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

NIMAN · 05-10-2020 10:14AM

Did rte always tell you who was on sound, who the BCO was, who did internet and who was on research?

I hear it at the end of every radio show now for a few years. Personally I don't care, they are just names to me. Do we really need to know them or is it some form of telling us just how many people work behind the scenes?

RabbleRouser2k · 05-10-2020 10:38AM

NIMAN wrote: »

Did rte always tell you who was on sound, who the BCO was, who did internet and who was on research?

I hear it at the end of every radio show now for a few years. Personally I don't care, they are just names to me. Do we really need to know them or is it some form of telling us just how many people work behind the scenes?

They do it on local radio stations too-been hearing it on some county one's for a while now.

05-10-2020 11:15AM

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

So Deirdre O'Kane is getting a new chat show...

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/1005/1169358-deirdre-okane-to-host-new-chat-show-on-rte-one/

Quick question...

What happened to their plans with Angela Scanlon?

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/angela-scanlon-is-the-right-woman-for-the-job-as-rte-goes-ahead-with-chat-show-38811525.html

Is this money down the drain? I'm sure there was money put down to hire Angela. Guests pre-booked and pre-paid.

Now we're hearing this.

Could someone tell me why RTE needs 2 - (actually 3 with Tommy Tiernan's one) chat shows....You get the same freaking uninteresting and talentless people on each one...How many times a year we can see Mario/Doireann/Oliver Callnan etc.

05-10-2020 11:52AM

Wesley Teeny Oasis wrote: »

Could someone tell me why RTE needs 2 - (actually 3 with Tommy Tiernan's one) chat shows....You get the same freaking uninteresting and talentless people on each one...How many times a year we can see Mario/Doireann/Oliver Callnan etc.

I think we are about to find out....

Stovepipe · 05-10-2020 11:58AM

Shows my level of ignorance when I dont know who half these people are? Why would gardeners and architects need agents? are they not self-employed in their own right anyway?

elperello · 05-10-2020 12:16PM

Stovepipe wrote: »

Shows my level of ignorance when I dont know who half these people are? Why would gardeners and architects need agents? are they not self-employed in their own right anyway?

When they work as gardeners or architects they don't need agents.

It's the media work they use agents for.

It's show biz, always had agents always will.

Elmo · 05-10-2020 01:49PM

Angela Scanlon's should air, 2 episodes recorded, but covid caused them to date!!!

The J Stands for Jay · 05-10-2020 02:54PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Don't forget Noel Kelly's part in all of this:
https://www.nkmanagement.ie/

Worth reading the biographies of the "stars" someday if you're bored and looking for a giggle.

It gets harder and harder as you go down the list to know the names. Never heard of a lot of these people.

ButtersSuki · 05-10-2020 03:04PM

McGaggs wrote: »

It gets harder and harder as you go down the list to know the names. Never heard of a lot of these people.

Well, for context, most of the "earn" more than the Taoiseach...........:eek:

Elmo · 05-10-2020 03:23PM

Stovepipe wrote: »

Shows my level of ignorance when I dont know who half these people are? Why would gardeners and architects need agents? are they not self-employed in their own right anyway?

Btw Franc (don't look him up) earned 25,000 for John Delaney's 50th b-day party!

The J Stands for Jay · 05-10-2020 03:25PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Well, for context, most of the "earn" more than the Taoiseach...........:eek:

That's the level of cynicism I brought to it, but then I genuinely had no idea who so many of those people were as I went down the list.

What does Craig Doyle do these days?

Elmo · 05-10-2020 03:46PM

McGaggs wrote: »

That's the level of cynicism I brought to it, but then I genuinely had no idea who so many of those people were as I went down the list.

What does Craig Doyle do these days?

Might be on ITV sport still

tallaghtfornia · 05-10-2020 03:57PM

Looked at that website with all those 'stars' and it makes me sick to the teeth that I had to part with €160 of my hard earned cash this month to fund there D4 Lifestyle.

I would not mind but as I have said in previous posts I don't even watch any of this rubbish.

ButtersSuki · 06-10-2020 10:39AM

Elmo wrote: »

Might be on ITV sport still

he's on BT Sport a lot, does their Guinness Premiership and European Cup Rugby coverage. For years he "starred" (maybe still is) in ads for Everest Windows that seemed to be everywhere on UK TV channels, esp. at night.

I also used to see him pretty much twice a week in Dublin Airport as I used to spend a couple of days a week in the UK with work on the red-eye over and back. He'd always be parked in the staff section of the short-term car park for some reason........they're kjust in front of the lift so you're first out.

06-10-2020 04:57PM

I know I've said this before but why do they insist on having a news anchor outside government buildings when doing the report. Tonight he was pretty much drowned out by protestors there. Montrose is about a ten minute drive from Dail Eireann, unless there is actual breaking news, there is no need for it.

06-10-2020 05:48PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I know I've said this before but why do they insist on having a news anchor outside government buildings when doing the report. Tonight he was pretty much drowned out by protestors there. Montrose is about a ten minute drive from Dail Eireann, unless there is actual breaking news, there is no need for it.

Travel expenses? Car mileage allowance? Taxi receipts?

06-10-2020 06:02PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I know I've said this before but why do they insist on having a news anchor outside government buildings when doing the report. Tonight he was pretty much drowned out by protestors there. Montrose is about a ten minute drive from Dail Eireann, unless there is actual breaking news, there is no need for it.

Was it just the one tonight? Often they have 2 there at the same time , reporting from about 50 meters of each other

Elmo · 06-10-2020 06:31PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I know I've said this before but why do they insist on having a news anchor outside government buildings when doing the report. Tonight he was pretty much drowned out by protestors there. Montrose is about a ten minute drive from Dail Eireann, unless there is actual breaking news, there is no need for it.

Was that not on Virgin Media?

Sgt Hartman · 07-10-2020 06:39AM

My licence expires at the end of this month yet already I have received a reminder in the post to renew it. For me it shows how aggressive and desperate they are to force people into paying for the licence.

Kivaro · 07-10-2020 08:10AM

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

My licence expires at the end of this month yet already I have received a reminder in the post to renew it. For me it shows how aggressive and desperate they are to force people into paying for the licence.

If RTE had their way, they would have a "can't pay, we'll take it away" type of money collection system, with men dressed in all black and hobnail boots and RTE armbands removing goods and property worth €160.
Ryan Tubridy needs his half million every year .... at all costs.

tallaghtfornia · 07-10-2020 08:19AM

Kivaro wrote: »

If RTE had their way, they would have a "can't pay, we'll take it away" type of money collection system, with men dressed in all black and hobnail boots and RTE armbands removing goods and property worth €160.
Ryan Tubridy needs his half million every year .... at all costs.

I paid this 'fee' last week as I have always paid my taxes and thankfully I'm still working on full pay.

I just said to my wife last night that with the current situation in the country that I hope the level on non compliance in this payment increases and RTE are forced to reduced there operation significantly. But that's wishful thinking there will always be money as they are too well connected politically.

I honestly despise this broadcaster and what the government let them away with and all they stand for.

AndyBoBandy · 07-10-2020 08:35AM

tallaghtfornia wrote: »

I hope the level on non compliance in this payment increases and RTE are forced to reduced there operation significantly.

No doubt the level of non compliance will indeed increase...

tallaghtfornia wrote: »

and RTE are forced to reduced their operation significantly.

Absolutely zero chance of this happening though.... Dee will be cap in hand to the Government demanding a bail out due to extraordinary circumstances.

Sure didn't they already request furlough for a sh1t ton of their staff?

RabbleRouser2k · 07-10-2020 09:54AM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

No doubt the level of non compliance will indeed increase...

If it's the choice between going to jail because they had to choose tv license over feeding their children, we all know which option many parents will take.

Maysa07 · 08-10-2020 08:20AM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Dee will be cap in hand to the Government demanding a bail out due to extraordinary circumstances.

Sure didn't they already request furlough for a sh1t ton of their staff?

Dee has a year or so left, Unless she askes for an extension. Then she will hand the baton to the next DG, He\she will make a some cost reduction noise and hand the baton to the next.... The place just goes around in circles without any major changes.

the purple tin · 08-10-2020 09:18AM

Maysa07 wrote: »

Dee has a year or so left, Unless she askes for an extension. Then she will hand the baton to the next DG, He\she will make a some cost reduction noise and hand the baton to the next.... The place just goes around in circles without any major changes.

Like the story that they were selling the paintings off the walls to raise some cash.
Hardly worth their while, they didn't even make enough to pay Tubs' wages for a year.

Elmo · 08-10-2020 10:30AM

Maysa07 wrote: »

Dee has a year or so left, Unless she askes for an extension. Then she will hand the baton to the next DG, He\she will make a some cost reduction noise and hand the baton to the next.... The place just goes around in circles without any major changes.

I'd say she will be asked to stay because of the current problems, including covid. Can't see them not extending it until 2023.

AndyBoBandy · 08-10-2020 10:42AM

the purple tin wrote: »

Like the story that they were selling the paintings off the walls to raise some cash.
Hardly worth their while, they didn't even make enough to pay Tubs' wages for a year.

That was nothing but a failed PR stunt, to try and show us that they really are struggling...

The 'Artwork' which was commissioned by RTE...... like as if the art collecting world pricked up their ears when they heard that...

My guess is they massively overpaid some artist connected in some way to an RTÉ staff member for said pieces of art... and somehow thought they had the next Mona Lisa on their wall..

they were expecting to get about €1.5-€2m from all the pieces, and they barely got €195k if I remember correctly....

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

they got €195k in total.

2 of the paintings didn't even sell

Atlantic Dawn · 08-10-2020 05:44PM

Why do RTE refuse to accept ads for Newstalk yet allow ads for Sky Sports?

elperello · 08-10-2020 05:56PM

"My guess is they massively overpaid some artist connected in some way to an RTÉ staff member for said pieces of art... and somehow thought they had the next Mona Lisa on their wall..

etc. etc."

Very funny but completely untrue.

The paintings in question were the property of RTE for up to 50 years.

Louis le Brocquy, William Scott, Tony O'Malley and George Campbell were all accomplished artists.

The vagaries of the art market are not a reflection on the merit of the works.

Elmo · 08-10-2020 05:58PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Why do RTE refuse to accept ads for Newstalk yet allow ads for Sky Sports?

They don't refuse them. RTÉ don't allow ads asking people to change channel or station. Newstalk use this refusal to demonstrate some kind of anti-competitive behaviour. It's purely good press release.

In the same way Bill Malone (former Controller of RTÉ2) Virgin Media's Head of Content was able to lambast RTÉ and suggest that VM invest in Irish programming

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

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