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

How many magazines would you need to buy to fill 2.6 hours?

Given waiting rooms are more or less a thing of the past with Covid I'd say the figure has fallen off a cliff since March 2020.

I never understood magazines and papers in doctor waiting rooms. Sure, let's all handle the same things and pass it around, not like anyone in the waiting room is sick or anything... Just like RTE, makes no sense.

Just seen an ad there for ‘The Toy Show’ (not the Tubridy show), a show that looks to get kids interested in toys etc……… so a show for kids…..

when is it on?

Next Wednesday at 9:30pm

I noticed that and meanwhile at a reasonable hour we get repeats.

RTE love in story around folk turning up in Dublin Airport arrivals welcoming relatives despite the airport running 24/7 loudspeaker announcements saying only travellers or staff are allowed within the terminal building to combat that oul chestnut Covid we have been fighting for near 2 years, thank you for your crooked service from an unfit for purpose organisation so to speak.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/1219/1267672-dublin-airport-christmas/

ABC are based on the number of readers. Not sure if they provide the number sold, though I think RTÉ may provide that in their annual report.

ABC research is looking at the widest possible readership.

E.g. If Family are mainly made up of 2 adults and 2 children and 10000 Family buy the Family Magazine then the magazine has a potential audience of 40000. Then they look at how many outlets buy the magazine for their customers to read, e.g. Starbucks provide it free in their stores, That 73 outlets across the country.... and so on. This helps the magazine sell advertising.

Does that mean that it is safe to listen to Lyric FM in the mornings now? No more banal DJ wibbling from Marty Whelan just Classical music? It's a Festivus miracle. :)

Regards...jmcc

Leaving aside your personal viewing preferences the simple answer to your question is that the reason you pay the TV licence is that it is used to pay for Public Service Broadcasting.

Maybe some Christmas soon we will get an unexpected present from the Government and the TV licence will be replaced by direct funding from general taxation.

Imagine, television free to air just like radio is now, a real Christmas miracle 🙂

Grainne Seoige getting another fifteen minutes,

I'm really sick to the teeth of seeing my TV licence fee being squandered on this kind of sh1te.

Trim RTE down to a quarter of its current size, get rid of the rediculously overpaid staff and their cronies, cancel the rerurns of BBC shows, and those bought in from Australia, the, USA etc. (almost all of which can be seen elsewhere) - then let's have one TV channel and one radio station, for true public service broadcasting.

TG4 to be given full responsibility for Irish language broadcasting, along with full control of RNaG,

Plus the newspapers will be flooded with the usual 'sob' stories they print for each contestant. They always print sob stories.

I can predict a couple of them. I know one of the 'contestants' only got famous for playing the victim. Had some falling out with an atrocious 'Irish rap group'. If you haven't heard of that group, don't worry-that just means you are legally able to drink or donate blood. (Though probably best not to do both at the same time).

First time home in a few years, the subtle incorrect statements were the first thing I noticed on RTE..

surely “supported by your TV License” which is what I have see both times I watched RTE over the past 5 days.. should be “PAID by your TV License”?

Welcome home.

You are correct that RTE is funded by the TV licence but it also gets income from other sources ie. advertising.

Individual programmes may be sponsored. For instance the much maligned (see above) "Dancing With The Stars" is sponsored by Muller.

Other programmes my be joint productions or receive funding from outside sources ie. Screen Ireland (formerly Irish Film Board).

So given the mix of funding sources "supported by your TV Licence" is probably more accurate than "paid by your TV License".