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

Poor Moya can't decide which mansion

I’d suggest that most staff in RTE are paid better and have better conditions than the ‘going rate’ and conditions in similar concerns.

I wouldn’t be too worried in that regard RC.

I looked at three of them and I thought that they were childish to put it mildly- especially to the ‘standard’ set by Michael Murphy . I saw the mobile phone, the windmill in the estate and the holiday package ones - just to see what they were about. I would have sent the production company back to the ‘drawing board’.

Oliver Callan and his Callan Kicks should also be sent back to the drawing board. He is trying to ‘mimic Scrap Saturday and he is not even close to a ‘patch’ on it

I was wondering what the "personal and family reasons" where, there you go.

Popularity. RTÉ have also ditch the other chat shows that they had surrounding Tommy. I can't see Angela Scanlon returning and I have a vague memory of some other shite chat show they did, and it won't be coming back or else I just imagined bad chat shows from RTÉ. I think DWTS had 12 episodes this season which is up from 10 last year.

I can imagine Tommy shows is pre-recorded in advance, also as mentioned holding off broadcasting a programme seems to allow RTÉ save money!

What is it about Tiernan's show that makes it so popular? He's not a good interviewer.

Baaaa

Has he had anyone from Cork yet?

Even with the cuts that RTÉ announced a few months ago, I cannot envisage RTÉ having enough money to meet the quota for home-produced drama next year unless change to the funding of public-service broadcasting takes place before the general election.

By the way, with the drop in licence-fee income, how did RTÉ afford to have Dancing With the Staff this year?

There's plenty to complain about RTE but Tommy Tiernan's show is one of the better programmes on offer.

Its not the typical stage-managed PR exercise for people to plug something. It seems to lead to more organic conversations and you get something more interesting, like the above, as opposed to bubble-dwelling celebrities churning out carefully-crafted answers you can play bingo with.

He's not the best TBH but I think that's just an opinion, he's already just started repeat guest which makes little sense to the format.

So? You think the government is going to allow RTÉ to die?

The government, media and academia are all on the same page. I will let you get to that page without my help, and then suggest that nothing is changing.

What the government/media/academics think: -

1. RTÉ's problem is an existential crisis caused by the archaic license fee.
2. RTÉ's governance issues are caused by the existential crisis.
3. RTÉ is public service broadcasting and there are no other alternatives to RTÉ.

Why things will not change: -

1. It is clear to most that RTÉ have cause the majority of their own problems
2. Governance issues aside RTÉ is mismanaged
3. There are serval alternatives to what public service broadcasting is

Just read what Paschal Donohoe says in that Article: -

1. I do not believe that any government should be involved in allocating and determining how much money a state broadcaster should get.
2. I believe we should have a method of collecting this that delivers a compliance rate that is at least in line if not ahead of where we are at the moment.
3. There’s still a very large amount of revenue coming in from the television licence at the moment

He also states: -

 that the plan put forward by Mr Bakhurst is “clearly going in the right direction”, and said government would be looking for “assurances that it is being implemented”.

He really says nothing about conditions rather he is talking about independence while the article suggest a few of the strategy points from RTÉ's new direction : -

The conditions requested are based on RTÉ's new direction, according to the article they are : -

1. salary price cap of €250,000 and up to 400 job cuts over four years
2. RTÉ digital stations and plus-one TV channels are due to be axed,
3. there will be a greater reliance on independent productions
4. savings of ~10m

None of this reflects the issues with in RTÉ. It is largely a rehash of RTÉ 2024 Revised strategy some of which included:-

1. Reduce salaries of top earners (executives to take pay cut)
2. RTÉ digital radio stations to be axed
3. Sale of land and RTÉ Guide
4. savings of ~10m

https://about.rte.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/RT%C3%89-2024-Web.pdf

Has 250k been confirmed?