Does anyone agree with the TV License?

Hotale.com · 20-05-2014 07:12PM #1

I don't see why they even bother calling it a TV license, RTE are paying ridiculous wages to people such as Tubs and Miriam O'Callaghan and get their own revenue from advertisement yet still everyone's expected to give them 160 euro a year.

For it to make any sense RTÉ should sack or cut the wages of all their overpaid staff and should cease advertising either completely or just during programmes. It's a joke that we're expected to pay money under the pretence of it going to improve our TV quality when it's really just a way of the government to take some money off us. That ad with the TV License inspectors is especially infuriating; it just reminds me of the bullying nature of our government.

I'm not usually even against extra taxes and all that (once they're within reason) as they have to get money from somewhere, but the TV license is an absolutely ridiculous concept in its current form.

Exo · 20-05-2014 07:14PM

Wait until they introduce an 'internet' tax simply because we have access to RTÉ's website.

pO1Neil · 20-05-2014 07:16PM

Just another way that they have of taking money of the poor & giving it to the already extremely rich.

Hootanany · 20-05-2014 07:18PM

For €160 per a mum RTE should not run adverts, this would let more TV channels get up and running wider choice.
If RTE cannot operate within their budget tough txxxxxty.

gizmo555 · 20-05-2014 07:19PM

Exo wrote: »

Wait until they introduce an 'internet' tax simply because we access to RTÉ's website.

That's exactly what Pat Rabbitte is planning:

Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte has said a new broadcasting charge, if introduced, would not be an additional tax.

A broadcasting charge is being considered by Government as a replacement for the current television licence, which requires any household in possession of a TV to pay an annual fee of €160.

The minister said a new system is being considered due to technological changes, which has seen an increasing number of people using "non-traditional" means to access RTÉ's content.

fran17 · 20-05-2014 07:19PM

talk to joe about it.we give him around 300k a year so he should give you five mins:D

Phoebas · 20-05-2014 07:19PM

This thread ....... again?

PizzamanIRL · 20-05-2014 07:19PM

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Does rain fall from the sky?
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Is our adversarial legal system–in which an attorney dwells just on the facts that support the side by which he or she is paid–the system likeliest to achieve justice?

Now, to give you the obvious answer to your question, no I do not agree with the TV licence. They say you get what you pay for. I don't think we do with the TV licence, quality wise anyway.

mikeym · 20-05-2014 07:20PM

Over in the UK if your Tv isnt receiving a live feed you dont have to pay for a Tv Licence.

While over here if you have 3 televisions that are hooked up to Dvd players or A playstation/xbox you have to get 3 Tv Licences by law.

griffdaddy · 20-05-2014 07:21PM

I wouldn't mind paying it if there were no ads like the BBC. It irks me that we have to pay tax for TV and then sit through commercials which also generate revenue, most of which goes towards keeping Miriam O'Callaghan's thousand children in caviar and designer clothes anyway.

WinnyThePoo · 20-05-2014 07:22PM

Is there any companies that have deals on bundles with just internet and phone?. Personally don't watch the TV that much at all these days.

downonthefarm · 20-05-2014 07:23PM

Never have and never will pay for the privilege to watch or pay those idiots vastly over inflated wages

Nino Brown · 20-05-2014 07:26PM

downonthefarm wrote: »

Never have and never will pay for the privilege to watch or pay those idiots vastly over inflated wages

We might have to with the broadcasting charge. But until then I refuse to pay for a service I don't use, unless its called what it is, a tax.

rawn · 20-05-2014 07:31PM

It can't be legal to tax every household with internet just because they may or may not access rte's shoddy website? Isn't that what site subscription fees are for? I mean, from a legal point of view surely that's preposterous? It's like charging everyone in Ireland €160 a year because I own an art gallery that they can visit for free if they'd like. Charge the people who do visit. Don't charge the people who don't visit. Simples?

Hotale.com · 20-05-2014 07:33PM

rawn wrote: »

It can't be legal to tax every household with internet just because they may or may not access rte's shoddy website? Isn't that what site subscription fees are for? I mean, from a legal point of view surely that's preposterous? It's like charging everyone in Ireland €160 a year because I own an art gallery that they can visit for free if they'd like. Charge the people who do visit. Don't charge the people who don't visit. Simples?

It's just a name change of the tv license so that they can charge everyone.

pharmaton · 20-05-2014 07:33PM

I think it's great, taxes are great.

c_man · 20-05-2014 07:34PM

OP, how else could we afford to pay market rates of half a mil for the likes of Marian Finucane? And what exactly would you do with yourself if she left, what on Earth could keep you sane for those two hour weekly shows that she delivers???

Nothing, pay up your tv tax.

20-05-2014 07:34PM

mikeym wrote: »

Over in the UK if your Tv isnt receiving a live feed you dont have to pay for a Tv Licence.

While over here if you have 3 televisions that are hooked up to Dvd players or A playstation/xbox you have to get 3 Tv Licences by law.

Interesting, but defiantly not the case here. Grew up without ever seeing RTE, only UTV and BBC over community paid for booster.

My father went to court twice for refusing to pay for a service we did not receive. was fined each time and judge threatened prison time if he refused to pay again. Great wee island.

SafeSurfer · 20-05-2014 07:35PM

I believe RTE should be sold and the TV licence scrapped. RTE must be the most nepotism ridden institution in the country.

Mr. Incognito · 20-05-2014 07:36PM

I didnt know it had an opinion

wandatowell · 20-05-2014 07:38PM

I dont mind paying the tv licence/broadcast charge since I got hooked up with a card sharing box.

Life is great, especially in HD.

kingtiger · 20-05-2014 07:41PM

wandatowell wrote: »

Life is great, especially in HD.

Not for much longer....

shruikan2553 · 20-05-2014 07:48PM

rawn wrote: »

It can't be legal to tax every household with internet just because they may or may not access rte's shoddy website? Isn't that what site subscription fees are for? I mean, from a legal point of view surely that's preposterous? It's like charging everyone in Ireland €160 a year because I own an art gallery that they can visit for free if they'd like. Charge the people who do visit. Don't charge the people who don't visit. Simples?

They wouldnt be able to survive then. Ryan would end up in the debt collection business breaking legs.

jonnny68 · 20-05-2014 07:49PM

Absolutely not

_Redzer_ · 20-05-2014 07:49PM

griffdaddy wrote: »

I wouldn't mind paying it if there were no ads like the BBC. It irks me that we have to pay tax for TV and then sit through commercials which also generate revenue, most of which goes towards keeping Miriam O'Callaghan's thousand children in caviar and designer clothes anyway.

It would be a good start, but it'd still be RTE programming, so ultimately still shíte.

Bruthal · 20-05-2014 07:51PM

Phoebas wrote: »

This thread ....... again?

GOTO another thread then. Simple

Nino Brown · 20-05-2014 07:52PM

Why do we need a national broadcaster in this day and age anyway? I already have any news, well before RTE even report it. I remember the night Bin Laden was killed, I'd been looking at it for hours on various TV stations/websites, I checked RTE.ie and the headline was a bog on fire somewhere in Donegal.
If RTE was gone tomorrow it would have zero impact on my life.

Manach · 20-05-2014 07:53PM

My main issues are the extension of payment for the broadcast tax into the realm of computers and that there is no realistic cap on expenses for a service that is not needed as there are alternative media providers.

Bruthal · 20-05-2014 07:59PM

Manach wrote: »

My main issues are the extension of payment for the broadcast tax into the realm of computers and that there is no realistic cap on expenses for a service that is not needed as there are alternative media providers.

I said a few times on boards a fair while back, the TV licence had little to do with actual TV's the last fair few years. They simply want every premises to be liable for this tax. What I actually said was that as soon as there are other means to tune in live broadcasts, the TV licence name will change, to encompass everyone within the net.

Its really becoming an additional property tax now.

EyeSight · 20-05-2014 08:00PM

It's stupid and a huge example of how out of touch and ineffective the government are

BTW why do we pay so much for our "presenters"? It's not like they're great(surely there's loads of non-RTE nepotists who could do just as well) and it's not like they can get a job anywhere else? Sure Newstalk and TV3 might buy a few, but the majority wouldn't get another job and would need to take a paycut - Just like most common people in the recession

mad muffin · 20-05-2014 08:02PM

I need a do over. I meant to pick no, not yes.

FÜCK YOU TOUCH SCREEN!!!! :mad:

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