(THE BTV MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS 2007 PART 4 - ELEANOR MCEVOY)

ricochet bowing goes ’wrong so wrong’ as my RTÉ dtt recording fails.

eleanor mcevoy an RTÉ tv 19/10/2007

Niall Gormley (Northside People) wrote a good piece on the demise of the Vincent Browne Show on RTE Radio 1.

apologies I can’t link to the text its only in print in this weeks Northside People

He dismisses the number crunching that I think is JNLR based. I disagree here, flawed or not the numbers may be inaccurate but at least they are consistently inaccurate allowing us to compare station against station and quarter on quarter. But Niall fixes in on the fact the 20,000 listeners as a bottom base is still way too many to drop a show (and he has a point) I heard commercials on the VB 2nite show, im sure I did, wogan interiors! anyone else hear commercial advertising during that late night show?

He suggests that RTE’s resource excuse is thin, suggesting RTE can take this show online or split frequency MW/LW and have muzak on FM - I like the idea, couldn’t radio schedulers who work in the business come to this conclusion or do RTE really not want VB anymore.

Gormley fails to reach the conclusion I reach. The bourgeoisisation of RTE Donnybrook Dublin 4.

Listen to radio1 and you will feel that pseudo D4 suits run it, own it, programme it and listen to it. Yes the rest of the Irish population and diaspora listen (agreed, see yestersdays happy clappy JNLR numbers for Radio1) but the day and night is filled with market loving SSIA promoting rugger boys! and Brown was the last man standing in the sticky corner the FF’ers used to red scare about. FF’ers hated RTE so much in 1988 things happened like the CAP, the century radio setup, the forcing of RTE to carry independent signals on their network and the proposed privatisation of 2FM, we even had a module dedicated to the century radio antics of rambo in the tribunals, tribunals - browne getting the link?

Browne v Bertie (and Mara) during May ‘07 election, the summer stand in choices by RTE radio1 and the gifting of half price legal costs to Bev Flynn TD (indie FF) are not isolated actions, its RTE doing what modern RTE does well. They are the Irish marketing department for James Murdochs Sky TV.

The sale of their OB unit, the audience council, their lack of vision in DAB DTT and HD, and their abject failure to offer DVB direct to home Free To Air.

The problem is not the losing of tonight with VB, we have lost an entire national broadcaster to the whims and wishes of an elite few who are driving RTE to a place far away from where Irish people are, case in point the afternoon show (rte1 tv), packed with fashion and hand bags worth €1000’s not to giggle at but to aspire to and the same goes for its food fascism and body image and money advice. By, for and devoted to an elite that we Irish are not.

If this was the other way round the press would call it a coup, a revolution a take over. Keep paying the licence fee, i think their salaries are going to need it.

Intune Networks receives funding round of $17.75 million Dublin,

9th August 2007 - Intune Networks, a leading developer of technology for telecommunications networks, is pleased to announce that it has raised $17.75m from a consortium of international investors consisting of Amadeus Capital Partners, Balderton Capital (formerly known as Benchmark Capital Europe) and Spark Capital.

Intune Networks was formed in Dublin in 1999 by John Dunne, chief marketing officer, and Tom Farrell, chief technology officer. Over the past eight years, the Intune team has developed a global reputation for their expertise in lasers, and this fund-raising will provide the resources to commercialise their innovations for the telecommunications market.

full release

GAMA Workers protest at opening of ESB Station in Lanesboro

The HD trial was organised by the three terrestrial broadcasters, RTÉ, TV3 and TG4, as well as BT and CEDA, who worked closely together to develop a range of content that would suitably test the system and demonstrate the improvement in picture quality. Chair of that group, John Hunt, Director of Operations at RTÉ Television, said: “HD is important to broadcasters and it is vital that the terrestrial providers do not get left behind in the development of improved services made available by such technology. We believe the best quality television pictures should be available to all viewers in Ireland and that is why it is so important that this trial is a success. The broadcasters would like to thank all those who have helped get this trial off the ground.” link

bhg says

so this is why RTÉ are giving us DAB and not DRM plus?

isn’t it odd that RTÉ are thanking BT ireland for DTT trials…

AND the BIG one I can not swallow this quote “We believe the best quality television pictures should be available to all viewers in Ireland” well Mr. Hunt, Director of Operations at RTÉ Television, if you cared so much about quality television pictures in Ireland, you would walk down the corridor to the legal department and tear up the secret deal with BSkyB that has RTÉ encrypted so “quality television pictures” in digital wide screen are NOT seen free to air in Ireland.

378 views in 6 weeks off France24 youtube site. most of the videos have less than 200 views.

hear U2 sing ‘where the streets have no name’ & ‘Vertigo’ the video was shot at the cannes film festival, bono larry adam & the edge are professionally shot from a high vantage point and the video is professionally edited if still a bit edgy.

If I were U2 and France 24 I would be worried as to why ONLY 50 people a week or 7 a day are watching this video. The youtube tags on the France 24 youtube site will have a lot to do with it, but it still only has 5 external links that brought in 9 views, and 5 of the 9 would be the bloggers / SN’ers themself. like me!

Link to U2 music video

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