Is RTE 2 the best station on TV

[Jacktheman]

With is great sport coverage - soccer , gaelic games, world cups, CL etc
the best America programes - CIS,Lost,24,Prision Break etc - the best news coverage and some good irish programes - Panel,Clinic etc

I seem to watch this station more than any of the other rubbish on Sky,Utv,BBC etc.

[Magicme]

Do you work for RTE? All your threads are slatting Today FM stuff and now you are trying to big up RTE 2!

I am just a tad suspicisous!

[Macy]

The clinic is not good, and it's not on RTE2 anyway.

The sport coverage is okay at best (especially when it's actually their own coverage), and not exclusive, bar the GAA (and they may well lose that to Setanta anyway).

The US series' says more about how small a market it is rather than how good RTE2 is.

News 2 isn't even the best news on RTE.

[Tir Oilean]

I'd have to agree as I only have Bog 1 and Bog 2. But in fairness it is pretty easy for them to just pick up the best US programmes and mix them with the few decent ones they do themselves. That and the soccer makes for good viewing plus Dunphy and Giles are great to watch theres no sensorship as you would have on the BBC

[superfrank]

I don't really watch channels, just my favourtie shows.

The only RTÉ2 I watch is the sports coverage like the GAA and the football. None of the other programmes get my interest.

I don't think RTÉ2 is terribly exciting. They make their living off kids' shows, imported drama and comedy (their own is crap), and sport coverage (which isn't all that great). Occasionally they'll show a good film but their own productions, imo, are pretty poor.

[MojoPin]

cahnnel 4 for its documentaries only

[Magicme]

I dont watch any particular channel more than others. The shows I watch are spread over a range of channels on Sky. I dont watch anything on UTV coz its not on Sky digital!

[anto1208]

I would rarely tune into RTE2 unless they have something very good on soupy norman for example.

Normally by the time im home from work have the dogs walked floor mopped clothes washed dinner cooked and eatin its time to sit down for corrie at 8 its PS3/xbox time till about 10 then if there is something good on BBC mighty boosh for example ill watch that. then its bed time at 11 .

The premiership is gone so bad on RTE they made it an hour and a half long yet still have to squash in 4 games into a 3 min round up at the end. They talk way too much and show UTD way too much.

[pineapple stu]

RTÉ seem to live off American drivel to an unhealthy degree. UTV is pretty much trash all the time, TV3 is the same channel with a different name, Channel 4 have a bizarre mix of complete rubbish (Eurotrash, Big Brother) and some very interesting stuff (anything with Tony Robinson, 15 to 1 and Crystal Maze when they were on, some very good documentaries). Have never once watched 6. BBC is miles ahead of anything else though.

[SÓC]

Living in the UK has given me a new found respect for Irish TV.

The stuff that TG4 produce/commission is the best of actual Irish TV usually IMO

[superfrank]

Have never once watched 6.
Channel 6 is an Irish version of E4.

The premiership is gone so bad on RTE they made it an hour and a half long yet still have to squash in 4 games into a 3 min round up at the end. They talk way too much and show UTD way too much.
It's what the public wants.

The MOTD approach is much better.

[anto1208]

RTÉ seem to live off American drivel to an unhealthy degree. UTV is pretty much trash all the time, TV3 is the same channel with a different name, Channel 4 have a bizarre mix of complete rubbish (Eurotrash, Big Brother) and some very interesting stuff (anything with Tony Robinson, 15 to 1 and Crystal Maze when they were on, some very good documentaries). Have never once watched 6. BBC is miles ahead of anything else though.

Channel 6 is actually very good Family guy , american dad , trailer park boys seinfeld to name but a few

[pineapple stu]

Have all Family Guy on DVD. Trailer Park Boys I saw once and thought it was rubbish. American Dad came across as a poor version of Family Guy. Generally have no time for American sitcoms, which rules out the likes of Seinfeld, Friends, etc.

[anto1208]

Have all Family Guy on DVD. Trailer Park Boys I saw once and thought it was rubbish. American Dad came across as a poor version of Family Guy. Generally have no time for American sitcoms, which rules out the likes of Seinfeld, Friends, etc.

American dad sometimes is better than family guy as they dont keep doing the remember when gag ( i guess it seems like a rip off being made and voiced by the same people ) trailer park boys is brilliant you have to watch a few episodes to get into it but its one of the best comedies on TV.

You really are limiting yourself by ruling out american sitcoms strange way to be since they are a number of really quality shows.

[Jerry The Saint]

the likes of Seinfeld, Friends, etc.

The mere fact that you typed the above and lumped Seinfeld in with "Friends" and "etc." shows that you need to lose the prejudice and expand your viewing habits :)

I enjoyed Family Guy when it first started but got sick of it very quickly. I suppose it might help to view it as a hit-and-miss sketch show about popular culture like Robot Chicken rather than an actual "sitcom" (not a dirty word by the way).

[pete]

RTE2 has no competition in Irish context. They get licence fee money plus have revenue from commericals. You would be hard pushed to find any public service broadcasting on RTE2. With such a financial might TV3 cannot hope to compete for foreign programmes. Aside from sport I can't think of much else that I watch on RTE 2 as most foreign shows on other channels already.

TG4 get some very good foreign programmes but they get E25m annual subsidy so can punch well above their weigh.

Irish broadcasting should have a plan to move to digital where RTE could have their own sports channel. They could then sell off RTE 2 to create some competition & encourage the independent sector. 2FM should not get licence fee money either as no public service broadcasting.

BTW the Clinic is the type of dross that BBC show on day time TV but RTE place it at Prime Time. :o

[Schumi]

2FM should not get licence fee money either as no public service broadcasting.I think (and I could well be wrong) that 2FM is self-financing from its ad revenue and doesn't get any of the licence fee.

[DaveyCakes]

I dont watch any particular channel more than others. The shows I watch are spread over a range of channels on Sky. I dont watch anything on UTV coz its not on Sky digital!

You can tune it it. Press 'Services', 'system setup' 'add channels'

enter...

Fre 10.758
Pol V
Syn rate 22
FEC 5/6

select 'find channels'

and Bob's your uncle

[Bluebeard]

Ditched the Box last year - haven't looked back - I now have a social life and am gradually becoming better read.


Channel 6 is actually very good Family guy , american dad , trailer park boys seinfeld to name but a few

Do they still have Michelle Doherty on? Well worth a late night!

[holidaysong]

Excluding football, BBC2 is the station I tend to watch the most..

[pineapple stu]

The mere fact that you typed the above and lumped Seinfeld in with "Friends" and "etc." shows that you need to lose the prejudice and expand your viewing habits :)
Not really. I've watched some episodes; they're poor at best, I find, and I don't feel the need to keep watching more in the hope that it'll sometime change.

[Macy]

I'd quite happily survive on a combination of BBC suite of digital channels, and radio. I actually find RTE quite bias - if you compare what actually goes on in, for example, the Tribunals to what and how RTE report it (both TV and Radio) you'd wonder if it was the same day they covered.

[OwlsFan]

The History Channel and Sky SPorts (especially for their Saturday afternoon scores programme). "And now we go over to Hillsboro where there has been a goal". You tense, you wonder, you see the reporter with the glum fans sitting in the background. You know who's scored :(

[Jerry The Saint]

Not really. I've watched some episodes; they're poor at best, I find, and I don't feel the need to keep watching more in the hope that it'll sometime change.

Fair enough, it's not for the likes of you so.

[Dodge]

Not really. I've watched some episodes; they're poor at best, I find, and I don't feel the need to keep watching more in the hope that it'll sometime change.
its worth it...


BTW the Clinic is the type of dross that BBC show on day time TV but RTE place it at Prime Time. :o

Holby city? Loads of primetime cack on. The clinic is at least well produced. If you like female skewed medical based hour long soaps, the clinic is as good as any. Its still cack though

As someone said earlier I can't understand people who watch TV channels. Watch TV programmes on whatever channel its on. Similar to somebody saying they don't watch US sitcoms. Its like saying they don't like ball games. Their is literally every type of sitcom you could think possible being made in the US. Some excellent, some complete rubbish

[2legged tackle]

Just read in the paper that Rte had lost the rights for GAA next summer to TV3, That must be a big blow for it being the best staition on TV.

[Dodge]

Just read in the paper that Rte had lost the rights for GAA next summer to TV3, That must be a big blow for it being the best staition on TV.

is that not league games only?

[2legged tackle]

is that not league games only?

Not sure maybe your right, just had a quick glance into the fella's paper beside me.

[Dodge]

no, you're right. They've won the rights to "some" GAA

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/game-on-as-tv3-shares-spoils-1233149.html

I'd imagine the big games would still be on RTE

[osarusan]

Not really. I've watched some episodes; they're poor at best, I find, and I don't feel the need to keep watching more in the hope that it'll sometime change.

I've always thought Seinfeld is wayyyyyy overrated. Jerry himself is one of the most annoying comedy characters I've ever seen. I'd say its moderately funny at best, but I know I'm in the minority on this.

It seems to be one of those shows that you "get" or not. I just don't "get" it.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Do you work for RTE? All your threads are slatting Today FM stuff and now you are trying to big up RTE 2!

I am just a tad suspicisous!

Magicme

I don't listen to Today FM cause the Eircom League has never existed on that station. Even when it was called Radio Ireland the station was full of Premiershi* and bugger all domestic football. It hasn't improved from what I can gather. I can't get UCD's or Monaghan United's results on that station so I never listen to it. I don't have a lot of time for RTE TV either cause of their scant coverage of the League during the years but at least Radio 1 gives out the Eircom League results and the sports department in the Radio building to give our League a fair amount of coverage. Perhaps not as much as any of us would like but a lot more than the print media. And I don't work for RTE either.

I don't watch any individual channel per se. I find myself switching on BBC 2 a lot but that's because of the programming.