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

The Future of Media Commission will soon report, end of this week or may later today who knows

Three things they will do

1. Reform The Licence Fee, this will be minimal reform and will largely about how it is collect, BAI might receive extra from it to allow for online, paper and independent broadcast news to gain funding from it, sound and vision will change to allow for it to be open to anyone including pay on demand providers like Disney + and Netflix, it will dress this up as supporting Volta or providing funding to the film industry.
2. Diversity, they won't actually recommend that RTÉ reform and allow for natural diversity happen by making programming, rather it will be inserted into all programmes and the audience will still be looking at the same kind of stuff just with different tokenistic presenters.
3. Fake News. The will have a fund to stop the spread of "disinformation", this will include a fund to train staff.

In fairness these 3 points will be included in a massive academic report.

How many of them went to Tokyo?

And got to bring their families, fly first class, get booked into a 5 star hotel, get very generous floats, and will get to make unvouched expense claims, when they return?

Then...

How many of them didn't go, but got promised an extra jolly next year, to make up for it 🙄😔

Unbelievable! Who is this Williams chap anyway? Head of content or what?

They do love those harry Potter films over in montrose, nice and long... kills three hours for them of a Saturday evening

Said it before its a cod having Cahill, Hurley and all the crew over there confined to a complex, sure they'd be better off following the Olympics from a studio stream back here for all the insight they provide... I remember Cahill had to be informed about the unfolding Johnson affair at the soeul Olympics in 88 live on air on the PK show at the time by Pat himself, some use having that lad out there with all the expense that entailed

Then they will show them again for seven or eight afternoons over Christmas. I recall they used to have a rule that no film could be shown for two years after it was last shown. Now it seems to be two months.

Why is that gobshíte still employed? A few hot days in Summer and he thinks it is "Climate Change". There was a time when RTE reported the news and left the religious propaganda for the religious shows.

Regards...jmcc

It's a little bit more than 'a few hot days in summer' in fairness. Look at what's happening all around the planet.

7.3 million paid out in the last 8 years... 😲😲😲

Bloody hell. And that's just the cases they've paid out for. Joe Brolly is suing Claire Byrne for defamation as well.

Cripes. It costs nothing to shut up.

Without making this into a CLIMATE CHANGE discussion. Let take a look at RTÉ, take the news at 6 (6.1) it has been cut, as usual to 6:30, why? Surely RTÉ could if it wanted have a range of "special discussion" taking place from 26 of July to the beginning of September. These could range from Ireland place at the UN security council, Ireland and the EU, Local Government, climate change, political discussions and so on, this would cost RTÉ much.

Again, it's a bit more than a few warm days. The planet has been burning, flooding, basically imploding in recent years. The pressure on RTE and Williams has been in progress long before the 'few warm days'.

RTÉ dismissed its own Audience Council in to examining its reporting on Climate change about 7 years ago. I think one of the members wrote about it, following their successors move to look at the issue.

Williams fobbed everyone off successively. As I say he could have put a Climate Change special on any time after the Six One news starting from last Monday, but as usual RTÉ choose to take a holiday.