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

RTÉ had massively cut back on Continuity in the last few years, I don't think they have any before 1pm. They don't seem to be able for pre-recorded intros.

RTÉ's preformance at the PAC and the views of come commentators really just point back to Dee Forbes retoric, even YLE got a mention!

Not been able to keep up with this from afar.

Where is it up to re investigation into wrong doings ?

When is the next meeting ?

Is your one still sick ?

Will anyone every be held accountable or has the long game worked on the Irish public again ?

Why are they making shows for the player?

Bizzare. The other way round surely. Not like there's no room between the repeats for new shows on RTE1 or2.

It really all started with Storyland. RTÉ at that point had largely let go of Monday Night new comedy-drama's on RTÉ2 (The last one being the 1st series of RAW, before being moved over to RTÉ ONE, and becoming a sister show to The Clinic, and then taking over that light Sunday Night drama).

Storyland was voted on by the viewers as the weeks went on one of the programmes would be drop from the line up, with the first or second winners being Hardy Bucky's (They'd already had a large online YouTube following).

It never really "showcased" anything. And was mostly likely perceived way for RTÉ to produce drama on the cheap. Since the arrive of Fis Éireann the new drama's have aired on TV, and consist of 8 scripts developed for the series with 3 going into production.

RTÉ since 2006 have been in constant pilot mode with nothing ever sticking. Remember the Format Farm ... and about 3 years ago a set of comedies that were supposed to result in one be coming a series, eventually it they ended up on RTÉ ONE rather then on 2.

I think this is the original announcement for that:-

Dee Frobes said "Encouraging and developing creatives across the sector is at the core of why RTÉ exists and this initiative will also give Irish talent a platform" ... however we now know herself and Moya were

I don't really know another way to explain all of this: -

• RTÉ spent €18m on Drama, this includes RTÉ's commission unit spent €2.5m on Drama in 2022.
• Meaning that Fair City has a budget of about €15.5m (Though I realize Drama on Radio gets about €500k)
• RTÉ also "imported" €4.4m from Irish producers (this also includes other genres), so I am not sure how much of it goes towards drama, but lets give them the benefit as say 100% goes towards drama.
• That's under €7m on Drama (when we exclude Fair City). Or as RTÉ would say just 2% of their total budget for 2022.

I don't really know why TG4 or VMTV could not do what RTÉ are doing in terms of Drama output based on these figures. VMTV is spending at least €20m on imports and TG4 is spending about €3m. I know much of TG4's imports are children's TV and people may feel that TG4 would be stepping into English Language production but TG4 have always aired English Language programming.

RTÉ basically have moved their RTÉ2/Network2 shows online, and basically this has lead to even tighter budgets but also let to an awful lot of slush that no one is watching.

A quote from that article in the Independent:

I followed a link at the bottom of the article, one on the current situation in Palestine. I'll quote from that as well:

As I've been following the news on that conflict, I am aware that the current claim regarding Palestinian deaths is over 9,000. While it is not factually incorrect to say "over 5,000", it is at best misleading - so I wonder if our "trust in and perceptions of" D'Indo should be questioned too?

Dee Forbes and Moya Doherty stated years ago that they wanted the Finnish model, they are now ... finished!

I'd like a Finnish Model 😂

Yes but that is just one of the problems in RTÉ.

It doesn't really matter how you collect the license fee. You still have many of the same old people in RTÉ doing the same things.

Do we really believe that if we brought in the Finnish model that RTÉ would reform the way it works.

There is this problem that everyone things that its all the fault of the licence fee, but in reality their are other issues across RTÉ.

RTÉ were give the opertunity to move the NSO over the the NCH in 2021 and they only managed to do it in 2022, that would have saved them 8m in 2021.

Then just look at the redistribution of the money from the licence fee from the move of the NSO over to the NCH, almost 70% goes to RTÉ ONE did you notice any changes in 2022?