RTE is planning a hike in licence fees

Run_to_da_hills

Its on the cards, a massive hike in TV licenses to offset the huge wages paid out by their top earners. :pac:

Mods can move this to the ranting & raving forum if it gets out of control.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/home/rte-planning-hike-in-licence-fee-95637.html

jprender

People just wont pay it.

hmmm, food or tv ? food or tv ??



I for one, would not miss rte if it went t1ts up.

Steo46

They should take a pay cut like everybody else. I will not be renewing my TV license this year.

mike65

RTE cannot plan a licence increase, they can request one, make a case for one but thats all.

120_Minutes

rte can hike off.

mirror mirror

dont have license,definitely wont be getting one just to pay wage for these overpaid twats

My name is URL

I lol'd

Schism

....You men are all the same...

IvySlayer

Union sources said around 100 senior and well-paid staff will oppose any attempt to reduce their salaries without their personal agreement.

There's the problem....

pablomakaveli

Most of the "stars" on RTE are useless and overpaid. If they reduce their salaries and they quit, let them. They'll find that no one else will hire them and we'll have another overpaid muppet of RTE's payroll with lower license fees.

squibs

And haven't they changed the licensing terms to basically define computers as tellies because of the online RTE player service? So dumping the telly will no longer exempt you from having a license.

furtzy

IvySlayer wrote: »

There's the problem....

Both unions voted overwhelmingly in favour of pay cuts so you can't tar the whole organisation by the actions of a very small minority

mikom

From the article...

In an unusually self-congratulatory worded statement, RTE said its annual report "captures a performance characterised by prudent and proactive management against a background of sudden change and serious challenges in the external trading environment".

The station also described its creative and competitive performance in 2008 in light of the economic downturn as "remarkable".

Talk about self-love.
RTE is the equivalent of a teenage boy pulling the stomach out of himself beneath the covers each night.
Crowd of Winkers.

markok84

About 6 years ago a fella called to the homestead looking for our TV licence. Of course the mother got consumed by the fear of being caught on the wrong side of the law and couldn't find the bloody thing.
Yer man -fair play to him- gave the 'rents an address that they could forward said licence on for inspection. The father was delegated the job of forwarding on the licence by the mother, and with all the confusion and panic didn't he inclose the licence for our lovely Cairn terrier LuLu..... Fast forward a couple of days, the dog licence is returned with a kind little note asking to please forward our Television Licence at the earliest convenience.

I'd love to have been there when they opened that letter.:D

NewApproach

If TV3 can survive with zero income from TV Licensing, RTÉ can feck off looking for more!

Biggins

Seeing as RTE is to Fianna Fail as England is to being Americas Lapdog, RTE will indeed get their increase.
They have being doing what they have been told (officially and unofficially) by Fianna Fail heads for some time now so they will soon reap some reward!
They have been kissing the governments arse hard enought to get their demands.

pablomakaveli

Any station that gives Katherine Lynch money to make her god-awful show don't deserve a cent. She's just terrible.

Joey the lips

Why cant rte just be privatised like TV3 god knows they are as dear anyway. No licence fee happy public!

There is always free view if it does not work out!

SEPT 23 1989

i object to more of my money being spent on big hogs with their snouts in the montrose trough

Nolanger

Am I the only person who knows that if you watch TV on a computer there is no need to buy a licence?

WoollyRedHat

Just say no.

Biggins

Nolanger wrote: »

Am I the only person who knows that if you watch TV on a computer there is no need to buy a licence?

I think the law was changed/reworded so that ANYTHING that is capable of receiving or playing transmissions, needs the said licence.

Someone will further clarify this but I think this is so....

Joey the lips

Nolanger wrote: »

Am I the only person who knows that if you watch TV on a computer there is no need to buy a licence?

Have you a radio! and i think this is a technacality which is currently being challenged

Joey the lips

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Any station that gives Katherine Lynch money to make her god-awful show don't deserve a cent. She's just terrible.

Am i the only one that thinks katherine thomas has a lovely big mouth and thinks that her tallents can be better used!

bronte

Pay them for owning a laptop? For what? The 'privilege' of watching fcuking winning streak re-runs? Yeah right!

Saibh

No need for 2 stations, 1 RTE station is enough.

Biggins

The Broadcasting Bill 2009 is shortly becoming the Broadcasting Act 2009
Section 140 first, Key Definitions.

“television set” means any electronic apparatus capable of receiving
and exhibiting television broadcasting services broadcast for general
reception (whether or not its use for that purpose is dependent on
the use of anything else in conjunction with it) and any software or
assembly comprising such apparatus and other apparatus;

Download document:
http://193.178.1.235/documents/bills28/bills/2008/2908/B29c08D.pdf

That which is NOT a Television set has to be EXCLUDED by ministerial order . If a Laptop can receive RTE iPlayer in Ireland it shall be 'licensable' unless it is excluded by order of Minister Eamon Ryan
This means that any device that can run a Flash Player, iPhone, Browser, PS3, etc will become a television set unless Minister Ryan excludes it from his 'list' .

Taken from this thread: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055556309

Long story short, you can bet your arse that ANY way they can get the money from you, they will at least try to cover all the loopholes.

markok84

It's that Lucy Kennedy wan I can't stand, I can't even look at her she disgusts me that much, and she seems to be everywhere.

Also did anyone catch Vincent Browns interview with Brian Lenihan on TV3? he had him on the ropes and sweating like a paedo in a barney suit, if that was Brian Dobson interviewing Lenihan would have gotten a cold sore on his arse from all the kissing.

Nolanger

My understanding is that they're trying to get more households to use computers hence they're holding off requiring a TV licence for a computer.

TPD

It really is ridiculous. There should be an opt out kinda scheme, where RTE send a couple of lads around to break the antennae off your roof. And then stop asking for a licence fee of course.

I never understood the licence fees here - money given to a couple of channels to make ****e shows that probably cost nothing to make, while the channels are still supported by ads anyway? Seems wrong. BBC have got it right - ad free channels that produce some of the best shows avaliable worldwide.

rednik

What is RTE.:D. If and when I'm at home news and sport are the only programmes that I watch. Their so called stars are nothing other than a bunch of pretentious shi*es who are so far stuck up their own arses they don't know what the real world is like. Almost every chat show has guests from other tripe dished out by RTE. Axe RTE or let the staff buy it out and run the show themselves.

Dennis the Stone

I'd prefer to go to prison than wake up every day knowing that I'm paying for those talentless pricks

phasers

They can go fuck themselves

DrumSteve

ah come on lads its a national treasure that station is.

It provides us with absolutley vital programming and those guys deserve what they get paid. Every single cent.

I mean, take the like of Gerry Ryan. He's our Jonathon Ross. I dont see any other country with their very own Jonathan Ross! (maybe apart from england)

And winning streak... there is so much awesome on that show i cant even express it through the magic of HTML.

so give up giving out about RTE. complain about some else. like apartheid. or cancer.

Dennis the Stone

Gerry Ryan can fit ten billiard balls in his mouth.
Lucy Kennedy can fit ten co.. well you get the general idea.

mickydoomsux

I haven't watched any RTE channel in about 5 years so why should i have to pay them so that they can produce utter garbage like 'Celebrity' Bainistoir, Fair City and Winning Streak?

I'm not a big fan of paying for services i don't use

DrumSteve

BigMentalDisease wrote: »

Gerry Ryan Lucy Kennedy can fit ten billiard balls in her mouth.
Lucy Kennedy Gerry Ryan can fit ten co.. well you get the general idea.

FYP.

Biggins

DrumSteve wrote: »

ah come on lads its a national treasure that station is.
It provides us with absolutely vital programming and those guys deserve what they get paid. Every single cent.
I mean, take the like of Gerry Ryan. He's our Jonathon Ross. I dont see any other country with their very own Jonathan Ross! (maybe apart from england)
And winning streak... there is so much awesome on that show i cant even express it through the magic of HTML.
so give up giving out about RTE. complain about some else. like apartheid. or cancer.

You got to be taking the pee!

* Ross is an obnoxious over-paid fatish twat so yea, he can be compared to Ryan - and both unwanted by a lot of folk!
* "absolutely vital programming" - Yea, we need so much reality garbage and imported schite - if only because ours is just as bad!
"winning streak" LOL Get the frak out out here will you! Pure drivel for the brain dead!

As we are being forced to pay for a licence - we're entitled to frakin' complain!

National treasure? National Disaster!

Wertz

It's just another tax hike. If they don't get us this way they'll get it some other way so short of getting the f*ck off this bloody island or doing jail time, people need to lap it up.
I watch and listen to enough of RTÉ in a year to warrant paying something (€160 is way OOT though)...but my whole problem with the license fee is with how the money is used...a lot like my tax money as it happens.

the_dark_side

I dont have a TV. I watch youtube, and some stuff off RTE's website (documentaries etc), also dvd's on the PC. I havent had a tv in years. I dont know why people have them in the house. No one reads anymore...

Biggins

the_dark_side wrote: »

I dont have a TV. I watch youtube, and some stuff off RTE's website (documentaries etc), also dvd's on the PC. I havent had a tv in years. I dont know why people have them in the house. No one reads anymore...

I've a TV but only turn it on 99% of the time for the kids.
Right now its off and will be for most of the day and night. Kids don't miss it, its off that much.
Anything we hear about that is good, we buy the dvd's, or seek the programmes through the net.
Both wife and I read A LOT. Each of us have Sony electronic readers.

Couldn't be arsed with RTE. Gulls me that our money is going to business that we neither use or want!

If you walk into a shop and buy a product you know a number of things.
You know a percentage of your money handed over is
1. Going to the gov' in tax
2. Going to the shop
3. Going to the maker of the bought item

Yet when we buy the TV licence, without our say number three (above) is nominated for us!
If I buy a spoon, I'd expect my money to go to the maker of the spoon - not the knife that is still sitting on the shop shelf!
I don't want my licence fee going to RTE. I'd be a lot more happier giving it to one of the other services I actually use! Not those useless gitts!

By the way, interesting reading this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197442/The-licence-fee-admits-BBC-boss-Cost-watching-TV-council-tax-bill.html

DrumSteve

Biggins wrote: »

You got to be taking the pee!

* Ross is an obnoxious over-paid fatish twat so yea, he can be compared to Ryan - and both unwanted by a lot of folk!
* "absolutely vital programming" - Yea, we need so much reality garbage and imported schite - if only because ours is just as bad!
"winning streak" LOL Get the frak out out here will you! Pure drivel for the brain dead!

As we are being forced to pay for a licence - we're entitled to frakin' complain!

National treasure? National Disaster!

Feel the sarcasm admiral!

FlutterinBantam

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I haven't watched any RTE channel in about 5 years so why should i have to pay them so that they can produce utter garbage like 'Celebrity' Bainistoir, Fair City and Winning Streak?

I'm not a big fan of paying for services i don't use

Buddy, you got a lot to learn.

Do you pay taxes?

Well then you pay for hospitals.garda/teachers/schools/roads/nurses/doctors.

Hopefully you haven't used all those recently:cool:

ART6

Nolanger wrote: »

Am I the only person who knows that if you watch TV on a computer there is no need to buy a licence?

If it can receive TV then yes, you need a licence.

My problem is why should I buy one to support a commercial channel that I never watch? My licence fee isn't paid to Sky or NTL, so why RTE? Rip off Ireland at it's best;)

Bandit12

Wait a minute. People actually pay the TV licence :pac:

Dennis the Stone

I want to do a poo at Cathal's

ScumLord

I've thrown out my TV. **** RTE!!

Chucky the tree

the_dark_side wrote: »

I dont have a TV. I watch youtube, and some stuff off RTE's website (documentaries etc), also dvd's on the PC. I havent had a tv in years. I dont know why people have them in the house. No one reads anymore...

Thats great. But you still need a TV license.

Trinity

Is it RTE charges for the licence seriously?

Never ever ever fcuking watch that channel and i pay enough for NTL that i dont watch either bar possibly the odd forensic detectives

Worst thing you can do is pay it once tbh i had to get one last week cos i always got one but at this stage i would rather put the TV through the window.

DublinWriter

They'd need to hike the licence fee up to about €1,000 to get them out of their current problems.

While the salaries of Tubridy, Ryan et al are major bugbears, their problem is a massive amount of non-productive middle management.

RTE are so corporately dysfunctional that nothing less than throwing them to the wolves would work right now. They need to be metaphorically hung from lampposts.

Het-Field

The station should just cut back. Closedown should begin at 1.30AM and the station not reopen until 7.30AM. The same should apply to RTE radio, while one or two of its stations should be suspended. All forms of domestic "Reality TV" should be abolished, the re-running of old Irish TV shows (The Riordan's,Dublin City etc) should be a guarantee. The Late Late Show should be shown more sparingly (every fouth Friday a domestically produced film should be shown (The Garage, The Snapper etc).

These could be temporary measures, with a view to re-invigorating the station in the years to come, when the station is financially viable again.