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

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    #7742
    HildaOgdenx
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117892990#Comment_117892990

    You can just imagine the squad cars arriving, sirens blaring 😂. Not. How the hell would anyone believe that rubbish!



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    #7743
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117950783#Comment_117950783

    Do you think it will change this budget... lets face it ... it won't :) .... I will eat my hat if the new taxation is introduced in 2022 more likely 2023 if they are lucky.



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    #7744
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,871 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117950891#Comment_117950891

    Priceless, I am in stitches here.



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    #7745
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,448 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117951341#Comment_117951341

    Not a chance I hope.

    Cart before horse.

    We need to decide what sort of Public Broadcasting Service we want first.



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    #7746
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    RTE’s Joe Duffy hit out at crime dramas like Love/Hate and Kin for ‘exploiting’ real people’s lives and having actors put on ‘thick Dublin accents’.

    “I hate their travails being exploited by middle-class actors who are putting on their thick working-class Dublin accents and then go back to eating foie gras during their lunch break,” he told RTE Guide before the show hit screens earlier this month.

    You have to love good 'auld Joe, suppose you can only eat "foie gras" with an authentic Dublin Accent, before getting on national radio to "exploit" almost everyone for an audience.



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    #7747
    Gen.Zhukov
    Registered Users Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    That Glow-Up rubbish. So what happened. Presumably little or no research done to see if it would be a viable project or not. Lots of our money spent on what was basically a test run, which ultimately failed. Any heads rolling for yet another massive fail? I doubt it. Seems you have to get caught red-handed trying to bang a 12yo girl in the UK to receive any sanction in the RTE party club.



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    #7748
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,121 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    The sheer feckin' cheek of Duffy spouting that shyte with him on his 450k a year for riling up callers and inciting vulnerable people into making fools out of themselves on air.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #7749
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117950891#Comment_117950891

    Still waiting for him to leave the country because Enda Kenny was Taoiseach...

    ...still waiting...

    ...happily pay for the ticket.



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    #7750
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,310 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Just after watching the new show Cocooned and it was all very staged - how long have RTE been planning to inflict this on us

    Wasn't the kind of show I was expecting where everyone in the show was obviously paid to play their parts and be in the right position for the cameras i.e. make sure you're by the window and the curtain is pulled back while we film your absolute fear


    Dunno if a show just full of "private" conversations actually makes a show



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    #7751
    Gunmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,067 ✭✭✭Gunmonkey


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117950842#Comment_117950842

    Will never be a tax as then each year their payment from the gov will be a fixed, "here you go" amount.....which doesnt fit into Dee's "spend first, account later" style of leadership. How on earth would she excuse colossal overspend and incessant loses each year if she has no "but but but De Government didnt collect all de license fees for us" to fall back on?



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117951941#Comment_117951941

    Ah me heart bleeds for the the poor fella, have to wipe all those salty tears away with his massive "working-class" paycheques 🙄


    Whats the bets, if you trawled through his show years back during Love/Hates run, he probably gushed over it and sang its praises?



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    #7752
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117952734#Comment_117952734

    Had a google, he wasn't fond of Love Hate in it's initial run.



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    #7753
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117952794#Comment_117952794

    Every Monday Afternoon didn't he used it as an item on his show.



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    #7754
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Only took the media a full 10 days to report on this, news from Oz must come by boat!

    https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/cork-comedian-replace-eoghan-mcdermott-21704935



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    #7755
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,148 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    The producers of No Time To Die won't have needed to spend any money on advertising in Ireland.

    The film has been covered ad nauseam for free on multiple shows on rte for the last 3 or 4 weeks. I have never heard a film talked about as much. You'd think it was the most important film ever made in the history of cinema.

    Then again, shows need cheap filler content, and talking about films and tv is easy.

    Dee should have been charging the producers money for amount of airtime it got.



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    #7756
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,121 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    "Eoghan McDermott made a shock departure from RTE back in March, when it was confirmed that he would not be back on 2FM's breakfast show."

    But they never say why... 🙄

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #7757
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117958680#Comment_117958680

    I am guessing they paid for the late late show on Friday night.



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    #7758
    PieOhMy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,530 ✭✭✭PieOhMy


    Now that the house bands services have been dispensed with would those new bands that play every week on the late late be paid for the air time / exposure, or be paid themselves for their performances? Genuinely curious how this works.



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    #7759
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 993 ✭✭✭rightmove


    daithi and your wan (mauraeennnn) have another whan helping them now. another white middle aged man as ....sorry....of course not. why cant they drop one of the existing presenters?



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    #7760
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117959577#Comment_117959577

    But a daily daytime TV show that only airs from October to May! Surely they are saving money on the holidays.



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    #7761
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117959577#Comment_117959577

    Also Anna Daly has joined em, after leaving Ireland AM.

    Aidan Power and Laura Woods might be next to 'return' to RTE.



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    #7762
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,871 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117959004#Comment_117959004

    It's not a shock when you know why he left. You have to ask why RTE promoted him to the breakfast show when they were told about the allegations about him. The allegations that forced his departure.



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    #7763
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117961263#Comment_117961263

    Tbf, Noel Clarke got a Bafta award, despite numerous allegations and whispers about him. Doesn't surprise me how many people get high up gigs, despite numerous creepy allegations.

    I mean, many people knew about Harvey Weinstein... but they still turned a blind eye.



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    #7764
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,310 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Maybe not discuss the undiscussable for fear of the thread been locked like others - only allegations, no charges pending so stay schtum for the time being



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    #7765
    glenfieldman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭glenfieldman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117961324#Comment_117961324

    Weinstein and Noel Clarke were very well known, and as for HW very powerful so its understandable that the powers that be would have turned a blind eye and covered up their horrific crimes.

    But for RTE to claim ignorance regarding EMcD allegations is indefensible



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    #7766
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117961398#Comment_117961398

    I agree last thread was deleted a full thread deleted, not just closed!



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    #7767
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117961489#Comment_117961489

    It's interesting, too, how people who enabled Weinstein still have careers. There's an unfunny 'jack of all trades' (since he's done everything-but isn't much good at any thing he's tried) called Nick Kroll. He primarily showboats as a comedian. Anyways, his dad is a billionaire, runs a company called Kroll Inc.

    Whenever Harvey Weinstein wanted to kill a story about him, or about a client/ Starlet he was promoting-he'd hire Kroll Inc (among others) to kill the story.

    Nick Kroll and John Mullaney did some hosting gig, and they proceeded to do stand-up bashing Weinstein. But Kroll's daddy helped enable Ol'Harvey.



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    #7768
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Re: Maternity of Sinead from Today, was it maternity, because Dathi and Maura were pretty much on hols for most of that time.



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    #7769
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117974386#Comment_117974386

    They were babysitting. ;)



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    #7770
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117974386#Comment_117974386

    As bad as TV3/Virgin Media are, at least they can run their daytime chat shows all year round. RTE don't think about elderly people in nursing homes etc who rely on daytime TV when they take shows like Today off air for months



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    #7771
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117979229#Comment_117979229

    This also leaves me asking what do RTÉ do with their TV studios in Dublin.

    The RTÉ Quiz Show (there is only one) was filmed in Virgin Media's TV studios, according to RTÉ because all of their studios were in use.

    RTÉ TV has ~4 live shows per day, one comes from Cork so only 3 are coming from the Dublin studios, News at 1, 6 and 9, and then Prime Time, Claire Byrne Live and TLLS, this leaves only one Daytime use of the studios News at 1. With news and sport at the Weekend.

    I don't think their are many more studio based programmes from RTÉ.



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