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Absolute drivel paid for by your TV Licence

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  • 28-11-2017 7:25pm
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    Rologyro
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭


    There's been a lot of talk about RTE and the TV licence fee the last few days. Apparently we should pay a TV licence fee because RTE produce quality content in the national interest. Then today I come across an article courtesy of RTE.... I can't post a link because I'm new but just google "Digital Dad 12 Things Women Do That Men Dislike"

    Here are some of the gems in the article:

    The words make-up and chisel should never appear in the same sentence so ladies remember this when you are applying your new face.

    Whether it’s clothes strewn across the floor, coffee cups on the bathroom sink or wet towels on the now wet carpet, messy women you are the worst.

    You wouldn't get this on bbc.co.uk. Obviously if the genders were reversed I would say the same thing. My point is why are we paying for a service that produces such narrow minded content in the "national interest".


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    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Loadza threads

    SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW day


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    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,423 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Well, what do you expect from a broadcaster who produces maybe two decent music programmes Other Voices and that Pat Short one and one yearly music extravaganza from the Electric Picnic to cater for the young ones and middle agers like meself for the whole bloody year.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    the dark phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


    Never paid for it


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    Greybottle
    Registered Users Posts: 969 ✭✭✭Greybottle


    Lottie Ryan
    #howthe****didigetthisjob
    #ohyeah
    #mydadworkedforrte

    /Thread


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    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,880 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    the dark phantom wrote: »
    Never paid for it

    you will pay soon. like it or not.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    you will pay soon. like it or not.
    Indeed, Sweden is replacing the licence with a new tax.


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    ZeroThreat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭ZeroThreat


    biko wrote: »
    Indeed, Sweden is replacing the licence with a new tax.

    About time, to many spongers in this country. The anti-water brigade will finally have to stump up too. :pac:


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    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    ZeroThreat wrote: »
    About time, to many spongers in this country. The anti-water brigade will finally have to stump up too. :pac:

    Yeah, RTE


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    the dark phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    you will pay soon. like it or not.

    Whatever new plans come to fruition, they will still be done the Irish Way, So there will be a way somehow to avoid paying it.


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    jacob2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭jacob2


    more money for rte better progammes u wish all the channels i watch come from the uk who needs rte wen u have a satellite dish


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    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,880 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    the dark phantom wrote: »
    Whatever new plans come to fruition, they will still be done the Irish Way, So there will be a way somehow to avoid paying it.

    I sincerely would like to think so, but I fear it will be hard to avoid.
    This is different to water charges, RTE is not a necessity.


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    Oldtree
    Registered Users Posts: 8,104 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Can't see the need for Rte, using the guise if a national broadcaster dosn't cut it any more, other than as a newsroom!


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    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I mean the fact my TV licence pays for Fair ****ing City makes me sick to my stomach. Or that it paid for that ****ing **** Daniel O'Donnell to go prancing round B&B's for however long those series were over.


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    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    On this small, little island of ours we don't pass the threshold population making it feasible to produce an entire television service locally. Economies of Scale dictate that this will be much better provided for at an international level. What we would need from a local broadcaster would just be local i.e Irish news, current affairs and sport. A small cheap provision of the likes of Primetime, League of Ireland and the Rose of Tralee. In terms of mainstream television package then let consumers here pay for sky, netflix etc.


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    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,149 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    I mean the fact my TV licence pays for Fair ****ing City makes me sick to my stomach. Or that it paid for that ****ing **** Daniel O'Donnell to go prancing round B&B's for however long those series were over.

    Unfortunately they can't make programmes just for you.

    There's other people in the country too.


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    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Unfortunately they can't make programmes just for you.

    There's other people in the country too.

    Those programmes aren't made for anyone. They're nonsense made to keep those people from the dole queue, or from them being in jobs where they could do some damage.


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    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    RTE should be prohibited from showing British TV that is broadcast free from the Astra satellites.


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    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,149 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    RTE should be prohibited from showing British TV that is broadcast free from the Astra satellites.

    The stupid thing is, they pay for these programmes when there is no need, since Irish residents can usually pick them up from Freesat channels.


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    Help!!!!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    Rologyro wrote: »
    There's been a lot of talk about RTE and the TV licence fee the last few days. Apparently we should pay a TV licence fee because RTE produce quality content in the national interest. Then today I come across an article courtesy of RTE.... I can't post a link because I'm new but just google "Digital Dad 12 Things Women Do That Men Dislike"

    Here are some of the gems in the article:

    The words make-up and chisel should never appear in the same sentence so ladies remember this when you are applying your new face.

    Whether it’s clothes strewn across the floor, coffee cups on the bathroom sink or wet towels on the now wet carpet, messy women you are the worst.

    You wouldn't get this on bbc.co.uk. Obviously if the genders were reversed I would say the same thing. My point is why are we paying for a service that produces such narrow minded content in the "national interest".

    The tv licence would be worth it if
    No one @rte was paid more than €100,000 ( & you would really have to be worth it)
    Programs were made in Ireland rather than buying off the UK. We have the talent here to do more series like Love/Hate why not invest money into the industry to employ more people?


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    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,997 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    The tv licence would be worth it if
    No one @rte was paid more than €100,000 ( & you would really have to be worth it)

    the market seems to dictate that some should earn more it seems. who would have thought newstalk would pay pat kenny as much as he gets? i certainly didn't.
    Help!!!! wrote: »
    Programs were made in Ireland rather than buying off the UK. We have the talent here to do more series like Love/Hate why not invest money into the industry to employ more people?

    i would 100% agree with this. home grown programing and investing in talent is absolutely the way for RTE to go. i can understand the logic of buying in programing but it's not really necessary or viable anymore.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    batistuta9
    Registered Users Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    NIMAN wrote: »
    The stupid thing is, they pay for these programmes when there is no need, since Irish residents can usually pick them up from Freesat channels.

    Irish people watch Irish TV, that's why they get them. Money on ads.


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    jacob2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭jacob2


    years ago it was only rte now stick up a dish freesat receiver and have over 100+ channels plus more added to all the time


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    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    On this small, little island of ours we don't pass the threshold population making it feasible to produce an entire television service locally. Economies of Scale dictate that this will be much better provided for at an international level. What we would need from a local broadcaster would just be local i.e Irish news, current affairs and sport. A small cheap provision of the likes of Primetime, League of Ireland and the Rose of Tralee. In terms of mainstream television package then let consumers here pay for sky, netflix etc.

    That's not true at all. You don't need a huge country to create a TV show. This "country isn't big enough" is just a defeatist excuse to take the lazy way out with so many things.

    The difference between Ireland and any other random country with less than a few million people is that as soon as you try to get anything done here a bunch of well-pampered D4 lads on several 100k a year show up first impeding your progress until you give them a massive wad of cash.

    It's just impossible to get anything done here without paying huge money to "the system" for very little in return


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    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Don't forget the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017 is on RTE tonight at prime time viewing! Ratings will through the roof for this one.


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    #26
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    TV license charge increases are not about improving the quality of programs, or providing a better broadcasting service for the country.. the increase in charges could be more to do with the spiraling cost of property in Dublin, and the RTE exec's children being able to afford to buy there.


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    Hercule Poirot
    Registered Users Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    If RTE think their service is such good quality then they should make it a subscription only service; it will never happen of course but it would show them exactly what the public think of the derivative ****e they keep trying to charge us for


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    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    ...

    a bunch of well-pampered D4 lads on several 100k a year show up first impeding your progress until you give them a massive wad of cash.

    ...

    Are these the heavies from Irishtown you are on about, the ones you see hanging outside the chipper?


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    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Ray Darcy on 10 grand a week.

    Theres 3125 licence fees per year saved by sacking him


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    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


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    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    Ray Darcy on 10 grand a week.

    Theres 3125 licence fees per year saved by sacking him

    And he lives on porridge,the poor fella needs a pay rise.


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