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

Yeah it is if they are not corrupt they are incompetent.

Have they made any moves to even change the grading system in the company or this just something they say they are looking at.

Here is a company who was give the opportunity to divulge itself of the NSO (worth a saving of 7m) in 2021, only this company with their existential crisis was only able to move the company over in 2022, after 4 years of negotiations with the NCH!

NIMAN your doing well with 25 days :)

I sadly counted up the number days hols for both Byrne and Tubs

Tubs had 39 last year

Byrne had 42

Byrne takes most of them during August but is only up to 25days so she'll be on and of the air much more between now and Xmas.

Both are basically taking a week off every month.

I have no problem with the license fee in what ever form it comes in, however RTÉ needs route and branch reforms before such changes should be made.

I believe if government were to change the way in which the licence fee is collected and RTÉ were to get more money. Tubs would be on 80days holiday and have his salary doubled. (But if that's what it takes to see/hear less of him...)

Well seemingly this guy apparently "published a number of books including histories of the republican movement and of the Communist Party of Ireland" so there should be a few brain cells rattling round there.

But this actually illustrates the point I've been making that if you replaced the licence with direct exchequer funding, people, even seemingly politically aware people, would stop noticing or caring that the money for RTE was still ultimately coming out of their pockets. Just as nobody seemingly pays any mind to TG4's funding arrangements. So I think it would make a lot of sense for the political establishment and don't really understand why it was rejected out of hand.

In fairness the government would be giving us 200 toward water charges had they gone ahead!

My issue with the Telly Tax or changes to it is simple... RTÉ need reform they need structural changes and the need to start providing a proper service before any changes to the Telly Tax should be made.

A staff of 1,500 should not all be OOO in August.

Absolutely RTE needs reform and I've said so myself on this thread.

Could be that the real objection to such a charge though would be inability to evade - it wasn't the people who had been paying local authority service charges (not directly linked to bin collection) who went out protesting when it was changed to bin collection charges...

But hang on hasn't funding for the water supply reverted to general taxation, and isn't that what the hard left want. And isn't this effectively what the Future of Media commission was recommending for the funding of RTE?

There is any number of gobshytes willing to do anything to appear on TV, sit in a bath of beans or snog a pensioner (The Word), be imprisoned in a house for weeks (Big Brother) or even appear naked in that Channel 4 thing. 99.999% of them have no talent whatsoever though. Most of the current RTE/VM crop have no talent either but they talk a great game and/or are related to the right people.

Edit:typo

Toy show mentioned again today by the toy man...

160

Trust me even for the under 60s and potentially the under 70s!

My parents are not watch RTÉ as much anymore, I say they are watching UKTV, Discovery channels (GOLD, Yesterday, Quest, Quest RED etc), TG4 and my Dad likes action movies so Great TV!, they watch RTÉ for the NEWS and Dad for live sport, that is about it. Mam still watches TLLS but Dad he's not a fan, heads to the GAA club. They are both in the late 70s.

The difference is that Netflix and Disney are not public-service broadcasters (PSBs). PSBs have to cater for minority groups (e.g Irish speakers) as well as the majority - and I can't imagine Virgin Media providing many Irish-language programmes, to be honest!

Whaaaaat?... you mean to tell me you don't like to relax after a hard days work with "dying with dignity" or "mater hospital live" or "countdown to the top terrible diseases of the world" , what will make it to number one this year? Or "covid latest" to ensure a pleasant nights sleep?? 🤔

That's not the point weather you watch or not. RTÉ have cut back and yes I know what Irish language programming they have produced and broadcast.

You forgot pulling with my parents, sure isnt that what all 20yo's would like to do/watch

You have read that in 2016 that they were moving it out of RTÉ, but that they were not cutting funding to Children's content right?

You then found out that they'd already cut it by 25% in 2016 from 2015, and that in 2017 the cut it by 50%.

And that funding in total remains around 5m but that the independent productions unit spent 4.2m on children's content or as RTÉ like to say just 1% of their total costs!