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

My local chipper is called The Lido. It's on Pearse St.

A programme featuring Eddie would be a lot more entertaining imv

Simon Delaney show is an RSA safety video. It's paid for entirely by the RSA and it will prob be sponsored by the RSA, and contain RSA product placement.

So a few rules about TV programming if you didn't know them

1. A programme that involves product placement must allow the broadcaster and producers have full editorial control
2. A programme that involves product placement may not be sponsored by any of the product placement providers
3. Product placement must be clearly stated

so it is unlikely that any of these rules have been met, but sure you know RTÉ are poor and they need some Irish content... just as long as 50% of the cost comes from various other organizations.

1. RTÉ will contend they bought the programme and didn't commission it.
2. RTÉ will claim that it meets all the requirements and as they didn't commission the programme, technically the RSA can sponsor any bought in programme
3. It's likely they will declare this, but if they don't they will say it is a public service message from a semi-state body.

Up before the Oireachtas Committee. I am sure the Committee will bring up presenter salaries, content, loss of funding to Lyric FM, cutting of children's programming, service that they provide and so on, real bread and butter stuff ...

It is nothing more than this, and little distractions like this only help RTÉ to avoid difficult questions relating to how they run their company. We are slowly taking our eye off the ball and focusing it firmly on our right to be offended.

In other news RTÉ have announced an hour long Irish Language Current Affairs programme starting in Sept.. Oct... perhaps the new year, you'd think they never had such a programme or that it went out 5 nights a week, or that there is no news or current affairs on RTÉ2.

God, i never thought id be on the same side as rte ever again and yet here we are - they've been taken to task by an even bigger shower of bellends

A Fair City actor suing RTE? Kind of odd, to say the least.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ seems to confirm it alright.

From what I can gather they are relatively well paid, and some then end up collecting the Dole (though people forget if you are paid through out the year and claim your claim can be tax if you earned enough during the weeks that you worked). AFAIK Fair City actors are on 80,000 per year and their year is still only 35 weeks. But I am completely open to correction on this.

I know a Ros Na Run actor brought the production company to court after her character was written out about 10 years ago. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ros-na-run-actor-settles-case-1.983039

The reduction in Irish Language programming only happen in the last decade. Only for that commitment did we actually avoid cuts a quicker pace than had occurred with English Language programming.

RTÉ need clear commitments in terms of genre programming and clear aims. I find RTÉ like to have someone else bark for them. For example because the ACT's complaints RTÉ have started airing programming from BBC, TG4 and getting funding from the NI's ILBF, as I pointed out Simon Delahney new show is almost entirely paid for by RSA.

RTÉ: "Want me to bark, pay me to bark and I will get someone to bark for me on their expense but thank you for the check, you can go bark for a refund".

As I have said RTÉ only want to produce News, CA and Sport. If at all possible RTÉ would love to get rid of the independent commissions unit and the RTÉ CO, while retaining their total funding and using said organizations for their programming. They have done this successfully with the BAI, IFB, BBC, TG4, C4 and other co-producers.

If only the Sound and Vision fund was funded by the Exchequer, and incorporated their Independent Commissions Unit!

Will he be taking Octomum with him?

So Catherine Martin (and MM) has had the 'Future of media commission' report on her desk for nearly a year now. Going to cabinet in two weeks and then might be released just before the TD's go on their hollybops.

The needle on my old analogue 'Dodgy-o-Meter' is twitching away nicely.

@jippo nolan You might be thinking of Octomum's husband Carson who's now Head of the BBC Scotland Channel.

So what you're saying there Ro is that a show on RTE, hosted by a NKM contractor which also had an different NKM contractor drop in, was a bit sh!t.

I'm flabbergasted!

On a side note - did anyone in the country actually watch any of that Baz show with his ma. I reckon they could have put up the test card and got better figures.

I'm just looking at the tonight show on VM hosted by NKM girl Doherty and with Ger Herbert (motoring) who I suspect is an NK girl too. It's ******* ridiculous.