RTE our national broadcasterhave just announced their new Winter/Spring season 2008, including over 30 new homegrown shows, however noticeably absent once again from the line-up is a music show from a reputable source.
Rant warning
They cancelled No Disco, one of the greatest television shows Ireland has ever produced. They Watered down the last broadcast to a shadow of its former self, and dave fanning is not the be all and end all of irish music. They have refused a documentary by Nick Ryan about the Electric Picnic 2006, one that he was giving away free. Other Voices remains one of the few good shows that they have that has been relatively untouched since getting it right. However it is only being broadcast after 11pm, meaning its influence is mainly on lost on anyone not in their 20's or 30's.
They just seem to focus on its nice little ratings earners (The Late Late Show, Your A Star, etc) and completely losing out on its 18-35 demographic. Its gotten to such a point where the only Homegrown Shows i might watch on RTE are the news & the ocassional glimpse(like you might glimpse at a car crash) at their terrible attempts at 20-something aimed Shows (Roaring Twenties, the big bow wow). The album reviews section on RTE.ie features very little, if any, music outside of the charts(the only possible exception is Radioheads In Rainbows but that didn't chart for a good reason). It seems clear to me that RTE seem happy to fob off those of us with a musical inclination with a few episodes of the last broadcast and Other Voices, and then maybe if a few of us are watching the den we can catch UnaRocks giving it socks in her small segment once a week, but that isn't even really aimed at anyone over the age of 16 or 17 at a strech.
I put it to you that RTE is failing a significant proportion of its customer base and is wasting our Licence fee on tripe.
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