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

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    #7262
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    RTE using Gay Byrne and Nostalgia to bring in pitiful ratings.

    I used to really like Reeling in the Years. I've avoided the 2010's one.
    RTE been trading on Nostalgia since Dee took over. I'm tired of it.

    There was a report in one of the newspapers a while back at how one of the nostalgia shows had done well and that they had a number of others coming up.... this was retrieved from an FOI to RTÉ for ... their board meetings.... :confused:

    I watched the first Reeling in the Years and it looked very much like... and now the highlights from RTÉ in 2010 rather than a genuine look back ... IMO you need to leave it a few years before you do a retrospective.


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    #7263
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,143 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Elmo wrote: »
    There was a report in one of the newspapers a while back at how one of the nostalgia shows had done well and that they had a number of others coming up.... this was retrieved from an FOI to RTÉ for ... their board meetings.... :confused:

    I watched the first Reeling in the Years and it looked very much like... and now the highlights from RTÉ in 2010 rather than a genuine look back ... IMO you need to leave it a few years before you do a retrospective.

    the series covering the 1990s was first aired in 2000. If there is a problem with the new series it is not caused by proximity to the events.


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    #7264
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    the series covering the 1990s was first aired in 2000. If there is a problem with the new series it is not caused by proximity to the events.

    True, I thought the 90s were 3rd tbh. I don't know I just think the 80s and 70s were the better of all of them followed by the 1990s, obviously there were limitations on the 1960s. The 2000s weren't bad either, and TBH I only watched the first episode of the 2010s. Perhaps it will age better as time goes on.


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    #7265
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,896 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    re Reeling in the Years..

    60's, 70's, 80's & 90's were brilliant, with great music

    It all went downhill for the 00's where every 2nd song they used was a Westlife song....


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    #7266
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,143 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    re Reeling in the Years..

    60's, 70's, 80's & 90's were brilliant, with great music

    It all went downhill for the 00's where every 2nd song they used was a Westlife song....

    perhaps just a slight exaggeration. They used westlife 3 times in the 2000s. though in fairness that is 3 times too many for my tastes.


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    #7267
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/7050694/rte-eurovision-boss-set-cost-lesley-roy/

    If you think the station is a “small chronically underfunded broadcaster” and this is the reason Ireland doesn't to well in the Eurovision there are two things

    1. Your not looking at what RTÉ have, and you never will.
    2. You're thinking that eurovision is more important that it actually is (in fairness I did in enjoy the boards eurovision thread).

    https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/cash-strapped-rte-cant-afford-eurovision-show-says-head-of-delegation-36134473.html

    In 2017 he said: -

    "If we had the money, I would love to see a stand-alone Eurosong final and do it in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, but unfortunately there's well-published financial difficulties here and we don't have the money for that,"

    Again if you think you have to rent a venue or use The Late Late Show for Eurosong '22 then you really need to consider that you have your own facilities in leafy Dublin 4.


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    #7268
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    re Reeling in the Years..

    60's, 70's, 80's & 90's were brilliant, with great music

    It all went downhill for the 00's where every 2nd song they used was a Westlife song....

    The 90's one got a bit patchy, tbh. Due to the close proximity to recent events. The 80's one had more distance.


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    #7269
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    re Reeling in the Years..

    60's, 70's, 80's & 90's were brilliant, with great music

    It all went downhill for the 00's where every 2nd song they used was a Westlife song....

    TG 4 do their own version as well. Nostalgia as gaeilge in case you missed it on RTE 1.


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    #7270
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Stovepipe wrote: »
    TG 4 do their own version as well. Nostalgia as gaeilge in case you missed it on RTE 1.

    Virgin Media do too, it's called 'Don't look back in Anger'.

    It's interesting seeing how they 'critique' the past, in comparison to how RTE do it.


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    #7271
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Stovepipe wrote: »
    TG 4 do their own version as well. Nostalgia as gaeilge in case you missed it on RTE 1.

    "Suil Sair Na.." has a certain quality to it, one issue I have with it is that it uses a lot of the English language news from RTÉ rather then the TG4/RTÉ Irish language news. https://www.tg4.ie/en/?s=suil+siar

    The TV3/Virgin Media version was to purely celebrate 20 years of TV3.


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    #7272
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    BBC NI version is called Pop goes Northern Ireland, quite bleak


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    #7273
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,977 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Nathan Carter making all the news media today, for serious breach of Covid guidelines for his birthday party, yet funnily enough not a mention of it on the RTE website.

    I wonder why?

    It helps to be a 'friend of RTE'.


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    #7274
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,052 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Nathan Carter making all the news media today, for serious breach of Covid guidelines for his birthday party, yet funnily enough not a mention of it on the RTE website.

    I wonder why?

    It helps to be a 'friend of RTE'.

    Hopefully if proven ‘guilty’ will have the full force of the law drawn down.


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    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Hopefully if proven ‘guilty’ will have the full force of the law drawn down.
    :D
    Deportation hopefully. And throw the brother in for good measure.


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    #7276
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Re: Big sporting events move to RTÉ ONE

    It is quite possible take the world cup Semi-Finals and Final

    Tuesday and Wednesday July 6th and 7th from 8pm.

    RTÉ will begin cutting down on Current Affairs for the summer months, PT can take a break on Tuesday, while RTÉ don't air Current Affairs on Wednesday Nights. With Fair City taking a break on both nights

    Sunday the 11th July for the Final, Fair City and TWIP taking breaks.

    As pointed out 9 news didn't air on Eurovision Final night.


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    #7277
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Elmo wrote: »
    Re: Big sporting events move to RTÉ ONE

    It is quite possible take the world cup Semi-Finals and Final

    Tuesday and Wednesday July 6th and 7th from 8pm.

    RTÉ will begin cutting down on Current Affairs for the summer months, PT can take a break on Tuesday, while RTÉ don't air Current Affairs on Wednesday Nights. With Fair City taking a break on both nights

    Sunday the 11th July for the Final, Fair City and TWIP taking breaks.

    As pointed out 9 news didn't air on Eurovision Final night.

    Dee Forbes and her cutbacks...strike again.


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    #7278
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Dee Forbes and her cutbacks...strike again.

    I should say that was the plan, I don't think it will happen this year.... much like most of RTÉ plans ...


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    #7279
    SPDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Nathan Carter making all the news media today, for serious breach of Covid guidelines for his birthday party, yet funnily enough not a mention of it on the RTE website.

    I wonder why?

    It helps to be a 'friend of RTE'.

    Yet I heard about it on RTE radio .Funny that :rolleyes:


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    #7280
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,977 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    SPDUB wrote: »
    Yet I heard about it on RTE radio .Funny that :rolleyes:

    I never mentioned RTE radio, I said their website.:rolleyes:


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    #7281
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I never mentioned RTE radio, I said their website.:rolleyes:

    They published his apology... but we're a year plus change into all this, can't be acting ignorant at this stage.


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    #7282
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,977 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    They published his apology... but we're a year plus change into all this, can't be acting ignorant at this stage.

    Gotta love these folk.

    We all know it wasn't a real apology. It was an apology so he wouldn't lose money in the future.

    Covering his own interests.


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    #7283
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,243 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Gotta love these folk.

    We all know it wasn't a real apology. It was an apology so he wouldn't lose money in the future.

    Covering his own interests.

    RTE broke the news on the Radio 1 Claire Byrne show and it is on the website too.

    https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/0603/1225743-nathan-carter-apologises-for-covid-breach-party/

    The lad apologised and if he has an eye to his future career that's not really unusual given that he's 31 and in the uncertain world of show business.

    "Given the restrictions, I realise how irresponsible these actions were and I fully apologise."


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    #7284
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,977 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    elperello wrote: »
    RTE broke the news on the Radio 1 Claire Byrne show and it is on the website too.

    https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/0603/1225743-nathan-carter-apologises-for-covid-breach-party/

    The lad apologised and if he has an eye to his future career that's not really unusual given that he's 31 and in the uncertain world of show business.

    "Given the restrictions, I realise how irresponsible these actions were and I fully apologise."

    I searched the RTE website high and low on the day the news broke, and couldn't see it anywhere.

    I used the search option, and entered NATHAN CARTER, and only got old stories on the search results.

    Could this link you provided have been added after the event, and backdated?


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    #7285
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,243 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I searched the RTE website high and low on the day the news broke, and couldn't see it anywhere.

    I used the search option, and entered NATHAN CARTER, and only got old stories on the search results.

    Could this link you provided have been added after the event, and backdated?


    It was all over various media platforms from The Impartial Reporter in Enniskillen to the BBC.

    Are you suggesting a conspiracy in RTE to hide the story?


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    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,977 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    elperello wrote: »
    It was all over various media platforms from The Impartial Reporter in Enniskillen to the BBC.

    Are you suggesting a conspiracy in RTE to hide the story?

    I'm only telling you what I found.

    I posted that day, when the story was all over the media, and it wasn't showing on the RTE website. I checked several times.
    No-one at the time, on that day, provided a link to say I was wrong.


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    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 14,243 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Nathan Carter making all the news media today, for serious breach of Covid guidelines for his birthday party, yet funnily enough not a mention of it on the RTE website.

    I wonder why?

    It helps to be a 'friend of RTE'.
    NIMAN wrote: »
    I'm only telling you what I found.

    I posted that day, when the story was all over the media, and it wasn't showing on the RTE website. I checked several times.
    No-one at the time, on that day, provided a link to say I was wrong.

    Thanks, I found your post from Thursday copied above.

    I suppose you might have missed it and nobody bothered to help you out with a link.

    The story was ubiquitous so the details were widely known.


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    #7288
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,977 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I didn't miss it. It wasn't there. I didn't need help to find it.
    I checked the RTE website several times.
    Scrolled up and down all the NEWS, IRISH NEWS and ENTERTAINMENT sections, and it definitely wasn't there.

    I used the SEARCH function and it didn't appear using that either.


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    #7289
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I didn't miss it. It wasn't there. I didn't need help to find it.
    I checked the RTE website several times.
    Scrolled up and down all the NEWS, IRISH NEWS and ENTERTAINMENT sections, and it definitely wasn't there.

    I used the SEARCH function and it didn't appear using that either.

    I searched it on the day and found it, it wasn't in a very prominent position. But it was there.


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    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,276 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    V-Day... an RTE program about people getting vaccines...
    V Day
    Documentary charting the national coronavirus vaccine campaign, beginning in late February as the rollout to the over-85s gets under way

    Christ...

    Even the name, V-Day means 'Valentine's Day' in most people's lexicon... but what the hell is this muck?


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    #7291
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,245 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    V-Day... an RTE program about people getting vaccines...

    Christ...

    Even the name, V-Day means 'Valentine's Day' in most people's lexicon... but what the hell is this muck?

    Such originality even if it's actually taking months lmao
    Is there no one left in RTE who can actually come up with something original


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