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

political analyst wrote: »

They can't - because Six-One must be on RTÉ 1 at a minute past 6. Period! Don't pretend otherwise.

Well then they need to have a full time day time show and they need to have a full hour in July and August for Six-One.

There is absolutely no need for RTÉ2 when RTÉ have the NEWS channel.

Why leave terrestrial-only viewers who don't have overspill of UK terrestrial TV with even less choice than they already have?

Many of those viewers can't afford subscription TV (Sky, Netflix etc) or, even if they could, they either can't get access to good-quality broadband or they can't have satellite dishes because due to either landlords' objection or the blocking of the signal by trees that are protected by preservation orders (an issue that was mentioned in the Broadcasting forum of this website years ago).

Those people have been completely and utterly failed by RTÉ, and they always were. RTÉ2 is about as much choice as Virgin Media TWO or THREE.

There share of the audience in March was just 5.21%. and this is with a royal interview, Champions League and Irish Qualifiers.

Braylen Harsh Cave wrote: »

Watching Prime Time and wondering what is Miriam O Callaghan getting paid for??

Introduces show. ****s off for 40 minutes.. asks a guest 2 prepared questions. End of show..

Easy way for Dee to save 320k right there
Get rid of Lottie Ryan telling us about the Kardashians and inhaling as loud as she can into the microphone as well, and might get close to saving 500k.

Lottie's expecting a sprog atm, so if Dee fired her, she'd have to pay out a massive 'unfair dismissal' payout.

Fair City was costing nearly 11m a year to run back in 2017 and it's probably costing the same if not more now.
11m f*cking million a year!! For that sh*te?!
And then they spent 2.5m for a set upgrade a few years back as well.

122 staff there earn over €100k, how in the jaysus...
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/122-rte-staff-earn-over-100000-in-2019-1013481.html

political analyst wrote: »

A soap opera is a staple of any national public-service broadcaster.

So does that mean the nations soap opera need over 30 script writers ?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/like-acting-writing-for-a-soap-is-a-team-sport-1.176013

political analyst wrote: »

A soap opera is a staple of any national public-service broadcaster.

Only really in England. BBC didn't really get into soap until the 1970s (not that we should compare RTÉ to BBC), ABC in Oz I think possibly left it to the commercials but then ABC have always been under attack there, while in NZ I think soap there really didn't happen until the 1980s (But I could be way off on that).

Soap is not really a staple, of any channel. I read an article about how when C4 axed Brookside it was pretty much the end for C5's Family Affairs.

What we should think about is the amount RTÉ spend on Indpendent drama. In 2019 it was €3.2m and that included The Tommy Teirnan Show and a one off stand up comedy show from Galway. TTTS possible costs around €100,000 per episode meaning RTÉ may spend under €3m on drama and Scripted comedy!

In the words of the DG.... That's just 1% of RTÉ total budget .... they spend the rest on .......................................... "other things"

What's very clear in all of this is that RTE think we need them, in reality though they need us.

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Not for 11m a year its not, and especially when the quality of output is absymal and your company is going down the swanny.

TBH its more than 11m now, though I am not sure how RTÉ link up the own AR with their indpendent production units IPU.

According to RTÉ's AR 22m is spent on Drama/Scripted Comedy
According to RTÉ's IPU AR they spent just 3.2m on the above but it also included Tommy Tiernan and some non-scripted programming

That leaves Fair city with .....

JimmyVik wrote: »

How much do the actors on fair city get paid?

My issue with talk wages/salaries is that I think many are on low wages or should be asking for rises.

What kind of wage would you expect to be on?

political analyst wrote: »

Six-One is staying where it is and RTÉ 2 is staying where it is. Period!

No Change. Period! So what would you do?

I mean this idea of do nothing isn't working.

RTÉ2 serve no purpose other than to provide some kind of so called choice. It has no original programming off its own.

The sports that do air on it generally rarely clash with Six-ONE.

RTÉ themselves have stated that they are moving all major sporting events to RTÉ ONE.

RTÉ one does not provide a full day-time schedule year round. Today is getting ready to head on a break.

Surely RTÉ would be better to ultise what they have for example Today: -

I will give you
Racing from Punchestown

But surely RTÉ2 should keep its schedule until 6pm with RTÉ giving TODAY a weeks break so that it can continue into the Summer months.

Indeed prehaps Six ONE could take a their break for the week so that it can have a normal show during August, and it could take Home and Away in the normal schedule slot.

NIMAN wrote: »

And,

"...a further 170 RTE staff members earned between €80,000 and €100,000".


And don't forget, this is RTE Employees, not contractors. So most of the big hitters aren't included in these figures.

And don't forget that an awful lot of the staff, like stagers, cameramen, sound people etc..... all get absolutely fabulous cash bonus/perks/expenses for doing their jobs out of 'normal hours'... I'd have no doubt that folks out there could be easily taking on an additional 20-30k a year in perks!!

All that stuff wouldn't be counted in salaries, but rather 'production costs'.

Thats where teh real scandal is......

What, Dee gets a €25,000 per year car allowance!!!! Are you for f****ing real????

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/news/rte-executives-claim-822k-in-car-allowances-as-staff-on-lower-grades-fight-plans-for-pay-freeze-39059782.html

She drives from home to her office in work, and she gets €25k per year for the trouble!!!!!

No wonder she's always smiling...

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Thats where teh real scandal is......

What, Dee gets a €25,000 per year car allowance!!!! Are you for f****ing real????

When she took the position she "moved" from London, for this she was given an extra "moving fee" of €50,000.

Now from what I can gather she had been based in Cork when she was in Discovery in London and flew back and forth. She is still based in Cork and I assume that she might have a home in Dublin..... but 50,000 for moving from possibly the sale of her property in London?

Though why would you sell your London property?

That is pure speculation BTW but not with out reasoning.