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

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Is that code for paid off?

Hmmm....i wonder who has worked at 2fm in the recent past that had other allegations against them...???

Also, the line that the solicitor took that the claimant was not an employee and therefore had no right to pursue unlawful dismissal speaks volumes, about this claim and inner rte workings

Yes, I mean how can you go for unfair dismissal if you are not an employee?!

propaganda wing is all they ever were and still are.

where is vincent browne?we need him!

@Summer 211

RTÉ have defended 2FM since the death of Gerry Ryan and the subsequent iRadio-isation of the station.

RTÉ spend between 10 and 12 m on the station. Of this between 2m and 4m is licence fee, prior to 2011 RTÉ would always walk into the oireachtas to say that 2FM was self-sufficient.

RTÉ have failed to cut 2fm's budget down to what it makes in advertising revenue. The Current Head of 2FM has been there for a decade and a half with no real turn around to the station.

You might argue that Chris and Ciara were bound to get the chop because of low ratings but, late night radio on a low ratings radio station what are you expecting? and also they were on 2fm a decade at least.

2FM is all about the cool people really, it has no real identity as a service. You can point to the Rising Stars and to the Choice music awards but largely 2fm means very little in terms of new music and Irish artist (there are exceptions to that rule but most of those exceptions could be moved over to Radio 1 in the morning tbf).

Then you have the number of presenters across as shows on the station. How much does a professional rugby player charge to present a morning radio show? how much did they pay for the 2 johnnies? how much is Ruby Walsh getting for Game On, how does if fit with 2FM and what is its audience? As for Lottie Ryan?

nowhere to be seen or heard thank God

I wonder about the Irish Media and Reporters.

Gavan (et The Group Chat coolers) are the people that many are putting on a pedestal. I am not saying that I can write, but this piece for the "Westmeath Cronical" lacks any writing ingenuity. But also shows how weak the press / media is in Ireland.

First of all why didn't you report that Dee wouldn't do interviews, I never once heard any media outlet say that Dee was unavailable for comment of the 7 years at the job, she was large left alone by the media and the press.

Bakhurst was just in on the job when he took many interviews to try to explain the RTÉ situation, how could he refuse such interviews.

And then there are all the interviews Bakhurst gave to the media / press before Christmas. I never read such soft interviews across the press.

Perhaps Gavan when anyone offers themselves for interview you ask some hard questions.

It was perfectly obvious that Rory and Richard got exit payments everyone on this thread knew that, might have been an opinion but it was a fairly obvious question that the media should have asked on this exit. Same goes for Richard.

I am actually surprised that Paula did not get an exit fee and still would not be surprised if Geraldine had been give her pay at RTÉ until her actual retirement date.

None of the media have yet to ask Frances Abeton, Glen Killane, Willie O'Reilly, Jon William or Murine Laffan if they took up the option to exit RTÉ on a redundancy package. No instead the media want to promote how good RTE are at NEWS AND SPORT.

KB would probably say he can't disclose that to protect JJ's privacy 🙄

And then you know what you do if you don't get a reply from Jim, Frances Abeton, Glen Killane, Willie O'Reilly, Jon William or Murine Laffan you doorstop each and every last one of them.

Problem is the Media all know the answer to those questions, they just don't want to ask those questions.

I am not sure about that, but there was an investigation into bullying in the news department, as stated in the Oireachtas Committee by Eimear Cusack, but also he would have left in line with the 2021 redundancy packages.

Because except for Jim, they all left Dee's Executive team and potential used the redundancy schemes to leave. I posted the years earlier in the thread.

Or why don't the media want to ask those questions? I don't really know TBH.

Yeah right. The print media has long been very critical of RTE - they're competing for the same advertising pot after all and the print media's websites aren't subsidised by licence-fee funded news and content.

Gavan Riley thinks journalism is tweeting news the fastest. News that he hasn't sourced himself. It's amateur hour.

Take it from RTE?

While I like TG4 unless it takes control of RnaG and Children's Content from RTÉ its budget will be nowhere near 100m.

If RTÉ, TG4 and Screen Ireland want any increases they should be asked to outline what they would do on receipt on increase. There is this idea that RTÉ need more funding just to continue to do what it has always done.