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

In the days when TV didn't start until 3 PM and ended by 11 or 12 - the days when there was a certain amount of cultural scarcity, the LLS was appointment viewing.

But then the media landscape shifted around it to the point where it's no longer essential. It's morphed into a sort of generic chat show and is really only safe from cancellation because it's grandfathered in as some sort of cultural institution.

At least make the RTE Player only usable by registering, using your email etc. If things don't improve , re people paying licence then, make the player only usable by entering your TV Licence number.

I wasn't born then, I remember TV starting much earlier than 3pm. I agree, the LLS was appointment viewing. And when Gay Byrne retired, the show should have retired with him.

It has improved with the new host, as Tubridy had turned it into less of a generic chat show, and more of a complete car crash. The kind of thing you leave on in the background while you're doing the ironing or emptying the laundry basket.

Questions so rehearsed and prepped beforehand, even George W Bush would find it tired.

I was just about to post the same but the thread is messed up, like some others.

Are the salaries of staff, that work in the public sector, really considered personal data?

We are not looking for any additional details.

We know the salaries and the scales used in Nursing, teaching, garda etc, so why not RTE, they are paid from Lioences and general taxation.

If the salary does not follow the standard scales, then you most likely in a special position like TDs, CEOs , Boards members of public bodies and those saliers are public

A major problem with the list is that unusual figure of €10k+, of which there were 2 AFAIK, someone might confirm.

regardless of 1 or 2 staff/contractors in RTÉ they can only be Doirean G and Jenny Z, as they presented DWTS in that quarter.

OTV should state how much he got for that series. But how much it cost would also be interesting, and why are they getting into this type of programming.

But also

The idea came about during a chat with RTÉ’s former director of content Jim Jennings, who has since left the broadcaster, amid considerable media coverage.

I hope the chat was some time in before June 2023, before Jim "Kingmaker Jimbo" Jennings was taken down with some sort of flu he pick up… Oireachtas-itise perhaps.

If you think it is unfair that you have to pay twice, decide not to pay once, totally your decision.

In relation to the issue of whether or not it is only issue is the licence fee, just look at the narrative before the scandal (moya doherty put the phrase Existential Crisis to it), look at every DG's view on the licence fee, look at how the media framed the situation. Look at how the FOMC's view has been taken up since.

After the scandal for a short period it was understood that the management were at fault with the mismanagement of RTÉ. Now we are back to

Mr Bakhurst said it had "long been the case" that RTÉ's funding had not been sufficient to deliver what its public service remit is.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0725/1461705-rte-funding/

Now we are largely back to the existential crisis, can you show me how RTÉ has changed with this new funding and with the new direction. I don't see it.

Knocking around Drimoleague somewhere….

Until people stand up to the obvious waste and corruption that is going on in this country via our politicians, semi states and civil and public servants, nothing will change. With RTE and the TV license we have a real chance to stick together and stop paying. Yeah we will be fined and yeah there will be jail threatened but at the end of the day all we need is one person to stay the course till the case goes to court and when asked are you paying your license, NO, and asked why, As there has been waste and corruption ongoing within the organization that the money is being paid to and until there is an investigation from both/either the garda or some other organization don't pay stay in jail and keep the spot light on it and let the world see how this countries agenda to keep getting people to pay and how they are punished and how others who are in the know and with connections continue to get away without any accountability. Imagine a case going to the European court the government would be laughed out of the building.

This year alone

RTE, bike shed, security hut, children's hospital and now the modular homes all of which have astronomical costs assigned to them and no one telling the full story different parties blaming someone else and not one person arrested, thouroghly investigated, charged or even sacked. Most of those in RTE were let go without a nice little golden handshake. Someone needs to keep the spot light on this imagine them trying to arrest a 100k TV license holders for not paying when they turn and explain their decision why they are not paying. Its like water charges people protested and we don't pay directly for water and if we had it would have turned into another area where the amount would of gone up and up and up compare that to our waste collection since it got privatized which is what our water supply would of ended up going.

probably like a bulldog after licking pish off a nettle after shes seen all the money flowing into rte and she doesnt get any…yet!

Ah poor Jimbo Jennings, I wonder if Moya got an invite

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-thought-rte-people-were-treated-appallingly-john-mccolgan-on-his-relationship-with-wife-moya-doherty-and-the-strain-of-the-crisis-at-the-national-broadcaster/a1707058314.html

Unbelievable.

This man's judgement is as bad as some of his predecessors in the Director General's job.

It looks fooking terrible.