Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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So the other day you told me to put you on Ignore and yesterday you were trying to be my friend because you knew I had your attention seeking number. Today you want to take me on. All over the shop, credibility in tatters.
I am guessing it may have been a mod instruction. There was 1 in yesterday had 7 posts lots of replies and then all vanished including replies and only mods can do that. Makes it a headache if you try to go to the original post
Relax
No, I am not taking the piss.
Ryan Took Everything
Your friend… 😅
Take you on…
this post is almost as paranoid as the threat to democracy one
when push comes to shove - you will pay it.
you are all mouth but you don’t walk the walk
No end, and no beginning either
"All the better to eat you with"...
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A lot of people won't pay it, and won't pay it until the inspector gives them the 30 days to get one - which at the current rate of enforcement could be years away.
Mass non payment would completely overwhelm an post enforcement, considering it's estimated that 15% of households don't pay it already.
i see parallels to the LPT.
the talk at the time was that nobody would pay it.
at the end I think everyone ended paying it.
The **** grandstanding at committee really gets on my tits. Most days there's next to no one watching yet they can't help themselves. You have 10 mins for questions, yet half that is taken up by pols saying how disappointed they are bs nonsense. People want answers to insightful and probing questions, but coming up with those requires research and work.
Watching committee meetings is a good way of determining who is going places and who are passports and potholes TDs.
I hear a rumour there will be 400 jobs cut at the national broadcaster.
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Why does NK have such access to RTE.
What sort of deals are going on in the background there I wonder.
I won't say the words brown envelopes because that's so yesterday.
Someone or some people in there are definitely getting extra wedge ,in whatever form it's hard to know.
LPT is collected by revenue. You don't fvck about with them.
Lead article on todays Mail on Sunday. 2FM to be sold off too if its accurate. Plus a salary cap of €176K.
I read that as 2FM to be sold off for scrap. Darn sunglasses...
Already being denied by Green Party junior minister
https://www.thejournal.ie/rte-staff-redundant-6107859-Jul2023/
I'm glad you asked.
One of the biggest issues RTE have is they're a primarily a state/public broadcaster; but also operating as a commercial broadcaster. There's an inherent and obvious conflict in this, and it's the cause of most of the issues that have arisen in the last 10 days. It's been obvious to many on the outside than for far too long the commercial tail has been wagging the RTE dog so to speak.
I want to be clear on this: RTE have done some excellent work over the years, particularly in the realms of news and current affairs. Their other output however leaves an awful lot to be desired. Too often "talent" are given vanity projects designed to either line their pockets or boost their profile with no visible entertainment or public interest in said obscure project.
From an entertainment perspective, I have often said Paths To Freedom is my favourite RTE show. I also liked LOVE/HATE, and recently Kin.
In a similar vein, some of the scheduling on the TV channels in particular over the years has been absolutely "bonkers". RTE will frequently buy the rights to shows like for example, Mad Men, or Damages, or Parks & Recreation (just a few examples as all were multi-award winning US Shows; 2 dramas and a comedy). These shows will be then be subjected to "graveyard scheduling", i.e. a deliberate tactic where the shows are shown at ridiculous time and days (say 01:!5 on a Monday night/Tuesday morning, or 11pm on a Friday night when most of the actual target audience would be out socialising etc.) and effectively doomed to failure from the outset from an audience numbers perspective. Even if you show some episodes at "normal hours", you can then you can mess with any audience you have by showing Episode 1 on Tuesday night at one time, Episode 2 at a different time and on a different night the following week, and so on - all things RTE did with all 3 aforementioned shows. It doesn't take long to kill off an audience with tactics like this.
Even putting shows on RTE1 over RTE2 increases manifold the chances of said show "surviving". All of the above were of course shown on RTE2.
So why would they do this?
Well, one reason is to boost home-produced shows and keep the prime time peak viewership slots for them. Example: you could put literally anything on RTE1 on Christmas Day and it will have huge audience figures. So what do RTE do every year? Put on Mrs. Brown's Boys and the say "look at the amazing figures it received!" Shows like "Killinaskully" were given regular slots during peak viewing periods (Sundays at 8pm on RTE1). As were many other RTE Shows - Operation Transformation, DIY SOS/The Big Build Ireland, and many more have been the benefactors of generous scheduling designed to effectively guarantee audiences. Just a coincidence these shows are mostly fronted by NKM clients of course.
Another reason is to keep the content away from your competitors. If RTE buy it, TV3 can't. And if RTE buy Season 1 of a show and then drop it, do you really think TV3 now want Season 2 etc.?
Another way to ensure a show fails is to, for example, show Season 2 of Mad Men at a stupid hour when other stations available in Ireland are already on Season 3 or 4 etc.
Make no mistake, all of the firstly-named shows failures on RTE were as a result of deliberate acts of scheduling.
Anyway, back to your question.
Topline changes I'd make if I was in charge:
Apologies, I have to dash for a bit of a domestic emergency here but I will return to this later.
Whatever about our disagreements, ButtersSuki, the effort and detail here and passion are top drawer. Superb post
Thank you. I have just read today's article in the SI, which has that photo, too. And what a diabolical piece it is.
Tubridy referred to Kelly as his “consiglieri”. “He has that look about him, he’s like a little Mafia man, he’s got the pinstripe suits. I think dead fish would arrive to some people’s houses,” Tubridy joked. Kelly was blunt in saying that RTÉ had to deal with him and “that’s that”.
For some non-Kelly clients in RTÉ, there is a “them and us” feeling. Some believe Kelly has such influence over RTÉ managers such as Forbes, who has since resigned, and Jim Jennings, RTÉ’s head of content, that he is able to effectively dictate who gets to present certain shows and can influence how those shows are run to his clients’ wishes. Conflicts of interests abound.
It's well worth a read (Control and Click on a Mac, CTRL+CLICK in Windows)
http://archive.today/lRmDQ
The LPT get's paid eventually as it's tied to the property, no ones showing up after the funeral demanding payment if granny didn't pay her TV license.
I wasn't actually watching but saw some clips and read about it here.
The TDs need to get their act together, imo. Decide beforehand what questions to ask, and who is asking what.
No grandstanding or trying to make a name for themselves. Keep the questions short and very much to the point.
Keep the histrionics for another time. They will definitely miss out on getting some answers if they are determined to be showing off and showing their reactions to every answer.
I doubt it's been decided yet, but I'm not surprised that this is being war-gamed.
I suspect we will see a split company with a fully broadcast fee funded RTE News and Current Affairs, with a semi commercial RTE Public Service Arts and Entertainment company. This latter company will have to compete with other private broadcasters for funding. Regional radio and newspaper publishing are also after a slice of the broadcasting charge, so it will likely be both significantly higher and harder to avoid.
The absolute deadwood that is 2fm will be sold off, with the only value possibly in the equipment and the ancient roadcaster.
Did you ever wonder why RTE 1 and RTE 2 are available on Saorview in High definition while the other channels (Virgin and TG4) are not?
2RN (an RTÉ Subsidiary) administer the Saorview transponders. And they charge an exorbitant fee for HD. They charge themselves that fee for their HD carriage, but it's licence fee money so it doesn't really matter. it really should matter though.
I don't think we need a national broadcaster. We've just grown too used to it: The Late Late Show; the annual toy show; the Angelus; the 6.1 News., whinging callers on Liveline etc. It is not even that we like this stuff that much; but rather it is just too much of a shock to the system to change things. But not wanting change is not the same as needing something.
But if we did shut down RTE, a couple of months afterwards we would not be missing it. We'd have moved on to other things.
People absolutely would miss RTE if it was closed down. There are plenty good:great programmes on it.
We could stand on our doorstep tonight at 9pm and clap for 1 minute to show our solidarity with the ordinary rte worker. 😊
They can't jail us all.
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