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

I can understand this completely, but it seems much more widespread in RTÉ. Civil Service always had had an exam for entry, again that not to say someone knew someone else who put them at the top of the list, or that as you say they already had family members in the Civil Service so the knew the exam existed, I was always surprise about how many people didn't know about civil service exams.

IMO RTÉ themselves have a deep antipathy towards themselves and at the same time seem to think they are great, an internalized schadenfreude of some kind. Perhaps a few employees that let them know x isn't all that good every now and then might be a good thing.

So how is Dee? Is she alive or dead? If its the former, is there any sign of her explaining her actions any time soon?

That should be stopped anyway until she gives an account of herself

Also spotted in Bantry out and about looking ok health wise.

Google maps, street-view is not working inside St Anthony's Park

Yeah it is hard to understand how Dee Forbes hasn’t been door stepped.

I suppose it’s a triple whammy. It’s not generally the done thing here. Ironically, I can only remember Charlie Bird doing it to a few of the 09 bankers after the crash.

Two, even though she is no longer an “RTE head” going at her is digging up the RTE story again. Great for some mercenary journalist but let’s be honest it is a ginormous hand to bite in a local context.

And thirdly, RTE (the biggest clog in Irish journalist) aren’t going to go near this themselves. In their eyes the storm has been weathered. We are now in RTE 2.0 world and “Dee and Ryan who??”.

think ye are probably right…rte wont do it,dee and the other yoke are more then likely making "when can we come back" noises…yeah i think Charlie Bird and Vincent Browne are the only two i can think of doing it but there has to be even one freelance reporter that will do it..?or is it a career ending job?… there is surely a few photos of dee floating around on her "holidays" but like you say nobody wants them…mind you she does have a face on her like a bulldog after eating a wasp and licking pish off a nettle…

This is very strange indeed, and seems very badly advised.

To continue to antagonise and cost the company that you rely on most for your income after being a party to the scandal is astonishing. RTE should be telling Kelly and his clients to sling their collective hooks but yet they are still in bed together? This stinks even more than the scandal tbh.

Oh so this is where you can discuss the non-radio tubsidy news, is that right?

I thought NKM was a 4d chess playing PR guru, suing the company you were fired from for dodgy underhand dealings is not a great look...

Tubridy is on the big bucks in the UK dont you know.

No I don't expect MLMD to be on the Bookshelf, and if she was it would be pretty much the same type of chat as Micheal and Simon, but I just think some former boardster would go insane at the idea that she'd be on the show, and how wonderful it is to Micheal on the show and that they'd not watch the podcast or listen if MLMD was on the show.

100,000 to do an FOI? That has to be a massive overestimate.

Legal advice is separate issue. You are entitled to certain documentation under FOI no need for legal input. If however there are issues raised by releasing this documentation they may take legal advice to defend their stance. Misleading to say the FOI costs that much.

had a WTAF moment earlier listening to Tubridy on Q102.

During the first break there was an ad for a podcast from someone I never heard of and whose name I’ve already forgotten…..but the podcast is “sponsored by the RTÉ Player” despite mentioning it’s an ONIC. Production at least twice and available on ONIC and other streaming platforms etc. So we now have RTÉ the state funded broadcaster using our money to sponsor a podcast on a rival network. You couldn’t make this up.

There was both a Radio and a TV license from 1961 until 1972, introduced in 1922 but not implemented until 1924, RÉ begins broadcasting in 1926.

TV broadcasts in the US started in the 1920s, the fact that in 1955 in the US had one TV just shows how far ahead they were (In the 1990s I used to joke to a friends younger brother that we had a TV for every channel.. they only had one tv… then he realized we only had 2 TV channels, he fell for it every time).

My parents would not have updated their walker TV only I bought them a new one, many older TV become the second bedroom screen, but even then how many children are all that interest in a TV in their room when they have tablets and phones.

I'd argue that TV sales are still around the same in the last 20 years, perhaps an increase as we moved to Digital and flat screens. I bought a TV in 2020 when I moved into my new place, I have no plans to buy another.

VAT does not go toward broadcasting, do you include all screens such has phones and tables and pcs?

I have always said a drop the license fee, and introduce a small tax across all telecommunications for both business and consumers, the CnaM says its €400m to raise and ComReg regulates the fee on a service by service bases, moving the tax if necessary. That 400m would be a tiny amount added to each an every bill from Broadband to Mobile phones to On Demand services.

But the problem isn't the fee or the money in RTÉ, it is its management.