No Disco Petition (1 Viewer)

[dudley]

[email protected]

probably be as effective

 

[The Evangelists]

Dear Mr McColgan,

Thank you for your email about "No Disco". I shall have to pass it onto the relevant programme area (RTÉ Cork) and ask them to reply to you directly.

Yours sincerely

Peter Feeney
Public Affairs
RTÉ

Will somebody phone the newspapers?

 

[silo]

no disco; how about a 2nd front...

re: the no disco stuff.

how about...

...letter to irish times/indo, get arts council-style people to sign. and michael d., and representatives of various labels/bands/etc, get donal dineen, maybe someone from uaneen's family, something like that. is this an awful idea? is it more "credible" than an online petition (where, potentially, one person can sign a thousand times?)

off the top of my head...

********************
Dear Madam,

We write to express our dismay at RTE's recent decision to drop the acclaimed music show "No Disco", and to ask (demand? request? - suggestions please) that it be reinstated. The show has been invaluable in providing coverage to Irish and international music and its loss would be a huge blow to indigenous Irish music.

Yours,

The Undersigned.
********************

suggestions please. i don't like the phrasing of the 2nd sentence. and the rest of it.

anyway, help please.

 

[dudley]

newspapers and more to come.
plans have gotten quite elaborate 8)

incidentally one of the main reasons giving for cancelling it was that it was too left field....

 

[dudley]

the complaints idea is a great one
send em to [email protected]

hold off on other things for the mo, currently organising something relevant to those ideas

 

[krystal]

I sent one a while ago, I think you can also send programme related queries etc to [email protected]

 

[Richie]

I think a whole shitload of individual complaints would probably hit them harder than a group letter with a load of signatures.

 

[rothko]

they certainly do be working

my little sister complained and complained and complained
to rte by post and email and carrier pigeon for, like, *ages*
until they agreed to return The Famous Five to it's rightful
place on Network Two.

altho' it has dissapeared again from the schedules...

bastards!

 

[Latex lizzie]

..famous five.classic stuff. Although george worried me. She was always handling marrowes and dribbling in uncle quentins potting shed.

 

[silo]

alright, maybe hold off on the letter for a bit if dudley's got other plans...

 

[Goodbye]

is there a printable vertion of the petition that I can er. print out and bring to Belfast tomorrow?

 

[silo]

Originally posted by Ian
is there a printable vertion of the petition that I can er. print out and bring to Belfast tomorrow?

you could do the old ctrl+c-then-ctrl+v-into-word-then-print-out trick...

 

[minka]

[email protected]

nice one, will do.

it's actually pretty heartening how many people are making their views felt on this.

 

[dudley]

true

over 700 sigs now

we need more!!!

 

[silo]

over 1000 now. another thought, dudley. newstalk 106 will do a feature on anything, given a bit of pestering. and they love rte-bashing, being an independent broadcaster and all. they're over at www.newstalk106.ie so if it becomes appropriate to give out to someone, they could be good.

 

[kollin]

Just Top 30 hits then...

what the hell is my mother paying my television licence for?

 

[mark]

1626 names. nice. newstalk is a good idea too, those two on before george hook 'dublin life' the show is called. i think i can get in contact with the producer.

 

[singer]

Reply from RTE.

I got this very promptly from RTE this morning. I sent a complaint to complaints at rte.ie on Saturday, and this dropped in my mailbox at about 9.20... A bit PRish, but respectful enough.



"RTE has received a number of representations expressing disappointment at
the proposed ending of No Disco. All these representations are being
forwarded to the Director of Television Programmes.

I have been informed that the future of No Disco is under review in the
context of RTE's overall music policy.
The station is planning to develop and expand its music programmes going
forward. (One example of new directions is Philip King's "Other Voices -
Songs From A Room".)

Yours sincerely

Peter Feeney
Public Affairs
RTE"

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Re: Reply from RTE.

Originally posted by singer
The station is planning to develop and expand its music programmes going
forward. (One example of new directions is Philip King's "Other Voices -
Songs From A Room".)

FUCK.

UNbelievable.

Hold me back.

 

[hop]

here dudley, i've a few sheets of signatures from the stall at gigs over the weekend...where will i send em?