RTE want to double TV licence fee

Grayson

I never watch RTE. I use streaming services. The only time I look at their site is when someone here links to it. I'm a news junkie but I have an Irish Times subscription so that takes care of Irish news for me. I go to other sites for international news.

I literally have no interest in any RTE programming or services and they expect me to pay 320 a year?

CaptainR

I love how they can charge people to watch their TV channel which also has ads on it. How is that justified?

Also I believe that Daniel and Majella's roadtrip is a solid legal defence for not paying the TV licence.

diomed

That Tommy Tiernan chat show was entertaining. It showed up the standard RTE stuff.

Summer wind

Absolutely ridiculous idea. No way anyone will pay that much.

Fr_Dougal

No, they don't.

Jayop

Of all the stealthy crappy taxes I hate paying here, paying for this absolute whopper of a 'service' is top of it. TV stations that primarily focus on showing repeats of the worst TV from around the world. Home grown produce that would generally make you want to gouge you're eyes out. News so biases it would make Pravda blush and digital services up to the standard of pre broadband websites.

If there's a game on Rte and I'm at the office so have to watch online I'll invariably watch on an illegal site because the quality is so much better than their offerings. Scrap the TV license or scrap add. Either way scrap half or more of what they do. Let them do a bit of public service broadcasting.

Scrap at least one of their orchestras too while were at it.

Sleepy

Yeah, double away, see how many people start to risk 10 minutes in the joy instead of being shafted by RTE.

CaptainR

diomed wrote: »

That Tommy Tiernan chat show was entertaining. It showed up the standard RTE stuff.

One of the best things about that was Tommy not recognising Vogue Williams and other RTE darling's, it really showed up the likes of Tubs who have a load of researchers feeding him information to make the guest seem well known.

Venom

R P McMurphy wrote: »

Most if the cast of fair city would be off to Hollywood in the morning. It would be a national disaster but would rejuvenate the US movie and television business

My bollocks they would. Only place they would be off to is the dole ques.


1. Who still watches tv on a daily basis? Weekend?
Recorded or online for me.

2. Who watches RTE on a daily basis? Weekend? Christmas?
Only the news if something really big happens like elections or the recent Mccabe scandal.

3. Who can say that the RTE radio Stations are their main radio stations
Radio in kitchen been set to Newstalk for longer than I can remember.

4. Who uses their website and RTE Player? How many times a week?
Used it once over in the mothers for some show she missed. Didn't work.

5. Who watched RTE's Olympic Coverage as their main source
Watched the Olympics on BBC, same coverage + no ads.

Alf Stewart.

Captain Chaos wrote: »

What happened the so called broadcasting charge??

Water charges killed them

Tin Foil Hat

I don't pay it anyway. Double €0 is still €0. No change for me.:)

RobertKK

Venom wrote: »

My bollocks they would. Only place they would be off to is the dole ques.


1. Who still watches tv on a daily basis? Weekend?
Recorded or online for me.

2. Who watches RTE on a daily basis? Weekend? Christmas?
Only the news if something really big happens like elections or the recent Mccabe scandal.

3. Who can say that the RTE radio Stations are their main radio stations
Radio in kitchen been set to Newstalk for longer than I can remember.

4. Who uses their website and RTE Player? How many times a week?
Used it once over in the mothers for some show she missed. Didn't work.

5. Who watched RTE's Olympic Coverage as their main source
Watched the Olympics on BBC, same coverage + no ads.

I think the poster was being sarcastic about Fair City.

Lt Dan

Billy86 wrote: »

They can start making more of their own output rather than using taxpayers money to outbid the likes of TV3 and TG4 for foreign shows (thus driving up the costs for all involved), and/or get into serious discussions about a more even distribution of taxpayers money among other stations than just RTE... Then maybe we can talk.

Still, it's likely just holding off the inevitable as alternatives such as netflix etc (both legal and otherwise) begin to send them to the wall. In that instance I can see the British population being happy to continue to pay for the service the BBC provides, and/or for them to be able to compete in such a market due to the depth and quality of their productions (not just costly production values, but actual quality of content which many of the TG4 documentaries for example prove so not need to cost an arm and a leg)... Can the same be said for RTE? Not a chance.

Bingo. TG4 the best station in the country.

Documentaries have always been great. Sports is solid too, they will probably even cover the Dubai races on Saturday. The best station for Club Championships. Have tried their own Irish Language drama , Ros Na Ruin which has been ongoing for years . Always had BABES reading the news or telling the weather (then getting robbed by RTE)

All on peanuts

Pat Kenny proved that , the grass is not always greener when they will Montrose. He is an excellent radio broadcaster but has Newstalk got stronger when he turned the dial? His tv career has gone . First UTV and a few shows with TV3

LETHAL LADY

Can you still buy the RTE guide?
That's a ridiculous waste of money if it's still being published.

the_pen_turner

Is there a list of programs that are only on rte. Everything else is a waste of money.


I only watch room to improve and even that is not top notch tv

circadian

If this happens I may as well walk into RTE HQ and pull down me nags and bend over.

filbert the fox

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

I don't pay it anyway. Double €0 is still €0. No change for me.:)

Ok so now we have gotten to the crux of the matter.

Since time immemorial the threat of being caught without a TV Licence was emphasised whether it be "the TV detector van" or that moronic "...better way to blow €1000 than..."
there is a culture of evasion in this context.

The 265,000+ tv consumers who won't pay for a paltry €3.075 a week (19% of Television owners) are directly responsible for this situation.

Venom

RobertKK wrote: »

I think the poster was being sarcastic about Fair City.

I know but its the same old argument rolled out by RTE to try and justify the wages their top muppets get paid.

Areas

This taken from the RTÉ website: Speaking to RTÉ News, Ms Forbes said it is nonsense to suggest she would encourage the doubling of the licence fee.

MilesMorales1

For the rubbish RTE puts on? No chance.

Billy86

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Can you still buy the RTE guide?
That's a ridiculous waste of money if it's still being published.

did a Google search and unexpectedly, here's some depressing news you can thank your grandparents for.

http://www.rte.ie/mediasales/guide/
The RTÉ Guide is Ireland’s number one selling magazine...

If that means it's turning a profit then great, keep feckless thing around for as long as it continues to I suppose, but it really is a relic of the 1990s in terms of most people I know thinks of it.

emo72

Fine Gael love privatising everything. Why not RTE?

jelutong

Must say I agree with Lt Dan 100% re TG4. Brilliant documentaries, Camino at tSaile for one and music, GAA etc. It's the only homegrown station worth watching. RTÉ should be rebranded as: DDT. Duffy,Darcy,Tubridy.

NIMAN

Sleepy wrote: »

Yeah, double away, see how many people start to risk 10 minutes in the joy instead of being shafted by RTE.

You might not be able to avoid it though, I heard her say this morning that Italy added it to their electricity bills to recoup the licence fee.

PropJoe10

I'll swim bollock naked across the Atlantic before I pay 320 euro a year to RTE. No chance.

drugstore cowboy

Lt Dan wrote: »

So, what is the purpose of Ryle Nugent then if Rugby goes to TV3?

Fluffing BODS pillows at night.

MilesMorales1

Are they gonna finally get rid of the Angelus and all then?

Lackey

Can the Fair City writers not include RTE in on 'The Plan' ? To raise some extra cash.

SEPT 23 1989

I think they will increase it and let Revenue collect and there is nothing you can do about it

Amalgam

News and Nationwide, local Eco and Irish nature issues.

I love RTE Radio 1 in the evening, specialist programming, Maritime and Farming coverage.

The online ability to listen back, particularly radio, has exploded in the last few years. You don't necessarily have to listen live.

RTE has improved a lot in that regard.