its not a bloody film). Finally an attempt at brining some interest to the Irish Language to Ireland’s bebo generation. I have to say I loved the show, it follows Des Bishop as he tries [...]

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Second Phase of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Pilot

It looks like Digital terrestrial television has begun, lets hope is as good as the UK version, to date, it looks promising, and has an interesting channel line up (see below). This second phase of the pilot will involve a trial with an initial panel of 500 public participants, who have been drawn from the [...]

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Channel 6 Bites the Bullet

And about time, Channel 6 originally was in a little old dispute with SKY, because they wanted to be on the Sky Digital platform on one of the low numbers (on the EPG), near RTE1/2/TV3/TG4, which I suppose is fair enough, it is an ‘Irish’ channel, however SKY only offered them one of the high [...]

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