Comments on: New RTE News Studio

By: owen travers

owen travers — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:08:55 +0000

a 9 year old boy who was walking to shool today he was hit by a car at 9.20 jeffery broke his ribs and he was rushed to hospital we dont know anything about him it happened in lucan village dublin its not nice any more the rte news change it please

By: owen travers

owen travers — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:03:45 +0000

its not nice any more and can you put this peace of news on the rte news this is it a 9 year old boy was walking to school today he looked across the road when he got hit by a car at 9.20 he was rushed to hospital and he broke his ribs

By: Daragh

Daragh — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:34:58 +0000

Outside broadcasts aren’t done very often, but when they are they makes for more interesting viewing, and like Seo says above, the same is also done by BBC and Sky (Channel 4 also do it). If RTE didn’t keep up with trends, they’d be slated for that too. If saving money was to be RTE’s primary concern, then where would you draw the line? Should they return to the days of the newsreader speaking to resporters on the phone? Why bother spending any money on anything visual at all?

By: Seo

Seo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:41:55 +0000

I don’t work for them so I can only guess. You make a good argument Neil. I can’t argue with it. But it is a tradition on a major news story that one of the newsreaders cover it to highlight its importance. Sky and the BBC also do this. But you could argue that in is wasteful spend. Regarding my previous post, I understand why Sports news has a slot though i’m not into Sport, its because of its popularity among the public. I feel RTÉ News is lacking in not having a business slot. I hope it doesn’t continue to lack that.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:19:26 +0000

Can anyone explain to me the reason RTE does so many oustside broadcasts while doing the Six One News. What’s the point in sending a neswsreader out to Brussels to interview Brian Cowen when it can just as easely be done through a link up or by one of the two correspondents that are working for RTE and based in Europe. Why send a news reader out to Dublin Airport to interview the SR workers. I could go on and on. I feel it’s just a junket for the CHOSEN ONE’S in RTE.

By: Seo Catháin

Seo Catháin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:32:24 +0000

Dito as .teknovis…I was thinking the same think and have emailed RTÉ already that p.I would go one step further, have a small studio in Anglesea Street at the ISEQ, and let George interview a stock broker, given some analysis also of the Dow and FTSE and DAX a 7 minute segment. Sky have their man do it. Why not us? Its a differentiator over British News. I think its called for. I mean he does good series but I think he also should have a daily 6 one slot, why curtail talent like that! I think if RTÉ don’t do it, with DTT, Sky News Ireland will be back again, but from the London Studio and a guy in Anglesea doing business news. Indeed if Sky are clever they’ll make that news not an opt-in but UK wide & pick up Irish emigrees over there. Irish DTT should change things for Sky, it can’t but help them & I expect to see them either on RTÉ’s mux or pay Boxer a premium to be free-to-air.

By: Teknovis

Teknovis — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:45:40 +0000

Cool insight and photos! Thanks!

I would also love to see more business coverage on the news. At the moment it always seems like an afterthought to fill the space between the sports and the weather.

I think business news should get as much attention as the sports. RTE should have a separate business presenter (George Lee?), and include it in the same slot ever day. I image that RTE already has all the content from the radio programs and the web site.

By: Antoin O Lachtnain

Antoin O Lachtnain — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:42:43 +0000

This is a tremendous amount to spend on a set. Of course it is little enough in comparison to the total cost of keeping a TV/radio news organization on the road.

When this level of spending is required to turn out a decent product, do we have to be realistic about how many news organizations we have in Ireland? At the moment, we have one big one, and a bunch of fairly small ones. Attempts to put together some of the small ones have been rebuffed by BCI. I wonder is this a good idea. The reality is that you need a lot of scale to do news well.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:46:07 +0000

Pretty sweet set. Reminds me of the ITV news though!

By: Joe Scanlon

Joe Scanlon — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:46:31 +0000

Cool to get some insight