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

Thats what my friend said.

Pretty sure I saw DF earlier in a cafe I was having lunch in, if it wasn't her it was her twin. She looked perfectly fine to me.

Worst of all worlds as if they're not on the campus they are not protected by privilege. They'd say nothing anyway but it gives them an easy out.

Just watching High Road Low Road with 2 fair city actors been sent to Tokyo. One staying in a €4000 euro a night hotel. 😂

Martin has just cost us the taxpayers €4M

The whole fecking green party is expensive to have around. A pain in the bollox. I hope to god they get wiped. Not one returned.

Because it's income would be a fraction of its current level and it would be forced to gut programming in 'noncommercial' fields like arts, documentaries and Irish language. You can't fund a true, comprehensive public service broadcasting service by voluntary subscription. Not in a country the size of Ireland anyway...

Why not? why not crowd funding? Run it on the same model as a club, like the UK's national trust or here in Ireland, the GAA. The membership will provide feedback on what they want to see and fund and the leadership is going to be held accountable to it's membership. Such an organisation are never going to compete with the likes of Netflix, and why do that? They will work with the available resources they have and cut out their own niche in the Irish market or they will die, one would logically conclude with enthusiastic club members that they would think outside the box. How many sports activities is the GAA competing with? It's members often take part in other sporting activities like soccer or golf, why do we need to be locked into an organisation like RTE locked into a model that disappeared decades ago? Look at what is happening on youtube, people starting off with a headset, honing their skills, getting better at presentation, upping their audio and production quality responding directly to feedback and the youtube algorithms.

Take skills based activities like fixing cars, woodworking or gardening, even music since you mentioned the arts, I want to know how to do these things and I can find content from people based around the world including Ireland, some of it is dross, more of it is really good and relevant. You can see the effect youtube (and others) have had on BBC programs like Gardeners World because you can find the archival programs from Geoff Hamiltons era (pre-Internet) versus the current Monty Don era. Hamilton had the practical content I want to see, Don is all style over substance and lacks the skill development aspect plus it's a gardening program pushing "the message" when it has no need to. I can't watch that program, I assume the producers realise there are a lot of enthusiastic gardeners catering to this market, so they have changed focus. Youtube is an example of a commercial organisation that provides a public service, it does not do it for free and there are things that annoy me about its service. Which is why I ask the question what is public service broadcasting meant to be.

Leo and Michael are loving that the Greens and RTE are taking the focus off the massive problems (health, housing, immigration etc).

No. That's a mistake. ;)

Regards...jmcc

please,dude...the prefered nomeculture is "gobshites"

I think you know the reason why not. Not enough people would pay a subscription for public service broadcasting for a subscription based PSB to be viable. An argument for a subscription based psb in Ireland is an argument for no psb in Ireland.

There is genuine value in some elements of PSB. I personally think it is important to have a state news service. Really, that's it. Sport and the arts should be able to wash it's own face.

Lots of talk about reforming the funding model but note no one with power or privilege is talking about deep structural change to RTE. The obvious reform to win trust back is to split it up into several entities that stand by themselves and be let fail if necessary.

Structural changes at the service provision level I think we are talking about. What services / content do they provide?

Change is driven in private companies at board level. Public companies are likely the same except for RTE which appears to be a cushy money collection routine for little return. Culture at the board level will flow down to the middle management and so on. The issue in RTE is not the mechanics is provision of service, although it's online content is poor, it's the management culture and it's corporate structure.