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

TG4 is a separate company to RTÉ, the only connection is Nuacht TG4 and a few Irish language programmes produced RTÉ but its mainly news and current affairs.

You can switch of TG4 subtitling on their player.

The bad weather disrupted many people's internet, so streaming services weren't an option. I'd say many a person was stuck watching shows they wouldn't give a second glace because of the storms.

So Claire Byrne is taking a well deserved break!

This is the first time that an RTÉ TV and Radio presenter took their holidays from their Radio show along with their TV show!

Me thinks that the negiotiations for cuts to their wages/salaries goes something like this

RTÉ 2020: Look we have to make it look like we are cutting back, so rather then the normal 40 weeks on the radio we reduce it down to 35 weeks, but TV remains the same

RTÉ 2021: Look we have to make it look like we are cutting back, so rather then the normal 35 weeks on the radio we reduce it down to 30 weeks, but TV remains the same, except for you Claire take one of you shows of, take one of the desks we keep building for that show also, you might need it in your shed one day!

No remember she was saying how she wanted more time with the kids and that you need that work live balance. And we all said how her work life balance at RTÉ is actually very good, along with a very nice pay check.... now I am digging :)

Though I do have to ask @elperello since the €10m was to part define in 2019 what PSB meant and there was an understanding that RTÉ would maintain their Lyric FM service with this help, do you think that RTÉ have any questions to answer when they cut funding to Lyric FM in 2020?

Ah now Elperello you can guess what I think by how I have stated the question. I am asking you feel about this move by RTÉ.

Let say tomorrow we all agreed the PBS broadcasting was to be made up of all of the services that RTÉ currently have and that we all agreed that the licence fee should increase to 170 and that every household pays the fee regardless.

In year one RTÉ don't increase funding to children's TV, don't increase funding to Lyric FM but instead increase public funding to 2fm and TV entertainment programming like DWTS and also increase the fees to their presenters and there is really no discernible difference between RTÉ pre-agreement and post-agreement.

Do we just continue and say oh well that is a "decision" for RTÉ management? Or Well its only the first year and it takes time for that funding to be seen, and really it won't be seen until year 2? and then so on for another decade.

So back to the original question: -

In 2019 RTÉ ran a report on Prime Time on the suggested clousure of Lyric FM.

After this they were awared an extra €10m so that they could keep Lyric FM in Limerick.

In 2020 funding to lyric was cut by 16%. In relaity this would have been the amount of money RTÉ were possibly going to save by moving lyric to Dublin and Cork.

Now honestly is this in anyway fair?

And RTE shows feed each other with content, hence the reason the 3 main shows are hyped and talked about to death.

Operation Transformation is talked about on the Darcy Show non-stop.

DWTS gets a lot of time too, and on the Tubs radio show.

And don't forget how much Late Late Show is filled up with people from OT, DWTS.

And also whenever RTE has a big drama on, be it Kin or Smother, it too will fill a lot of radio discussion slots.

Its feeds itself. Keeps everyone relevant.