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There are no prizes, so cheating is kind of pointless. You can, however measure where you are on the animal scale of intelligence.
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No amount of re branding will change their fortunes until such time as they offer programmes which their viewers like and will want to watch. There is now so much choice available that viewers have no hesitation in tuning in or out if their viewing needs are not being met. Brand loyalty in terms of television viewing is a thing of the past.
Take your complaints a step further rather than having a useless rant here. The Dublin number of Utv 018509899 .
just give us the nordie version and stop acting the bollix.
I get the feeling UTV belfast is sorely missed down south. It launched before RTE in the late fifties so would be ingrained in Irish life.
They want to “Re-invigorate their audience”
Very funny.
They never had an audience to begin with.
They should just tax everyone and threaten them with jail if they don’t pay
It works for RTE
Haha. I turned the channel on once on its first day and I havent watched it since
This is about as likely to work as “Bin It Your Way!”
Hard to break into the RTE stranglehold They still have lions share of viewers Must be all the public service programmes RTE make
Is this a panic move??
They should show the movie The Titanic, to portray that the channel is a sinking ship!
Good enough for them, they showed contempt and complacency by spending about a fiver on their launch also naming it UTV Ireland was laughable………..
Will The very first program at 6am still be GOOD MORNING BRITAIN?
Why do UTV Ireland have Lorraine showing? as there`s no input from the 26 Counties then we are informed we cannot take part in their competitions.
Hardly a way to endear yourself to an Irish audience. They came out with some PR bullshit about people asking for GMB. Find that hard to believe! They probably just wanted the teleshopping off lol.
And it’s not the only “…….Britain” program they have. It was alright when we were watching a “foreign channel”, but if they pretend to be Irish, they need more Irish programming. Have to say, their news is OK. Certainly better than TV3
Takes more than Corrie to make a station watchable.
Why on earth did they expect anything different. Everyone had ITV and pretty shite as it is people were grand with it and didnt want it replaced with something much worse
One island market of six million people with broadly similar tastes = one UTV. The current mess will surely go down as one of the stupidest, greed driven mistakes in Irish broadcasting history. Give us back UTV from Belfast and stop acting the maggot.
Sure it may be renamed “ITV Ireland” yet if UTV’s sale of the TV channels goes through. Would make sense in fairness as the U will always stand for “Ulster” in people’s minds and not “YOU”!
Isn’t that the same “new” strapline that UTV have been using up north for at least a decade?
You dont need to be a media expert to realise how bad this channel is. The mere fact that they gave Pat Kenny a TV slot especially after his RTE TV failings was a risk, a risk that has obviously failed. Emerdale and Corrie have their respective audiances however the rest of the programming is poor. In its defence it is failing by copying most of the other satellite channels by copying each other with mostly reality rubbish i.e. programmes about travellers, airports, fashion, cookery etc. A path that RTE is now also following. At least with UTV Ireland it’s not costing the viewers a licence fee.
The people running this station are either astoundingly stupid or utterly contemptuous of Irish people or both.
Still shite
In the age of the internet who in their right mind would tune into that crap. I haven’t seen the channel once and I don’t intend to.
Only took them 9 months to discover Irish people don’t actually want a channel of regurgitated British programming.
and €16,300,000.
I don’t see anything to indicate they’ve realised that Rochelle. Instead of short clips of the Irish landscape in between all of their Anglo Chav programmes, it’s now short clips of people going about their everyday business, that and renaming themselves YouTV(oh it’s my TV now is it, well I’ll definitely be watching it now) – that’s all they’ve changed. And going by their complete spoof of a press release they think that’s going make people watch it – it’s utterly laughable. At least they’ve dropped the completely misleading Ireland from their name.
So they are now reduced to having a press launch for an advertising campaign for themselves. I suppose no one else will waste their money on ads on it.
Utv Ireland and Irish water have a lot in common
What happened to the golden age of television? Couldn’t they show some of that shit?
That’s because they show reruns and rubbish. Bring back proper UTV!
UTV Ireland not showing Downton Abbey at all. It starts next Sunday 20th on UTV. Irish fans will be very disappointed.
TV3 showed it a day later if I remember correctly…
what does that tattooist watch on UTV Ireland?
Their schedule is horrendous and can hardly survive th competition much longer. Would love to see the back of it.
Has utv lost the champions league football rights???
Getting the UTV player up and going will help also, very annoying they haven’t got it set up yet
As their brand matures so will their identity? Their 9month old brand? And their identity is a poor rip off of the Angelus! Can they come up with nothing original? What a steaming turd of a mistake! They deserve to lose their €16m!
YouTV??? Sounds like a channels specialising in ladies menstrual cycles!!!
They must be clueless.
Another crap channel, have we not enough already.
HD
HD suite so we can clearly see what we are switching off.
shiiiite not suite
Don’t worry, you’ll get there yet!
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