Those TV licence ads....

checkyabadself

Is it just me or are they cringe worthy?

"Don't be like John eating nothing but breakfast cereal because he was fined 1000 Euro for not paying his TV licence."

Bottom of the barrel stuff from them really. If state TV can't survive off advertising revenue then it should realise that it should fold like any other business.
It's not as if it's impartial or unbiased in its programming.

If RTE was a quality product then it would have a large number of people happy to pay for the service making it viable.

Fear mongering as an marketing tool can only have the opposite effect, surely.

JustShon

Regardless of what they do, nobody will pay until they come knocking.

Personally I waited right up until the lawyer's letter.

My TV exists for Netflix (smart TV) and video games, if they weren't threatening to take me to court I'd never have paid them a cent.

jimgoose

It's vintage, textbook Ireland. Bate everyone into paying for the cushty existences of a load of half-educated fool Meeja Luvvies under threat of court and huge fines. Business? These characters have heard of the notion of "business", but ran a mile in sheer terror. :pac:

Valetta

It's got boardsies talking about it.

Q.E.D.

eezipc

Those other ads showing how great RTE is really annoys me. I believe people in RTE really think that we love forking out 160 a year to pay their inflated salaries an pensions.
Everything has been made possible by the tv licence.... (Except the rugby world cup, 6 nations, Coronation St...........)

Robsweezie

eezipc wrote:

Those other ads showing how great RTE is really annoys me. I believe people in RTE really think that we love forking out 160 a year to pay their inflated salaries an pensions. Everything has been made possible by the tv licence.... (Except the rugby world cup, 6 nations, Coronation St...........)

"The prooogrammes are soooo good loike, fair city changed my life loike."

shamrock2004

checkyabadself wrote: »

Is it just me or are they cringe worthy?

"Don't be like John eating nothing but breakfast cereal because he was fined 1000 Euro for not paying his TV licence."

Bottom of the barrel stuff from them really. If state TV can't survive off advertising revenue then it should realise that it should fold like any other business.
It's not as if it's impartial or unbiased in its programming.

If RTE was a quality product then it would have a large number of people happy to pay for the service making it viable.

Fear mongering as an marketing tool can only have the opposite effect, surely.

Sure you dont need to worry about this any longer. We'll have a lovely broadcasting charge (or fresh air tax as I like to call it) to replace it and broaden the base of the tv license charge. So 'john' won't feel left out. He'll meet plenty of other people shovling cereal down their neck for breakfast dinner and tea.

eezipc

You can read what the money is spent on here http://www.rte.ie/about/en/policies-and-reports/annual-reports/2012/0330/315615-new-journalism-guidelines/
It's up to date if you believe that 2011 is up to date.....

eezipc

You can read what the money is spent on here http://www.rte.ie/about/en/policies-and-reports/annual-reports/2012/0330/315615-new-journalism-guidelines/
It's up to date if you believe that 2011 is up to date.....

Iang87

I refuse to pay for anything that puts fair city. I had the news on in sitting room last week and went to the kitchen and was out there for a while and heard fair city starting and ran back in to change channel before returning to the kitchen for fear they counted me as a viewer.





I didn't want to turn the TV off for those about to ask. House is lonely then

yeppydeppy

shamrock2004 wrote: »

Sure you dont need to worry about this any longer. We'll have a lovely broadcasting charge (or fresh air tax as I like to call it) to replace it and broaden the base of the tv license charge. So 'john' won't feel left out. He'll meet plenty of other people shovling cereal down their neck for breakfast dinner and tea.

I think they scrapped that idea after the shít storm generated by the water charges?

sligojoek

They're making nothing from radio advertising. Every second ad is for something RTE related. Duffy, Darcy, Tubbs, RTE supporting the arts and so on.

pillphil

Iang87 wrote: »

I refuse to pay for anything that puts fair city. I had the news on in sitting room last week and went to the kitchen and was out there for a while and heard fair city starting and ran back in to change channel before returning to the kitchen for fear they counted me as a viewer.





I didn't want to turn the TV off for those about to ask. House is lonely then

Are you a part of the Tam Ireland programme?

aaronjumper

JustShon wrote: »

Regardless of what they do, nobody will pay until they come knocking.

Personally I waited right up until the lawyer's letter.

My TV exists for Netflix (smart TV) and video games, if they weren't threatening to take me to court I'd never have paid them a cent.

Ended up getting one for the first time in my eight years living out of home and that was only because an inspector made it into the building.

I'm an upstanding citizen now. Still think RTE is ****e.

JustShon

aaronjumper wrote: »

Ended up getting one for the first time in my eight years living out of home and that was only because an inspector made it into the building.

I'm an upstanding citizen now. Still think RTE is ****e.

Yeah I had the same. Apartment building with code-locked doors and some feckin' eejit buzzed the vulture in.

Graces7

No TV by choice but i get a free licence... Of course the very nasty man who thought my digiweb satellite dish was a TV dish and reported me to An Post did not know that. The letter they sent was a disgrace. Needless to say they got told and shamed.. and had to admit there had been a licence issued...added to the complication is the divergence of actual address in remote areas as townlands are not always clearly delineated..Threatening old ladies indeed!Oh I know who did that but of course An Post refused to confirm it. We batted confidentiality and freedom of info stuff around by email then they backed off! hat

McSween

The one time I'd love to say 'one minute now' when they call to the door and return with a rifle to say 'get the hell of my property'. How dare they. It should be against the law for anybody to call to your door other than if they know you.

Valetta

McSween wrote: »

The one time I'd love to say 'one minute now' when they call to the door and return with a rifle to say 'get the hell of my property'. How dare they. It should be against the law for anybody to call to your door other than if they know you.

I think you'll find it's also against the law to threaten someone with a rifle.

Do you ever receive post?

McSween

Valetta wrote: »

I think you'll find it's also against the law to threaten someone with a rifle.

Do you ever receive post?

Oh relax will you matron.

Sam Kade

If licence dodgers are reduce to eating cereal while sitting in their underpants after paying a €1000 fine then they can't afford a TV licence in the first place.

Badly Drunk Boy

JustShon wrote: »

My TV exists for Netflix (smart TV) and video games, if they weren't threatening to take me to court I'd never have paid them a cent.

When Emperor Peter I of Russia introduced his beard tax in 1698, I wonder if he discerned between big bushy beards and goatees...

Graces7 wrote: »

No TV by choice but i get a free licence... Of course the very nasty man who thought my digiweb satellite dish was a TV dish and reported me to An Post did not know that. The letter they sent was a disgrace. Needless to say they got told and shamed.. and had to admit there had been a licence issued...added to the complication is the divergence of actual address in remote areas as townlands are not always clearly delineated..

There's a great new service that An Post could use in cases like this. EIRCODE!! :pac:

BMJD

you're an awful shower of ungrateful bastards so you are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=varncmzn_NE

Graces7

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

When Emperor Peter I of Russia introduced his beard tax in 1698, I wonder if he discerned between big bushy beards and goatees...


There's a great new service that An Post could use in cases like this. EIRCODE!! :pac:

Ah but the creep who made the false report is too ignorant to know that! Apparently according to An Post, the address I was given BY MY LANDLORD and have been using for years and getting An Post deliveries on is totally inaccurate and they actually had to come up here to deliver the letter. I had forgotten that... I was out when the inspector called so maybe HE thought the digiweb broadband dish was .. ah but THIS IS IRELAND! Way out in the sticks...;)

Sam Kade

BMJD wrote: »

you're an awful shower of ungrateful bastards so you are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=varncmzn_NE

It's great value so please contribute to RTE's inflated salaries.

McGrath5

Ah sure lads if we don't pay the likes of Tubs and D'Arcy with huge salaries, the BBC or Sky will poach them.