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

Not with the current structure, RTÉ was mismanaged, it would be best at this point to split the company up and provide public service broadcasting. RTÉ should be let die at this point.

She should have been given the unredacted version she's the minister.

2RN is a purely technical/engineering organisation, not a broadcaster and shouldn't try to be one either.

It's not an excuse to retain RTE, it's asking why an organisation with nothing to do with programming should become a broadcaster. "It's radio" is a very silly reason to be frank.

No offence jmcc every time I mention splitting RTÉ up someone start to say that something should not be privatized, RTÉ even misinterpret my view that 2FM should have its funding cut as be the equivalent to selling 2FM off... I have never stated that any part of RTÉ should be sold of... nor do I think that any part of RTÉ should be sold off ... however I do not think RTÉ should remain in situ.

My point is

1. 2RN has a board ready, management teams in RTÉ studios, RTÉ radio (R1, 2FM, GOLD, 2XM, PULSE) RTÉ in-house and in RTÉ networks would remain large the same but they would no longer be part the RTÉ organization, coming under 2RN.
2. Screen Ireland / FÍS Éireann would take control of RTÉ TV (rebranded as FÍS 1, 2, PLAYER) again RTÉ TV management will largely remain the same but exe control and Screen Ireland's board takes over the running (what was RTÉ IN house productions, TLLS, fair city, remains part of 2RN and acts like an indo producer getting commission from FÍS TV)
3. TG4 again has a board and a management team, they take control of RnaG and Children's content (RTÉjr TV (remaining in English) and RTÉjr Radio (bi-lingual)).
4. NCH again has a management team who are now running RTÉ's NSO they take charge of RTÉ's CO and Lyric FM.
5. Finally a new organization is created to provide the above broadcasters with News and Current Affairs, they would have to get a new board but again RTÉ News and Current Affairs has a management team in situ. (They would take control of the RTÉ News channel and Radio 1 Extra, using the programing from across its service to the other broadcasters).

3 of these organization currently exist

1 is based in RTÉ as 2RN

while you'd be create a new body for News and Current Affairs.

No Sale involved. Oh yeah its a bit complex but look at the **** show that is RTÉ the moved 75k into one account to make it look good to advertisers, FFS.

Surprised that "Climate Live 2050" hasn't got some mentions as to who signed off the production of that complete trash, it must have been north of €500k blown on it.

Review says it all "possibly the worst TV programme anyone has ever made"

Yes end credits say funded by Coimisiún na Meán (another beauty) and the licence fee.

At its peak, handing guys like Duffy half a mill, Tubs 700k and now D'Arcy 350k is symptomatic of how rte has been badly run over the last few decades.

If only those who pay for sky get sky why can't the same be done for rte?

I disagree completely with a broadband tax. I pay for my broadband to Eir. Why now.pay a tax on top of thos for a channel I don't receive and even if I did, wouldn't watch anyhow

Id say to protect the golden circle, Dee is Leo’s mate, (a photo from DWTS in 2019). Rory Coveny who 2as the brains behind this shambles is Simon Covenys brother,

https://extra.ie/2019/03/24/entertainment/movies-tv/will-leo-varadkars-partner-matt-barrett-be-chasing-the-glitter-trophy-on-dancing-with-the-stars-next-season

RTE and the government have each other by the balls and its a very undignified spectacle

Yet we got fibre in our area in 2022 (from openEir) and it's not grant aided (Dublin suburb) even though many people already had Virgin Media broadband. They obviously reckoned it was worth their while - being able to retire the old copper network completely should save quite a lot on maintenance costs. I stll have VDSL but will get FTTH when I get around to it (the son's new Playstation 5 puts more of a demand on it than before!). Had horrendous dealings with VM in the past and don't want to go back to them, plus the internal wiring for their BB would be messy.

We certainly do need one or more PSBs, currently RTE is one of them (TG4 being the other, and could teach RTE a lot about how to run a broadcaster efficiently) but it has no divine right to continue to be, or to exist at all.

There is a lot to be said IMHO for a purely PSB, commercial-free Radio 1 and TV 1 and funding that directly from the exchequer rather than via a licence.