British Soccer Telly Ball and the RTE Licence Tax

ClovenHoof

The new sponsorship deal for the English Premier League ensures that the club that finishes bottom of the table still enjoy 30 million pounds in TV rights alone.

and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.

Sheep Lover

ClovenHoof wrote: »

and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

Eh, you could just get rid of the telly...

COYVB

ClovenHoof wrote: »

and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further

No you're not.

Red Kev

ClovenHoof wrote: »

I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.

Speak for yourself.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I'm missing something. When does RTE show live premiership football?

kneemos

Worst excuse ever for not paying your TV license.

COYVB

Raylan Breezy Blonde wrote: »

I'm missing something. When does RTE show live premiership football?

They do not. But to watch football on Sky you are required (but not forced) to pay for a TV license. I think that's what the OP is trying to put across, in an insanely OTT and hyperbolic way

Ruu

Ah you're the 'no to foreign games' fella.

kneemos

COYVB wrote: »

They do not. But to watch football on Sky you are required (but not forced) to pay for a TV license. I think that's what the OP is trying to put across, in an insanely OTT and hyperbolic way

They pay for highlights presumably as well.

COYVB

kneemos wrote: »

They pay for highlights presumably as well.

Do they even still have that show? I thought they got rid of it years ago

Sheep Lover

Bloody forgeinders, over there, playing football. Bastards.

Karl Stein

ClovenHoof wrote: »

we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons

Speaking from experience are you?

Lapin

ClovenHoof wrote: »

The new sponsorship deal for the English Premier League ensures that the club that finishes bottom of the table still enjoy 30 million pounds in TV rights alone.

and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.

Your facts are a load of bollox OP.

RTÉ don't even broadcast Premier League highlights anymore let alone live coverage.

Better luck finding something to moan aimlessly about next time.

kneemos

COYVB wrote: »

Do they even still have that show? I thought they got rid of it years ago

Quite possibly.

Skid X

ClovenHoof wrote: »

The new sponsorship deal for the English Premier League ensures that the club that finishes bottom of the table still enjoy 30 million pounds in TV rights alone.

and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.

I think we might have a new record for the most ever untruths in an After Hours OP.

COYVB

Lapin wrote: »

Your facts are a load of bollox OP.

RTÉ don't even broadcast Premier League highlights anymore let alone live coverage.

Better luck finding something to moan aimlessly about next time.

I don't think that was the point the OP was making, the point was you can't legally watch your Sky Sports subscription in Ireland without paying a TV license, which is used to subsidise RTE

Zebra3

ClovenHoof wrote: »

The new sponsorship deal for the English Premier League ensures that the club that finishes bottom of the table still enjoy 30 million pounds in TV rights alone.

and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.

Take a step back into your Hiberno-fascist cave.

Lapin

kneemos wrote: »

They pay for highlights presumably as well.

No they don't.

kneemos

COYVB wrote: »

I don't think that was the point the OP was making, the point was you can't legally watch your Sky Sports subscription in Ireland without paying a TV license, which is used to subsidise RTE

No he was on about subsidising foreign sports.

COYVB

kneemos wrote: »

No he was on about subsidising foreign sports.

Read this bit again:

and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

SEPT 23 1989

They used to show Live matches with a fifteen minute delay:D

kneemos

COYVB wrote: »

Read this bit again:

What am I looking for?

Skylinehead

COYVB wrote: »

Read this bit again:

Yes...

and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further

How is paying RTE subsidising the Premier League? They don't get a cent of it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

COYVB wrote: »

They do not. But to watch football on Sky you are required (but not forced) to pay for a TV license. I think that's what the OP is trying to put across, in an insanely OTT and hyperbolic way

I'm afraid that is definitely not what he was getting at.

He said we "pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry".
We may pay to have a TV but we do not subsidise premiership football.

Just another rant thread started without any basis in fact.

AdrianII

Stupidest post ever.

OP time to go actually think before you post. Not one actual truth in that comment.

No live games (Setanta have that) and no highlights any more it was cut years ago as a cost saving method

Axel Lamp

Ah it's a disgrace Joe, a disgrace.

A. DISGRACE.

Irelandcool

I hardly watch live TV anymore. I just use my laptop for movies, sports, TV series, live events, and such. I mean with that you don't need to pay the TV license a computer or laptop is all you need and you can watch whatever you want. If this guy doesn't want to pay TV license then let him just get rid of the TV then.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Irelandcool wrote: »

I hardly watch live TV anymore. I just use my laptop for movies, sports, TV series, live events, and such. I mean with that you don't need to pay the TV license a computer or laptop is all you need and you can watch whatever you want. If this guy doesn't want to pay TV license then let him just get rid of the TV then.

That's all about to change with the Public Srevice Broadcasting Charge and about time too. You whippersnappers have gotten away with watching TV for free far too long.

kneemos

sugarman wrote: »

That's changing, you'll need to buy a broadcasting licence when it comes in this year.

Been shelved.

Sheep Lover

Raylan Breezy Blonde wrote: »

That's all about to change with the Public Srevice Broadcasting Charge and about time too. You whippersnappers have gotten away with watching TV for free far too long.

Ha, yeah and we'll definitely pay that one too *sniggers*

Irelandcool

sugarman wrote: »

That's changing, you'll need to buy a broadcasting licence when it comes in this year.

No need I already pay for internet. Besides broadcasting and streaming are two different things.

COYVB

Skylinehead wrote: »

How is paying RTE subsidising the Premier League? They don't get a cent of it.

Jesus. You pay a tax to ALLOW you to subsidise the PL by virtue of a sky subscription - a subscription you can't legally utilize WITHOUT paying that tax to RTE via the TV license

rizzodun

I wonder does OP support the national team when they take to the field? Seeing as the majority ply their club trade in England, and without the English leagues the Irish soccer team would not even be heard of in Europe.

Ted_YNWA

I think the OP is getting miffed that he is paying a licence fee to RTE to watch Sky on said TV

COYVB

sugarman wrote: »

It includes streaming. If you can view content on a PC/laptop, tablet or phone and have internet access you will need to pay up.

It includes nothing because it was canned last year

dxhound2005

kneemos wrote: »

Been shelved.

Will be back. It's Frankfurt's Way.

http://www.studentenwerk-hannover.de/en-rundfunk.html

With the amended German Broadcasting Act, coming into effect on January 1, 2013, the new broadcasting contribution fee has replaced the former broadcasting charge. The "Gebühreneinzugszentrale" (GEZ = central broadcasting charges collecting agency) also has been renamed: "ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio Beitragsservice" (Contribution Collection Service for Public Broadcasting ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio).

As of January 2013, there is a fixed flat rate per home for all receiving devices. Each household in one home (i.e., a flat or a single house) has to pay € 17.98 per month, regardless of the number or type of devices available or used. Devices are TV and radio sets as well as PCs and mobile devices (i.e., phones) with Internet access. This flat rate includes all types of usage, including usage in cars, and it has to be paid quarterly.

The fixed rate is the same as the former maximum charge for TV sets. Therefore, nothing changes for all those who had registered a TV set before.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Irelandcool wrote: »

No need I already pay for internet. Besides broadcasting and streaming are two different things.

Nope!

diomed

ClovenHoof wrote: »

but com'on.

Very successful debate clincher.

kneemos

COYVB wrote: »

Jesus. You pay a tax to ALLOW you to subsidise the PL by virtue of a sky subscription - a subscription you can't legally utilize WITHOUT paying that tax to RTE via the TV license

I'm failing miserably to make sense of this.

Guy:Incognito

COYVB wrote: »

Jesus. You pay a tax to ALLOW you to subsidise the PL by virtue of a sky subscription - a subscription you can't legally utilize WITHOUT paying that tax to RTE via the TV license

Even using that logic, your paying your TV licence which then allows you to subsidise the plenty through another payment, that isn't paying the licence to subsidise the pl, you'd be paying the licence either way, your then choosing to pay sky after that. If the subsidise the pl thing was true, then every licence fee payer would be subsidising it, when in reality it's only the sub section that also choose to have a sky subscription that subsidise it.

Ted_YNWA

kneemos wrote: »

I'm failing miserably to make sense of this.

the only logic I see is, you have to pay RTE to have a TV, before paying SKY

Lapin

COYVB wrote: »

I don't think that was the point the OP was making, the point was you can't legally watch your Sky Sports subscription in Ireland without paying a TV license, which is used to subsidise RTE

I don't think so.

kneemos

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Even using that logic, your paying your TV licence which then allows you to subsidise the plenty through another payment, that isn't paying the licence to subsidise the pl, you'd be paying the licence either way, your then choosing to pay sky after that. If the subsidise the pl thing was true, then every licence fee payer would be subsidising it, when incredulity it's only the sub section that also choose to have a sky subscription that subsidise it.

Why pick out the PL,Sky has sport from all over the world.

Irelandcool

sugarman wrote: »

It includes streaming. If you can view content on a PC/laptop, tablet or phone and have internet access you will need to pay up.

just get the microsoft Hololens and hide it everytime they come around to check it then say "I have no lens". The TV would be nothing but a hologram so it be pretty bullet proof. Have it hidden in a private area of the bathroom.

KingBrian2

I think the concept of paying for a TV licence is fine. A lot of crap on TV though these days may seem to dim that view, regardless the license is a correct way for paying for an important service.

COYVB

KingBrian2 wrote: »

I think the concept of paying for a TV licence is fine. A lot of crap on TV though these days may seem to dim that view, regardless the license is a correct way for paying for an important service.

It's only an important service for those who use it, so it shouldn't be compulsory. Just put all RTE services behind a pay wall that costs the equivalent of the TV license for fairness

Of course that wouldn't work, because about 9 people would pay for it

Richard Hillman

Dis cuntry isa joake

Wide Load

RTE Soccer coverage died when Okie Doke left.

Guy:Incognito

kneemos wrote: »

Why pick out the PL,Sky has sport from all over the world.

The Op specifically says the PL

KingBrian2

Raylan Breezy Blonde wrote: »

That's all about to change with the Public Srevice Broadcasting Charge and about time too. You whippersnappers have gotten away with watching TV for free far too long.

Who cares? No worry for us we have DVD's.

Guy:Incognito

COYVB wrote: »

It's only an important service for those who use it, so it shouldn't be compulsory. Just put all RTE services behind a pay wall that costs the equivalent of the TV license for fairness

Of course that wouldn't work, because about 9 people would pay for it

Its fairly important for the indigenous filmmakers too. Less licence fee money = less local programming and no Irish language stuff I'd say (which is good or bad depending on your views)