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

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".

not that surprised that the rte guide still sells well its a habit for a lot of people dispite the array of tv guides in any paper there is a big enough cohort of people who mainly watch rte because its irish and features irish people . The same folk love to read what the rte stars are doing for xmas etc and never tire of the usual suspects telling them what they are doing .

I don't know, I expect that's what they call commercially sensitive.

The company must think it's worthwhile anyway.

As I said it's probably cheaper than making an ad and paying for it to be shown, they are struggling to sell advertising, seen stuff for a furniture shop on over Christmas, kind of place that would normally advertise on local radio

What an awesome idea 💡 💡 💡

Increase TV Licence money so that RTE can do re-runs of shows from years ago, make dramas that nobody watches & pay over inflated wages to their staff.No thanks

After the way RTE have behaved throughout Covid, no way. Disgraceful broadcasting.

I already pay €160 so you can have your RTE, though I dont consume any of their output. No way should I be paying more to subsidise you.

i wonder what the true percentage figure is that people actually pay.