Walter2016 wrote: » And if such a cap was imposed, they'd leave, viewership would drop with resultant advertising revenue and that would continue to oblivion.
McGaggs wrote: » I hardly think people would abandon the late late if tubridy left. Most of those top presenters aren't needed to get the audience. It's Tue timeslot on the channel and the nature of the show that gets listeners/viewers for a lot of them.
Elmo wrote: » And this has largely been proven by Pat Kenny who has failed to help either NewsTalk or TV3 in any major way. In reality he had no viewers for either his UTV or TV3 shows.
icdg wrote: » They want to close it, but unfortunately someone decided in 2009 to put a clause in the Broadcasting Act which could be read as requiring RTE to operate a teletext service. It wasn't there in the previous Broadcasting Authority Acts of course which makes the fact that it was put in as late as 2009, when teletext was already a dying technology, really bizzare.
BuilderPlumber wrote: » RTE is all about overhyping these presenters they have and wasting large amounts of money paying them. Pat Kenny's post Late Late Show period has been less than impressive. First he gave us the brutal The Frontline on RTE and then he failed to take off on the other 2 stations. He is an overrated presenter and the shows he has been presenting have been in general very very poor. If RTE stopped paying these presenters excessive money for their easy jobs and if they concentrated on quality not quantity, things would be much better. There is an excessive amount of rubbish programmes that are individually cheap to make but collectively costing RTE a fortune. If you happen to like house/garden makeovers, chefs, poor modern so-called country music, talent contests and tame dramas, then 2016 RTE is the place for you. Otherwise, it is TV hell.
Old Bill wrote: » Is kenny's show on TV3 now over ?
MRnotlob606 wrote: » Operation Transformation and Ireland's fittest families should be scrapped.
colm_mcm wrote: » I'd say they pay their way in terms of advertising revenue/sponsorship and prob not being that expensive to make.
political analyst wrote: » News for the Deaf, as I've said in an OP in this forum, isn't efficient spending of licence-fee money. Everyone who watches RTÉ has access to subtitles. Therefore, News for the Deaf should be axed.
BuilderPlumber wrote: » Plus Dancing With The Stars, Stetsons and Stilettos, Room to Improve and whatever version of The Voice of Ireland/You're a Star that comes along next. All these things are cheap to make
iseegirls wrote: » I doubt Dancing With The Stars is cheap to make. The set is very impressive, and is not in the RTE Studios meaning they're renting the Ardmore Studios. Room To Improve gets really big ratings, and also repeats well. Unsure what you'd like it to replace it with that would get the same kind of ratings.
Elmo wrote: » RTE do need to stop repeating Room To Improve, new series are fine but repeats are not. RTE need to make more of a variety of programmes. E.g. Winning Streak is their only game show, that could be cut. Out of all the shows mentioned above.
political analyst wrote: » Perhaps RTÉ should drop League of Ireland (LoI) football coverage because it gets hardly any viewers. It should be left to the pay-TV operators, e.g. eir. Would RTÉ have been able to hold on to the rights to the Rugby World and Six Nations Cups if it had dropped LoI?
