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RTÉ IS SEEKING to award a contract to digitise and archive over 20,000 audio tapes created over a 20-year span.
It said that these recordings were created between 1988 and 2008, and contain a mixture of studio and field recordings that were originally produced for radio programming.
The tapes RTÉ has on file, however, do vary in quality and duration.
They want the successful contractor to collect the tapes that will be bar-coded and boxed in RTÉ in Donnybrook.
RTÉ shows continue to dominate the airwaves, with Morning Ireland – created in 1984 – still the most listened-to show in the country today.
Other popular shows during the time period being archived is the News at One, Liveline, the Gay Byrne Show which ran until 1998 and the Gerry Ryan Show, which was broadcast until his death in 2010.
During the digitisation process, each tape must be converted to a WAV file.
If some tapes cannot be restored due to quality, restoration is not part of the scope of the process. However, RTÉ wants such instances to be reported.
Once this process is completed, these files must then be returned to RTÉ.
For those wishing to win the contract, RTÉ wants detailed proposals and costs for the collection, safe transportation and return of the tapes, the collection and shipping of the collection its entirety, the return of the collection in digital format and insurance for the collection.
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If a pig and a human where drowning in the sea,I wouldn’t even have to think twice about saving the pig first. But I’d still come back for the human once I dried off the pig with a towel and made sure it was alright.
Smart thinking. There is better eating on a pig and not as much of a taboo as the human.
It still won’t persuade me to switch over to Vodafone.
It’s ok Frank, they let you keep your number these days.
Wait until Cameron gets a hold of it in the sequel.
Just lit the BBQ. Yum
Swine
Hopefully somebody kidnaps and barbecues your mother and puts it online. Let’s see how you feel about it then.
Cute Add
Will be moving back to Vodafone for coverage reasons soon, I can’t deal with Meteor any longer leave a city and that’s it barley any 3G or 4G coverage.
Love this advert.
That’ll do, pig.
Great ad, pigs are supposedly very good pets.
I just hope people don’t decide it’s a great idea to get a pig as a pet off the back of this ad..They need alot of space to be comfortable and happy.Of course unlike a dog you can always pop along to your local butcher if you get tired of them.Not being funny btw but realistic.
Pigs are farm animals not pets.
So many people bought “micro pigs” when they became the latest fashion accessory and then got rid of them when they realised micro pigs don’t stay that small forever.
Dogs are farm animals in Korea and other parts of Asia
Not sure why your fixated on SE Asia.Sausage made from dog is a deleciacy in Switzerland and Northern Italy.Cat is still eaten in the Campagna region.If you saw half the stuff they cook up in the American deep south you’d probably hurl.
I guess pigs don’t think of themselves as farm animals. They are wild in many parts of the world. In this country nearly 100% are confined in horrible cruel conditions indoors their entire life just so people can have cheap bacon, sausages and ham. This little piggy has a docked tail, so it is probably a factory pig. They cut their tails as, due to the stress, boredom, and crowded conditions, locked up pigs tend to engage in unnatural behaviour like biting each others tails. Sad.
At least it is safe from Cameron lol.
Cute, but it doesn’t quite convey the smell.
Raw or cooked?
sure some irish men and pigs are related
Irish people eating pigs is very similar to Koreans eating dogs
He ends up stealing that pig instead of returning to it’s rightful owner…
It’s a lovely ad. The first time I saw it I was convinced it was a very early Christmas ad.
Ah…..time for a clip of the ultimate pig diva: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfJiPPsHJEQ
Ah Jaysus…
Awwwwwwh,now where’s the spit and the charcoal?
Hey ! You leave BaconSandwich alone , he’s a good little pig
It is a great advert in fairness. Some great adverts out there these days. Especially around Xmas. But this one is very good. But people aren’t going to buy the phones networks now. Theyll be buying small pigs.
pixie the dog is better
I recognise that guy-used to be in a show called how Low can you go? It was with Baz Ashmawy and some other guy
The beard put me off, but the voice is the same.
The adverts really nice. But if you want to see a tearjerker advert, check out Extra Gum’s the Story of Sarah and Juan. It’s an ad about chewing gum, but it’s all the feels.
It’s not just young pigs he’s into.
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