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British Soccer Telly Ball and the RTE Licence Tax

  • 28-02-2015 09:53PM
    #1
    ClovenHoof
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭


    The new sponsorship deal for the English Premier League ensures that the club that finishes bottom of the table still enjoy 30 million pounds in TV rights alone.

    and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

    I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.


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  • #2
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

    Eh, you could just get rid of the telly...


  • #3
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further

    No you're not.


  • #4
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    ClovenHoof wrote: »

    I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.


    Speak for yourself.


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'm missing something. When does RTE show live premiership football?


  • #6
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Worst excuse ever for not paying your TV license.


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  • #7
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    Raylan Breezy Blonde wrote: »
    I'm missing something. When does RTE show live premiership football?

    They do not. But to watch football on Sky you are required (but not forced) to pay for a TV license. I think that's what the OP is trying to put across, in an insanely OTT and hyperbolic way


  • #8
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Ah you're the 'no to foreign games' fella.


  • #9
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    COYVB wrote: »
    They do not. But to watch football on Sky you are required (but not forced) to pay for a TV license. I think that's what the OP is trying to put across, in an insanely OTT and hyperbolic way

    They pay for highlights presumably as well.


  • #10
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    kneemos wrote: »
    They pay for highlights presumably as well.

    Do they even still have that show? I thought they got rid of it years ago


  • #11
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Bloody forgeinders, over there, playing football. Bastards.


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  • #12
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons

    Speaking from experience are you?


  • #13
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    The new sponsorship deal for the English Premier League ensures that the club that finishes bottom of the table still enjoy 30 million pounds in TV rights alone.

    and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

    I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.

    Your facts are a load of bollox OP.

    RTÉ don't even broadcast Premier League highlights anymore let alone live coverage.

    Better luck finding something to moan aimlessly about next time. :p


  • #14
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    COYVB wrote: »
    Do they even still have that show? I thought they got rid of it years ago

    Quite possibly.


  • #15
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    The new sponsorship deal for the English Premier League ensures that the club that finishes bottom of the table still enjoy 30 million pounds in TV rights alone.

    and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

    I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.

    I think we might have a new record for the most ever untruths in an After Hours OP.


  • #16
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    Lapin wrote: »
    Your facts are a load of bollox OP.

    RTÉ don't even broadcast Premier League highlights anymore let alone live coverage.

    Better luck finding something to moan aimlessly about next time. :p

    I don't think that was the point the OP was making, the point was you can't legally watch your Sky Sports subscription in Ireland without paying a TV license, which is used to subsidise RTE


  • #17
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    The new sponsorship deal for the English Premier League ensures that the club that finishes bottom of the table still enjoy 30 million pounds in TV rights alone.

    and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.

    I know we Irish are a race of easily led barstool morons with the lowest IQ levels in Western Europe, but com'on.

    Take a step back into your Hiberno-fascist cave.


  • #18
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    kneemos wrote: »
    They pay for highlights presumably as well.

    No they don't.


  • #19
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    COYVB wrote: »
    I don't think that was the point the OP was making, the point was you can't legally watch your Sky Sports subscription in Ireland without paying a TV license, which is used to subsidise RTE

    No he was on about subsidising foreign sports.


  • #20
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    kneemos wrote: »
    No he was on about subsidising foreign sports.

    Read this bit again:
    and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further - or we go to prison if we don't.


  • #21
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    They used to show Live matches with a fifteen minute delay:D


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  • #22
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    COYVB wrote: »
    Read this bit again:

    What am I looking for?


  • #23
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    COYVB wrote: »
    Read this bit again:

    Yes...
    and we are forced to pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry even further

    How is paying RTE subsidising the Premier League? They don't get a cent of it.


  • #24
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    COYVB wrote: »
    They do not. But to watch football on Sky you are required (but not forced) to pay for a TV license. I think that's what the OP is trying to put across, in an insanely OTT and hyperbolic way

    I'm afraid that is definitely not what he was getting at.

    He said we "pay RTE a tax in order for us to subsidise this massively profitable FOREIGN industry".
    We may pay to have a TV but we do not subsidise premiership football.

    Just another rant thread started without any basis in fact.


  • #25
    AdrianII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭AdrianII


    Stupidest post ever.

    OP time to go actually think before you post. Not one actual truth in that comment.

    No live games (Setanta have that) and no highlights any more it was cut years ago as a cost saving method


  • #26
    Axel Lamp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 748 ✭✭✭Axel Lamp


    Ah it's a disgrace Joe, a disgrace.

    A. DISGRACE.


  • #27
    Irelandcool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭Irelandcool


    I hardly watch live TV anymore. I just use my laptop for movies, sports, TV series, live events, and such. I mean with that you don't need to pay the TV license a computer or laptop is all you need and you can watch whatever you want. If this guy doesn't want to pay TV license then let him just get rid of the TV then.


  • #28
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Irelandcool wrote: »
    I hardly watch live TV anymore. I just use my laptop for movies, sports, TV series, live events, and such. I mean with that you don't need to pay the TV license a computer or laptop is all you need and you can watch whatever you want. If this guy doesn't want to pay TV license then let him just get rid of the TV then.

    That's all about to change with the Public Srevice Broadcasting Charge and about time too. You whippersnappers have gotten away with watching TV for free far too long.


  • #29
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    sugarman wrote: »
    That's changing, you'll need to buy a broadcasting licence when it comes in this year.

    Been shelved.


  • #30
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    Raylan Breezy Blonde wrote: »
    That's all about to change with the Public Srevice Broadcasting Charge and about time too. You whippersnappers have gotten away with watching TV for free far too long.

    Ha, yeah and we'll definitely pay that one too *sniggers*


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  • #31
    Irelandcool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭Irelandcool


    sugarman wrote: »
    That's changing, you'll need to buy a broadcasting licence when it comes in this year.

    No need I already pay for internet. Besides broadcasting and streaming are two different things.


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