TV licenses

stevoman

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

isnt it convenient that the goverment decides how much we pay to keep the national broadcasting network going. talk about having the media in their pocket!!!

christ RTE could at least hire a few different people than the usual D4 "cosmopolitanites" that molest my television screen nightly!!!


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chopperbyrne

Oh shut up, it's hardly a fortune and we get most of the top American shows before the UK channels.

monkeyfudge

You do get to vote for the government and the channel is there to act as a public service to the population. It's not there to make as much money as possible for it's shareholders like a corporate station would be.

The concept is sound... it's just in practice that overall RTÉ isn't all that great.

Mweelrea

Its not that bad
If only RTE put the money into proper programming instead of yet another episode of "Murder She Wrote" during the day
*sigh*

admiralofthefleet

watch tv3 if rte upsets you that much

stevoman

LMFO

thats what i love about boards!!!! giving a useless opinion and letting the worthless bickerbacks begin.

Pighead

stevoman wrote: »

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

isnt it convenient that the goverment decides how much we pay to keep the national broadcasting network going. talk about having the media in their pocket!!!

christ RTE could at least hire a few different people than the usual D4 "cosmopolitanites" that molest my television screen nightly!!!


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stevo stevo stevo. You must realise that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Newsflash: Most of the rest of the world pay license fees too. This ill informed rant reminds Pighead of the time his younger sister came home bawling her eyes out proclaiming "Its not fair Pighead, al the girls at school are allowed to wear mini skirts and I'm not" It was only after Pighead explained to her that those girls groinal regions probably stank of dead rabbits that she calmed down and realised maybe things weren't so bad after all.

Its all about context stevo.

swingking

Pighead wrote: »

stevo stevo stevo. You must realise that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Newsflash: Most of the rest of the world pay license fees too. This ill informed rant reminds Pighead of the time his younger sister came home bawling her eyes out proclaiming "Its not fair Pighead, al the girls at school are allowed to wear mini skirts and I'm not" It was only after Pighead explained to her that those girls groinal regions probably stank of dead rabbits that she calmed down and realised maybe things weren't so bad after all.

Its all about context stevo.

*applauses post*

ejmaztec

As we pay the licence fee, it should be a cross-section of the general public who decide what amount the various RTE "celebrities" get paid.

"Here's yer ten cent Kenny, ya plank, now feck off!"

Would that not be a better system?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Pighead wrote: »

stevo stevo stevo. You must realise that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Newsflash: Most of the rest of the world pay license fees too. This ill informed rant reminds Pighead of the time his younger sister came home bawling her eyes out proclaiming "Its not fair Pighead, al the girls at school are allowed to wear mini skirts and I'm not" It was only after Pighead explained to her that those girls groinal regions probably stank of dead rabbits that she calmed down and realised maybe things weren't so bad after all.

Its all about context stevo.

Dearest Pighead, this is not the same at all. RTE also has lots of jumped up (jumped on?) little girls and the place laso sticks of dead rabbits.

FunkZ

At least we get the Champions League televised. Bring on Inter.

5starpool

stevoman wrote: »

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

isnt it convenient that the goverment decides how much we pay to keep the national broadcasting network going. talk about having the media in their pocket!!!

christ RTE could at least hire a few different people than the usual D4 "cosmopolitanites" that molest my television screen nightly!!!


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No one is asking you to stay so close the door on the way out please.

stevoman

5starpool wrote: »

No one is asking you to stay so close the door on the way out please.

LMFO!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

aidan_walsh

stevoman wrote: »

LMFO

thats what i love about boards!!!! giving a useless opinion and letting the worthless bickerbacks begin.

So, t'was trolling you were. What a clever boy you must be.

stevoman

aidan_walsh wrote: »

So, t'was trolling you were. What a clever boy you must be.

no wasnt trolling, making a statement. and then finding the funny side when nobody agrees with me. im off home now have a nice weekend:cool:

thelordofcheese

stevoman wrote: »

no wasnt trolling, making a statement. and then finding the funny side when nobody agrees with me. im off home now have a nice weekend:cool:

I agree that the TV License is a load of old cobblers, then again i don't pay it anymore so i can't really bring myself to care.

Mossy Monk

stevoman wrote: »

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

isnt it convenient that the goverment decides how much we pay to keep the national broadcasting network going. talk about having the media in their pocket!!!

christ RTE could at least hire a few different people than the usual D4 "cosmopolitanites" that molest my television screen nightly!!!


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Yeah, **** this ****. Why are we the only country who pays a television licence? Stupid thread.

Oh wait we are not. Your rant is pointless.

Snake Plisken

Mweelrea wrote: »

Its not that bad
If only RTE put the money into proper programming instead of yet another episode of "Murder She Wrote" during the day
*sigh*

Thats for all the fluckers who don't understand Lost so they can have the mystery cleared up in 50 minutes

JohnnyChimpo

swingking wrote: »

*applauses post*

:rolleyes:

JuliusCaesar

stevoman wrote: »

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

How much crappier is it that you have to pay the government a years' salary or more in order to buy a house of your own??????

eh...that's stamp duty, for those renters out there

Fighting Irish

The license would be worth the money if all weeks TV was available for download at rte.ie

lolipops

ejmaztec wrote: »

"Here's yer ten cent Kenny, ya plank, now feck off!"

your my hero :rolleyes:

nesf

Fighting Irish wrote: »

The license would be worth the money if all weeks TV was available for download at rte.ie

+1

Even the present level of service comes close to good enough.

Stercus Accidit

Wheres terry to end another bloody moan arse thread about the tv licence.

nesf

Watching TV?

ejmaztec

nesf wrote: »

Watching TV?

Hope he's got a licence:eek:

Mr.S

Mr.S wrote: »

and fair play to RTE for getting Lost and Prisonbreak fairly quickly!

Fairly quickly? Lost airs in the US on Friday and we have it on Monday.....thats legend.

ejmaztec

Doesn't RTE get the US imports for next to nothing by pretending to be a penniless TV network with the arse hanging out of its collective trousers?

Axwell

Moonbaby wrote: »

Fairly quickly? Lost airs in the US on Friday and we have it on Monday.....thats legend.

Lost airs on a Thursday in the US actually..not so legendary now

AntiRip

Fighting Irish wrote: »

The license would be worth the money if all weeks TV was available for download at rte.ie

+2

This would be an excellent idea alright. BTW, most countries have a tv licence. Ours is what e158 compared to e346 in Iceland (Must be good tv there!). In any country where the license was abolished such as Belgium and Netherlands or even in many states in the USA where there never was a licence it's added on to income tax or other indirect taxes.

chuci

dont the bbc ru n off the money they get from tv license? but i suppose they dont have the high quality viewing that we have here ahem but why is there so many adds why so many adds

Mossy Monk

You think Ireland has a lot of ads. You should look at some of our European neighbours.

DonalN

which would you rather pay - A yearly license fee, or a monthly fee to rte, like you might pay to sky/ntl/chorus, or whatever the f*ck ?

cock robin

I would'nt mind paying the licence fee if they got rid of some of the stiffs on Radio Telefis Eireann. Why oh why are Pat Kenny and Gerry Ryan on TV. They are poor enough DJs unless your a woman who need's a fat oaf like Ryan reccomending you live by his teaching's. F**k off Gerry you talk nothing but b***ocks on the radio and a couple of corpses would do a better job than you and wodden neck Kenny on the TV. Bring in some new blood RTE and shed some old skin's namely Ryan and Kenny.

DonalN

Pat Kenny = Plank

daauneal

DonalN wrote: »

Pat Kenny = Plank

Good point:D,
But don't you have ads on bbc. thats the point of paying the fee, so you don't get ads. rte gets the money from advertising and our money aswell.

(and I'm sorry but getting lost and prison break is not an achievement to me, I don't care how fast we can get cr*p shows from America, they are still cr*p)

Jay P

And saturday tv. Absolutely terrible. I miss the days of yore when we had Zena; Warrior Princess. And fair city, but wel'll come back to that, i think...

Mossy Monk

daauneal wrote: »

Good point:D,
But don't you have ads on bbc. thats the point of paying the fee, so you don't get ads. rte gets the money from advertising and our money aswell.

I wonder if most countries in Europe have idiots spouting similar crap.

aidan_walsh

Fighting Irish wrote: »

The license would be worth the money if all weeks TV was available for download at rte.ie

Haven't many of RTEs home grown shows been made available to stream from the website in recent times. Certainly news broadcasts have been available for donkeys, some sporting events too.

AntiRip

Funding of European public broadcasters.JPG

Wiki

phasers

at least we get Desperate housewives way before Britain

anbd Scrubs too

MIN2511

phasers wrote: »

at least we get Desperate housewives way before Britain

anbd Scrubs too

Really do we? We could just watch them online-we would be seasons ahead

TV license is a joke!

lolipops

RTE is so behind with movies.. they only showed finding nemo on it at
christmas and i came out when i was in primary school for jebus sake and im doing the junior now.

but meteors tonight wooooo
i just want to watch ray foley win

and the owl on the late late show scares me:(

Mossy Monk

lolipops wrote: »

RTE is so behind with movies.. they only showed finding nemo on it at
christmas and i came out when i was in primary school for jebus sake and im doing the junior now.

Do you expect RTÉ or any other terrestrial to compete with Sky Movies?

Fighting Irish

phasers wrote: »

at least we get Desperate housewives way before Britain

anbd Scrubs too

Great :rolleyes:

Downloading > Watching adds on RTE

Axwell

Axwell wrote: »

Lost airs on a Thursday in the US actually..not so legendary now

Virginia where my gloating mate lives have rechristened Thursday so!

humanji

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Great :rolleyes:

Downloading > Watching adds on RTE

Which leads us onto another thing that's a joke: Irelands internet connections. It's a lose/lose situation for most.

Naikon

humanji wrote: »

Which leads us onto another thing that's a joke: Irelands internet connections. It's a lose/lose situation for most.

My cousin can't get dsl despite living 3km outside a major town.
So yeah, I have to agree with that sentiment.

stepbar

I can't understand why the BBC block the "Oirish" from downloading BBC programming. AFAIK RTE pay a yearly fee for carrying BBC.

gcgirl

Personally i'd rather give Rupert Murdoch the money for the tv licence because he provides me with the entertainment !!

monkeyfudge

lolipops wrote: »

RTE is so behind with movies.. they only showed finding nemo on it at
christmas and i came out when i was in primary school for jebus sake and im doing the junior now.

That wouldn't be RTÉ's fault. Disney are usually very guarded when it comes to releasing their films for television.