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Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*
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So I have no issue with RTÉ making TV or Radio. I think that is where they should invest their money. Afterall its in their name. And obviously I mean online content as well, though I think they should be platform neutral.
Why a former winner of You're A Star wants to defend RTÉ is strange
https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/mickey-joe-harte-defends-rte-34415113
Mickey said Dancing With The Stars deserves a place on the TV schedule every year as the show gives employment to so many people.
I do think it is, and by all accounts, I think it's something that they recoup (the money) through sponsorship and advertising so I think it's something that probably evens itself out.
If so RTÉ should show it breakeven, I imagine it may well do, but like Fair City if its breaking even why not have a similar series on each week of the year not just for 10 or so weeks? And perhaps a second soap, after all your argument set out below is well made, but RTÉ don't make any more than one of these types of shows each year and you end up sounding like Dee Forbes defending Toy Show the Musical.
We need these kinds of shows. I know there's not that many of these shows. Actually, there's probably only one show. There's probably only maybe one company, or, you know, a few companies in this country that could do that, and they bring in expertise, and it creates a huge amount… there's 150 people employed on this show.
That filters down into, you know, I know what it is like as a musician with gigs and stuff.
“These things are important to keep going in between the big films and all the things that happen in Ireland, you know, if you don't have companies like, you know, RTE and so forth, you know, to nurture that thing.
“And if you don’t do a show like this how do you get Irish people the experience, you know, besides them having to leave the country. So I'm very positive about it.
“When you see it in action, and when you see the amount of employment that it creates and the amount of skills that it gives to people coming up.
“I work with some of the people in euros, and now they were maybe production runners, 21 years ago, and now they are executive producers.
“So that process of people coming through would not have happened if it was not for the funding of RTE and those programs and all these things so on the TV license and all that.
“So it is hugely important to give people experience, besides that, if we keep chipping away at the industry and sort of just do stuff that we think is cooler and not funding it properly, or giving these big productions where you learn, these guys learn very high tech, very high skilled things on the show that they wouldn't learn on other shows.
“And it's as simple as that. They can bring that anywhere in the world. And it also attracts people in. Film people who come out here and make films, or whatever it is, they ‘We've got a good industry. There's a great source, there's a great ball pool of expertise there in Ireland.”
What the former You're A Star winner seems to forget is that RTÉ waste money and their is the issue of nepotism which has even taken over in the Irish TV and Film Independent sector (Just read the end credits to DWTS, the name Bass appears a number of times).
Or look at the RTÉ annual report,
Just imagine the great man o' change spend 34k on cars and expenses, that's a wage that's €5.6k per month.
But I suppose each year RTÉ make one TV show that employees a few people in the same company for the last 20 years.
As they say Sin a Bhfuil.
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Just one more thing .... when did they return that car
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All of the executive board were on similar pay packets. 2023 AR was the first time to report on the "Leaderships" teams payments.
You will not that Mr Jim Jennings who only left on the 31st of August 2024 is not included in this list.
They agreed to a 10% pay cut in their "Strategy 2024" which they subsequently reversed the following year.
Adrian Lynch got a promotion and RTÉ were categorical in saying that he did not get a pay increase and that the role had expanded, what they failed to mention is that Mr. Lynch is over paid in anycase.
While in his previous Job in OfCom Kevin Beforbes stated he'd taken a pay cut to return to RTÉ
Total of £303,272 (€365,270.08 as of 04.01.24), €20k drop, made up by expenses. If the euro to pound reverses in price, he might be on more.
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Just one more thing .... when did they return that car
Yesterday
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