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Re: RTE Plans Internet Over The Air

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From: John
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:00
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Will the Irish Ever have a true "irish Tv station" long live Zig and Zag

Tommy wrote:

> keith hyland <k@clubi.ie> wrote:
>
> > seems they went the other way and put TV on the net....
> >
> > see http://www.rte.ie/news
> >
>
> Perhaps they should try and use our tax money to make some decent
> programmes and not fill the airwaves with American rubbish and BBC stuff
> that we all saw first time around? Putting their pathetic offernings on
> the net is a terrible waste of bandwidth. Most of it is not fit to send
> through the airwaves.
>
> RTE is a joke nothing more than a welfare office for Dublin 4 types like
> Mary Kennedy and Caroline Crowley. Not to mention the muttering-bumbling
> and giggling-for-no-reason geratric Dave Fanning. "and now here
> he-he-he.... is the new video..... gulabooobo he-he har-har
> snigger-snigger, from ehhhh....saw them, eh I mean him giggle-giggle at
> the Point last night he-he, ehhh, uh this is Robbie he-he-he Williams
> he-he-he......"
>
> RTE is dreadful shite as are all the Irish TV stations except TnaG. They
> should take all the licience money from the Montrose halfwits and give
> it all to TnaG. At least that station understands their responsibilty to
> offer the Irish public a quality service.
>
> I really do not like the idea of paying seventy punts a year to look at
> Eamonn Dunphy making sucking faces while brown-nosing Johnnie Giles.
> Between the ads and the non-stop corpoarte plugging during every
> programme, what in the name of jaysus are they spending our money on?
>
> I won't even mention TV3 (*shudder*)
>
> --
> tommy - kfuzzbox@tinet.ie
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From: John <jeal@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: RTE Plans Internet Over The Air
Date: 1999/02/11
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