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

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

they don't want to administer at that micro level and I dont blame them.

Really so your telling me that the DSP doesn’t micro administer

Unemployment payments (JA, JB or PUP, including dependents )
State pensions
Family income supplement
Living alone allowances
Rent allowance
Children’s allowance
And so on

And no one can multiply the number of people on the household benefits packs by €160? At the very least.

Come on now.

Notice rhetorical adds getting pumped on the radio to pay the TV license
With a someone whistling to make sound so simple to pay it!

machiavellianme wrote: »

Advice on what?

Anyone connected with those shows should never be let within an asses roar of any ‘Board’…..bar the trapdoor of a hastily erected scaffold.

RTÉ2 back to copying reality TV series from BBC THREE with .... Glow Up.

Suppose I should be happy they are making TV.

Elmo wrote: »

Because RTÉ are underspend by 3million last year they will now commission ....

.... a few dating and reality shows ....

Rather than maybe considering developing some quality drama or comedy.....

In terms of drama ...

Another international scandi-co-pro staring Angelica Ball

The upcoming drama production's story includes the Criminal Assets Bureau and the suspects' connection to bombings in Belgium (quite relevant, considering what happened there only 5 years ago!). So I think it'll be worth watching. By the way, that actress's first name is Angeline!

Elmo wrote: »

and what do to with Amy .... well there's an international co-pro starring .... Dr Quinn Medicine Woman.

Neither of which will attract much attention.

If it's set in Ireland and stars Jane Seymour, whose experience also includes being a Bond girl, then why not?!

Elmo wrote: »

Name the last co-pro with Angeline Ball?
Name the last "major" co-pro with a relatively famous person?

No offence to either or Amy, its more about RTÉ's idea of how to do drama.

Angeline Ball is a massive warning sign for me. Only thing I can watch her in is The commitments. When I watch her in anything else... it's terrible.

I've wasted too much time watching stuff she's been in-it's pretty much always bad.

So I won't be watching it.

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Angeline Ball is a massive warning sign for me. Only thing I can watch her in is The commitments. When I watch her in anything else... it's terrible.

I've wasted too much time watching stuff she's been in-it's pretty much always bad.

So I won't be watching it.

I didn't watch 'Acceptable Risk' but, from the trailers that I saw, I don't think she was convincing in the character of a cop.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/outdated-television-licence-fee-could-be-replaced-by-household-charge-based-on-persons-ability-to-pay-under-new-proposal-40547022.html

The “regressive” and “outdated” television licence fee could be replaced by a household charge based on a person’s ability to pay, a member of the Future of Media Commission has said.

Professor Gillian Doyle told the Oireachtas Media Committee on Wednesday that the commission was considering alternatives to the “device-specific” licence fee which has been replaced in other countries in recent years.

She said a compulsory licence fee, which currently stands at €160 per year in Ireland, used to be very prevalent in many countries but a number of them have moved in away from it in recent years, including the likes of Netherlands, Denmark and Finland.

The professor of media economics at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow said the idea of voluntary subscriptions from citizens had also been examined but there were questions about whether it could raise enough money in an Irish context.

She said another possibility to replace the licence fee was a government grant or direct exchequer funding. “It's an approach that would remove evasion, promote universality, it has the advantage of making income more stable and predictable,” she said.

However, the academic said said the “snag” was the risk of political interference and said there would be a need for safeguards to ensure the government of the day could not adjust the funding. “We’ve looked at all of those and we're considering them,” Professor Doyle told the committee of the various options to replace the licence fee.

Would a referendum to enshrine RTÉ's editorial independence in the Constitution be feasible?

political analyst wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/outdated-television-licence-fee-could-be-replaced-by-household-charge-based-on-persons-ability-to-pay-under-new-proposal-40547022.html


Would a referendum to enshrine RTÉ's editorial independence in the Constitution be feasible?

No.

What a pointless exercise that commission is and was, dead before it ever got going. Obsessed by identity politics and fake news. With only a slight node to the pre-decided conclusion that the Licence Fee was “regressive” and “outdated”.

Very little about the content provided.

I imagine they forgot the over 400,000 license that are given free each year due to the persons ability to pay.

ButtersSuki wrote: »

It shows how little I watch RTE anymore that I honestly never heard of this until now. I listen to an awful lot of radio (where as we know RTE incessantly plug other RTE work) and read the papers (incl. the TV critic's choices) yet somehow I missed this completely. Lucky escape I think.........

It wasn't that bad. Bit of over acting from some but not bad. Trying to be a Channel 4 Swedish noir police drama kind of thing and not making a bad fist of it.

elperello wrote: »

There is no reason that a workable system to remove the funding from direct political control could not be put in place.

It's a bit like the judiciary but not directly comparable. As much as I support Public Service Broadcasting an independent judiciary is much more fundamental to our democracy.

By the way, the free TV licence given by DSP as part of the Household Package to over 70's is not linked to ability to pay.

I agree but I don't think it should be put in the constitution

By the way its not just the over 70's that get the Household Package.

Carers (on Carer's Allowance)
between 66 and 70 and getting: -
- Deserted Wife’s Benefit
- Garda Widow’s Pension
- If you are from a country with a bilateral agreement with Ireland etc
Incapacity Supplement (for at least 12 months) with Disablement Benefit
- You are aged between 66 and 70 and not receiving a qualified payment, and satisfy a means test

Under 66
- Disability Allowance
- Invalidity Pension
- Blind Pension
- and the last 2 above

all of these terms and more from a Department that doesn't every micro manage payments or means tests!

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

RTE is showing 4 or 5 year old episodes of Apres Match along with their Euro's coverage, trying to con people in to thinking they are new, either have new episodes or don't bother, such a bloody basket case organisation.

I half expect them to reair the entirety of Glenroe.

TG4 are just repeating the oldest shows you can imagine. Not even great ones, just 'filler'.

Elmo wrote: »

I wouldn’t mind if either rebroadcast dramas, TG4 are better than RTÉ at rebroadcasting comedy and drama but it took the pandemic for RTÉ to even consider repeating Batchelors Walk.

Yet they have time to repeat Ear To The Ground from before lockdown! A largely current affairs program, which they won’t even repeat on their news channel.

Just as long as they don't re-air 'The Last furlong'...

That was the moment Simon Delaney's career died, since he wrote, produced, and starred in that television abortion.

It's worse than the Big Bow Wow.. legitimately worse.