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The beginning of the end ofTelevision license

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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I wouldn't hold my breath waiting on that.


  • #3
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I wonder when they came up with the tv licence did they envisage that the fee would be used to make tv shows about old biddies dancing

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #4
    Permabear
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  • #5
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,787 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    The Swiss (men) voted only a few years ago to let the Swiss women have the vote. They are a funny lot.


  • #6
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Without a license fee we end up TV3. Not saying RTE is great,but it's considerably better than its Irish rivals,though I never watch any of them.

    There's also a proven theory that having a national broadcaster raises the level of national debate.


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  • #7
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    It should absolutely be abolished. Sink or swim. Rte knows that hand that feeds them. Appalling at holding our failed local and national government to account. Let them live on advertising and sponsorship or creating good programming! Outrageous pay, pensions etc.


  • #8
    the dark phantom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭the dark phantom


    I dont know what a tracker mortgage tv license is.


  • #9
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,787 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    the dark phantom wrote: »
    I dont know what a tracker mortgage tv license is.

    This will enlighten you.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055794011


  • #10
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭satguy


    RTE should just be, one 24 hour News Channel. Like BBC News 24.
    Plus One Radio Station.

    Licence Fee = €3 per month if working, Option for stopped with tax from weekly wage, or pay at PO
    And .. €2 per month if on SW (not DIS or OAP) .. and stopped at 50c per week from SW payments.

    Even if no TV is present.

    All jobs in RTE must advertised in news papers and on TV after the main evening news, and not just given to sons and daughters of RTE employees.


  • #11
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    I know a man in the Gaeltacht who wrote to RTE complaining that their program schedule is almost entirely in English, and as an Irish speaker, he felt that this was not satisfactory and that he shouldn't have to pay for a licence. He got a letter back from RTE to say that he was exempt.


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  • #12
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    kneemos wrote: »
    Without a license fee we end up TV3. Not saying RTE is great,but it's considerably better than its Irish rivals,though I never watch any of them.

    There's also a proven theory that having a national broadcaster raises the level of national debate.

    You should really get a skybox. Or something a least capable of picking up the British channels.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #13
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,608 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    satguy wrote: »
    RTE should just be, one 24 hour News Channel. Like BBC News 24.
    Plus One Radio Station.

    Licence Fee = €3 per month if working, Option for stopped with tax from weekly wage, or pay at PO
    And .. €2 per month if on SW (not DIS or OAP) .. and stopped at 50c per week from SW payments.

    Even if no TV is present.

    All jobs in RTE must advertised in news papers and on TV after the main evening news, and not just given to sons and daughters of RTE employees.


    The nepotism should have been the subject of a public inquiry years ago.
    I guess any given Government wants to keep them sweet.
    o.


  • #14
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,787 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    kneemos wrote: »
    The nepotism should have been the subject of a public inquiry years ago.
    I guess any given Government wants to keep them sweet.
    o.

    If they wanted to keep them sweet they would have given them an increase in the licence fee long ago. It has remained the same price for ten years now.


  • #15
    darlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭darlett


    kneemos wrote: »
    The nepotism should have been the subject of a public inquiry years ago.
    I guess any given Government wants to keep them sweet.
    o.
    It's rare that Government (and politicians in general) have any moral authority with regards to ye old nepotism.


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    Permabear
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  • #17
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    I know a man in the Gaeltacht who wrote to RTE complaining that their program schedule is almost entirely in English, and as an Irish speaker, he felt that this was not satisfactory and that he shouldn't have to pay for a licence. He got a letter back from RTE to say that he was exempt.

    That story doesn't hold water at all. Was he entitled to a free licence by age? The licence applies regardless of what channels you watch and funds TG4 as well.


  • #18
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #19
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvF4Oqxp9OM


  • #20
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    How am I going to watch Fair City if you bastards dont pay the licence fee?

    You better pay fcukers!


  • #21
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,905 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    I know a man in the Gaeltacht who wrote to RTE complaining that their program schedule is almost entirely in English, and as an Irish speaker, he felt that this was not satisfactory and that he shouldn't have to pay for a licence. He got a letter back from RTE to say that he was exempt.

    TG4 is RTE more or less and paid for by our tv licence.


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  • #22
    Varik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,549 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Mr.S wrote: »
    If we get away with the TV License fee, would the public not just pay via general taxation anyway?

    Or just not pay any public monies at all and let them sink or swim.


  • #23
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,119 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Marian Finucane and Joe Duffy might have to work something approaching a 35 hour week, for a salary higher than the Taoiseach, or most likely they will enjoy a long overdue retirement.


  • #24
    Fanny Wank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭Fanny Wank


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    I know a man in the Gaeltacht who wrote to RTE complaining that their program schedule is almost entirely in English, and as an Irish speaker, he felt that this was not satisfactory and that he shouldn't have to pay for a licence. He got a letter back from RTE to say that he was exempt.

    Filed away under "things that never happened"


  • #25
    Baron Kurtz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    kneemos wrote: »
    Without a license fee we end up TV3. Not saying RTE is great,but it's considerably better than its Irish rivals,though I never watch any of them.

    There's also a proven theory that having a national broadcaster raises the level of national debate.

    We don't. There's IPTV. With a reliable BB connection over 5mb you can watch what you want. The outlay will be a tenner a month to refine exactly what you want depending on provider.


  • #26
    Riva10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭Riva10


    silverharp wrote: »
    I wonder when they came up with the tv licence did they envisage that the fee would be used to make tv shows about old biddies dancing
    Or a fat pension for Uncle Gaybo and his Moth. :pac:


  • #27
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,539 ✭✭✭jca


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    That was quick.


  • #28
    TheQuietFella
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Without a license fee we end up TV3. Not saying RTE is great,but it's considerably better than its Irish rivals,though I never watch any of them.

    There's also a proven theory that having a national broadcaster raises the level of national debate.

    TV3 is an extension of English TV channels! It's as bad as any of them!

    TV broadcasters are just another device to dumb down an entire generation of

    people and to fill them with party propaganda, the correct way to think or vote!


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    TV licence fee should be abolished, it's an outdated method of fund-raising in the modern world where entertainment media can be obtained from many sources from around the globe.
    It should just be an element of general taxation, as such it would be far more efficient in its collection as the current system is expensive to manage and has a high rate of evasion that is very expensive to police.


  • #30
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,135 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    If RTE is as good as people say it is then make it a subscription service. Pay for what you watch not for what you don't.


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  • #31
    Varik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,549 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    Deleted User wrote: »
    TV licence fee should be abolished, it's an outdated method of fund-raising in the modern world where entertainment media can be obtained from many sources from around the globe.
    It should just be an element of general taxation, as such it would be far more efficient in its collection as the current system is expensive to manage and has a high rate of evasion that is very expensive to police.

    Just like RTE in general then.

    Why should any public money be used to prop them up.
    Discodog wrote: »
    If RTE is as good as people say it is then make it a subscription service. Pay for what you watch not for what you don't.

    It'd be costly in implement that, you'd need compatible set top boxes for over the air or people would need decent internet. Would also be rather sad for RTE when they realised people aren't even bothered to pirate their stuff.

    Fully ad funded is far better.


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