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RTÉ One Presentation changes for the new year

Posted on 5th January 2022 by The Clean Feed Team
Last updated on 9th January 2022 Filed under PresWatch

RTÉ One has made some adjustments to the scheduling of its standard idents since they returned on 2nd January – and only a limited selection of idents appear to be in use.

Keeping in mind that the autumn/winter set are also usually still in use at this point, here’s what the current usage looks like:

STANDARD SETAUTUMN/WINTER SET
Beat Not in useCelebration Not in use
Create Not in usePastimes Not in use
Eat Not in useRain Not in use
Embrace Not in useStorm Not in use
Explore Not in useWrap Up Warm Not in use
Gesture Not in use
Light Not in use
Light 2 In use
Rush In use
Stretch In use
Trade Not in use
Water In use
Write In use

And unlike previous years, we have no special idents for Dancing with the Stars this year, which launches on 9th January.

Many of RTÉ One’s standard idents have been in use since the autumn of 2006 and certain programmes, such as the news and current affairs show Prime Time, are usually linked into using the same ident.

The RTÉ News: Six-One for example is almost always preceded by the Search ident. But that tradition has now been ditched it would seem:

VIDEO: link into RTÉ News: Six-One. Announcer: Nuala Carey. TX DATE: 5th January 2022. COPYRIGHT: RTÉ.

The main overnight ident – which for many years was Lights, then Create and last year updated to Water – has now been updated to Stretch. This ident features a pre-recorded, generic announcement: “This is RTÉ One”.

And interestingly, this pre-recorded Stretch ident is sometimes being used late-mornings and early afternoons, where we would normally have live announcements. This has been going on intermittently since late last year. Here’s an example from earlier today:

VIDEO: generic announcement linking into the RTÉ News: One o’Clock. Presenter: Brian Finn. TX DATE: 5th January 2022. COPYRIGHT: RTÉ.

The daytime weather presenter also often covers programme links on the channel. But sometimes, they don’t make it across from the weather studio in time, as seemed to be the case at 1.15pm today, where the channel director obviously expected a live announcement into Home and Away. But instead, we got a clean ident playout:

VIDEO: announcerless link into Home and Away. TX DATE: 5th January 2022. COPYRIGHT: RTÉ.

For many years, programmes that included product placement were introduced using a version of the Search ident, with a text overlay about product placement. Search has now been replaced by Stretch in this scenario:

VIDEO: a version of the Stretch ident is now used for programmes featuring product placement. Announcer: Nuala Carey. TX DATE: 5th January 2022. COPYRIGHT: RTÉ.

Overnight signed programmes continue to use the 2006 – 2013 version of the Light ident, with in-vision signer. This ident features the old RTÉ One logo.

VIDEO: the Irish Sign Language version of the RTÉ One Light ident. TX DATE: 6th January 2022. COPYRIGHT: RTÉ.

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PICTURED: RTÉ One ident. COPYRIGHT: RTÉ.

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Dates for the Diary

30th January: BBC Reporting Scotland moves to a temporary set. The programme will move back to a refurbished Studio C in the summer.

30th/31st January: BBC One East HD and BBC One East Midlands HD launch on satellite.

6th/7th February: BBC One West Midlands HD, BBC One East Yorkshire/Lincolnshire HD and BBC Alba HD launch on satellite. BBC One/Two Wales SD services close on satellite.

13th/14th February: BBC One West HD, BBC One South West HD, BBC One Channel Islands HD, BBC One London HD and BBC RB1 HD launch on satellite.

20th/21st February: BBC One North East and Cumbria HD, BBC One North West HD, BBC One Yorkshire HD and BBC Parliament HD launch on satellite. BBC One Scotland SD and BBC Scotland SD services close on satellite.

22nd/23rd February: BBC One South East HD launches on satellite.

February 2023: new set for BBC Midlands Today goes live.

13th February 2023: Sky Kids launches.

Q1 2023: BBC Chameleon branding introduced on air for BBC Weather, CBBC and CBeebies.

April 2023: BBC News Channel and BBC World News merge.

November/December 2023: World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-23).

Q1 2024: SD versions of BBC channels close on satellite.

2024: BBC Four and CBBC go online-only.

2024: BBC Radio 4 Extra goes online-only.

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