Posts Tagged ‘RTE’

Posted on January 19, 2009 - by John

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 the world watching.
Stay connected to this page. More soon! LINK

Posted on March 14, 2008 - by John

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 to learn Irish with the idea that he will do a gig in Irish at the end of the 11 months learning process. In order to do this he moves to Connemara’s Gaeltacht area.

Its pretty funny and very enjoyable from what I have seen, although at times, I do feel a little insulted at his jibes of the Irish language, but its all in the name of the ‘craic’. What makes it more interesting is that as he arrived in Ireland in his teens, having lived in NYC previously, he did not lean Irish in school so its a new process to him, and a somewhat rediscovery of what it means to be Irish, he also investigates why so many Irish second level students resist learning Irish so much, inferring that the Irish curriculum
may be to blame.

A show to watch out for. You can watch it online also on RTE Live.

Posted on March 6, 2007 - by John

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 Dublin and Louth areas. This will rise to 1,000 participants over the lifetime of the trial.

TV Channels include RTÉ 1, RTÉ2, TV3, TG4, Channel 6, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News 24, Sky News, Sky Sports 1, Extreme Sports and UKTV History and radio channels RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2 FM, RTÉ Lyric FM, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and Today FM. Source

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Posted on February 2, 2007 - by John

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 (and less watched) numbers in its channel line-up meaning that it was at the end of the entertainment package, also meaning less viewers for Channel 6. So CH6 decided not to go on SKY at all, but rather use NTL and Chorus, a mad move by all accounts, as this adds to their problems, leaving aside the fact that all their shows are years out of date, not being on SKY means the channel looses out on a percentage (be it small for them – based on the schedule) of SKYS 465,000 customers.

But now they have U turned on the decision and are launching on SKY (according to Billboards this morning, not sure if they have actually launched there yet, I’ve not seen anything on their website), on one of the high channels somewhere about the 223 mark!

This is great news on the other hand for SKY, who can now offer Irish Customers their favourite Channels, including Channel4 and the full Irish Channel line-up (RTE/TV3/TG4/CH6), meaning that the competition from other operators will be crushed in time. Sky also has some secrets up its sleeve I have been told, including a Special Offer for customers!

TV 3 Ireland, is also getting busy for its spring line-up, and have announced a new program which will compete with RTE’s Six One program, (big BIG mistake), this it seems (based on the Irish Times) is an entertainment type show, and will be an in-house production, although I am very unsure how they are going to pull this one off, it is nice to see in house productions on Irish TV stations, as the tendency is to buy in UK and US shows, not that those are not some good shows, but we need some good Irish original programming.