Backlash for RTE for Gilligan invite.

RTE needs to be radically overhauled...

We do need to retain a public broadcaster, but we don't need it to have two TV channels and a eight radio stations or whatever the current count is. There is endless competition available for both radio and tv, both free and subscription services.

We currently pay a licence fee to subsidise channels that don't benefit us - particularly when you look at the percentage of TV content that is available elsewhere (Eastenders, several TV shows etc.). I'm more than happy to pay for a TV licence that supports broadcasts that benefit the nation, I'm good with subsidising TG4 because of the Irish langauge content for example and also want a certain amount of local news and current affairs covered, but nothing more and certainly not to watch more bought in material that can easily be viewed on BBC etc.

Just look at the price raised when UTV sold out it's NI regional broadcasting licence. Likewise, look at the prices raised in the past when various radio stations have been sold - RTE could sell off some of it's stations to raise much needed funds. Sell off one of the two tv stations and a few of the radio stations and you suddenly have €200m - €250m. I can certianly think of a lot of other things the nation would benefit from if those funds were released - be it public housing, improvements to the hospitals etc. etc.

Rather than pay between €250k-€450k per year to the likes of Ryan Tubridy, Mirriam O'Callaghan, why not start spending our money more wisely or better yet, cut out the Friday night / Saturday night / Sunday night regurgitated talk show crap - we don't need to have three nights with the same crap and the same group of RTE cronies on time and time again, then to finally think we've escaped from them only to find that more of our licence fees are being squandered paying them to pretend to be great dancers on a poor rip off of Dancing with the Stars !

RTE currently have financial problems (again !) and while it's correct to look at selling part of the property at Donnybrook (they should actually sell it all and relocate to a cheaper property in a less central Dublin location), but rather than cut unnecessary expenditure and sell off non-core stations, the solution is to sell some of it's property so it can keep paying high salaries to their mates. Completely unsatisfactory and long past time it was put a stop to !

Hopefully people will start emailing Denis Naughton (minister.naughten@dccae.gov.ie) and tell him we want change, we want better value for our licence fee and we want RTE to be overhauled, to bring an end to the bad value it's providing. I've already contacted him but suspect he's not hearing from enough people to really give a sh1t.

thecretinhop wrote: »

I mean pure lazy badly researched easy options joke shop joe the socialist on 600k farcy oops wrong button. Most of rte if not all of it takes easy option operation t dancing with rednecks etc. As i said the rte are just lazy in fact this guest is the easy gutter option to get high ratings.

Don't forget that RTE hate working class people despite most people in the country being of that class.