not being subscribed to the pay to view or subscription TV channels, I from time to time actually see music videos on music television! from B4, Vault, Channel M, just FAB all@28E Flux @42e & 12.5W and MTV italia @ 16E. yesterday while watching Vault on a flick around I saw the Specials from ’80…
Category: television
live from the greenehouse
30 seconds ago …. 3 kidz legged it up stairs, to the back window “DA .. ders magpies on the mini dish and we can’t see Dr. Who” bang bang bang – magpie’s fly. 1 for sorrow 2 for so so signal. Why do the magpies (my least favourite bird) like the mini dish so…
he who pays the piper calls the tune
[enn 30/06 reports] UPC is to commence roll-out the first phase of its ‘triple play’ services across its NTL Ireland and Chorus broadband networks. here on 21/10/2004 we reported “NTL Ireland withdrew its Dublin phone service 12 days ago without notice or even a supporting cust care line, many customers listening to the Saturday evening…
bye bye TOTP hello myspace..
From Aretha to Jacko, Bob Marley to De La Soul, Prince to Kanye – they’ve all been on Top Of The Pops. Now, after 42 years, the world’s longest running weekly music programme is coming off our screens. At its peak it was a must-see pulling in 15m viewers, but BBC bosses reckon the show’s…
European Podcasters Team Up To Lobby WIPO
SIGN THE PETITION PRESS RELEASE 19th June 2006 European Podcasters Team Up To Lobby WIPO Podcasters across the world have come together to emphatically reject the re-drafted Broadcast Treaty. the Irish Podcasting Representive Body (PodRepBod) has been joined by the UK Podcasters Association and German Podcastverband to lobby WIPO in a pan-european effort to assert…
Final [random] thoughts before sleep
120,000 poles in Ireland (Talbot Street) and bog all polish blogs on irishblogs. Ireland is sunny once a year- feck off today was it. Why does this blog and others I communicate on get so many in bound hits for Polish this poland that. Is there a man in poland organising the mass Exodus. You…
Save RTÉ – election plea #2.
If RTÉ buys in a larger and larger amounts of programmes form home and abroad and thus makes less and less, has its staffing levels cut to pieces, and its radio output is chasing figures not making decisions from a public service point of view, then why have RTE? I strongly support RTE and the…
what was on TV/radio the day I was born
[from BBC] 24 HOURS – Report on problems facing unmarried women with elderly dependents. PANORAMA – # Sino-Soviet relations. # Zbigniew BRZEZINSKI, Director, Research Institute Communist Affairs, talks about present Sino-Soviet relations. band plays “Red Flag” # Robin DAY talks to Edward HEATH on the eve of the Conservative party conference TWENTIETH CENTURY FOCUS –…
I want my DTT?
by right this should be on my Podcasting News Ireland blog but its early days for this meme. BT Ireland today said they have won the competition to bring on a pilot of DTT. There was a previous pilot of DTT off 3 rock. Last year the DoC asked for interested parties to apply to…