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

That would be a lot more appealing if it was shared amongst private broadcasters for public service stuff.

Let RTE scale down their operation and encourage other sources of PSB

George Lee is 10th highest earner in rte. How the hell did he manage that. Fks off to be a td and failed at that when he couldn’t get his way and walked back into his job and seems to have got a pay rise for his td experience. He’s hopeless

Does he do anything else apart from the odd environment report which usually consists of simply telling us what was in an already published article.

We dont watch the trash on RTE or that cheap @ss looking format of TV3 etc, news, nothing, ever. Subscribed to web tv services though. And yes, we paid our tv license with a debate....

with RTE we're a small island, and a small pool to select from, but they are still shoring up the same names for yrs etc, thats how i see it. Cringy tv shows, The skeptic in me, says we dont know the half of it, or the waste there may be - ppl being paid a full week, but maybe not putting n the hours. Who knows. and i understand that there may be a proportion of ppl who do actually work, maybe one or two of them will come forward with more revelations, but its hard to see, im sure theyre all under the thumb and being wared to say nout.

why isnt it shut it down, sell it off, and let someone outside qualified come in and shake the place up. that would be ideal. Like the government, they smile while slapping you in the face taking your hard earned money, burning it in front of you and laughing as they take another wad to set afire.

zero transparency for the taxpayer , we're expendable cash batteries to them.

And laughing in the face of the public service Oireachtas too.

Larry Bass on Newstalk again

Larbar has been the producer of RTÉ Sunday Night Entertainment show since Popstars back in 1999 and for 3 only Moya Doherty's Tyrone took over for the All Ireland Talent Show. Larbar now produces Dancing with the Stars. 

https://www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/im-opposed-to-paying-it-public-a-N2IzZmJiNjBjN2ZlODcwMWJmMmExZTIyYWU1M2FiMGU=

The media are really surprised that ordinary people on the minimum wage and those on the average wage and even those on the average RTÉ wage are still annoy at this with the report henry mckenna taking to the streets. 

Mary: Scamming that went on, and there is more to come, she is risking it, know people who have never paid, she has had reminder letter she's paid it for 30 years, always paid, the spend that on flip flops and over payments. 

Right thing to do for the national broadcaster, covid and thinking it is important, concerning about the top ten earners, they should be making changes. 

Next she did pay, hesitantly, because of the sheingans, but did it for the greater good, RT was scapegoated, no problem with people earning money. 

Reluctant

He might need the break in jail, a bit of a holiday 

Student 

Doesn't pay never has, but his wife does, rubbish nothing of any quality, lots of commercial money.

Not quality programmes

very very poor, in the last 4 years programmes are terrible

Larry Bass

Favour of RTÉ: 

Same old same old defunct licence fee. People are questioning why they are paying. 

Then moves goes on about the licence fee nothing about what is being provide or the mismanagement of RTÉ. Kick the can down the road. Decides how we have new current affairs.

Sorry was typing while listening hope ye can make some sense of it

US: Mismanagement of RTÉ, need for PSB

THEM: It's just about Ryan, think about RTÉ does for culture and democracy

US: We know we largely agree there is a need for PSB, but not RTÉ

THEM: We should change the licence fee so

US: No that is not what we said, we want real reform and that means real change within RTÉ

THEM: So the licence fee.

let's be honest it's a 40k a year job max

Look if I have to explain the basics :) Yeah I was in a rush last night.

And the page kept freezing on me.

Basically you will hear most people unhappy with RTÉ and how it is run. One or two people saying its required. The guy doing the vox-pop surprised that people are still angry and that the story hasn't gone away, followed by a brief interview with Larry Bass who talks about all the good RTÉ does.

40K to live in Dublin 4! No way , either pay more or move RTE outside Dublin..

Its not just him here's another RTÉ luvvie

Albert Reynolds kicked off the digital exchange programme in ~1979-80 but it took years.

In my area in Dublin it was 1984-85 (so into the TE era) when our neighbours finally got phone lines, some of them had been waiting ten years - for many years our house was the only one nearby with a phone, people would ring the doorbell asking to make a call and leave 20p in a little money box we kept beside the phone!

There was no capacity in the exchange so no lines could be provided.

The policy then seemed to be to only replace the oldest / most decrepit auto (mechanical) exchanges with digital, keep the rest of the mechanical auto exchanges going as long as possible, and concentrate on replacing manual exchanges with digital to save on staffing costs. So some places literally went from having phones with no dials to having the latest digital exchange, meanwhile in much of Dublin you couldn't get a line at all!

It wasn't until well into the 90s that the last of the old mechanical exchanges went.

He was very good at parroting NPHET/government propaganda during Covid

On a side note, Eir have yet to upgrade my parents area in Dublin. I got them Vodafone for a year on the eir network just to reduce the price. Called sky because I though they had a deal with Virgin Media for its network, but that only covers Virgin's Fibre network and not their older cable networks, so my parents are back with Virgin Media, but at least they are only paying €43 per month.

My point is that it'll still exist, not whether or not should still exist. I remember hearing about Greece's national broadcaster being taken off the air during that country's economic crisis but it'll never get that bad for RTÉ, which is engrained in Ireland's cultural identity.