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

steddyeddy · 11-02-2021 10:51AM

This is what counts as news on RTE's website.

2FM presenter Lottie Ryan has announced that she and husband Fabio Aprile are expecting their first child.

The broadcaster shared the couple's happy news on Instagram, posting a picture of a babygrow with the inscription: "I guess quarantine wasn't that boring after all. #comingsoon."

She captioned the photo: "Surprise!!!"

A presenter who is only working for RTE because they employed her father had sex during lockdown. At this stage RTE feels like a public funded welfare system for a large nepotistic, extended family.

steddyeddy · 11-02-2021 11:02AM

Kivaro wrote: »

This part is very funny:

That is one humongous oxymoron right there. Many of us would be happy just to get a basic competent service from them.

Innovation requires risk taking. All they do is hire the same presenters for different jobs.

Kivaro · 11-02-2021 11:37AM

2FM presenter Lottie Ryan has announced that she and husband Fabio Aprile are expecting their first child.

The broadcaster shared the couple's happy news on Instagram, posting a picture of a babygrow with the inscription: "I guess quarantine wasn't that boring after all. #comingsoon."

She captioned the photo: "Surprise!!!"

Nope, that moment passed. :pac:

Elmo · 11-02-2021 12:10PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Innovation requires risk taking. All they do is hire the same presenters for different jobs.

RTÉ has the abilities to be innovative. I am going to give 2 examples of where they fail to push their own innovations.

Their decision to close their Digital Radio Stations, rather then to work with the government to make them someway commercial or someway public service. Or even internally to cross promote them across their other 4 main radio stations.

Then on their decision they hadn't even put forward to the Department to allow them to close the radio stations, because they thought they could just close down stations as they like.

Now you have their player V TG4 Player!

Their Radio Player used the old player logo, there is no cross promotion between Radio Player and TV player, with Radio now podcasts?

Sephiroth_dude · 11-02-2021 06:42PM

I've deleted some off topic replies, Keep it on topic please, this thread is about the RTE TV license, not about getting digs in at Lottie Ryan for being pregnant .

trashcan · 12-02-2021 02:57PM

Nevin Parsnipp wrote: »

There will always be stuff that is deemed culturally important ...but which Pat doesn't support sufficiently to be viable..... thus requiring Govt.support.

Think ..Opera......The Irish Language....League of Ireland Football..........

Matter of suckin it up....innit ?

I wish people thought League of Ireland football was culturally important

Elmo · 14-02-2021 03:44PM

RTÉ2 3.88% audience share drops behind BBC1 on 4.54% with VMT TWO not far behind on 3.56% in Jan.

RabbleRouser2k · 14-02-2021 03:46PM

Elmo wrote: »

RTÉ2 3.88% audience share drops behind BBC1 on 4.54% with VMT TWO not far behind on 3.56% in Jan.

Jesus... so they're legit losing the 'new' audience they so craved?

Kivaro · 14-02-2021 08:32PM

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Jesus... so they're legit losing the 'new' audience they so craved?

Wonder why?
Just checked the listings for prime time viewing tonight.
At 9:30 pm: Gerry Ryan: A Legacy. Followed by Mrs Brown's Boys at 10:30 pm.

What the fluck is wrong with them? Ryan: A legacy? Are they are tryin to perpetuate a drug user as some sort of public hero? RTE have this notion that the general public in Ireland adore their staff as if they were gilded saints. We don't.

What a piss poor listing for a Sunday night during a worldwide pandemic.
They should be ashamed of themselves (irrespective of the money that they are trying to divert from programming/services to staff/star salaries and their benefits).

14-02-2021 08:50PM

Kivaro wrote: »

Wonder why?
Just checked the listings for prime time viewing tonight.
At 9:30 pm: Gerry Ryan: A Legacy. Followed by Mrs Brown's Boys at 10:30 pm.

What the fluck is wrong with them? Ryan: A legacy? Are they are tryin to perpetuate a drug user as some sort of public hero? RTE have this notion that the general public in Ireland adore their staff as if they were gilded saints. We don't.

What a piss poor listing for a Sunday night during a worldwide pandemic.
They should be ashamed of themselves (irrespective of the money that they are trying to divert from programming/services to staff/star salaries and their benefits).

If all you have to offer is cabbage then soupe aux choux/cabbage soup is what goes on the menu.
old archive footage costs them nothing. minimal editing costs, one camera setup for the talking heads. no studio setup costs. bish bash bosh and 1 hour of primetime sunday schedule is filled. The lazier media buyers will still take advertising space as they assume that RTE must be broadcasting "something worth watching" during primetime.

jelutong · 14-02-2021 08:51PM

Dermot Bannon at 7.30 set the tone for an evening of pure muck.
Have they no shame?

fritzelly · 14-02-2021 08:58PM

jelutong wrote: »

Dermot Bannon at 7.30 set the tone for an evening of pure muck.
Have they no shame?

You'd have to care to feel shame

14-02-2021 08:58PM

youtube has been serving local adverts to me. That is the sort of targetting media buyers love. They know roughly where I live based on my ISP details, they know what sort media I consume, the adverts are short and unobtrusive.
In the US the Car Dealerships are diverting nearly all spend away from TV to Internet because they are getting a hit rate.
The funding model they have of TV licence propping up commercial broadcasting along with advertising will not function within the next decade.
What happens then? Even higher licence for even more commercial broadcasting.
I'm waiting for them to buy the rights to the Masked Singer and run the Irish version of it...but who'll be in the Mr. Potato Head costume.

Rubberchikken · 14-02-2021 09:04PM

Mrs browns boys should be eradicated at this stage.
A more unfunny talentless hack it would be hard to find.
Gerry ryan. He's dead. Get over it rte. And he wasn't even any good

elperello · 14-02-2021 09:25PM

Rubberchikken wrote: »

Mrs browns boys should be eradicated at this stage.
A more unfunny talentless hack it would be hard to find.
Gerry ryan. He's dead. Get over it rte. And he wasn't even any good

I don't get MBB myself but they are set to be with us until 2026 so maybe we should get used to the fact.

Apparently even though ratings are down the contract is signed. Sound man Brendan

As for GR, tonight's show is a repeat so I guess it's fair to assume that most people know he is no longer with us.

He was very popular in his day.

14-02-2021 09:27PM

elperello wrote: »

He was very popular in his day.

That's what they would have you believe. His best times were late night on 2FM in the 80s.

elperello · 14-02-2021 09:33PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's what they would have you believe. His best times were late night on 2FM in the 80s.

I guess "they" have me codded so.

I really thought he was very popular on his morning show.

I could be wrong though, I was never a fan.

14-02-2021 09:37PM

elperello wrote: »

I guess "they" have me codded so.

I really thought he was very popular on his morning show.

I could be wrong though, I was never a fan.

If your idea of entertainment was listening to an obnoxious coke-head reading stories out of the Irish Independent on air and making uninformed comment with zero research done then he would have been right up your street at that stage in his "career".
The rot hasn't just recently set in.

elperello · 14-02-2021 09:42PM

Deleted User wrote: »

If your idea of entertainment was listening to an obnoxious coke-head reading stories out of the Irish Independent on air and making uninformed comment with zero research done then he would have been right up your street at that stage in his "career".
The rot hasn't just recently set in.

As I said I was never a fan.

More of a Pat Kenny person in fact.

I still think he was very popular but you are entitled to your opinion.

14-02-2021 09:47PM

elperello wrote: »

As I said I was never a fan.

More of a Pat Kenny person in fact.

I still think he was very popular but you are entitled to your opinion.

It isn't an opinion. that was what he was doing. zero professionalism. reading the newspapers live on radio and making snide remarks. It only became obvious after his death why he couldn't perform.

elperello · 14-02-2021 09:57PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It isn't an opinion. that was what he was doing. zero professionalism. reading the newspapers live on radio and making snide remarks. It only became obvious after his death why he couldn't perform.

I just said he was very popular.

I wouldn't know where to get the listenership figures now but people seemed to like him.

Work away if you want to give out about him.

14-02-2021 09:59PM

He was an example of the type of "talent" which RTE foisted upon the public of Ireland.

RabbleRouser2k · 15-02-2021 03:41AM

RTe tried to foist a lot of 'talent' on people... if they made them money, they were 'rewarded', but only if they had a good agent.

(For example, Gay Byrne made millions for RTE-but didn't get rewarded for it until he found a better agent. Decades of making money for em, little reward for it).

When big talent started to want royalties, everyone else did too.

Tbh, I wasn't a fan of Gerry either- I liked Dave Fanning, I liked Simon Young. I found Ryan boorish.
Dave Fanning was able to do damn good work on TV. Ryan was... embarassing, when it came to TV.

ohnonotgmail · 15-02-2021 11:23AM

Deleted User wrote: »

He was an example of the type of "talent" which RTE foisted upon the public of Ireland.

No foisting needed. He was incredibly popular and made a lot of money for RTE.

Elmo · 15-02-2021 11:53AM

Weather you like GR or not he was possibly the only person on RTÉ that may actually support the idea of their wages. I put them four categories.

Gerry Ryan - Pretty much 2FM's bread and butter
Ian Dempsey - People you actually needed but could care less about
Pat Kenny - Required to boost Newstalk audience but not much more
And the rest - resting on RTÉ ONE and Radio 1's audiences.

Very few of Gerry's, Iano's and Pat's.

I can't see anyone having the same effect on RTÉ Radio if they left as GR and ID had.

trashcan · 15-02-2021 12:35PM

jelutong wrote: »

Dermot Bannon at 7.30 set the tone for an evening of pure muck.
Have they no shame?

And that was the highlight

Actually I didn’t mind that too much. As for the rest of it though, I’d rather stick rusty pins in my eyes.

Elmo · 15-02-2021 02:45PM

trashcan wrote: »

And that was the highlight

Actually I didn’t mind that too much. As for the rest of it though, I’d rather stick rusty pins in my eyes.

Someone in the mirror picked Thursday as the day of reference for repeats.

Sunday one of RTÉ ONE's biggest days had

6 News
6:30 Ireland's Fittest Family
7:30 A repeat of a repeat of a repeat
8:30 Fair City
9 News
9:30 A repeat
10:30 A repeat
11 A repeat of TWIP from earlier in the Day

RabbleRouser2k · 16-02-2021 02:32PM

Claire Byrne Live, discussing OnlyFans with the most boring guy in IReland... and making a bags of it.

Then showing how 'in-touch' RTE is with the average Joe and Joan Soap by discussing 'staycation' places.

One of those places cost about 9,500 quid for a family of four, 2 adults, 2 kids...

Flipping Disneyland costs less....

Elmo · 16-02-2021 04:52PM

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Claire Byrne Live, discussing OnlyFans with the most boring guy in IReland... and making a bags of it.

Did Brendan O'Connor have someone on a few weeks ago about, but framed in a completely different manner. ???? :pac: saying nothing.

Maysa07 · 16-02-2021 04:59PM

Now you all have a chance to, have your say .

A number of years back RTE held public meeting around the country.

Under the Broadcasting Act (2009), RTÉ is required to consult with the public and prepare a Public Service Statement every five years. This statement sets out the principles to be observed and activities to be undertaken by RTÉ in order to fulfil its public service objects.

www.rte.ie/haveyoursay

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