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A waste of €4 per week

  • 22-12-2016 8:50pm
    #1
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭


    TV3 now have the racing ( 50 live broadcasts a year starting in JAN )
    Sky have the GAA

    What do RTE have,,, Telly Bingo !!


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  • #2
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    satguy wrote: »
    Sky have the GAA

    What do RTE have,,, Telly Bingo !!

    You're doing it wrong.

    http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2016/1209/837708-gaa-rights/


  • #3
    cartoon 101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10 ✭cartoon 101


    there's money to be made at the horse racing in fairness


  • #4
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    satguy wrote: »
    TV3 now have the racing ( 50 live broadcasts a year starting in JAN )
    Sky have the GAA

    What do RTE have,,, Telly Bingo !!

    How much UK racing did RTÉ show? Surely this is good news for racing folk.

    Anything for a swing at RTÉ though.


  • #5
    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    lertsnim wrote: »
    How much UK racing did RTÉ show? Surely this is good news for racing folk.

    Anything for a swing at RTÉ though.

    From what I can recall,

    RTE had the Cheltenham Festival and the Aintree Grand National.

    So thats 5 days of the year i think..


  • #6
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭satguy


    They could stop taking the games SKY don't want, or can't be bothered showing..

    They could start giving us some sort a value for money,,, As we all pay €4 every week.


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  • #7
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭satguy


    If Gerry ever steps aside, and SF get some sway, we could ask Mary Lou to close down this D4 money pit.


  • #8
    cartoon 101
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10 ✭cartoon 101


    the trick with gambling is to lose small and win big


  • #9
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    satguy wrote: »
    They could stop taking the games SKY don't want, or can't be bothered showing..

    What games are they?


  • #10
    blueser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,725 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    satguy wrote: »
    They could stop taking the games SKY don't want, or can't be bothered showing..

    They could start giving us some sort a value for money,,, As we all pay €4 every week.
    €4 per week? €160, divided by 52 weeks, equals €3:07 per week.


  • #11
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    Only to those who pay the TV licence and thus the mansions and expensive coke habits of rte presenters.


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  • #12
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    satguy wrote: »
    Sky have the GAA

    What do RTE have

    A lot more GAA than Sky do.

    But not much other sport, alas.


  • #13
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    blueser wrote: »
    €4 per week? €160, divided by 52 weeks, equals €3:07 per week.

    The SF brigade can't do maths ;)


  • #14
    Oodoov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭Oodoov


    It's a waste if you pay it. Thanks OP


  • #15
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭satguy


    ED E wrote: »
    The SF brigade can't do maths ;)

    That's why they'd be perfect for government...

    And RTE would only be a news channel,, without ads .. none of that ""injury lawyers 4 u"" rubbish ..


  • #16
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭satguy


    blueser wrote: »
    €4 per week? €160, divided by 52 weeks, equals €3:07 per week.

    TV stamps in the PO are €4


  • #17
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,545 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    cartoon 101 wrote: »
    there's money to be made at the horse racing in fairness

    If you're a bookmaker.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #18
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,040 ✭✭✭SteM


    satguy wrote: »
    TV stamps in the PO are €4

    But you said we all pay €4 per week. Only people that buy a TV stamp a week pay that and even then they still use the stamps to pay €160pa like everyone else.


  • #19
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭satguy


    SteM wrote: »
    But you said we all pay €4 per week. Only people that buy a TV stamp a week pay that and even then they still use the stamps to pay €160pa like everyone else.

    Next time I ask for a TV stamp,, I'll tell the lady behind the bullitt proof glass that they should only be €3.06.


  • #20
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,040 ✭✭✭SteM


    satguy wrote: »
    Next time I ask for a TV stamp,, I'll tell the lady behind the bullitt proof glass that they should only be €3.06.

    How much do you pay for your licence when you pay in stamps? My understanding is its still €160. That means you're paying €4 pew week but only for 40 weeks a year. Doesn't matter what you ask the lady. If you're paying €4 per week for 52 weeks of the year then you're doing it wrong.


  • #21
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    The fook are TV stamps? We are through the looking glass people.


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  • #22
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    RBS 6 Nations
    Autumn Internations
    European Qualifiers for Russia
    Uefa Champions League
    Olympics
    All Ireland Championships
    Irish Racing
    Big UK festivals

    Not bad for under €4 a week to me...


  • #23
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    satguy wrote: »
    TV3 now have the racing ( 50 live broadcasts a year starting in JAN )
    Sky have the GAA

    What do RTE have,,, Telly Bingo !!
    Sorry to burst your bubble but the requirement to have a licence for receiving apparatus has existed longer than the state.

    So blame the Brits for introducing licences. Also TV license in the UK costs more.

    Also RTE is still the highest rated channel here so you can blame the average viewer for the ***** they show. Yes they could ditch a lot of the "talent" or pay them current market rates "you think you're worth more, talk to TV3 or UTV or take the boat to London"


    SKY target people addicted to sport and price their product accordingly.
    Irish TV license raises €160m a year for all stations including orchestra and other stuff like the BAI etc. Meanwhile SKY and BT paid the Premiership, (one league in one sport in one of the countries in the UK ) , £5.136 Billion.
    Join the dots.

    SKY don't contribute much to the Irish economy. In the past due to tax arrangements via other countries they used to contribute f*ck all. Look at how long the Irish SKY News lasted.


    TG4 is the curates egg of TV. It varies between crap, meh and the best program right now across over 200 channels.

    TV3 could get more license funding, all they need to do is produce more Irish content.



    Personally I'd like the TV license replaced with a charge on electricity with an opt-out. It would save €10 a year on AnPost's fee and another 10-15% on evasion.


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