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

Good to see ya back 👍️

Yeah, I was thinking the same about the property shows and I wouldn't have been surprised had Ms Lotto Ryan done a few shows on how to extend your garden shed by 1 sq mtr.

I read a post around the site (unsubstantiated) that Lotto Ryan is on €80k in there.

Sadly doubt it's replacing it. OT still has a large enough viewership to make it an RTE staple.

I don't watch it myself. Those shows tend to be short term benefits, and don't fix the issue. Biggest Loser was a similar show, and plenty of them relapsed. Or died.

From the people who brought you.... Vogue Williams documentaries...

https://www.animotv.ie/documentaries

Christ...

Claire Byrne Live axed, I still wonder how much her ever changing desks cost.

BBC cutting CBB TV, and BBC 4. In order to save costs.

RTE think cancelling a show nobody was watching (outside of hate watching) is a cost saving measure.

They gave Ray 'School around the corner' and some other show with dogs, as well as his TV chat show.

All of them were Dead on Arrival.

And they wouldn't give Ray 'The MEaning of Life' since he's an atheist. Duffy is Catholic. As was Gay Byrne (despite his 'I'm not telling anyone my beliefs' protestations). If D'Arcy hosted it would be 'why do you believe that s**t?' rather than an interesting discussion.

That said, 'The Meaning of Life' should have ended with Gay Byrne. But that said, that's never stopped RTE before-see The Late Late Show's corpse for that.

And it obviously KILLS Joe Duffy that he's not Gay Byrne. And he never will be....

I think Ray's show would be called "Can you believe that they have me this **** show and pay me good money for it?, what did I have to do? ... jusnot be on the radio as much as I was before".

The Den as a family show could work but it needs more things moving than what the den was, as a show interspacing children's programming (and as the CBBC exits we should note that Hacker T Dog is pretty much doing what The Den did but with more than one camera). Ten times better than the awful New Years pilot hosted by Doireann and Dermot, and at least 5 times better than Home Advantage which got a second series.

I don't know how RTÉ were able to drop their Sat night chat show with no real replacement, Tommy is a short run and Ask Me Anything was just like any other TV chat show and also a short run. They also got away with not pushing Ray D'Arcy, and when your paying him that much the least you can do is get him to do some continuity announcing. Does he have a sponsor for his radio show?

Now that I think about it The Den regardless of audience was 20 times better than most programming on RTÉ!

How do RTE so consistently manage to have their audio/visual feeds out of sync for live football games? I don't think I've ever seen any other channel do this.

I was watching old races from Punchestown recently on YT, and from about 2017 to 2020, they somehow managed to have the track commentators audio overlapping the RTE commentators audio. Pure amateur hour stuff.