Being an avid watcher of RTE and having a lot of fond memories of the idents, this is an incredible video. The early 2000s had the best ones. Well done for putting this together.
I remember RTV rentals had a, pre launch RTE2 logo which matched the RTE with the St Bridget's Cross. Never made it to air when it launched in 1978. It would have worked though
God almighty RTE badly needed to invest in more UHF transmitters back in the day. It was disgusting the picture quality some in Ireland had to suffer. Must have been a real eyeopener when DTT came along.
It did. Mentions of the Tokyo subway terrorist attacks in the Digimon anime drew complaints from Irish parents, concerned about the mention of terrorism on kids' telly at all after the Troubles.
Would love that. They touched up their old static logos for the 50th anniversary ages ago, but they understandably won't use those. The other question is of the master tapes/files surviving, or if HD versions can be upscaled out of well-preserved broadcast tapes.
The latest RTE 2 intros are rubbish. It all went downhill when the N2 logo came around, like what are they about? What's the message they're trying to convey about the channel? That it's pure garbage? Completely out of touch with the viewer.
N2 was drawing a lot of teenage and young-adult viewers in the late 1990s, between US animated sitcoms, arthouse cinema, and Monday night comedy. One can reasonably presume decision-makers hopped on the coolness of the age - the Wipeout videogames, cyberpunk/Y2K imagery, anime/science fiction, etc.
Yer missing nearly the entirety of the RTÉ N2 idents, a good amount of which are here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-60wUUw0eXuo.htmlsi=A3J9UlxQulZ3pP4m
