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

How in the name of living fúck did anyone in RTE think that putting Brian Curtin on air was a remotely acceptable idea?

Sometimes I think they really are trolling us. "We have your money, we can do whatever we like with it, and there's nothing you can do about it"

What next - a talent show with Gary Glitter?

That kind of money goes right to the top. New chair and an incoming DG shortly.

If the reports that RTÉ were about to take a share in Joe.ie and Her.ie media empire are to believed I am not surprised.

RTÉ know how to spend money.

It'd be hilarious to watch it crash and burn if it wasn't our money going up in smoke so RTE could stroke its collective... ego.

Joe and Her.ie, ffs really? The absolute dregs of the Irish internet.

Except they ran into financial difficulties along with fake audience numbers. Fortunately for RTÉ they changed their minds.

I think they are two different products. I think RTÉ have over extended themselves on the Musical. I don't think considered the risks.

1. Even without inflation the prices of tickets are high.
2. Winter a cold winter, okay Ireland doesn't get many freezing winter but launching an expensive show during winter seems a bit crazy.
3. I am not a fan of pantos but you know what you are getting, weather we like it or not, The Toy Show Musical is untested many will wait for reviews
4. Back of the envelop on their breakeven point based on the €2m spend would mean that it would have to sell 80,000 tickets at €25 each, based on a quick tally of seats and number of events they only have 120,327 seats to sell, meaning they need to sell 66% of their seats, and 100% of cheap seats and discounted seats.

I just don't see how you could consider such a large scale launch, fine if RTÉ had sold the rights to the name, but to be so involved!!!

I don't know this could be a big international success. They should be releasing the soundtrack!

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In January they could start something else they have zero track record experience in like drilling for oil on the Montrose lands.

"The production is the brainchild of Late Late Show producers Jane Murphy and Katherine Drohan."

With the day job doing so badly you'd think they'd be concentrating on improving that instead.

This is the first I've heard about their 80k launch. I'm not sure how bringing staff and clients to the RDS is supposed to show potential advertisers that people like me will watch rte over Xmas. I have zero knowledge about what they'll be showing (to be fair I can say the same for all broadcast TV this year).

From a tax dodger...who took a massive wedge of cash during COVID to put on his stupid panto...did it once...recorded it and sold tickets...

True but when you think the DG has to come out to defend it by throwing out the following arguments

1. Turning a commercial risk into a public service
2. Think of the Children : Diverting criticisms of RTÉ management to the hope of a success for the performs and the crew

And then she has the nerve of ....

Comparing RTÉ to the BBC ...

Something we are told we shouldn't do!

Next RTÉ will have the live show of DWTS ... or would that be the BBC ...?

It is now the 17th of December ... perhaps ticket sales will pick up.

RTÉ SUPPORTING THE ARTS.

Why do you think David McRedmond busied himself with such things in An Post where 75% of the staff are men? He's getting ready for the big job in RTÉ.

Ahahahahahah

https://www.anpost.com/getmedia/a4b955c7-217c-4fd5-8c51-aa9a9b952151/Gender-Pay-Gap-Report-2021.pdf

Front cover: "women leaders for the future" picture of woman on zoom call with nothing but other female managers.

Actual An Post workers - they can be all male of course. Not pictured.

In fairness to McRedmond he is a master of PR, he was head of PR at eircom PLC never answering a question and nearly always on SIX ONE news, constantly gave out about the license fee that RTÉ had even though Doherty Hanson had paid over the odds for TV3 (265m) and ended up selling to VMTV for 80m, along with a repurchase of loads costing the Irish tax payer at least 80m AFAIR. He was touted as the next DG before they choose Dee Forbes, and IMO he sees the important of feigning an interesting in the gender politic, I'd not be surprised if he is in the running for DG this time round, his father after all argued against the establishment of RTÉ2 in the 1970s!

So 5 stagings of the toy show musical have been cancelled due to 'illness'.

How convenient