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

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Hope they will air ‘Leave it to Mrs O Brien’ soon…….

Excellent production….

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

RTÉ once again with their finger on the pulse showing the England v Czech Republic game on RTÉ2 which is essentially a dead rubber game as both are qualified for the last 16, as opposed to showing the Scotland v Croatia game, which is basically winner qualify's for the 2nd round, loser goes home......

Yes they are showing it on RTÉ News Now, but that means no HD, and watching in fuzzy vision...

A bit melodramatic, don't you think?! Colour TV is colour TV, whether it's SD or HD.

Elmo wrote: »

The RTÉ News channels version of SD is not even SD. I'd normally say you'd have to be very fussy to see the difference but RTÉ News is possibly the worst quality of SD. (Not sure what it is like on Sky or Virgin Media).

I often wonder why RTÉ sold the 2016 rights to TV3. Was purely to help out an ailing friend or to recoup some money. I think it was to save TV3 from UTV Ireland more so than anything else. Since then RTÉ have failed to share sports rights with any broadcaster for the last WC or this years Euros. Surely Virgin Media with its sports channels might have been interested in some of the Euros even the second choice clashing matches.

and then this year to put the clashing matches on a channel that doesn't carry advertising and that is only available in FUZZYVISION

Presumably, the match in which England was playing was shown on RTÉ 2 because it was much more prominent than the match in which Scotland was playing - given that the English team is the most prominent in the British Isles - and so RTÉ believed it would attract a greater number of viewers. The Scottish team's defeat vindicates RTÉ's decision.

So RTÉ's annual report into commissing has been released.

As we knew they missed their target by 3.5 million or so, which will be carried over to next year.

Drama and Comedy consisted of the following programmes: -
Comedy - Non-scripted
The Tommy Teirnan Show
Clear History
Comedy - Scripted
Callahan Kicks the Year (Did this air in 2019?)
Drama
Kin (to be shown if we are lucky this season)
North Sea Connection (a co-pro commissioned in sweden and given funding by the BAI before RTÉ got involved, not yet broadcast)

What do you do when your the head of Drama at RTÉ.... ask if you can take on scripted comedy.... what do you do when your head of drama and scripted comedy .... asked if you can take on non-scripted comedy .... what do you do if none of your drama productions aired in 2020 ... a sure stick them in until you find something to tack on to your portfiolio of nothing.

I point out that the two drama's have yet to be broadcast because generally when a show is commissioned/produced in one year but not broadcast until the following year it is considered part of the following years budget, yet some how these 2 drama haven't been broadcast but get special treatment.

tallaghtfornia wrote: »

How is this platform surviving in 2021 with all the online streaming services ?
With the exception of Sport I don't know anyone who watches RTE or Live TV anymore all my work collogues talk about is what's on Netflix & YouTube.

Not just about broadcasting. #PlatformNeutrality

RTÉ could better utilize You Tube.... but then most youtubers have more content than RTÉ.

RandomViewer wrote: »

Huge number of households still only have Saorview, there would be older people who would only watch the news and a few soaps, lots of people only have telly on for noise, don't care what's on, would explain why VM123 still exist

Point taken - I just have a bee in my bonnet about the license fee kills me having to pay this once a year for something myself and my family don't use. Would rather spend the money on a premium YouTube subscription and not pay anything toward these 'stars' salaries..

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Front of RTE's entertainment section 'Listen: Proper geyser Damon Albarn to release new solo album'...

Can people not spell 'geezer'?

Who you calling a geezer?

Elmo wrote: »

Not really as the poster pointed out England had already qualified, it was a match to win for our celtic brothers.

England's football team is still much more prominent than Scotland's. I suspect that RTÉ's decision to show England's match on RTÉ 2 was influenced by the broadcasting of the same match on the ITV Network (except for STV, which showed the Scotland match - and so the England match was simulcast on ITV 2).

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Long slippery slope to nonentity, RabbleRouser

We are Losing the battle ‘done..seen..gone….went… nooze…. quawter…’

Only good thing is it helps to pick out the ‘scrote ‘ from the decent skin.

Now infesting the National Airwaves, the Dáil, the professions might be our last chance.


Sorry lads, we are on a slippery slope, lack of real ‘education’ is rearing its ugly head.

I disagree with that rather snobby appraisal. Most people, educated or otherwise, just don't care as much as you do about what is a peripheral issue, although one you constantly mention.

DrSerious3 wrote: »

I disagree with that rather snobby appraisal. Most people, educated or otherwise, just don't care as much as you do about what is a peripheral issue, although one you constantly mention.

You are perfectly right there, Doctor.

But…hey…. If that’s the way you want to operate……..

I just believe it’s just as easy to say ‘I saw the incident’ rather than ‘ I seen the incident’.

But ..if you want to do the wrong thing, I can’t help you, a chara.

Just typecast yourself if that’s your bag.

ineedeuro wrote: »

Are the games not picked in advance? I expect its a guess on which might be the better game so going with England is the obvious choice. No point trying to find problems when they don't exist.

I am sure there are, I am only replying to the poster, who originally suggested the Scotland game over the England game, as there was more at stake, IMO I don't like soccer and have no interest. There are always reasons as to why you choose one thing over another.

But its not me that's nit picking I put it to you the way RTÉ would put it.

As a public service broadcaster we provided a 24 hour news services that carries no ads.

As a public service broadcaster we must air large events such as the euros, "special events" if you like.

Why not axe the News channel?
Why not sell part of the rights to the euro's to Virgin Media?

If they are causing you losses.

ineedeuro wrote: »

Axe 2FM before you go after anything else, that is a serious waste of money

It was a running joke about how '2fm went from being on the pulse of what was hot in Ireland' to 'now barely having a pulse'.

That was in the late 2000s. Fast forward 10+ years, and it's not even clued in to what's popular. It's presenters are trading on nostalgia, hoping that that will stay relevant to the 'masses'. Nope... it's relevant to a tiny portion of the audience, and none of them are under 18. Even 18+ have spotify. The tiny (and let's be honest, it is tiny) audience 2fm have wouldn't even sustain the average spotify playlist.

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

It was a running joke about how '2fm went from being on the pulse of what was hot in Ireland' to 'now barely having a pulse'.

That was in the late 2000s. Fast forward 10+ years, and it's not even clued in to what's popular. It's presenters are trading on nostalgia, hoping that that will stay relevant to the 'masses'. Nope... it's relevant to a tiny portion of the audience, and none of them are under 18. Even 18+ have spotify. The tiny (and let's be honest, it is tiny) audience 2fm have wouldn't even sustain the average spotify playlist.

Only real reason the were surviving in the last 2000s was because of Gerry Ryan and even he was slowly losing an audience. Only to be replaced for 5 years by Ryan Tubrity who they kept in that position when it was clear he wasn't getting andience, while paying him top rate.

according to the JNLR figures, Tubridy has lost a massive 124,000 people from his audience since he took over the radio slot from the late Gerry Ryan in 2010.

Dipping figures have been a constant worry for Ryan, and last year he admitted that if his figures continued to slump, he would have to seriously rethink his position and future career in radio.

Those scathing remarks from joe.ie!

https://www.joe.ie/life-style/ryan-tubridy-is-a-major-turn-off-for-irish-radio-listeners-35664

That was in May 2012

a year later

And although his own weekday show listenership has dropped to 159,000 according to the latest JNLR figures, Tubridy said that he's feeling confident about the months ahead.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/ryan-tubridy-determined-to-improve-2fm-shows-listenership-29254029.html

His total listenership now stands at 144,000, which is 1,000 less than ex-Westlife star Nicky Byrne, whose show with Jenny Greene took a slight dip down from 151,000 to 145,000.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/rte-deny-reports-ryan-tubridy-is-moving-to-ronan-collins-slot-on-rte-radio-one-30492556.html

RTÉ pointed out its “book-on-book” figures — comparing listenerships from the last quarter of 2014 to the first quarter of 2015 — for both stations showed gains for a number of its stars including 2fm’s Ryan Tubridy (189,000 listeners)

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20328105.html

But they kept paying him, kept saying if we don't have him someone else will. :rolleyes: