Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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You also have to remember that most contries have other established local/national TV broadcasters. There are only 3 in Ireland RTÉ, VMTV and TG4.
TG4 - A minority language channel that has some income from advertising, about 10% of its total income.
VMTV - Which provides very little in terms of local content
RTÉ - which over pays form almost everything they do and believe it to be so.
Should RTÉ drop out of the TV advertising market where does the ad revenue go? Well its unlikely to head straight to VMTV, it is likely to head to opt-out broadcasters. You could see the BBC Studio's UKTV take on the idea of a pay service for Ireland that would include BBC 1, 2, 3 and 4 Ireland along with more opt out advertising across their suite of channels. Sky would certainly push in further currently having a 9% share of the audience, this could grow to 15%.
And that's just in terms to TV and not online advertising.
Because we have such a weak history of TV broadcasting in this country VMTV would only be in the same place they are currently in should RTÉ step out of the advertising market, with most of RTÉ share heading to Sky, BBC Studios, Channel 4, Viacom, Discovery and so on.
I'm looking for the disadvantage in this and not seeing it
What are the chances of RTE dropping out of the TV advertising market though? Sure they are finding it difficult as it is.
It wouldn't be done one RTE's own bat, the decision would be taken at government level as part of a complete overhaul of broadcasting in this country, likely in conjunction with the replacement of the licence fee with some form of taxpayer funding ana a refocusing of RTE's output on 'public service' content.
None and I think rightly so. It should be a good system.
It's just being squandered and abused by posh greedy gits.
But it's hard to compare salaries in DR and TV2 with RTE1 and Network2 without taking in the different funding systems and David Mac should've pointed that out.
Suppose jobs! but yes VMTV and RTÉ are unlikely to improve and TG4 doesn't need advertising as its only a small portion of their income.
And unlikely that a new system would change such staff members.
McSavage has a way of expressing himself such that you are not quite sure when he is being ironic or for real. He deliberately takes an audience off of the comfort zone and question “did he mean that for real?”
I'd be far more interested if you could work out how to avoid the multiple of €10ks paid in IT each year to fund massive public spending waste.
And rightly so, it was a top class sketch show imo...........I couldn't understand how it was aired at the time, given the subject matter and thought it was a positive sign that if something was good enough it would get a shot despite the ahem (possible conflict of interests 😁) ...I hope it wasnt cancelled for that reason, I'd assumed you just couldn't keep up the pace
Even my very religious Conservative elderly parents found it hilarious which I couldn't wrP my head around they are very decent people but humour like that in any other context rarely appeals to them.....
You should probably update that now to include the other great bastion of Irish cronyism, the great 'I play poker with the peasants with matches' Quinn
It would in fairness be more advantageous to have an independent national broadcaster with high standards than something along the lines above happening.....so RTE would have to change in some areas quite a bit....I'd like to see them provide unbiased factual reporting/no agenda and be independant of any interference from political circles/lobbyists etc etc ....**** tall tall order given how small this country is I suppose.
What I've described above is what I think RTE should be ......
Well they might as well now that GO’L has left as she was the only person capable of attracting advertising to RTÉ……….at least according to her.
Did GO'L have strong government contacts?
Not that I’m aware of, but I wouldn’t be surprised either tbh.
Because a lot of ads on radio have come from Government departments.
You mean those “brought to you by the Government of Ireland” ads?
That’s more of a recent thing to be fair, and it’s IMO more a Govt PR noise maker, a blatant attempt to appear more active than they actually are to the taxpayer at the taxpayers’ expense.
That type of advertising would have happened no matter who was the Commercial lead in RTÉ.
Those ads are across all stations….RTÉ get most of it because they’re the biggest. Nothing more to it than that IMO.
Free in the Irish Times this Saturday - limited Edition signed By Dee Forbes with €20 cash money inside.
(If I'm not permitted to post imagery content I will stop)
GO'L is still on LinkedIn but I see that Dee Forbes is no longer.
I’d say GO’L is on hols so can’t be bothered with her LinkedIn.
I’d probably stop because it takes time to make them and they just aren’t funny if that’s anything to go by. In fairness it’s better than those cringe inducing attempts at humour from the enormously unfunny and poorly edited Phoenix Magazine.
I'm flattered with the response Mr. Grumpy Pants.
They aren't funny according to you and that does not mean he should stop.
Shoot, if we all stopped posting links or memes because one person hates them this thread and others on here would be long dead.
We get you don't like them or Phoenix, so why not just ignore them Vincent and move on as you are well in the minority.
Virgin Media have in writing to the Minister suggesting RTE leaves the commercial stage, let it be known that RTE spends €20M buying in programmes like Eastenders, to show the same time as BBC.
@[Deleted User] don't mind the Doc. you never know could lead to a successful comedy on RTÉ :)
Commercial broadcasters now stepping up calls for such a revamp
They've been banging this drum for years but I guess they feel now the powers might be might actually listen...
ahahahahahahah - I'll give it a twist.
RTÉ a bad version of the BBC
VMTV a worse version of ITV.
VMTV would need to up their game if they want all that advertising, otherwise when RTÉ stop showing ads they'll be giving out that it goes over to the opt-outs.
And VMTV spend the same to show coro st at the same time as ITV, and The Chase a year later and to repeat WWTBAM every weekend!
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