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

I am watching their Presidential coverage, Miriam looks drunk (most likely to be jet lag), while their intro to CBS news was pointless, just to get, an add for 60 minutes, an intro (putting RTÉ in the 'hapenny place), followed by a welcome, the first results and then badly back to the RTÉ Dublin studio, surely they should have gone to Miriam or not bother with the CBS intro.

They have a form CNN Washington correspondent in Dublin, does she live here?

Surely there are local news desks they could have used in Washington, who go that desk.

There links are not great.

My god they got Katherine Zappone to be in the Dublin studio, I thought she'd left Ireland and was living in the states.

can anyone work that back as to how much on average the editor would have been paid during her time in RTÉ.

This bogus employment dates back to before Dee Forbes she just thought that she could continue down the same road as her predecessor, and Bakhurst is think the same way IMO.

So they will have even worse viewing figures for Notting Hill.

Live.

I want doubting you... more the general weirdness of the pre recorded festive shows by RTE and BBC and others that to casual viewers are made to look live.

I just want to mention this here but I will be mentioning it in a few weeks in a different thread.

In 2023 RTÉ had a record year for total number of streams.

They recorded 105m streams and 35m streaming hours

On a daily basis this would average out to 288K, this is just below the average audience on broadcast for TLLS and Morning Ireland, good bit lower.

On an hourly basis that works out at 11k, but to be fair lets presume most of that average over 12 hours of the day so around 24k. 24K is half the audience of Heartbeat on VMTV TWO/THREE.

I don't know what streaming hours mean, is this live channels on the service? 8k for a 12 hour day?

An extract from a post I made earlier on the radio forum, but equally valid here:

An ad during the break for yet another Brendan O’Carroll Mrs. Brown’s Tour this December; there was an RTÉ Comedy tagline at the end of this ad. Are RTÉ seriously using taxpayers money to support this private individuals business venture? An individual who isn’t tax resident in this country, and one who lest we forget was part of the Panama Papers scandal? Have they learned nothing re. optics?

Oh I know, my head gets the reasons why it is pre-recorded, and yet I still find it a bit off :)

Jools always had some good tunes.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/claire-byrne-clarifies-shes-not-earning-money-for-side-gigs-outside-of-rte-salary/a1550177142.html

Why wrap yourself up in all of this, there was no reason for her to respond but she did on instagram.

Problem with this is the following statement: -

It gives people the impression, I think, that I am earning money outside of my contract in RTÉ, and while it's perfectly within the rules for me to do that if that's what I choose to do, I don't, and that has been my position for the last number of years.

But then it isn't if you consider that wonderful quiz she presented getting her 25k, which was not reported in her annual pay at RTÉ in the annual report due to the fact that it was independently produced.

So are indo production external or not?

these women really do have it sown up with the forrin junkets

as a man I resent having to pay a licence fee to a feminist Cabal

I see the purse has been loosened in RTÉ,

George Lee is in Baku for the climate conference!