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

retalivity wrote: »

RTÉ says it's striving to improve Player amid complaints about 'frustrating' and 'ridiculous' service

We are going to continue to buy in 25m or more worth of content that would be better spent on a robust player, oh and if you want a doriean garraighy totes funny experience.

mgn wrote: »

And do you think a 30 minute News is good enough for the day that's in it.

Its not something that came out of the blue, it was well flagged last night that a deal was more or less done so the had plenty of time to get their act together.

If this happened last week it would have being wall to wall coverage for the day.

But we cant upset our RTE superstars by asking them to come in today for a few hours can we.

The BBC didn't even bother putting the news out on BBC1 at the time it broke and they didn't even bother bringing back BBC News Channel presenters instead keeping with the BBC World News simulcast so no BBC News Channel presenters were asked to return

Nobody covered it as they would have last week

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

RTE is running on auto in the most important time ever for our country.

Couldn't agree more, we're are all it's highly paid correspondents, we're are all the overly paid presenters, it's an annual disgraceful set of affairs. I get people entitled to holidays but this year takes the biscuit on abandonment given what is going on in the country. Of course it could be argued none of them actually necessary, the Team carrying RTE at the moment doing an admiral job at present.

As an aside, also worth pointing out the appalling Sh*** across their channels this year, woeful stuff especially that T**l Baz on the hunt for Fungi, mother of God just awful muck altogether.

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

The hunt for Fungi !. Are you kidding ?
BTW you're right,he is a tool

Not kidding, Baz sent to Dingle (he'd actually had never been there before) kind of said it all really. I see the morning Ireland crew also reduced the show to one hour, giving that even bigger T*** Leaky Leo a full 20 minutes to further patronise the nation.

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Just turned on the TV there and on RTÉ 1 we have a movie, followed by Fair City.

Over on RTÉ 2 we have Junior Masterchef......2014

It’s like they are goading us for some reason...

Gosh it's bad when tele shopping more interesting

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Nah, that’s just foreplay. My favourite was Mrs. Brown’s Boys Christmas Special - in August.

My favourite is people actually pay a licence fee!

Why arent they protesting like they were for water charges....

RTE presenters (Noel Kellys b*tches) all on over 100k thinking they can do f#ck all over the christmas....

suicide_circus wrote: »

The RTE Player was launched on the 21st of April 2009 and has been complete dog sh1t since day one.

They even had an advert with that Jennifer McGuire witch to tell us all it was 'new and improved'...

It was more broken than ever before. Well done.

Turned on RTE 2 there-as they're showing the animated film, The Breadwinner. The one that was nominated for an Oscar for best animated feature (tho that doesnt' count for much-the Oscars never watch animated films).

It's in Irish, as Gaeilge....with no subtitles...

Why pay to even show it at all if one can't understand it?

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Why is Morning Ireland reduced to one hour this week? And the rest of this week’s schedule is all over the place. Claire Byrne, Ryan Tubridy, Ray D’Arcy, all MIA. If we can do without them now, we can do without them for the rest of the year.

Noel Kelly must be some fierce negotiator, to get these breaks for his Talent.

Talent ?

He has to know where there are many many bodies buried. That's the only explanation I can figure.

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Talent ?

He has to know where there are many many bodies buried. That's the only explanation I can figure.

Some durrrty pictures of folks currently sitting in the Dail would be my only explanation.

Few politicians with white lines on the table, one or two of em with a leather fetish...

Only explanation, tbh.

Im actually listening to RTE Gold on smart speaker.....

Theres no DJs whatsoever....its the only way radio should be!

https://www.thesun.ie/news/6335969/rte-dee-forbes-wage-bill-plummet/

RTE boss Dee Forbes has defended the massive wage bill at Montrose

She said: “Audiences expect RTE to attract the best broadcasters, something which is also essential to allow RTE to generate commercial revenue which we are so reliant on.

"However, these fees are under constant review. As previously announced, we reduced the overall fees paid to our ten highest earning presenters by 15 per cent at the start of the year.”

“Market forces dictate how much certain people are paid which is why many sectors pay more than the Taoiseach.

“Nonetheless, I understand why people raise the question, and we do try to balance the commercial reality against that public concern.”

Any one expect these presenters and their wages?

RTE will publish its top 10 earners for the past three years shortly

The DG explained: “We have carried over the publication of details of our highest earners to early 2021 to allow us to prepare complete figures for 2017, 2018 and 2019, all of which will be published simultaneously.

“RTE gave a public commitment in 2008 to publish details of its 10 highest earners, which we have been doing since then.

“The Director-General’s earnings and expenses are also published in RTE’s annual report and staff salary bands are published on RTE.ie.”

So the top ten earners have had the publication of their wages published 2 years after the fact since at least 2003, if not 2005.

This is the 3rd occasion that RTÉ have not published those figures on time.

https://www.rte.ie/documents/about/top10payments_2004.pdf
https://www.rte.ie/documents/about/2005highearnersonanearningsbasis.pdf
https://www.rte.ie/documents/about/top_pay_2007_2008.pdf (2007 and 2008 publish in 2009)
http://static.rasset.ie/documents/about/top-10-table-27-03-2013.pdf (2009, 2010 and 2011 published in 2013, I Think)
https://static.rasset.ie/documents/about/final-rte-top-ten-highest-paid-press-release-table-dec-2015-final.pdf (2012, 2013 and 2014 in 2015)

Regardless her defense and reasoning is nuts (for want of a better word, but I can't be arsed).

Happy Christmas all.

In fairness Vigin Media's attack today in the same paper is just as nuts.

Bill Malone formerly of RTÉ2 (a channel devoid of any content outside of sport, and largely destroyed on his watch) suggests that it was RTÉ's schedule that cause the fall of Red Rock, not the absolute muck that aired before the soap or the bad scheduling of the series by TV3 going on long breaks, turning it into 10 seasons of a 2 season show. No, the downfall was RTÉ's 10 weeks of Operation Transformation that got it. And in no way did the takeover of both TV3 and UTV Ireland by Virgin Media cause them to axe the show on the return of Coro St and Emmerdale.

I got to ask him what did he think would happen to TV3 when UTV Ireland started broadcasting. No insight what so ever.

I then tell him my thoughts, saying that it will be divided down the middle with TV3 getting 7% and UTV Ireland and UTV getting 7% (at the time TV3 had 10% and UTV proper had 4%). And because UTV Ireland had no sport and because TV3 had lost the soaps but had sport and weekend ITV that largely it would be divided between both.

He said it's to early to say. I said it was quite obvious. And it was TV3 retain 7%, UTV Ireland had 6% and UTV retained 1%. Virgin Media ONE now has 10 - 13% a month!

pinch of salt when reading.... News largely made up of former Ireland Live producers and it shows.... VM News is much better than TV3 News, and that's due to Ireland Live staffers. IMO.

https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/6339615/virgin-media-rte-boss-irish-tv-business/