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

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  • #4982
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    So RTE shared the footage on their social media outlets, but Joe wouldn’t post that guy robbing a cat-a-licked-it converter off a car in the hospital staff car park?


  • #4983
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,118 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So RTE shared the footage on their social media outlets, but Joe wouldn’t post that guy robbing a cat-a-licked-it converter off a car in the hospital staff car park?

    Are you talking about the Young Offenders PR stunt ;)


  • #4984
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,979 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Twilight zone stuff.

    It's all Joe Duffy's fault, or Ryan Tubridy's, or Ray D'Arcys.


  • #4985
    Caspian Petite Corner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭ Caspian Petite Corner


    https://www.thejournal.ie/larry-bass-shinawil-dancing-with-the-stars-5159769-Jul2020/


    Another example of someone out of touch with reality ....


  • #4986
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    Wesley Teeny Oasis wrote: »
    https://www.thejournal.ie/larry-bass-shinawil-dancing-with-the-stars-5159769-Jul2020/


    Another example of someone out of touch with reality ....

    In fairness, he's from the production company. He's not an RTE staffer.


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  • #4987
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,629 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Brock Turnpike wrote: »
    In fairness, he's from the production company. He's not an RTE staffer.

    To me, Save the Arts is stuff that challenges you mentally, spiritually, or makes you change your perspective on the world. Actors, writers, singers, artists... they're all stuck atm. I feel for them, because its not just the money they're missing out on, it's everything else. The social aspect, the buzz of the audience.

    They don't have government money to bail em out.

    DWTS is brain candy... it's just loaded with sugar, but doesn't satisfy. It's anything but art.


  • #4988
    Caspian Petite Corner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭ Caspian Petite Corner


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    To me, Save the Arts is stuff that challenges you mentally, spiritually, or makes you change your perspective on the world. Actors, writers, singers, artists... they're all stuck atm. I feel for them, because its not just the money they're missing out on, it's everything else. The social aspect, the buzz of the audience.

    They don't have government money to bail em out.

    DWTS is brain candy... it's just loaded with sugar, but doesn't satisfy. It's anything but art.

    they'll be in trouble if RTE scales back on shoving anything on its station like copying various bbc/american style shows - but that depends on RTE scaling back drastically...(il be shocked when it happens)


  • #4989
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Brock Turnpike wrote: »
    In fairness, he's from the production company. He's not an RTE staffer.

    He may as well be, he's become their entertainment producers of choice. He's pretty much lived on RTÉ's Sunday Night, save for The All Ireland Talent Show.

    You're A Star, The Voice and DWTS.


  • #4990
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,629 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Wesley Teeny Oasis wrote: »
    they'll be in trouble if RTE scales back on shoving anything on its station like copying various bbc/american style shows - but that depends on RTE scaling back drastically...(il be shocked when it happens)

    Sort of feels like Karma, tbh.

    RTE were using DWTS as this carrot on a fishing rod, dangling it in front of people and being like 'we need your money to pay for this... but it's not enough, so give us more money'...

    Now RTE doesn't even have that to try and use as bargaining chip.

    Sorta serves them right, too. They tried to push Lottie Ryan so hard on audiences, they killed the show.

    When it was doing well, it was getting massive viewership.But leave it to RTe to kill successful concept.


  • #4991
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,720 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Cancellations see RTE save €30m as state broadcaster calls for TV licence reform

    https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/cancellations-see-rte-save-30m-as-state-broadcaster-calls-for-tv-licence-reform/ar-BB17euIX?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds

    a million a month saved not filming fair city, 5 million saved not having dancing with the canteen.

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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  • #4992
    iseegirls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭iseegirls


    4 million for Eastenders?? I hope that's not right.


  • #4993
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    iseegirls wrote: »
    4 million for Eastenders?? I hope that's not right.

    Totally wrong, RTÉ most likely got other replacement programming from their BBC Worldwide deal which may only come to 6m-8m, they spend 25m on imports 2m is from Irish distributors the rest from Oz and the US.

    Your talking between 2m to 2.5m for the soaps EastEnders, Casualty, Neighbours, Doctors, home & away and Shortland street etc


  • #4994
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Would have been good if they had written "C0CK PlSS DUFFY" instead
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpgA3Mttx1M

    I see Alan has been pitching shows to RTÉ again :)


    THOMAS' TRIP RTE’s Kathryn Thomas teases new show featuring her and daughter Ellie travelling around Ireland


  • #4995
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    I see Alan has been pitching shows to RTÉ again :)


    THOMAS' TRIP RTE’s Kathryn Thomas teases new show featuring her and daughter Ellie travelling around Ireland

    Yep. See my thread on Television General. No takers yet

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058100507


  • #4996
    SPDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    ednwireland wrote: »
    https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/cancellations-see-rte-save-30m-as-state-broadcaster-calls-for-tv-licence-reform/ar-BB17euIX?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds

    a million a month saved not filming fair city, 5 million saved not having dancing with the canteen.

    postponement of major sporting events including Euro 2020 and the Olympics.

    That has to be the weirdest definition of saving that I have ever seen unless they are implying RTE won't cover them next year


  • #4997
    Pa ElGrande
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭Pa ElGrande


    RTÉ's finances 'not sustainable' and are 'undermining its capacity to stay relevant'


    It's August and we that article is an RTE pre-budget submission and the figure is €50 million.

    “What is clear, however, is that Covid-19 has provided further evidence of the need to reform the TV Licence system, a system that has for many years been consistently losing in excess of €50m per year through evasion and avoidance, and which no longer reflects how people consume public service content,” RTÉ added.


    How about people who no longer consume RTE broadcasts or streaming services? If you want to change for streaming services then make your online content subscription only and stop trying to rope in internet users who want nothing to do with you.

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



  • #4998
    da_miser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭da_miser


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    To me, Save the Arts is stuff that challenges you mentally, spiritually, or makes you change your perspective on the world. Actors, writers, singers, artists... they're all stuck atm. I feel for them, because its not just the money they're missing out on, it's everything else. The social aspect, the buzz of the audience.

    They don't have government money to bail em out.

    To hell with them, people dont want to go see what they have to offer.
    So us hard pressed tax payers are forking out top dollar for these unwanted , unwatched artists to enjoy the life that they wish to live.
    What about the rest of us to get up at crack of dawn to go to a job we do out of necessity to pay the bills?
    I want to write a book/play/poetry, paint landscapes and write music, i have to do all this in my time off work, where are my grants or bursaries? None for me or the millions of tax payer not in the clique, we dont get paid by the state/tax payers to do our hobby, so why should these chancers be? if their work is good it will find a audience and make money.
    RTE is the final destination of all these useless artists stealing a living with grants and bursaries, a job at RTE is like winning the lotto.
    For the cost a a TV licence you can get a FreeSat Satellite and receiver set up and have access to a hundred channels, this is what i have , ZERO capability to receive RTE the last 5 years , and i dont miss its one bit.
    Make it a internet pay service and watch it disappear, no one is interested in it.
    The government should just fund a news broadcast 1, 6 and 9 oclock, and scrap RTE.


  • #4999
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,180 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Is everyone excited for the new Katheryn Thomas show where she shows us how awesome Ireland can be for holidaying???


  • #5000
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    Is everyone excited for the new Katheryn Thomas show where she shows us how awesome Ireland can be for holidaying???

    No. Nationwide does that already.

    How much more programming to we need to show wet Irish landscape we all live in to begin with. It's boarding on the absurd at this stage.


  • #5001
    kalych
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭kalych


    da_miser wrote: »
    For the cost a a TV licence you can get a FreeSat Satellite and receiver set up and have access to a hundred channels, this is what i have , ZERO capability to receive RTE the last 5 years , and i dont miss its one bit.
    Make it a internet pay service and watch it disappear, no one is interested in it.
    The government should just fund a news broadcast 1, 6 and 9 oclock, and scrap RTE.

    The obvious issue is that this turns into the race to the bottom very quickly and within 5 years we'll be served by only media from BBC and the likes of FOX. Looking at how the media in the UK basically caused Brexit I'd rather not. Please and thank you.

    Not everyone wants the race to the bottom like you just cause you're unhappy with how your life turned out.


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  • #5002
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,118 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    Is everyone excited for the new Katheryn Thomas show where she shows us how awesome Ireland can be for holidaying???

    You're hilarious - ever thought of auditioning for Funny Friday?


  • #5003
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,118 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    kalych wrote: »
    The obvious issue is that this turns into the race to the bottom very quickly and within 5 years we'll be served by only media from BBC and the likes of FOX. Looking at how the media in the UK basically caused Brexit I'd rather not. Please and thank you.

    Not everyone wants the race to the bottom like you just cause you're unhappy with how your life turned out.

    Have you ever watched RTE?


  • #5004
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    kalych wrote: »
    The obvious issue is that this turns into the race to the bottom very quickly and within 5 years we'll be served by only media from BBC and the likes of FOX. Looking at how the media in the UK basically caused Brexit I'd rather not. Please and thank you.

    Not everyone wants the race to the bottom like you just cause you're unhappy with how your life turned out.

    The UK media BBC, Sky did everything they could to promote staying in the EU.

    The wonderful thing is that despite those influential broadcasters, they didn't manage to swing it.


  • #5005
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,190 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Is all the land sale money gone now?


  • #5006
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,118 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Is all the land sale money gone now?

    It was gone before it even landed in their bank account


  • #5007
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,629 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    fritzelly wrote: »
    You're hilarious - ever thought of auditioning for Funny Friday?

    I'd say if they did, they'd be turned away for being too funny.

    Can't be funny on RTE--it'll give Doirreann Garrihy a complex.


  • #5008
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    Is everyone excited for the new Katheryn Thomas show where she shows us how awesome Ireland can be for holidaying???

    It’s simply a vehicle (geddit?) for Kathryn and, now, Ellie.


  • #5009
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,629 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It’s simply a vehicle (geddit?) for Kathryn and, now, Ellie.

    I notice she couldn't even rope in her husband to be in that show.


  • #5010
    da_miser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭da_miser


    kalych wrote: »
    The obvious issue is that this turns into the race to the bottom very quickly and within 5 years we'll be served by only media from BBC and the likes of FOX. Looking at how the media in the UK basically caused Brexit I'd rather not. Please and thank you.

    Not everyone wants the race to the bottom like you just cause you're unhappy with how your life turned out.

    My life is good, but thanks for your concern, but i know it could be better if the amount of tax i paid was reduced, and that could be done by cancelling grants and bursaries to talentless members of cliques.
    As your concern about a race to the bottom, have you ever watched RTE, how much lower could it go?
    Regarding the news, i believe that is all RTE should be doing, get a vastly reduced budget and just do a news report at 1, 6, and 9 o'clock.
    We are all getting our much better entertainment elsewhere and are willing to pay for it , Netflix and Prime video are perfect examples.
    RTE is just a burden on the tax payers, filled with artists that could not make it in the real world on their own, if they are so talented, Virgin media, UK media and the rest of the private broadcasters will snap them up.


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  • #5011
    kalych
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭kalych


    da_miser wrote: »
    My life is good, but thanks for your concern, but i know it could be better if the amount of tax i paid was reduced, and that could be done by cancelling grants and bursaries to talentless members of cliques.
    As your concern about a race to the bottom, have you ever watched RTE, how much lower could it go?
    Regarding the news, i believe that is all RTE should be doing, get a vastly reduced budget and just do a news report at 1, 6, and 9 o'clock.
    We are all getting our much better entertainment elsewhere and are willing to pay for it , Netflix and Prime video are perfect examples.
    RTE is just a burden on the tax payers, filled with artists that could not make it in the real world on their own, if they are so talented, Virgin media, UK media and the rest of the private broadcasters will snap them up.
    Sure, let's get rid of Failte Ireland while we're at it. No point since holidaying abroad is so much better and cheaper. Also no point in IDA investing in indigenous companies, right? Your inability to see that investing into Ireland benefits us all is astounding. Oh and Netflix are currently shooting 2 shows in Ireland with our local actors involved...but don't let that distract you from there it rant. Carry on!


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