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

Elmo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117662356#Comment_117662356

Dee is a Seagull, but when your in a retirement home its harder to ****.

Varik

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:p1nFzkc2kQIJ:https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php%3Ft%3D2057868730%26page%3D492+&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie

Google cache of the poll shortly before the downtime.

Elmo

RTÉ News on their holidays from today shorter 1pm news, 6.1 news, 9 news not getting the luxury. Not sure when PT starts taking a break. Well for some.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117664777#Comment_117664777

Great, reeling in the years is back!!!!!

capefear

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/87df87fa-eccd-11eb-a9f0-ebe3f77d4a7e?shareToken=423bb28a5afa483c03b5db962a13602f

I dont see this mentioned anywhere, seems they made a settlement with the revenue.

Potential-Monke

Christ they have some balls. Become a company that gets hired by RTE to do dodgy stuff, and when called out on it they then make a claim for full time staff entitlements for the period they were contracted.... Unless I'm reading this wrong?

ShamNNspace

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117665306#Comment_117665306

I think you're readin it right....anyway liveline are following it up and doing a show on it tomorrow

Gen.Zhukov

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117664570#Comment_117664570

Damn fine work Varik

Atlantic Dawn

RTE news boss apologises for not linking recent extreme weather events to climate change, honestly, what complete idiots, first excesively uncomfortably warm week of weather in Ireland for about 20 years and these clowns would have you scrap your car so your ice cream cone won't melt next year.

Mr Williams wrote an article detailing how RTÉ has and will be covering climate change and said every journalist on the news team will be taking part in a workshop looking at climate science and the reporting of it.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-news-boss-apologises-for-broadcaster-not-linking-recent-extreme-weather-events-to-climate-change-40692616.html

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117665999#Comment_117665999

I'd expect that on WW

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117665306#Comment_117665306

That's how I read it. Begs the question will they settle with revenue for anything thing they might have claimed while being wrongfully employed as a contracted company?

Potential-Monke

I was thinking the same. And we all know the answer. But they're leaving themselves open to it now.

Edit: Having read it again, in the interest of fairness, I'm not going to include the normal staff who may have been backed into a corner into taking these contracts in fear of losing the job. And this doesn't apply to the 'big' presenters who actually have private companies contracting them to RTE, these were employees who were contracted directly by RTE without having a private company. So a bit different, but no doubt most of those on higher salaries in there were taking advantage of this tax loophole and possibly the lower end employees felt forced into it. If that happened.

Thinkingaboutit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117664935#Comment_117664935

It looks like Ryan Tubridy is preparing to dive into his pile of gold like Scrooge McDuck.

RTÉ are lawless.

Elmo

The Future of Media Commission will soon report, end of this week or may later today who knows

Three things they will do

1. Reform The Licence Fee, this will be minimal reform and will largely about how it is collect, BAI might receive extra from it to allow for online, paper and independent broadcast news to gain funding from it, sound and vision will change to allow for it to be open to anyone including pay on demand providers like Disney + and Netflix, it will dress this up as supporting Volta or providing funding to the film industry.
2. Diversity, they won't actually recommend that RTÉ reform and allow for natural diversity happen by making programming, rather it will be inserted into all programmes and the audience will still be looking at the same kind of stuff just with different tokenistic presenters.
3. Fake News. The will have a fund to stop the spread of "disinformation", this will include a fund to train staff.

In fairness these 3 points will be included in a massive academic report.

Atlantic Dawn

Pa ElGrande

This is what your licence fee buys you, weather stories with a climate fearology bias courtesy of their partnership with a not for profit US based advocacy group called covering climate now.

https://twitter.com/WilliamsJon/status/1419751712450088966

How RTÉ News is covering climate change

From September, every journalist in RTÉ News will take part in a workshop looking at climate science, and the reporting of it.

And we will create a team, working across RTÉ News & Current Affairs, dedicated to reporting the climate crisis, beginning with extensive coverage of COP26, the United Nations Climate Change conference in Glasgow in November.

Elmo

From September, every journalist in RTÉ News will take part in a workshop looking at climate science, and the reporting of it.

And we will create a team, working across RTÉ News & Current Affairs, dedicated to reporting the climate crisis, beginning with extensive coverage of COP26, the United Nations Climate Change conference in Glasgow in November.

I wonder about this. Jon is full of bluster. He'll have one journalist take the course in September and a few more up to Christmas, and those who approve will be luck to see more in the new year.

If there is something international happening "over there across the way" they be on it, sure Jon spent Christmas at home, and was able to travel during covid?

Archeron

Dear viewers

It has come to our attention that the recent heat wave in Ireland was enjoyed by the majority of the people of ireland who went to the beach, the parks and the forests and had a wonderful time, and spent a few days forgetting the misery. We realize that it is our responsibility to make sure that every good news story is spun in a way that attaches misery in some form, so to those people who did enjoy a carefree week, we wholeheartedly apologize.

We will endeavour to make sure that we attach misery and sadness to every story we tell and promise to do much better. Don't forget, you're all going to die. But don't worry, we'll remind you at every opportunity.

Yours

RTE ghoulbags.

garrettod

You forgot the "PS" ....

PS - we want an increase in the licence fee, so we can make you all even more miserable, while screwing you out of every cent possible, and then giving it to our cronies, for any oul sh1te that they manage to produce.

RandomViewer

How many of them went to Tokyo?

Pa ElGrande

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117674671#Comment_117674671

That's what he did back in April. If we pay them more they will produce more misery.

https://twitter.com/WilliamsJon/status/1383796696652472320

garrettod

And got to bring their families, fly first class, get booked into a 5 star hotel, get very generous floats, and will get to make unvouched expense claims, when they return?

Then...

How many of them didn't go, but got promised an extra jolly next year, to make up for it 🙄😔

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117674717#Comment_117674717

I can think of somewhere they can get 600k quite easily...

thebronze14

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117674717#Comment_117674717

Unbelievable! Who is this Williams chap anyway? Head of content or what?

Elmo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117674974#Comment_117674974

Head of News and Currrent Affairs. (In effect he's Deputy Director General, currently looking most likely to takeover from Dee in 2 years time)

He defended the long TV news holidays after Christmas, basically last year the went mid-july this year they added a week to christmas and ended up on holidays starting this week.

He need to explain how it is that RTÉ goes on holiday every summer for at least a month and sometimes a month and a half. He seems to think if we pay the TV licence that some how RTÉ would start making more content when the reality is RTÉ have taken a month in August since 2000 and prior to that it used to be 3 months.

ShamNNspace

They do love those harry Potter films over in montrose, nice and long... kills three hours for them of a Saturday evening

Potential-Monke

With the news being put on while eating dinner, I sometimes can't avoid it, but they're really grinding my gears with the Olympics. The studio goes to someone, who is over in Tokyo for a report. That person gives an overview, and then someone else who is also over there gives the actual report, and back to the first lad again, who goes onto another story which then cuts to another journalist to give the details. Seems like this middle man is a complete waste of money having them over there for what they can basically do in the studio....

ShamNNspace

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117688803#Comment_117688803

Said it before its a cod having Cahill, Hurley and all the crew over there confined to a complex, sure they'd be better off following the Olympics from a studio stream back here for all the insight they provide... I remember Cahill had to be informed about the unfolding Johnson affair at the soeul Olympics in 88 live on air on the PK show at the time by Pat himself, some use having that lad out there with all the expense that entailed

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117674725#Comment_117674725

Did you not have enough real issues to complain about without making up fairy stories?

touts

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117688573#Comment_117688573

Then they will show them again for seven or eight afternoons over Christmas. I recall they used to have a rule that no film could be shown for two years after it was last shown. Now it seems to be two months.