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

An independent broadcaster is important for debate and investigation they say.

Independent radio and TV does a similar or better job than RTE at the moment in fairness, Radio1 is an amateur mess. But I suppose there's a stalwart in RTE.

A public service broadcaster rather than an independent broadcaster. There is a difference. The public service broadcaster would concentrate mainly on news, investigation and culture with the commerical part of RTE (light entertainment etc) being spun out into a commerical company. The problem for a lot of RTE employees is that the commercial company would not be funded by the state or licence fee and that would mean job cuts and reduced salaries. They'd have to survive in the real world outside of Montrose.

Regards...jmcc

I did split RTÉ up completely for you, regardless of how RTÉ is funded the company needs to be split up as suggested.

I agree I don't believe you need to change how the fund is funded, to be honest An Post should be asked why the cannot collect. Even if we just decided that An Post would collect the fee and you'd have to pay it regardless of what "Telecommunications equipment you own", An Post would still not be able to collect it.

I don't think they are, I think politicians like to say that they do, there are certain aspects of RTÉ I don't understand (that I outline regularly) ... but Indo broadcasts have largely just done what their license says. Many of the Locals have a semi-monopoly in their areas for advertising, while you have to pay for death notices (one of their so called PSB). An hour of chat, local news bulletins during the day, national centralised bulletins at night (from Newstalk).

While not necessarily applicable to Radio, VMTV really don't provide any of the commercial part of RTÉ on any regular basis.

I think we are all getting into the idea that Independent Broadcasting in Ireland is wonderful, when clearly this is not the case.

I'd argue that Ireland has never really had a great/innovative broadcasting sector. Either Public or Commercial.

Two areas they need to examine, RTÉ2 and programming outside sport (note RTÉ2 has no News and Current Affairs anymore) and then their spending on aquired programming which sits at 20 to 25m (something the DG didn't know, I met him I said it to him and he poo poo'd the idea, you don't want to poo poo and Idea with me, I know people who poo poo'd poo poo :) )

But they also want their Executives to take a 10% pay cut 😂

IMO splitting RTÉ up into the group outlined should help the media landscape (though I believe it to be a bit late).

I am not suggesting selling off 2RN (RTÉ Networks), I think a national studio is an important infrastructure as the network, that why I would propose that 2RN would be then national public service Radio Broadcaster (save for Lyric and RnaG), national broadcasting network and the national studio of Ireland in Montrose (up to them if they continue to stay their or refocus in another area of the country).

I rather see 2FM go in a different direction under 2RN than either reduce it to a local broadcaster or close it for the sake of "Well everyone else is doing a better job of it".

I think it may become to granular if we start selling or closing operations down. I think intially you have to look at the broader picture, and that broader picture is : -

RTÉ is in disarray and inaction will just continue the kind of service that we are all largely unhappy with. Inaction mean keeping the service as is, the mananagement of RTÉ should not be allowed close down serviced due to their own mismanagement of the national broadcaster. I can seem the coming for those Digital Radio Stations very soon, where is the sense in that? and why should they make that decision?

Do not be too worried by Strategy 2024, it was dead in the water in 2019. They already were showing they didn't have a handle on things by that point, just before it they'd hope for millions from the sale of Art work.

3 parts of the strategy couldn't even be completed without government approval, the move of the NSO, the Closure of AERTEL and the closure of their digital Radio stations.

They are lucky that the legislators acted on 2 of those (NSO and AERTEL), while they are stuck with the Digital Radio Stations, I have no doubt they Minister will now be convince to allow RTÉ close them down. @alzer100 The one thing we have is the Broadcasting Act 2009, so they'd have to ask the Minister and Department to close those stations.

But all most all the rest of it was wishy-washy shite - The 1st point on their list of things to do is to move Big sporting events to RTÉ ONE, they only thing keeping RTÉ2 alive. Even considering the Scheduling problems for RTÉ ONE can you imagine RTÉ2 RWC coverage with only the non-Irish matches few are watching Toga V Portugal, or how smaller events would fair without the support of the bigger events, and then what do you consider a big event, Irish games the Women's World Cup doesn't end up on RTÉ ONE ... how very sexist of RTÉ!

And Strategy 2024 is where they stated that the Executives would take a 10%, so I believe it to dead.

CEO needs to get tough.

Citibank CEO, planning big layoffs globally, was quoted this week ... "we dont have room for bystanders"

The Angelus was cancelled for Biden's visit apparently.

It's The Angelus in fairness, it's inherently religious. If they removed the bells maybe and just had folk stopping what they're doing to stare at the sky.

The Angelus is a great distraction why would RTÉ get rid of the Angelus when it cause so many to argue for and against, it completely deflects from the mismanagement of RTÉ.

I have no issue with it either way.

@kneemos RE: number of Digital Radio stations, I assume a wider sense of choice. But again I'd argue that RTÉ can well afford many thing why not spend it digital radio.

RTÉ called for the closure of these stations in their 2024 strategy, and didn't do due diligence on their legal requirements.

This is the same strategy that temporarily cut executive salaries by 10%, I rather see the executives let go of the car allowances and take a 20% cut in salary to funded the RTÉ Digital Radio stations.