TV Licence Increase

artfreak

RTE want to increase their fee again. Are they justified in charging us more to pay for watching to me personally is alot of repeats and soaps and should TV3 get a portion of it.

ScumLord

My tv broke and that's it for me, I'm not getting another one so they can sit and spin on their tv licence.

120_Minutes

as a person who does not avail of anything rte/tv3 associated, my answer is unsurprisingly NO. I begrudge paying it, and had i not almost been caught last year, and they now have me on file as owning a tv. i'd not be paying it this year. its extortion for people such as myself. i dont watch it, i dont need it and i wouldnt miss it if it were gone, yet not only am i forced to pay it, i pay sky also to have rte on my package when i dont want it. its insulting.

i hope rte go to the wall.

Mr E

RTE are reporting a huge shortfall in revenue from advertising, so they need to make up the money somewhere. Since its the TV License, there isn't a damn thing we can do (apart from bend over).

Borneo Fnctn

Shower of cundts. I'm not paying it.

Mr E wrote: »

RTE are reporting a huge shortfall in revenue from advertising, so they need to make up the money somewhere.

The license fee is their safety net. Proper networks don't have the luxury of simply demanding more money from people simply for owning a TV. If nature ran it's course, they'd have been out of business a long time ago.

Sully

I thought someone in FF said this should be done as a last resort, no?

dlambirl

Did they?? Sure blame it on the pols....

CJhaughey

Why doesn't Plank kenny and the other shower of overpaid self-righteous gits take a pay cut like the rest of Ireland?
When I see them drop 20% of their bloated salary then I might feel better about paying the license fee.
As it is I seldom watch RTE as it is mostly Soaps or other such junk TV.

Gadfly

120_Minutes wrote: »

as a person who does not avail of anything rte/tv3 associated, my answer is unsurprisingly NO. I begrudge paying it, and had i not almost been caught last year, and they now have me on file as owning a tv. i'd not be paying it this year. its extortion for people such as myself. i dont watch it, i dont need it and i wouldnt miss it if it were gone, yet not only am i forced to pay it, i pay sky also to have rte on my package when i dont want it. its insulting.

i hope rte go to the wall.

This is something that's been bothering me. Why should people who pay Sky have to pay for watching RTE by paying the license fee as well. I know about the fact that if you own a TV you must own a license, but this seems a bit like double taxation. Didn't the PD's bring this matter up in the Dail a few years ago?

mikom

Times are getting tough for me as well........... Where's my licence increase?

mknotaro

Look first off, I'm stating that I'm the first to say that RTE has its fair share of faults.

But TV3 do have access to funds generated by the licence fee, through the BCI's Sound and Vision scheme, which btw, all commercial radio stations in Ireland also get funding from (as do RTE).

Also it's not a double taxation if you pay for a Sky/UPC package as if you really want you can get rid of your subscription, get an aerial and still receive RTE One/Two, TV3 and TG4 free through the air. It's your choice to pay for other subscription.

The government will decide if RTE get to increase their licence fee.

But in the meantime, stop moaning and just pay it.

tricky D

Much better start would be to stop paying ridiculous salaries of 'managers'(clueless) and 'personalities'(gormless gombeens), performance bonuses (for incompetancy), car parking/usage perks (up to 12K!!), stupid pension supplements etc. They could also stop giving jobs on the basis of who you know (only way anyone gets employed there) and fire a few for a change.

\rant over

artfreak

I wouldn't mind paying if there was some decent programing like a comsumer programme similar to BBC' s Watchdog but that would probably upset RTE's advertisers, there is absolutely no feedback from them only it pay up and shut up. I resent paying my hard earned money to them and being told they are putting out high quality programming like Fair City. Winning Streak et al.

ScumLord

mknotaro wrote: »

But in the meantime, stop moaning and just pay it.

No.

Like I said in another thread I'd buy a UK/BBC tv licence before I'd give RTE money.

Mossy Monk

artfreak wrote: »

I resent paying my hard earned money to them and being told they are putting out high quality programming like Fair City. Winning Streak et al.

Winning Streak is payed for by the National Lottery
Fair City has enough viewers to ensure advertising slots in and around the show can pay for most if not all of it.

Only when RTE starts to produce some decent homegrown shows will I start paying for a TV licence.

PCPhoto

i'm gonna get rid of my tv .... the internet is the new thing... gonna spend my time outside work on the internet (boards mainly)

PCPhoto

PCPhoto wrote: »

the internet is the new thing

If they get the go ahead you'll still have to pay if you can watch their new RTE Player service online.

ScumLord

hellboy99 wrote: »

If they get the go ahead you'll still have to pay if you can watch their new RTE Player service online.

That would be madness, any office pc or even mobile phone can watch tv online.

amacachi

ScumLord wrote: »

That would be madness, any office pc or even mobile phone can watch tv online.

Yup.

I called it about 2 years ago that the BBC showing everything online would be a way to get the licence fee out of people without TVs, looks like RTÉ's beaten them to it.

Gadfly

mknotaro wrote: »

But in the meantime, stop moaning and just pay it.

I don't subscribe to blind obedience.

J-blk

mknotaro wrote: »

it's not a double taxation if you pay for a Sky/UPC package as if you really want you can get rid of your subscription, get an aerial and still receive RTE One/Two, TV3 and TG4 free through the air. It's your choice to pay for other subscription.

And where's the option to dump RTE One/Two, TG3 and TG4 instead and keep all the other channels on my UPC subscription? I don't give a flying f*ck about any of those four, yet I have to pay the damn license because I have no other option whereas like you said, if I wanted to dump any other channel on UPC/Sky, I could just opt out of paying a subscription and that would be the end of it...

Mossy Monk

J-blk wrote: »

And where's the option to dump RTE One/Two, TG3 and TG4 instead and keep all the other channels on my UPC subscription?

You should contact UPC and have a moan about it. I wonder what they would say to you.

120_Minutes

Mossy Monk wrote: »

You should contact UPC and have a moan about it. I wonder what they would say to you.

probably something that rhymes with "duck off"

J-blk

Mossy Monk wrote: »

You should contact UPC and have a moan about it. I wonder what they would say to you.

Ok, we get it, you enjoy paying your TV license, good for you.

Even if I could get rid of the above channels, I'd still have to pay a license so contacting UPC/Sky is hardly the problem...

JP Liz

Do they not know the Country is in a recession

Venom

amacachi wrote: »

Yup.

I called it about 2 years ago that the BBC showing everything online would be a way to get the licence fee out of people without TVs, looks like RTÉ's beaten them to it.

It wont happen. For the amount of paper work involved with new laws, the exceptions to those who dont have to pay such as business owners which would include pretty much most business's in todays world, RTE would just be told to make a user account option.

But getting back to the OP, to hell with a Licience increase. Get there damm shop in order first. The top clown in RTE getting 400k a year including bonuses is a joke when the company is in such dire straits.

J-blk

J-blk wrote: »

And where's the option to dump RTE One/Two, TG3 and TG4 instead and keep all the other channels on my UPC subscription? I don't give a flying f*ck about any of those four, yet I have to pay the damn license because I have no other option whereas like you said.

Your not paying a TV licence fee to receive Irish channels. If you have a television or equipment capable of receiving a television signal, ie. TV, FTA, DTV box etc.. you are required by law to have a television licence.

JP Liz wrote: »

Do they not know the Country is in a recession

Did you not know that the way to get out of a recession is to increase everything and tax our way out of it :rolleyes:

is_that_so

AFAIK increases are contingent on RTE's performance. On its current YTD it will probably not get anything. http://www.rte.ie/about/licence.html. In fact if that is to believed they should be getting a 4% reduction!

artfreak

When or if the digital switchover happens, will anyone bother getting signal boxes for RTE, because I certainly wont, for a public service broadcaster they seem to be accountable to no one for the licence money they are pulling in, will still have to pay for it though.

Ri_Nollaig

artfreak wrote: »

When or if the digital switchover happens, will anyone bother getting signal boxes for RTE, because I certainly wont, for a public service broadcaster they seem to be accountable to no one for the licence money they are pulling in, will still have to pay for it though.

sure thats probably why its a licence rather then a "wireless transmission fee".
this way they dont have to be accountable to how it is spent. your paying it for owning a TV not for watching rte.

ixoy

JP Liz wrote: »

Do they not know the Country is in a recession

Gerry Ryan needs to keep the pie industry in business - we all need to help him out!