Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

thomas 123

Has anyone seen an advert for a presenter position on rte?

Fann Linn

thomas 123 wrote: »

Has anyone seen an advert for a presenter position on rte?

Never in my lifetime.

foxy farmer

I see at least 4 new recent appointments on the news.
Sharon Tobin
Dyanne Conor
Laura Hogan
Brian o Donovan

RabbleRouser2k

foxy farmer wrote: »

I see at least 4 new recent appointments on the news.
Sharon Tobin
Dyanne Conor
Laura Hogan
Brian o Donovan

They've been there for awhile, definitely more than 5 years (each). Got poached from TV3/ VM1.

I noticed that RTE's killing off shows by showing them at later schedules. Killing Eve cost them a pretty penny, Season 3 will be shown at 11 pm at night.
They widely heralded this last month when they got it.

Now it's moving to almost midnight... won't be long until it's shoved to the am.
None of these shows are cheap to buy. They spent a lot of money on Mad Men, before, and then had to dump it into the early hours of the morning.

NIMAN

Why would rte put these shows on so late?

The BBC has been pushing the likes of Killing Eve and Normal People big time recently. They show these at prime time.

Yet rte don't. Ironically enough, it's usually so they can show us Prime Time, cos don't we need another special about CV19.

fritzelly

NIMAN wrote: »

Why would rte put these shows on so late?

The BBC has been pushing the likes of Killing Eve and Normal People big time recently. They show these at prime time.

Yet rte don't. Ironically enough, it's usually so they can show us Prime Time, cos don't we need another special about CV19.

RTE don't do prime time entertainment, they do prime time depression, misery, murder, suicide. Their whole schedule is basically chat shows and some cheap tacky programs early in the evening

sligojoek

NIMAN wrote: »

Why would rte put these shows on so late?

The BBC has been pushing the likes of Killing Eve and Normal People big time recently. They show these at prime time.

Yet rte don't. Ironically enough, it's usually so they can show us Prime Time, cos don't we need another special about CV19.

No. They'd rather show us another Francis Brennan, Daniel O Donnell, Neven Maguire, Carter family or Allen family show again and again.

RabbleRouser2k

fritzelly wrote: »

RTE don't do prime time entertainment, they do prime time depression, misery, murder, suicide. Their whole schedule is basically chat shows and some cheap tacky programs early in the evening

Claire Byrne, a week or so ago, did a segment about how 'flammable' alcohol sanitizer is.
Telling people to be safe with their hand sanitizer. Her demo was putting a good splodge of it into a bowl, then setting it on fire.:rolleyes:



I'm sorry, but at some point in time you have to just say, 'if they're dumb enough to set themselves on fire with hand sanitizer, then that's Natural Selection at work'.

The alcohol in hand sanitizer evaporates after about ten seconds or so after application to the skin. Whatever the point of the demo was, it was kind of stupid.

They say RTE can't do comedy-Claire Byrne's show, and Crimecall, are proof they actually can.... just unintentionally.

sligojoek

Just watching a repeat of the Late Late Leo interview from Friday.

One lad spends the week talking about jelly beans, books , kindness and how awful phones and the internet are. The other is working his hole off to try and get this crisis sorted. I say that as someone who has no time for FG. One makes 500,00 the other earns about half that.

Go figure

RabbleRouser2k

sligojoek wrote: »

Just watching a repeat of the Late Late Leo interview from Friday.

One lad spends the week talking about jelly beans, books , kindness and how awful phones and the internet are. The other is working his hole off to try and get this crisis sorted. I say that as someone who has no time for FG. One makes 500,00 the other earns about half that.

Go figure

Tbf, their lax attitude, as well as the housing crisis, health crisis, and continual spending all the wrong areas didn't help this crisis any bit.

I've no time for either of them, but let's not put either one on a pedestal. They're as bad as one another-they've got no time for either of us.

sligojoek

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Tbf, their lax attitude, as well as the housing crisis, health crisis, and continual spending all the wrong areas didn't help this crisis any bit.

I've no time for either of them, but let's not put either one on a pedestal. They're as bad as one another-they've got no time for either of us.

As Joe Duffy would say, I know that, I know that. I'm not putting anyone on a pedestal.

The thing is, this is unprecedented. It was landed on Varadker and co's laps. They have to get on with it and see how it goes. Tubbs however will be laughing and "acting the maggot" all the way to the bank no matter what happens.

Nevin Parsnipp

sligojoek wrote: »

As Joe Duffy would say, I know that, I know that. I'm not putting anyone on a pedestal.

The thing is, this is unprecedented. It was landed on Varadker and co's laps. They have to get on with it and see how it goes. Tubbs however will be laughing and "acting the maggot" all the way to the bank no matter what happens.

Excellent post and very well put....good to see a non govt supporter giving SOME credit for the circs we find ourselves in and recognising the broader picture.

Such a difference to the usual cant from the lefties......

TheIrishGrover

There is only ONE tax I resent paying and that's the TV license: A service I do not use (I don't even have an antenna or use the app). I have used the national concert hall from time to time and paid 80 + for that each time. I listen to other, non-RTE radio stations (Rarely. For news). and I use the RTE new website which is riddled with adverts to support it.

I have no problem paying pretty much any other taxes as they apply to me. No problems with bins and I even paid water rates but I cannot see the justification for paying an additional 160 annual tax. They are at least partially supported by advertising and if this does not cover costs then reduce costs/restructure advertising revenue.

RabbleRouser2k

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

There is only ONE tax I resent paying and that's the TV license: A service I do not use (I don't even have an antenna or use the app). I have used the national concert hall from time to time and paid 80 + for that each time. I listen to other, non-RTE radio stations (Rarely. For news). and I use the RTE new website which is riddled with adverts to support it.

I have no problem paying pretty much any other taxes as they apply to me. No problems with bins and I even paid water rates but I cannot see the justification for paying an additional 160 annual tax. They are at least partially supported by advertising and if this does not cover costs then reduce costs/restructure advertising revenue.

They dropped the ball with this covid 19 crisis. Operation Covid-Nation (not using it's new names, it's still crap) has been like someone walking into your dining room, taking a massive poo on the carpet, and then being shocked you're angry they just did a s**t on the carpet.

KAthryn Thomas has been 'disappointed' at the low audience figures, and negative reaction to the show. So the analogy works.

AndyBoBandy

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

They dropped the ball with this covid 19 crisis. Operation Covid-Nation (not using it's new names, it's still crap) has been like someone walking into your dining room, taking a massive poo on the carpet, and then being shocked you're angry they just did a s**t on the carpet.

KAthryn Thomas has been 'disappointed' at the low audience figures, and negative reaction to the show. So the analogy works.

If only Dee/Kathryn could let their true feelings be known to all of us ungrateful ba$tards for not fully appreciating the public service they are providing us during these difficult times.



Another thing that's pi$$ing me off lately with RTÉ News is the amount of reports coming in 'from location'!!

There was a story about football so the guy was doing his piece with Landsdowne Road in the back ground!! So thats at least 3-4 people (reporter, cameraman, sound guy, producer/union guy) on location, & either travelled there in the same van, or travelled there separately. Do they really need to do this? is it really that essential? Same goes for almost all trivial news reports coming in lately where the reporter is 'on location' where absolutely nothing is happening!! (apart from an RTÉ news team being there)

NIMAN

I have been wondering about those reporters being 'on location' of late.
Do they get stopped by the Guards and asked where they are going I wonder.

"ah, I just have to go down and stand outside government buildings because I have to do a 2min piece to Eileen Whelan on the 9 o'clock news"

sligojoek

Same with Paul Reynolds. He does a lot of pieces outside Garda HQ in Phoenix park, even for the 9.00 TV news. Surely he could do that from home with a Garda logo on the wall behind him.

AndyBoBandy

sligojoek wrote: »

Surely he could do that from home with a Garda logo on the wall behind him.

Just a blue screen, and they can superimpose whatever background they want behind them, like what they do in their Cork studio whenever Simon Coveney is being interviewed from there.

RabbleRouser2k

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Just a blue screen, and they can superimpose whatever background they want behind them, like what they do in their Cork studio whenever Simon Coveney is being interviewed from there.

Knowing RTE, they'd mess that up.

We still haven't seen 'Burnt by the Sun' episode 2. The story they put out, weeks ago, was that the wrong file was sent due to remote working.

It's almost a month later, where the hell is part two?

dirkmeister

I’ve said it before but the standard of rte.ie is abysmal.

John Kilraine has written a short article about Dublin’s parks which contains 2 spelling mistakes.

How f*cking hard is it to spell check a piece of work?

RabbleRouser2k

dirkmeister wrote: »

I’ve said it before but the standard of rte.ie is abysmal.

John Kilraine has written a short article about Dublin’s parks which contains 2 spelling mistakes.

How f*cking hard is it to spell check a piece of work?

Oh I've practically stopped going to that site. People who are 'kind of a big deal' on twitter trying to raise their profile. (And then I click their name, and realise they've got less followers than me, and I'm nobody).

It's atrocious.


Oh Jesus... the typos on rte's page are getting worse than the Dailymail.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0505/1136575-virgin-atlantic-job-cuts/

(In case they have changed it in the meantime)

Virgin Atlantic to cut 3,1500 jobs, stop using Gatwick

Brendan Bendar

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Oh I've practically stopped going to that site. People who are 'kind of a big deal' on twitter trying to raise their profile. (And then I click their name, and realise they've got less followers than me, and I'm nobody).

It's atrocious.


Oh Jesus... the typos on rte's page are getting worse than the Dailymail.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0505/1136575-virgin-atlantic-job-cuts/

(In case they have changed it in the meantime)

My bet is the younger brigade are running that site Rabble.

The .done.seen.quawter.larger.Chicargo brigade.

Standards have slipped big time, I’m afraid.

God be with the times every sixth class pupil could tell you what counties Ballygar or Kinnegad or Knockroghery were in .

Now...two chances.:D

RabbleRouser2k

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

My bet is the younger brigade are running that site Rabble.

The .done.seen.quawter.larger.Chicargo brigade.

Standards have slipped big time, I’m afraid.

God be with the times every sixth class pupil could tell you what counties Ballygar or Kinnegad or Knockroghery were in .

Now...two chances.:D

It's incompetence though. Every word processor has a spell checker.

Gen.Zhukov

dirkmeister wrote: »

I’ve said it before but the standard of rte.ie is abysmal.

John Kilraine has written a short article about Dublin’s parks which contains 2 spelling mistakes.

How f*cking hard is it to spell check a piece of work?

When the Glasnevin memorial was vandalised a few months ago RTE had 'vandalized' in the caption on the 6.1 news. Corrected for the 9 oc news.

Then some cabbage sends in the vid he took of the wind blowing the artic over in a storm while filming the clip with his phone as he was driving.
RTE showed the clip in full inc a lovely view of yer mans steering wheel on the 6.1
By 9 the clip was shown zoomed in with no steering wheel in view.

Brendan Bendar

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

It's incompetence though. Every word processor has a spell checker.

Not only spelling I fear RR, Mr G has taken “one hell of a beating” too.

The dones and seens, the lets and leaves, the wents and gones, those bad boys are like the auld C-19....taking over.....in control.

No turning back.

ligerdub

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

My bet is the younger brigade are running that site Rabble.

The .done.seen.quawter.larger.Chicargo brigade.

Standards have slipped big time, I’m afraid.

God be with the times every sixth class pupil could tell you what counties Ballygar or Kinnegad or Knockroghery were in .

Now...two chances.:D

I would be surprised if anything other than that were true. It's laden down with nonsense lowbrow articles and parroting typical in vogue issues for the youth, such as feminism, LGBT, climate change etc.

"Isn't Eoghan McDermott a great guy" type craic. Bore off RTE.

fritzelly

RTE player completely broke at the moment - our money well spent

NIMAN

Their website is heavily padded too.

Stories are repeated in several places as you scroll down.

Shefwedfan

fritzelly wrote: »

RTE player completely broke at the moment - our money well spent

Unfortunealy more than 50 people logged onto it and crippled the servers!!

Muahahaha

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Claire Byrne, a week or so ago, did a segment about how 'flammable' alcohol sanitizer is.
Telling people to be safe with their hand sanitizer. Her demo was putting a good splodge of it into a bowl, then setting it on fire.:rolleyes:

They say RTE can't do comedy-Claire Byrne's show, and Crimecall, are proof they actually can.... just unintentionally.

I had to laugh at Claire Byrne getting a fireman into the studio to ignite a bowl of sanitiser, real comedy stuff. Crimecall also good for the comedy moments, can remember them showing CCTV of a woman stealing chocolate a few months back. Hardly crime of the century but for some reason they deemed it worthy of national tv

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Knowing RTE, they'd mess that up.

We still haven't seen 'Burnt by the Sun' episode 2. The story they put out, weeks ago, was that the wrong file was sent due to remote working.

It's almost a month later, where the hell is part two?

Was wondering that myself, they've left us hanging there by only showing half the program. Part 2 will probably eventually show up at 1 in the morning :rolleyes: