21-03-2024, 01:36 PM
Well lets look at VM1 news output
Ireland AM has news summaries at every half hour from 7am to 10am
News at 12.30, News at 5.30 and News at 7, all half hour news programmes
Tonight Show incorporates news into their show, but they don't do any Friday edition, which I guess means no late news update on a Friday?
Weekends, they have a half hour of news at 5.30, which in some ways resembles Channel 4 News here in the UK, who provide on half hour of news on a Saturday and Sunday.
Ireland AM also airs at weekends from 9am to Midday with news headlines part of those three hours
All in all I believe this is excellent provision, and add along The Six O'Clock Show (starting at 6.05pm for some reason) they do have plenty of home produced content, well all coming from their two television studios in Dublin, which makes it cheap to produce
Considering RTE 1 doesn't even bother to offer an alternative breakfast show, and considering RTE 1 just starts their news at 1pm on RTE 1, I have to say Ireland AM has tapped into the small but decent morning viewership which RTE seem happy to abandon
As regards to Christmas, I think we can excuse them providing a large news service over the festive season, as it is a time when most people avoid news
Ireland AM has news summaries at every half hour from 7am to 10am
News at 12.30, News at 5.30 and News at 7, all half hour news programmes
Tonight Show incorporates news into their show, but they don't do any Friday edition, which I guess means no late news update on a Friday?
Weekends, they have a half hour of news at 5.30, which in some ways resembles Channel 4 News here in the UK, who provide on half hour of news on a Saturday and Sunday.
Ireland AM also airs at weekends from 9am to Midday with news headlines part of those three hours
All in all I believe this is excellent provision, and add along The Six O'Clock Show (starting at 6.05pm for some reason) they do have plenty of home produced content, well all coming from their two television studios in Dublin, which makes it cheap to produce
Considering RTE 1 doesn't even bother to offer an alternative breakfast show, and considering RTE 1 just starts their news at 1pm on RTE 1, I have to say Ireland AM has tapped into the small but decent morning viewership which RTE seem happy to abandon
As regards to Christmas, I think we can excuse them providing a large news service over the festive season, as it is a time when most people avoid news