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Licence fee

  • 10-12-2012 11:57pm
    #1
    Michael G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭


    I know this has been debated before, in several forums and in threads here, but now that I am down about €500 after the budget why should I be paying the licence fee, or whatever new name Brer Rabbitte has for it, to keep RTE going? They have two programmes, Love/Hate and Fair City, that are good enough to survive on corporate sponsorship. TV3, Newstalk and Today FM give me everything I need from the broadcast media. Any ideas about how we could campaign to stop this Pat Kenny tax?


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  • #2
    SiegfriedsMum
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 97 ✭✭SiegfriedsMum


    Michael G wrote: »
    I know this has been debated before, in several forums and in threads here, but now that I am down about €500 after the budget why should I be paying the licence fee, or whatever new name Brer Rabbitte has for it, to keep RTE going? They have two programmes, Love/Hate and Fair City, that are good enough to survive on corporate sponsorship. TV3, Newstalk and Today FM give me everything I need from the broadcast media. Any ideas about how we could campaign to stop this Pat Kenny tax?


    Have you considered making a formal complaint to the competition ombudsman here, or perhaps the commissinoer for competition at the EU?

    I dont have a tv myself mainly because I have no interest in most of the output, and find the Tv news of appallingly low quality and biased. But it has always struck me that the EU compeition commissioner might be interested, as its anti competitive to give the licence fee to RTE and not to other Tv and radio stations. Ditto in the UK for the BBC.


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