Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee poll not working - pl ignore

tylercheribini · 01-10-2019 05:57PM

Haha Six One news just finished with a classic shot, six crew to video a news report on a street.

Ten Pin · 01-10-2019 09:14PM

Behind a paywall but the gist is clear...
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/martin-promises-household-media-charge-boost-rte-453517
FF in fear of not getting their usual soft interviews on Prime Time.

tylercheribini · 01-10-2019 10:21PM

tylercheribini wrote: »

Haha Six One news just finished with a classic shot, six crew to video a news report on a street.

Scratch that, actually seven, one to video the six crew videoing the interview.

ButtersSuki · 02-10-2019 07:32AM

FFS.

I was driving in this morning and I was flicking through the stations and came to RTE GOLD on DAB. Rick O'Shea was saying he had to stay in a hotel last night as the weather was too bad to drive home, and that "half of RTE Radio stayed in the Stillorgan Park Hotel or whatever it's called now last night". I assume we paid for this of course. THE STORM HASN'T HIT YET!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S ABSOLUTELY FINE IN DUBLIN AT THE MOMENT!!!!!

I'm sitting in my office in the city centre and there's young lads walking past in shorts.

Boggles · 02-10-2019 07:55AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Rick O'Shea was saying he had to stay in a hotel last night as the weather was too bad to drive home

He has severe epilepsy, he can't drive.

ButtersSuki · 02-10-2019 08:15AM

Boggles wrote: »

He has severe epilepsy, he can't drive.

I'm just repeating what was said on the show..........it may not have been Rick himself (I'm not a regular listener) and as I said I was flicking through the stations, but it was his name on the digital display on the DAB and there was only one person talking at the time, it wasn'ty a sonversation between two (or more) people.

But let's focus on that and not half of RTE staying in a hotel at I assume taxpayers expense because it was a little windy out.

ButtersSuki · 02-10-2019 08:16AM

Boggles wrote: »

He has severe epilepsy, he can't drive.

Also, if you want to be pedantic, I didn't actually say he was the driver, nor did I say he said he was the driver - please read what I said.

Boggles · 02-10-2019 08:31AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

But let's focus on that and not half of RTE staying in a hotel at I assume taxpayers expense because it was a little windy out.

But sure it wasn't windy out yesterday, was it?

Good bit of rain Monday though.

Maybe you picked him wrong.

Anyway I very much doubt half of RTE stayed in a hotel because of a storm that hasn't happened yet.

NIMAN · 02-10-2019 08:34AM

tylercheribini wrote: »

Scratch that, actually seven, one to video the six crew videoing the interview.

And best of all, it was one of their new Brexit specials they will be doing all month.

It's not like they haven't talked about BREXIT for 3 solid years.

Now they will be roaming around the country for a month, complete with overnight hotel stays for a gang of Rte employees no doubt.

ButtersSuki · 02-10-2019 08:40AM

Boggles wrote: »

But sure it wasn't windy out yesterday, was it?

Good bit of rain Monday though.

Maybe you picked him wrong.

Anyway I very much doubt half of RTE stayed in a hotel because of a storm that hasn't happened yet.

It was wet adn windy in Dublin yesterday.

I'm only relaying what was said, but hey, shoot the messenger.

This is the organisation that has previosuly accomdated Mr. Joseph Duffy going to Cork on a Tuesday for a Funny Friday (BTW, he didn't broadcast on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of that week - just the Funny Friday), and had the whole Production Crew and Funny Friday Crew go to Arklow and overnight on a Thursday for another Funny Friday. Funny Friday is a 75minute show broadcast from 1:45 - 3:00pm and Arklow is 45mins away from the Southside of Dublin, but they had to go down the night before. :rolleyes:

Boggles · 02-10-2019 08:48AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I'm only relaying what was said, but hey, shoot the messenger.

I'm not, but also I'm not going to get a rage horn over something I don't think happened.

ButtersSuki · 02-10-2019 12:23PM

Boggles wrote: »

I'm not, but also I'm not going to get a rage horn over something I don't think happened.

Ok, I just made it up. :rolleyes:

Boggles · 02-10-2019 12:57PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Ok, I just made it up. :rolleyes:

Fair enough.

ButtersSuki · 02-10-2019 01:23PM

Boggles wrote: »

Fair enough.

The roll eyes was supposed to indicate sarcasm but I’m guessing you missed that?

ToBeFrank123 · 02-10-2019 03:28PM

NIMAN wrote: »

And best of all, it was one of their new Brexit specials they will be doing all month.

It's not like they haven't talked about BREXIT for 3 solid years.

Now they will be roaming around the country for a month, complete with overnight hotel stays for a gang of Rte employees no doubt.

And quite possibly some rehired former RTE employees as contractors, because they didn't forsee Brexit. To add to all the other events they didn't foresee like World Cups, Olympics, VIP visits.

They've been paying off employees to leave for years now and they still seem to have as many staff as ever.

ToBeFrank123 · 02-10-2019 03:34PM

The Outside Broadcasts are expensive and add little value.

When reporting on politics, they have a full OB team outside the Dail or government buildings, reporting back to a studio less than 2 miles away. With duplication of producers and sound editors.

tylercheribini · 02-10-2019 05:49PM

Funny the Northern Correspondant Tommy Gorman had a mic holder for his audio this evening, the boom operator must have been pre- engaged elsewhere.

Idbatterim · 02-10-2019 06:12PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

FFS.

I was driving in this morning and I was flicking through the stations and came to RTE GOLD on DAB. Rick O'Shea was saying he had to stay in a hotel last night as the weather was too bad to drive home, and that "half of RTE Radio stayed in the Stillorgan Park Hotel or whatever it's called now last night". I assume we paid for this of course. THE STORM HASN'T HIT YET!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S ABSOLUTELY FINE IN DUBLIN AT THE MOMENT!!!!!

I'm sitting in my office in the city centre and there's young lads walking past in shorts.

sorry! we are talking about the heavy rain?! that this rock is used too! This has to be a pisstake?! FCUK right right RTE!

Your always cribbing on about the homeless and vulnerable, maybe its time to stop your outrageous excesses and start laving this cash you treat as confetti, to those you cry your crocodile tears for!

end of the road · 02-10-2019 07:40PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I'm just repeating what was said on the show..........it may not have been Rick himself (I'm not a regular listener) and as I said I was flicking through the stations, but it was his name on the digital display on the DAB and there was only one person talking at the time, it wasn'ty a sonversation between two (or more) people.

But let's focus on that and not half of RTE staying in a hotel at I assume taxpayers expense because it was a little windy out.

it most likely was an old show. probably from the day of storm athelia.

ButtersSuki wrote: »

It was wet adn windy in Dublin yesterday.

I'm only relaying what was said, but hey, shoot the messenger.

This is the organisation that has previosuly accomdated Mr. Joseph Duffy going to Cork on a Tuesday for a Funny Friday (BTW, he didn't broadcast on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of that week - just the Funny Friday), and had the whole Production Crew and Funny Friday Crew go to Arklow and overnight on a Thursday for another Funny Friday. Funny Friday is a 75minute show broadcast from 1:45 - 3:00pm and Arklow is 45mins away from the Southside of Dublin, but they had to go down the night before.

they would have went down to get any equipment ready and test it. better to go down the night before and do that and iron out any issues, rather then doing it on the day and something happening.

fritzelly · 02-10-2019 08:15PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

FFS.
I was driving in this morning and I was flicking through the stations and came to RTE GOLD on DAB. Rick O'Shea was saying he had to stay in a hotel last night as the weather was too bad to drive home, and that "half of RTE Radio stayed in the Stillorgan Park Hotel

What time was that?

ButtersSuki · 03-10-2019 05:57AM

fritzelly wrote: »

What time was that?

Between 7:30-7:40sm (ish) yesterday morning

ButtersSuki · 03-10-2019 07:12AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

FFS.

I was driving in this morning and I was flicking through the stations and came to RTE GOLD on DAB. Rick O'Shea was saying he had to stay in a hotel last night as the weather was too bad to drive home, and that "half of RTE Radio stayed in the Stillorgan Park Hotel or whatever it's called now last night". I assume we paid for this of course. THE STORM HASN'T HIT YET!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S ABSOLUTELY FINE IN DUBLIN AT THE MOMENT!!!!!

I'm sitting in my office in the city centre and there's young lads walking past in shorts.

Just on the above - it was actually Will Leahy on the show yesterday and not Rick O'Shea. I've changed car in the last few weeks and just getting used to the display(s). On the main console it says who's "on air now", beside the speel dial it says who's "playing next" - I was looking at the speed dial area yesterday morning.

sligojoek · 03-10-2019 07:33AM

You asked for it.

What colour is the new car?

ButtersSuki · 03-10-2019 08:02AM

sligojoek wrote: »

You asked for it.

What colour is the new car?

Silver caller. And thanks for your service.

03-10-2019 08:07AM

ToBeFrank123 wrote: »

The point of a public service remit is to provide services and content that no other commercial station would provide.

In pre internet days when FM radio was the only show in town, Lyric met this requirement.

But nowadays, it cannot be argued that classical music is not easily accessible. There are at least 10 other classical radio stations available at the touch of a button and thousands of hours on places like YouTube, all for free.

So yes Lyric are duplicating all that, at a cost of 6 million a year.

Try that in the car, without resorting to a pass through phone connection (and relying on reception)
I actually like Lyric and I never thought that I would ever see myself say that.

ToBeFrank123 · 03-10-2019 10:00AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Try that in the car, without resorting to a pass through phone connection (and relying on reception)
I actually like Lyric and I never thought that I would ever see myself say that.

I've read letters to newspapers from people who say they like listening to Lyric or they like to fall asleep to it.

FFS, you can do this with thousands of classical songs on Youtube.

I get the feeling many Lyric listeners don't move with the times, and the internet is a foreign concept.

I don't think Lyric does anything different to several other stations online. If it was closed, most listeners would find alternatives easily enough. if they tried.

facehugger99 · 03-10-2019 10:29AM

How in God's name has someone not lost their job over the absolute scandal that is the RTE Player?

I don't think I've ever encountered a piece of technology more frustrating to use.

Multiple crashes, with each one forcing you to sit through 2 minutes of ads (which never crash).

It's entirely unusable.

it's an absolute outrage that in 2019, the national broadcaster considers this application fit for public consumption.

If this was the UK, we'd have had a raft of resignations over this scandal.

end of the road · 03-10-2019 11:15AM

ToBeFrank123 wrote: »

I've read letters to newspapers from people who say they like listening to Lyric or they like to fall asleep to it.

FFS, you can do this with thousands of classical songs on Youtube.

I get the feeling many Lyric listeners don't move with the times, and the internet is a foreign concept.

I don't think Lyric does anything different to several other stations online. If it was closed, most listeners would find alternatives easily enough. if they tried.

as has already been explained, youtube and online stations are not viable and reliable for many due to the fact that internet to a sufficient standard is not available across the whole country.
as rte is a public service broadcaster, the majority are still listening to fm radio, and lyric meets the public service requirement, if it was to close then those listeners would be without a service, until such time as we have full scale coverage of absolutely reliable internet across the country.

facehugger99 wrote: »

How in God's name has someone not lost their job over the absolute scandal that is the RTE Player?

I don't think I've ever encountered a piece of technology more frustrating to use.

Multiple crashes, with each one forcing you to sit through 2 minutes of ads (which never crash).

It's entirely unusable.

it's an absolute outrage that in 2019, the national broadcaster considers this application fit for public consumption.

If this was the UK, we'd have had a raft of resignations over this scandal.

it's unlikely we would.
the person who signed off on it might be fired or simply moved to a new department, but a raft of resignations would be unlikely.

ToBeFrank123 · 03-10-2019 11:18AM

facehugger99 wrote: »

How in God's name has someone not lost their job over the absolute scandal that is the RTE Player?

I don't think I've ever encountered a piece of technology more frustrating to use.

Multiple crashes, with each one forcing you to sit through 2 minutes of ads (which never crash).

It's entirely unusable.

it's an absolute outrage that in 2019, the national broadcaster considers this application fit for public consumption.

If this was the UK, we'd have had a raft of resignations over this scandal.

But at least they covered the ploughing facehugger!

ToBeFrank123 · 03-10-2019 11:20AM

end of the road wrote: »

as has already been explained, youtube and online stations are not viable and reliable for many due to the fact that internet to a sufficient standard is not available across the whole country.
as rte is a public service broadcaster, the majority are still listening to fm radio, and lyric meets the public service requirement, if it was to close then those listeners would be without a service, until such time as we have full scale coverage of absolutely reliable internet across the country.

1.9% of listeners who listen to Lyric.

Let's say 25% of those have poor access to the internet. That's a whopping 0.5% of total listeners in this country who aren't being catered to.

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Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee poll not working - pl ignore