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

Ah now poor aul Gaybo didn't he gift the money to Geraldine and Moya!

RTÉ didn't really want to produce a game show/quiz show... well I don't think they want to produce any TV... the tiny number of games shows/quiz shows that have come since have been tiny (though last few years they have had a few one off series that will most likely never return).

The Money Bank, with Baz is the current quiz. My mum tried one episode, and then switched it off. Wasn't a fan.

Aye, the 'lunar valve' question. Guy gets asked where in the body would you find the lunula, one of the prompts was the heart, the other was the finger. Well the contestant had a thick Scottish accent, phoned a friend and the line was bad, and the friend answered the heart. And it was deemed wrong. But it turns out, there is a lunula in both the finger nail AND the heart. They had to bring him back because of that.

I remember the ratings started out amazingly strong, with about 1.5 million viewers tuning in at maximum. And then they dropped, and they kept dropping. And one week Gay Byrne wrote 'We're the only show on RTE pulling in over a million viewers'. And then they went under a million, and it never recovered. And then they put it on a Sunday, where it's viewership dropped to around 350,000 viewers.

Shortly after that, they lost their sponsor. (Eircell initially, who were bought out by vodafone, who then dropped them after a year or so). We got the usual 'saving face' reports of looking for a new sponsor. But they never did get one.

I thought it went on for longer, but apparently it went for only 18 months. Must have been a very expensive venture.

So how is that these crappy programmes still get high numbers of viewers?

Millionaire is more highbrow than Baz's 'Money List'.

Hospitals rarely correctly tune the TV's. It's bizarre. Poor folks get stuck watching whatever it's stuck on.

If a show makes 500 K viewers nowadays, they'll be paid more than the Taoiseach by RTE for that kinda show. Tommy Tiernan got about 500K during the pandemic. Didn't get Noel Kelly money, but you could see Tubridy was bitter about it. He brought on Conor Moore to do a an impression of Tommy Tiernan as some sort of 'bitter' payback. They share the same agent, funny that. 🙄

First Toy Show I watched in over decade. Know people who were genuinely keen to watch it.

I think Kielty advertised it really well, prior to doing the show. The adverts where none of the kids are excited about him doing the show, or putting immense pressure on him. Very sharp way to take the pressure off of himself.

So many questions..

What is the nature of Dee's sickness ?

How long has she been sick for and is she having treatment for this sickness?

Is Dee Forbes too sick to reply to emails?

What is the sickness that Dee is claiming to have?

Why aren't there intrepid irish journalists on the case and asking these questions....

Did she sign off on their annual accounts recently!

You'd be hard press to find out that 2 RTÉ board members are going.

Conor Murphy has resigned for "Personal Reasons" he had be appointed in 2020.

Golden boy Ian Keogh (who the press had suggested would get the DG job, and was nominally Deputy Chair, a position that I don't think had existed be for or will again), he started back in 2018 and he has decided not to go for a second term. Yes, he decided he should go for second term.

I wonder what happened between 2018 - 2022?

Given that Tubs and Forbes are long gone from RTÉ, their departures must have taken enough heat out of the crisis for some of those viewers who stopped paying the licence fee to resume paying it.

Has it been established if it were true that Forbes and the other senior colleague left on self constructed redundancy packages?