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

Good choice, she has experience as a TV executive and as a Board member. But she has a hard task taking over from 2 do nothing chairs over the last 15 years.

Nor Fergal O'Rourke, whoever he is, the other guy on the shortlist. Must have felt a need to broaden the search...

RTÉ ONE should not really feel the effects of the world cup, its a largely different audience. Their worry is weather or not audience will return. If RTÉ in total get a 26% share in both Nov and Dec they won't really care. I am only giving an opinions based on what few figures I have seen/can get over the last decade or so. All of which is available to everyone, I am not involved in the industry.

@iseegirls might have a different view point, they've seen the same figures and might have a differing opinion, sorry if I am dragging you into this.

The chair has responsibly to the company. They should be able to progress some issues in the organisation. Moya Doherty sat on some committee relating to higher wages and payment for big programmes. She and her successor should be able to bring some form of reform. IMO Moya and her predecessors took these role as simply a figure head a gift bestowed upon her by the Minister.

@political analyst I am not sure that RTÉ would quick air a doc just because it didn't get an airing in January, I can understand the delay, but I would wonder why it couldn't wait another week.

On RTE media Toy Show The Musical is currently having more frequent ads than The National Lottery which is currently the highest spending organisation in the state advertising on all forms of media, will there be an audit as to where public funds have been blown?

Amazing how little any media outlets are giving to the video of Leo in a nightclub, sucking face with someone who isn't his partner.

From what I've heard, it's had a very serious knock-on effect. When the PR message 'Mr Varadkar is in an open relationship' came out, apparently nobody told his partner that they were.

The epic financial fail that the TSTM is heading towards will be off-set somewhat by the unprecedented amount of 'Govt' ads running at the moment - Its been turned up to 11. They seem to have ramped it up about 3 weeks ago which would coincide with the six week run into Christmas which I would think there's a premium ad rate for those weeks. There has been an increase of those ads on other stations too but RTE are getting the lions share.

I think every time RTE says - "The former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall..." they get another ad.

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What has any of this to do with this thread - man snogs the face off another man - get over it

Yeah not directed at you

Can you not see that story has ramifications beyond "government minister pictured snogging somebody other than his publicly acknowledged partner"?

TG4 has announced there line up a while back, VMTV have never really done anything.

In the meantime

seriously they haven't got a clue.

As for the Tainiste and coverage, of course RTÉ should have covered it. The Tainiste is has been acting like a teenager for the last few years. Sitting out in the park during COVID, oh but he needs to let his hair down we all do it, picking his nose while at a festival during lockdown in a different country, oh but we all need to let our hair down .... cheating on his partner ... but sure we all do that ... where is the line? If it were any other politician it would be plastered all over the papers and RTÉ would have a few questions for that politician.

Yes we need to get on with our lives etc but there are times when a politicians needs to remember they represent their people, and this is always the case, if they want to bring people back to their home and do things in private let them, but once you bring it into the public domain it needs to be address.

Indeed for many people the Matt Hancock affair wasn't just about COVID, but the fact that he was having an affair, both need to grow up.

What was Parnell advised to do : Resign, Return and Retire.

The Guardian have picked up the story on Leo, going to be harder for RTE to try and ignore it.

@RabbleRouser2k

No according to the 2fm Changes thread it features all 3 presenters and it is a hidden camera show, last one was more like a bad version of The Generation Game.