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

Your putting your back and forth.

Do you think during D4bres time at RTÉ largely speaking RTÉ provided a good / quality public service broadcaster? Do you think KB4 has do a good job in his role over the last 3 years?

you also put forward the following

senior figures in RTE who apparently (according to Tubridy) make up 70% of the current top ten earners.

I see you use the word current and that is correct but when did tubridy say up to 70% of the top ten earners?

During his time there they were certainly 50% of the top 10 earners before the scandal. The top 5 all earned over the DG fee during that time, and it seems that all junior executives were on the same wage as the DG, which I have point to before.

Do you think I am not a strong supporter of Public Service Broadcasting? (Honest question).

Do you agree with the following statement: -

In general terms RTÉ preformed well if not excellently as a strong public service broadcaster (both on TV and Radio) during D4bres time in the role of DG and that she and her executive team may have made some governance mistakes but over all the quality between her tenure and that of her predecessors not much changed.

It's important because you might get the wrong impression, if you believe that I don't support PSB.

Anyway RTÉ cut funding to Children's content in 2016 by 50% in 2017 they cut it by 75%, they suggested that they were not cutting funding at all but that it was just moving to the independent sector. This is a core part of PSB, IMO, if I can have an opinion on that, based on the Facts.

Sorry I was replying to you in the first line. and then a separate message following that. I'd moved on.

Bye.

I think it should remain open. I think its a great thread that proves much of what the OP and the original posters on this thread where saying about RTÉ over the course of the last decade. I will only post updates on RTÉ, as I have done over the last number of years. Perhaps I should just let it die?

The problem is that nothing has changed in RTÉ. D4bres is just the touchstone, her predecessors were the same and KB4 isn't making any real changes to content.

RTÉ current view is that outside of governance RTÉ is (and was) an excellent Public Service Broadcaster and has a rich history. KB4 is continuing the same path as before, he is just crossing his T's and dotting his I's. Nothing has really changed in the last 3 years, and I suspect the next 4 won't see much change either.

So we are now to believe that D4bre's problems were all down to the new reality of media, and that really she did the best she could and KB4 is largely in the same place, do the best he can.

I terms of content. Certainly KB4 is changing the business / governance end of RTÉ but this makes little difference to the audience.

Do we really care if Fair City is an independent production?

Some might say it’s a protest vote at the treatment of Ryan Tubridy. Some might say had he been brought back into the fold this would have passed.

Well Ryan Tubridy was sacked here and had (according to you) an illustrious stint in the UK so I guess anything is possible.

I see Barry Cummins ended up on the News @ 1 as he is the missing persons excerpt, could they have found no one else.

Regarding governance and accountability has the Comptroller and Auditor general been given authority over RTe accounts yet?