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Would you miss RTÉ?

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    #32
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,382 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Got Freesat which doesn’t have any Irish channels, I doubt I’m missing anything of value.


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    #33
    One More Toy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,763 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Got Freesat which doesn’t have any Irish channels, I doubt I’m missing anything of value.

    I'd get freesat but the licence inspector would see equipment visible


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    #34
    brick tamland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭brick tamland


    Have racked my brain and can only think of the tv sports coverage, which would undoubtedly end up on Virgin/sky if RTE was to fold. Nothing on the radio either.

    So i guess no


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    #35
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,533 ✭✭✭Allinall


    One More Toy wrote: »
    I'd get freesat but the licence inspector would see equipment visible

    Why not just pay the license?


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    #36
    One More Toy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,763 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    Allinall wrote: »
    Why not just pay the license?

    To pay for Duffy and Co's salaries?think I'll pass


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    #37
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,320 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    RTE need to be scaled back to a public service broadcaster.
    One tv and one radio station.
    Eliminate all the foreign tv box sets ( ER and The OC ffs)and nonsense from RTE player.
    Severe pay cuts through out the organisation.
    Sell Montrose and move to a warehouse on the M50.

    RTE have made some really good television throughout it's history and can continue to do so, but it needs to trim the fat, concentrate on news, current affairs, investigative journalism and locally produced drama.

    €50 per household or small levy on electronic devices( €5 on phone/tablet, €10 on a TV) should cover all that's needed


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    #38
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Get rid of 2FM as all it does is play the same crap available elsewhere. Cap wages and tell anyone who thinks they're worth more to go elsewhere.


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    #39
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    KaneToad wrote: »
    So your answer would be yes

    Probably too complicated for you.


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    #40
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    Without RTE they won't end up on YouTube you tube.

    Yeah but you make your own mash up.... You you you


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    #41
    [Deleted User]
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    One More Toy wrote: »
    After watching a Mrs brown's boys from 2012 just on now. Is that the best they can really do for a Saturday night? Now next up is Ray D'Arcy with zero guests of any real fame


    I got 2 flyers in my postbox this week. One was an entry form for the Late Late Show competition and the other a note saying the TV license inspector had been and missed me. They came different days so weren't delivered by the same person.

    For a station thats losing money, what a colossal waste of money to send out fliers to, i'm assuming most households in the country.

    And what a completely half-assed, inefficient way to collect the license fee.


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    #42
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Well just ask yourself if a strike happened in RTE tomorrow, would you be devastated or would you just go elsewhere.

    Easy answer and RTE knows it now. Times have changed. They haven't kept up.

    Honestly you can get all your TV shows and everything else on YouTube now or whatever platform you choose other than RTE.


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    #43
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,245 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    A lot bad, Ray D’Arcy who was decent on radio brought in for huge wages to do a tv show which is now a disaster....who could have predicted that

    D'Arcy is terrible on the radio - cannot stand more than 5 minutes of listening to him but he probably has more producers and researchers than the likes of Newstalk how have very entertaining slots and don't need us to pay them.

    Need a state broadcaster but RTE is living in the 80's trying to be all things to all people but that don't work anymore. You can get the news you want from where you want now.
    Keep RTE One and Radio One - let the rest go, no need for them. What purposes does RTE2 serve? Cannot remember the last time I looked at it


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    #44
    I Wish I Was
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3 ✭I Wish I Was


    Not a bit. Never watch it.


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    #45
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,245 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I got 2 flyers in my postbox this week. One was an entry form for the Late Late Show competition and the other a note saying the TV license inspector had been and missed me. They came different days so weren't delivered by the same person.

    For a station thats losing money, what a colossal waste of money to send out fliers to, i'm assuming most households in the country.

    And what a completely half-assed, inefficient way to collect the license fee.

    The LLS competition flyer is part of an ad campaign so not a cost to RTE.
    The TV licence notice is not a flyer and will not have been sent to all houses.


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    #46
    return guide
    Registered Users Posts: 631 ✭✭✭return guide


    Have Freesat for years, never missed RTE - still play the fee though (mainly due to the wife being scared of the detection vans !!).

    Funnily enough, I could not care less if they shut down the TV service but as for the radio service, I would like to keep it, for reasons unknown, even to myself...


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    #47
    GalwayGrrrrrl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭GalwayGrrrrrl


    I rarely watch any of the Irish channels even though i have sky channels. I watch channel 4 from UK, sky news and the BBC. Mostly I watch Netflix. Irish channels have no homegrown programmes that interest me and on the rare occasion I watch something on Irish channels it’s made in UK or America. For radio i have local radio or classic hits 4fm. Wouldn’t notice if RTE was turned off tomorrow tbh.


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    #48
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    But still RTE think their presenters are worth hundreds of thousands.

    Something has to give here. Radio is a big bleed IMO.


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    #49
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    RTE does produce some great content. For the most part it does current affairs on both TV and radio quite well. The same for their sport coverage. But they need to start living in the real world. The salaries of their "stars" is grossly out of proportion with our counterparts across the water (who do that kind of thing much better). Ditch the soap imports that can be watched on any number of channels that most have access to anyway. Likewise with pointless shows that serve as a vehicle for pals of the Montrose luvvies to do a spot of self promotion. The nepotism culture should be looked at too. That's only the start of it.

    Reforming that dysfunctional behemoth like RTE can only be achieved when they realise that they have all the money they need to provide a good service, the problem is that they just waste what they have. Maybe now that money is a worry for them they will make the cuts needed to become a better service to the license payer. However, my gut is that they will get the extra funding they are asking for and will end up wasting it. Then they will come back in a few years with their cap in hand again.

    I want RTE to stay, but as an actual public service broadcaster. To do this they are going to have to get leaner, a lot leaner.


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    #50
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Honestly they should be prohibited from wasting time/effort/money on broadcasting British/US TV when it can be gotten for free by just about everyone anyway.

    RTE could probably spend the Licence Fee much more creatively and efficiently if they were forced to. Can you imagine the laughs Joe Duffy would get if he went abroad and asked for a similar lavish wage?





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    #51
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,153 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    With the head of this organisation getting a €25k annual car allowance you would think it was Google.
    The State broadcaster's annual report shows the amount paid to Dee Forbes included a basic salary of a quarter of a million, a car allowance worth €25,000 along with pension contributions worth €63,000.

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/report-outlines-338k-pay-package-for-rtes-director-general-851264.html


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    #52
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,245 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Need a Citizens Assembly on it - some voice of reason and the government having to act on it


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    #53
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,245 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    With the head of this organisation getting a €25k annual car allowance you would think it was Google.



    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/report-outlines-338k-pay-package-for-rtes-director-general-851264.html

    80% of the population like this comment, then look at their pay packets and realise they don't even get that after tax, prsi, usc...


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    #54
    samjames
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭samjames


    i never watch it so wouldnt miss it, theres nothing of quality on it but then again there never was


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    #55
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    It should be an opt in service like Sky or Virgin.


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    #56
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,245 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Need a Citizens Assembly on it - some voice of reason and the government having to act on it

    An interesting suggestion.


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    #57
    UsBus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭UsBus


    kneemos wrote: »
    Newstalk does a vastly better job(for free)than RTE radio,which mostly consists of misery porn.

    Could not disagree more. Newstalk has become an absolute farce.
    Breakfast show- Lefty loonies preaching utter pc rubbish first thing in the morning.
    Lunchtime with the backstabber man haters
    Ivan Yates is just a parody at this stage, complete noise to listen to every evening.

    The station used to be enjoyable a few years ago, but it has wrapped itself in knots over what direction it's headed. Extreme PC theme on every discussion


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    #58
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,245 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    UsBus wrote: »
    Could not disagree more. Newstalk has become an absolute farce.
    Breakfast show- Lefty loonies preaching utter pc rubbish first thing in the morning.
    Lunchtime with the backstabber man haters
    Ivan Yates is just a parody at this stage, complete noise to listen to every evening.

    The station used to be enjoyable a few years ago, but it has wrapped itself in knots over what direction it's headed. Extreme PC theme on every discussion

    Same could be said of RTE with its one sided presenters spitting disdain on anyone not agreeing with them. Many of RTE's radio and tv presenters are not impartial in the least when it comes to some interviews


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    #59
    Fan of Netflix
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭Fan of Netflix


    https://twitter.com/RobCross247/status/1175542181840527360

    RTE flies ad executives to Japan for World Cup. Front of the Sindo, more controversy for RTE. Their pleas for money are not credible with such wastage.


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    Fan of Netflix wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/RobCross247/status/1175542181840527360

    RTE flies ad executives to Japan for World Cup. Front of the Sindo, more controversy for RTE. Their pleas for money are not credible with such wastage.


    Is Richard Bruton ultimately responsible for this waste of tax payers money?


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    #61
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,245 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Is Richard Bruton ultimately responsible for this waste of tax payers money?

    God forbid a politician take responsibility for his remit


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