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And they will have to fill 2-3 hours of LIVE programming....I presume they will want to bring in some big name people to interview in person on a daily basis (e.g. senior politcians, business people, special interest groups, and dare I say it..'celebrities') most if not all of whom are based in....Dublin.
TV breakfast news programme a la the old BBC Breakfast News sounds good...basing it in Cork sounds like an absolute cock of an idea.
And it should not be beyond RTE's capability to set up their own 24 hour news service and simulcast all their live news and current affairs servings on it (Breakfast news, Lunctime news, 6.01, Nine News, Prime Time, News Two), especially now that Ireland will be finally getting DTT. Afterall, they are a 'public service broadcaster' - well resourced news and hard hitting current affairs should be the corner stone of a PSB who gets over €158 from each licence fee payer each year.
And they are negotiating "with the unions". What is this 1988? Suppose we know were some of the licence fee is going....
RTÉ News
I find it very hard to believe that they (RTE) would locate a daily live news programme of at least 2-3 hours several hundred miles from their....newsroom.And they will have to fill 2-3 hours of LIVE programming....I presume they will want to bring in some big name people to interview in person on a daily basis (e.g. senior politcians, business people, special interest groups, and dare I say it..'celebrities') most if not all of whom are based in....Dublin.
TV breakfast news programme a la the old BBC Breakfast News sounds good...basing it in Cork sounds like an absolute cock of an idea.
And it should not be beyond RTE's capability to set up their own 24 hour news service and simulcast all their live news and current affairs servings on it (Breakfast news, Lunctime news, 6.01, Nine News, Prime Time, News Two), especially now that Ireland will be finally getting DTT. Afterall, they are a 'public service broadcaster' - well resourced news and hard hitting current affairs should be the corner stone of a PSB who gets over €158 from each licence fee payer each year.
And they are negotiating "with the unions". What is this 1988? Suppose we know were some of the licence fee is going....