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RTE, why would anyone pay for this?

  • 16-10-2016 09:12PM
    #1
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭


    So today as I've channel surfed from the couch they've been showing Only Fools and Horses, repeats of BBC nature documentaries, and now Father Ted, which seems to be on every night on repeats every night for the past 20 years.
    Why does anyone bother paying TV licence given the crap they put on for us?
    Chat shows where RTE "stars" interview each other, or some GAA guy many of us never heard of. I really hope they go t*ts up with all the quality TV availability online now, and the jobs for the boys/girls club is gone forever.


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  • #2
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Your thread should be called Why is anyone MADE to pay for this?


  • #3
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Fleawuss wrote: »
    Your thread should be called Why is anyone MADE to pay for this?

    SWIM has never paid it in his life


  • #4
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Yeah rte is really in the shìt.

    The schedule is shocking. Their chat shows are car crash viewing with talentless and bland Z listers interviewing eachother. Endemic inbreeding. Reruns of syndicated shows. They're selling off parts of Montrose to stay afloat.

    Only saving grace is the likes of Prime Time and a good chunk of their radio programming is good.


  • #5
    jimmy blevins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭jimmy blevins


    RTE provides a decent service considering the licence paying population, the only problem I have with them is the ridiculous pay some of the "stars" get.


  • #6
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    jimmy blevins wrote: »
    RTE provides a decent service considering the licence paying population, the only problem I have with them is the ridiculous pay some of the "stars" get.
    They're not restricted to the licence fee. They have constant ads.


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  • #7
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    As for Fair City don't even go there.


  • #8
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Many of us have heard of the GAA player.


  • #9
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,519 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Those licence fee ads try to portray anyone who doesn't pay it as a lowlife criminal.Pathetic.


  • #10
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    TheRiverman wrote: »
    Those licence fee ads try to portray anyone who doesn't pay it as a lowlife criminal.Pathetic.
    It sets the tone for rte's relationship with the public.


  • #11
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,953 ✭✭✭satguy


    It's just a place where a very small few, have guaranteed jobs for their sons and daughters..
    Kind of a D4 social club, where the drinks are free,, But we pay in €4 every week to keep the bar open...


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  • #12
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    I quite like RTE's content tbh but their website is a bloody joke.

    Anytime I have tried to watch Live it's been a disaster.


  • #13
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The Montrose holiday camp should be sold off completely and all the inmates moved to an industrial estate somewhere off the M50


  • #14
    Hans Bricks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    Just wait until the legal eagles and insufferable Ned Flanders who view license evaders as 'tax dodgers' to come along. Such creatures to behold really.


  • #15
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    jimmy blevins wrote: »
    RTE provides a decent service considering the licence paying population, the only problem I have with them is the ridiculous pay some of the "stars" get.

    And wasting airtime and money buying (I presume they pay) Eastenders and other shite people can get for free from satellite. That needs to stop.


  • #16
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Reeling in the years anyone? Only the angelus has been repeated more times

    http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/only-angelus-been-repeated-rte-9056498


  • #17
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Privatise RTE and that will fix it horrid quick.


  • #18
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Reeling in the years anyone? Only the angelus has been repeated more times

    http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/only-angelus-been-repeated-rte-9056498

    They commissioned one decent program and they are milking it for all its worth.


  • #19
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    RTE, the BCI and the government should be ashamed. RTE is a disaster regards it's budget, the BCI should be fairly dishing out this fee. Stations on FM devating from there licence conditions, total over regulation by the BCI who should have no place as to force content on stations. Whole sector needs a massive over haul from RTE, the licence, the BCI and COMREG. All dysfunctional.


  • #20
    eeguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭eeguy


    The only thing good about RTE is news and sport. Which is why Reeling in the Years, a compilation of news and sport is the best program they've done


  • #21
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I hope they never stop repeating Reeling in the Years. I love stumbling across it when there's nothing else on.


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  • #22
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    eeguy wrote: »
    The only thing good about RTE is news and sport. Which is why Reeling in the Years, a compilation of news and sport is the best program they've done

    But was Reeling in the years not a BBC rip off of sorts?


  • #23
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #24
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Scannal is a great show.


  • #25
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #26
    newacc2015
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭newacc2015


    The problem with RTE is that its a closed union. It uses the same people from private radio stations and the other crusties from the 1970s. I think they are afraid to put on someone who might challenge the status quo. RTE only wants a safe dry fart who they know wont say anything controversial. We have to be the funniest nation in Europe, yet there is no decent comedy on RTE. For fear of being biased, there cant be anything on RTE with the an opposing side.

    I lost whatever respect I had for RTE when they told Una Mullaly that she couldnt go on air to discuss an Irish LGBT history book without an opposing side. They hadnt even called the marriage ref and RTE was already self-censoring. What ****ing **** show is RTE that they cant even allow a history book to be discussed without an opposing side? You wouldnt hear any other country where a TV station was bringing in another person for balance to oppose a factual book(well maybe some nutjobs in a glorious place like North Carolina).


  • #27
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    They are an absolute disaster of a network. I'll give them one thing though: I got to see a few seasons of Sons Of Anarchy on RTE2 quite a while before it popped up anywhere else. That, and Nationwide has some decent segments every now and again.


  • #28
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    The late late show is an absolute farce.tubridy and 99% of the guests are cringe worthy


  • #29
    Holograph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭Holograph


    While Reeling In The Years is beautifully put together, the format is that of a BBC series called The Rock n Roll Years. It was aired in the 90s and I think before then too.


  • #30
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    The Montrose holiday camp should be sold off completely and all the inmates moved to an industrial estate somewhere off the M50

    Oh speed the day, I'd pay the bloody license to see that happen


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  • #31
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    How could I forget. I saw an ad the other day for that sanctimonious prick Gay Byrne who we all thought retired years ago, in a show where he talks about God (only in Ireland) with famous people. Would he ever f*ck off? He's probably on an obscene pension from RTE as is without picking up this easy earner.


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