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

Whatever system the RTE Player uses to show the ads always works flawlessly...

what's the local company?

So one of the questions posed to the people interviewed was

How Should public broassting be funded?

Paul Farrell (VMTV CEO) - Agrees with public funding but suggests that RTÉ ONE, NEWS and Radio 1 have no advertising. (This has been suggested on many occassion here on boards, though many think all the rest should be dropped).

Ed Guiney (Co-founder of Element Pictures) - Retained in some form

Sarah MCInerney (RTÉ Radio Presenter) - Retained but no real view

Darren Smith (Kite Entertainment) - Not Asked/Not Answered

Kim Bartley (filmmaker) - not asked/not answered

Cormac O hEadhra (RTÉ Radio Presenter) - not sure what he is saying, if you want in depth analysis it should be funded???

Diarmaid Ferriter (Historian) - does say if he agrees but he sees the problem with direct funding

Marian Keyes (Novelist) - is against direct funding, due to government bias etc

Fergal Keane (BBC Reporter) - not asked not answered

Debbie Ging (Lecturer DCU) - not asked not answered

Larry Bass (Shinawhil) - License Fee not fit for purpose - wants dedicated fund

Siobhán McSweeney (Actress) - not asked not answered

Peter McKenna (Ireland's only TV Drama writer along with Lisa McGee) - old fashioned, should be exchequrer funded

Vincent Browne (Former RTÉ/TV3 current affair presenter) - He thinks it should be divided between those who provided public service current affairs but questions how does that work without government interference ???

Mark Little (Former RTÉ presenter) - get rid of licence fee, replace with direct funding, says focusing on just RTÉ's funding is myopic, should be how do we protect and fund public accessible facts and culture?

Dee Forbes (the person on the title of this thread) - out of date, old fashioned etc

Not one person against the license fee or funding, now I think it should be funded but I respect those who don't think this way enough to let them say so.

Let's not forget that RTE already get a fair whack of money off the government in addition to the licence fee and that's not counting all the money they made with the advertising

• RTÉ/TG4 can only have an average of 6mins per hour across 24 hours and a max of 9mins in an hour.
• It is currently linked to inflation but they've not implemented that since 2009 I think, collection method hasn'tc changed
• I'd agree, with a mix of some high end programming from abroad.
• Pres election is every 7 years, the company that collects the fee is up for election e.g. An Post?

Not sure about the last part, RTÉ are state owned.

Did they honeymoon period end at 2 years or is she still in her honeymoon period.

Any views yourself?

I overheard Lyric FM the other day, some guy called Hamilton presenting.

I bet my sister 1000 EUR, it couldnt be George Hamilton, the retired RTE sports presenter.

I mean, WTF ?

He has been presenting on Lyric FM since the start AFAIK, if not for at least the last decade if not more.

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Did you not know that he has a weekly column on classical music in the Review section of the Indo on Saturdays?

How are RTÉ and BBC Studios able to get a third series out of 'Smother', which is shown by RTÉ and then by the subscription channel 'W' in the UK?! By the way, I never watched 'Smother'.

W is no longer subscription and I think it aired on Alibi originally which I think is still subscription. Watch the first season it was a bit meh so didn't look at the second. It's a BBC Studios production for RTÉ.... and UKTV but I am not sure how that works. (BBC Studios own UKTV).

RTÉ are working on a sign on, though I hope that it is a choice rather than something necessary, and I wonder if the sign on will allow you the same access when abroad. As I say there are EU rule surrounding pay tv but I am not sure if they extend to local providers, but you need to ask them if you can sign on abroad to gain access to RTÉ, TG4 and VMTV and other channels that they provide.