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

I don't listen to radio. Tend to prefer podcasts or spotify.

So whoever they get, won't change my mind either way.

jetfiremuck wrote: »

And the fawning review of Catrina Perry book........honour among thieves if you will

She's grand to look at but would doubt if it's a page turner

Saw that vicious c### of a Terri Prone on with Daithi one day, be as well do an interview with Daniel K,

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

So we know that Grainne isn't getting the gig.

She was on TODAY a few days ago.

TODAY starts its summer break on the 28th of May.

I suppose they are saving money taking a summer break right?

What's up with the amateur hour on the RTE website with typos/mistakes that I would be mortified if I included in a work email, not talk about publishing it on one of the most read sites in the country.

One example this morning https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2021/0430/1213057-tohill-living-for-experience-rather-than-the-experiment/

"Pre-season training was restricted given the risk of injection.

Presume it should read infection as injection makes no sense. These type of things happen all the time, is there no editorial oversight or at least the "Journalist" having a read through what they are typing.

So going to defend RTÉ on Movies/Film.

Yes I will agree they have a few set films, but their repeats aren't as bad as you all imagine.

There main problem is that the main bulk of films are from the past 20 years and other eras are largely forgotten about, 1990s next 1980s then 1970s and so on.

Virgin Media (a company that has plenty) replies on ITV film from ITV studios while they repeat them often with a few exceptions.

Bourne films all seem to between RTÉ, Virgin Media and TG4.

TG4 IMO have a better section (though the westerns are over repeated, but this could be due to ITV4 who happen to show similar westerns).

TG4's Monday and Saturday Night movies are in fairness good buys tonight is Invictus and Brothers is on Saturday night, while Lone Star is their western on Friday.

RTÉ2 generally airs the most films with and average of 20% repeats
RTÉ ONE is next with a similar repeat rate, next is TG4 same repeat repeat rate.

Then Virgin Media ONE with few films but a similar repeat rate, TWO even less film mainly repeats from ONE with a 50% repeat rate on TWO itself and then THREE with a similar repeat rate.

It seems Virgin Media have about 100 films that they air before endless repeats.

And while I haven't updated this in a while these are the most repeated. Mainly Virgin Media : -

Dirty Dancing was repeated 13 times
The Expendables 2 was repeated 8 times
Into The West was repeated 7 times
Zathura A Space Adventure was repeated 7 times
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was repeated 6 times
The Longest Yard was repeated 6 times
Murder on Pleasant Drive was repeated 6 times
The Secret of Kells was repeated 6 times
Big Mommas House was repeated 5 times
Die Hard 4 was repeated 5 times

ISeeGirls might expand more

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Let me get the boot in....why not. The albatross is the RTE concert orchestra. Slips by without any reckoning The salary bill and benefit package is also a big cost. Are they contractors or part timers. Must be great to get paid for what essentially is a hobby for the musicians. Easy gravy train for anyone on it. You can bet that most are on good money.

Elmo wrote: »

So going to defend RTÉ on Movies/Film.

Yes I will agree they have a few set films, but their repeats aren't as bad as you all imagine.

There main problem is that the main bulk of films are from the past 20 years and other eras are largely forgotten about, 1990s next 1980s then 1970s and so on.

Virgin Media (a company that has plenty) replies on ITV film from ITV studios while they repeat them often with a few exceptions.

Bourne films all seem to between RTÉ, Virgin Media and TG4.

TG4 IMO have a better section (though the westerns are over repeated, but this could be due to ITV4 who happen to show similar westerns).

TG4's Monday and Saturday Night movies are in fairness good buys tonight is Invictus and Brothers is on Saturday night, while Lone Star is their western on Friday.

RTÉ2 generally airs the most films with and average of 20% repeats
RTÉ ONE is next with a similar repeat rate, next is TG4 same repeat repeat rate.

Then Virgin Media ONE with few films but a similar repeat rate, TWO even less film mainly repeats from ONE with a 50% repeat rate on TWO itself and then THREE with a similar repeat rate.

It seems Virgin Media have about 100 films that they air before endless repeats.

And while I haven't updated this in a while these are the most repeated. Mainly Virgin Media : -

Dirty Dancing was repeated 13 times
The Expendables 2 was repeated 8 times
Into The West was repeated 7 times
Zathura A Space Adventure was repeated 7 times
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was repeated 6 times
The Longest Yard was repeated 6 times
Murder on Pleasant Drive was repeated 6 times
The Secret of Kells was repeated 6 times
Big Mommas House was repeated 5 times
Die Hard 4 was repeated 5 times

ISeeGirls might expand more

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Virgin Media have a habit of re-airing 'Marian Keyes Watermelon' every year...

It's the equivalent of being sharted in the face. Absolute torture. One of the worst things I've ever seen (and Anna Friel's Irish accents (she does more than one) are absolutely horrendous).

Elmo wrote: »

It seems Virgin Media have about 100 films that they air before endless repeats.

And while I haven't updated this in a while these are the most repeated. Mainly Virgin Media : -

Dirty Dancing was repeated 13 times
The Expendables 2 was repeated 8 times
Into The West was repeated 7 times
Zathura A Space Adventure was repeated 7 times
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was repeated 6 times
The Longest Yard was repeated 6 times
Murder on Pleasant Drive was repeated 6 times
The Secret of Kells was repeated 6 times
Big Mommas House was repeated 5 times
Die Hard 4 was repeated 5 times

ISeeGirls might expand more

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Finally I can use these useless stats So I can break it up into 2. This is only Virgin Media 30/Aug/18 to now for most films/tv movies shown:

11 - Circle Of Friends
8 - Oliver Twist
8 - Dirty Dancing
8 - A Mothers Son (2 Part)
8 - Appropriate Adult (2 Part)
8 - Watermelon
8 - Into The Blue
8 - Cardboard Gangsters

And then Total from 20/Sep/98 to now:
22 - Circle Of Friends
22 - The Punisher
21 - Watermelon
18 - Dirty Dancing
16 - Enough
16 - The Expendables 2
16 - It's A Wonderful Life
16 - Men In Black
16 - Paul Blart: Mall Cop
16 - Santa Claus - The Movie
16 - The Snapper

Other odd stats:
There have been a total of 10 Film Premieres across the channels in the past 16 months since 1/1/20.

62 new films* broadcast on VMTV since 1/1/20 - *ones that haven't been shown on TV3 or VMTV before e.g. Saving Private Ryan. Half of them are made-for-tv films.

The Boys From Brazil (that 1978 classic, right?!) was shown 5 times over the space of 4 months last year.

jetfiremuck wrote: »

Let me get the boot in....why not. The albatross is the RTE concert orchestra. Slips by without any reckoning The salary bill and benefit package is also a big cost. Are they contractors or part timers. Must be great to get paid for what essentially is a hobby for the musicians. Easy gravy train for anyone on it. You can bet that most are on good money.

I don't mind seeing people with talent get some money for what they do - God knows it's bad enough making a living from music these days. The orchestra musicians aren't the problem in RTE.

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

I don't mind seeing people with talent get some money for what they do - God knows it's bad enough making a living from music these days. The orchestra musicians aren't the problem in RTE.

perhaps you should answer the first question before making definitive statements. your post comes across as based purely on ignorance.

I have no problem with either the NSO or the CO, but their budget does need to be examined as much as the rest of RTÉ, they haven't seen a cut in the past decade, 15million per year (including ticket sales of about €2-3 million).

But your right RTÉ management failed to examine those issues also. Just look at how swiftly the NSO is moving to the NCH.

RandomViewer wrote: »

Her family is from Fanad, so accent shouldn't be a stretch, think Watermelon is one of the few films that TV3 partly financed, hence the repeats

That was back when they were part owned by Granada Television, before the Virgin Media Television buyout.

Elmo wrote: »

Don't for get the Doherty Hanson bought them out for €265m or something ridiculous, then precede to drop Coro St and Emmerdale resulting in an €80million sale to Liberty Global.

They lost the rights to UTV Ireland. The problem with UTV Ireland was that Corrie and Emmerdale were the only programs that attracted an audience. Once those shows were over, audiences switched off.

Tv3 (later Virgin Media) then bought UTV for a steal.