How does RTE get away with it?

baaah · 27-09-2013 11:21PM

Kippure wrote: »

Rte is the worst broadcaster on the planet. It should be shutdown.

So you've seen Tv from every broadcaster on the planet??

Howard Juneau · 27-09-2013 11:22PM

Kippure wrote: »

Rte is the worst broadcaster on the planet. It should be shutdown.

Would make your username redundant though

Kippure · 27-09-2013 11:22PM

baaah wrote: »

So you've seen Tv from every broadcaster on the planet??

Not many people can say that..:p

Kippure · 27-09-2013 11:23PM

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Would make your username redundant though

I,d still keep the mobile phone companies busy.

kneemos · 27-09-2013 11:27PM

Kippure wrote: »

Rte is the worst broadcaster on the planet. It should be shutdown.

I pay the licence fee and I would give credit where it's due but there's really not that much on.Apart from the odd news bulletin I seldom watch it.

Bertser · 27-09-2013 11:28PM

Cannot get over how bad a host Ryan Tubridy is.

27-09-2013 11:30PM

I have a theory that the late late was never as good as they say it was, just back in the day there was no choice.

Gay was supposed to have been some television genius. One of the highlights of his late late career was giving the girlfriend of a bishop a hard time while calling the bishop a good man, after she had had his child. And something something answer about a woman wearing nothing on her wedding night which caused a scandal, after being asked the loaded question in a competition.

Also remember they gave Boyzone a slot on the show, even though they hadn't recorded a song at that point.

Kippure · 27-09-2013 11:33PM

kneemos wrote: »

I pay the licence fee and I would give credit where it's due but there's really not that much on.Apart from the odd news bulletin I seldom watch it.

The quality of programming is poor, very poor.

When they have supposedly hard hitting programme,s. They never following through incase someone,s feelings are hurt.

Rte can no longer justify there existence.

There is one great thing about rte, I forgot to mention. They have the best meteorologist,s working for them in the world.

spank_inferno · 27-09-2013 11:47PM

Kippure wrote: »

There is one great thing about rte, I forgot to mention. They have the best meteorologist,s working for them in the world.

Are they though?

Just cos they have been around fot 5-6 decades does not equal a quality product.

If I need weather I dont go to Met Eireann.

HansHolzel · 27-09-2013 11:49PM

Audrey McGrath - try as I might I can never remember what she said

Sh1tbag OToole · 27-09-2013 11:54PM

spank_inferno wrote: »

Are they though?

Just cos they have been around fot 5-6 decades does not equal a quality product.

If I need weather I dont go to Met Eireann.

If I need weather I just step outside the door.

Kippure · 27-09-2013 11:55PM

spank_inferno wrote: »

Are they though?

Just cos they have been around fot 5-6 decades does not equal a quality product.

If I need weather I dont go to Met Eireann.

They are the most educated and skilled meteorologist,s around. The experience they have is legendary.

And one or two are HOT!!!!

losthorizon · 27-09-2013 11:58PM

Kippure wrote: »

Rte is the worst broadcaster on the planet. It should be shutdown.

Have you ever been abroad. It most certainly is not. And I hardly watch any RTE Programmes except the odd one.

Galahad Galactico · 27-09-2013 11:59PM

carzony wrote: »

Has anyone recently watched the late, late show? I'v been looking at it waiting for the love/hate interview and the crap they are showing is just unreal.. Guests that no one has ever heard of and music that you'd switch over if it was on the radio.

How the **** has the show been on TV so long :eek::eek:

Simples

Kippure · 28-09-2013 12:00AM

losthorizon wrote: »

Have you ever been abroad. It most certainly is not. And I hardly watch any RTE Programmes except the odd one.

Yes.

shruikan2553 · 28-09-2013 12:04AM

The most exciting guests are the wives used to fill up space with the real guests who I have never heard of.

Dawn Rider · 28-09-2013 01:26AM

Kippure wrote: »

They are the most educated and skilled meteorologist,s around. The experience they have is legendary.

And one or two are HOT!!!!

Karina Buckley is very distracting when I'm trying to follow the weather report.:D

peewee_44 · 28-09-2013 03:09AM

If the government get away with running the country into the ground of course RTE are going to get away with rubbish programming

peewee_44 · 28-09-2013 03:11AM

If the government get away daily without the Public going on strike its not hard for RTE to get away with there rubbish programming

UCDVet · 28-09-2013 10:42AM

kneemos wrote: »

All in favour of it if it means the fee doesn't increase.
You're suggesting the spongers have brought it upon themselves by not paying the license?

As a sponger, I'm suggesting the government has no business forcing me to pay for your entertainment.

I don't own a TV, because of the b.s. license. But if I had one, I wouldn't watch RTE. I wouldn't watch broadcast television. I play video games, watch DVDs, stream Netflix, and watch US television shows on US websites where they stream them.

The TV license is a horrible value. Given the choice, lots of people would find better ways to spend their 160 euro per year.

Now they are fighting to change the law so that people like me, who have no TV and no desire to watch RTE and the likes will also be forced to pay the license. There is no justification for this, they just want more money. And your happy to go along with it, as long as it isn't your money?

Without a TV - the only way I can consume RTE content is because they are giving it away online. A better solution would be to restrict access to people who register. You know, like customers. EVERYONE in the world doesn't need to pay Netflix because they *COULD* watch Netflix online......instead, Netflix only lets people who pay access the content.

kneemos · 28-09-2013 11:11AM

UCDVet wrote: »

As a sponger, I'm suggesting the government has no business forcing me to pay for your entertainment.

I don't own a TV, because of the b.s. license. But if I had one, I wouldn't watch RTE. I wouldn't watch broadcast television. I play video games, watch DVDs, stream Netflix, and watch US television shows on US websites where they stream them.

The TV license is a horrible value. Given the choice, lots of people would find better ways to spend their 160 euro per year.

Now they are fighting to change the law so that people like me, who have no TV and no desire to watch RTE and the likes will also be forced to pay the license. There is no justification for this, they just want more money. And your happy to go along with it, as long as it isn't your money?

Without a TV - the only way I can consume RTE content is because they are giving it away online. A better solution would be to restrict access to people who register. You know, like customers. EVERYONE in the world doesn't need to pay Netflix because they *COULD* watch Netflix online......instead, Netflix only lets people who pay access the content.

It's a tax for a community service.
You have to think of it in the whole
and feel glad you're contributing to the community.

guillespe · 28-09-2013 12:11PM

RTE gets away with it because they can,ever watch pat kenny and sit there thinking well hey this guy deserves 900k per year...I can tell you i didn't once think that and im sure plenty of other people didn't either..

I'll tell you why they can get away with it,because they are safe in the knowledge we are bullied into paying a TV license for sub-standard television programming.(Thank you, so-fat-you-cant-see-your-own-willy pat rabbitte)

Look at the repeats of CSI miami and reeling in the years,etc. It is clear the money that goes into RTE doesn't come out in their programming choices,it goes directly into the likes of tubridy and marian 4 hours finuncane's pocket..

UCDVet · 28-09-2013 12:49PM

kneemos wrote: »

It's a tax for a community service.
You have to think of it in the whole
and feel glad you're contributing to the community.

If it were a tax for a community service....

1.) It wouldn't be tied to ownership of a television
2.) It would be proportional to one's ability to pay

#2 is the real kicker though. See, they're upset that some 20% of the population isn't paying the TV license, so they are moving it to a 'household' charge. That completely ignores the fact that one in five households in Ireland are unemployed.

This might have been about providing a useful community service - years back. But now it's about rich people fighting to keep their financial interests secured. It's about money, plain and simple. Rich people who have a lot of it, want to make sure they keep getting it.

RTE saw a huge increase in revenue during the tiger and is doing everything in it's power to keep revenue at those levels. RTE, even at the height of the boom, couldn't compete on merit against mediocre US cable TV. I don't understand how or why some poor guy on the dole or working for minimum wage should be *forced* to pay 160 euro per year, to support some rich executive in a suit who is tasked with ensuring a steady production of crap, who makes six figures. Or actors and actresses who'd be no-name c-list celebs outside of Ireland pull down the same.

kneemos · 28-09-2013 01:29PM

UCDVet wrote: »

If it were a tax for a community service....

1.) It wouldn't be tied to ownership of a television
2.) It would be proportional to one's ability to pay

#2 is the real kicker though. See, they're upset that some 20% of the population isn't paying the TV license, so they are moving it to a 'household' charge. That completely ignores the fact that one in five households in Ireland are unemployed.

This might have been about providing a useful community service - years back. But now it's about rich people fighting to keep their financial interests secured. It's about money, plain and simple. Rich people who have a lot of it, want to make sure they keep getting it.

RTE saw a huge increase in revenue during the tiger and is doing everything in it's power to keep revenue at those levels. RTE, even at the height of the boom, couldn't compete on merit against mediocre US cable TV. I don't understand how or why some
c-list celebs outside of Ireland pull down the same.

I'd agree most of it is crap,both radio and TV.However given the size of the Irish market if we were to rely totally on commercial broadcasters the quality of the service would be very poor indeed.

Caonima · 28-09-2013 01:50PM

losthorizon wrote: »

Have you ever been abroad. It most certainly is not. And I hardly watch any RTE Programmes except the odd one.

True that. As bad as RTE can be, it's nothing compared to CCTV in the good ol' People's Republic of China. They largely have the bottom on what people get to watch here.

I miss Prime Time, Reeling in the Years, the news... but The Late Late has been a sham for the last few years. A combination of a bland host who is a personality-free zone and the z-lister dregs of D4 has been a sure-fire recipe for disaster. The closest I come to watching it is going to the RTE Player and reading who the guests are and then I move on. Has been nothing of interest for about 4 years now.

shruikan2553 · 28-09-2013 03:08PM

kneemos wrote: »

It's a tax for a community service.
You have to think of it in the whole
and feel glad you're contributing to the community.

How does it benefit the community?

kneemos · 28-09-2013 03:21PM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

How does it benefit the community?

Irish oriented programs on radio and TV.

fussyonion · 28-09-2013 03:42PM

As unpatriotic as this sounds, I stopped watching Irish telly about five years ago.

Old-fashioned weather reporting, cringey news reporters, lame day-time shows and embarrassing guests on the Late Late Show.

I said it before and I'll say it again, we don't have celebs in Ireland.

Last week I switched over to see what was on and it was the usual ****e.
I'm not missing anything.

HansHolzel · 28-09-2013 03:44PM

Paying a tax for Fair City - how more tyrannical can it get?

shruikan2553 · 28-09-2013 03:44PM

kneemos wrote: »

Irish oriented programs on radio and TV.

Like home and away, big bang theory, joe duffy and the late late show? Im not seeing how it being "irish orientated" means that everyone should pay for it. Ill stick to netflix, it makes suggestions me orientated, not irish orientated.

How does RTE get away with it?

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