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

I’m in the 18-30 bracket. I don’t know anyone that watches RTE for anything other than the news and sport, maybe some watch the Tommy Tiernan Show.

Love/Hate was the last really good show that they put out.

I have no interest in paying a licence charge for a service that I get very little use out of in the grand scheme of things. I’d prefer to pay BT or Sky an extra €20 for the sport. At least their pundits know what they’re talking about.

The future of state media should be meeting the desires of those that will be funding it… but it’s not. And it seems it can’t. So I think it’s time to bin it.

I find it irritating that the only stations in HD on Saorview are RTE ones.

This is because RTE charge exorbitant rates for HD, and of course RTE carriage on Saorview is subsidised by the license payer and the independents are not. They need to level out the playing field in this area, allow the others switch to HD for a more reasonable rate.

This is the type of thing I would expect the license fee to be spent on. Improving the Saorview platform for all stations. If somebody only watched Virgin Media, they still have to pay the license fee, so it's only fair.

Because I am forced to pay for it, regardless of if I want to use it or not.

The scenario you refer to would be applicable to a private company, where you can opt in or out, not to the TV license.

There should be a fee to cover limited PSO such as basic news, beyond that stick it behind a paywall on a subscription basis, let people decide if they want to subscribe or not, the market will then set the budget to pay for accounting officer to work within.

Christ - some self serving in the right place at the right time talentless individual that RTE wanna pick up again

I'm confused how he ever got a job at CNN????

Note he's not a journalist but a correspondent with a very specialised conspiracy field

We seem to have this desperation to be loved everywhere a typical programme put out about someone doing a job but of course it will to have him loved by all and sundry he's a correspondent doing his job he's not running the country .

Freedom of expression and Freedom to ignore that expression are two sides of the same coin.

Refusal to pay for RTE's right to Freedom of expression is a form of Political Dissidence.Even if you ignore the message you still must pay for it or face imprisonment.

On a more upbeat note you can relax about facing imprisonment.

You can't be jailed for not having a TV licence.

However if having been fined in court you refuse to pay the fine you may have to pack a bag.

They've scheduled the lunchtime news all week but have shown clips of John Creedon instead,

It's not though. License is only one part of their income. Advertising revenue and sponsorship has increased since 2008.

git woke, go broke

The licence should be discontinued and an equivalent amount added to property tax. This would eliminate collection issues and would so bring in more at no extra cost to regular people. Part of the increased income should be allocated to transmission, allowing Saorview and Saorsat coverage everywhere. All Irish stations should be obliged to broadcast in HD on these platforms, but the licence fee money should ensure that the cost of this is modest. Part of the licence fee should explicitly be used to provide certain public interest objectives and the likes of Virgin should be able to receive some of this if they take part in the coverage.

Jaysus H on a bke.

Tubhead, Brendan O'Connor, D'Arcy, Duffy, McInerney ... talentless shytes.

God be with the days when you had actual talent in the place like Gaybo, Murphy, Farrell, O'Leary.

People that actually could get a job elsewhere because they had ability and talent.