Would you miss RTÉ?

fritzelly · 21-09-2019 11:53pm

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

fritzelly · 21-09-2019 11:55pm

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...

samjames · 21-09-2019 11:56pm

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

Temptamperu · 21-09-2019 11:57pm

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

elperello · 22-09-2019 12:02am

fritzelly wrote: »

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

An interesting suggestion.

UsBus · 22-09-2019 12:04am

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

fritzelly · 22-09-2019 12:13am

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

Fan of Netflix · 22-09-2019 12:15am

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.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-09-2019 12:23am

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?

fritzelly · 22-09-2019 12:24am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

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

God forbid a politician take responsibility for his remit

antiskeptic · 22-09-2019 12:26am

RTE is what you get when there is no competition (or you are very slow to realise you have competition)

An absolute dinosaur which is 2 coms revolutions behind the curve.

Its meant to be public service but most content is the same kind of stuff you can get anywhere.

I finally steered the saorview aerial around to get a signal after 6 years without and, bar champions league just starting on the telly, I never watch it. Cringeworthy, parochial copycat generic.

Doomed. But probably one to undergo a very slow death.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-09-2019 12:29am

I'd expect a levy soon on Netflix and Prime, 50 cent a week to keep RTE afloat.

fritzelly · 22-09-2019 12:31am

antiskeptic wrote: »

RTE is what you get when there is no competition (or you are very slow to realise you have competition)
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That's why they don't want anyone else on Saorview - thought it many years ago

https://www.independent.ie/business/media/saorview-pricing-model-is-restricting-range-of-tv-channels-says-tg4-37965344.html

sligojoek · 22-09-2019 12:40am

Yeah, I'd miss it. I'd have nothing to give out about.

From 99 to 03 I lived in a place where I could get no TV signal and only Radio1 or 2 on the kitchen radio. I started listening to Radio 1 a lot and found it informing and entertaining, for the most part.

These days it's just dumbed down and tabloidey, if that's a word. I find myself 'hitting the dial/buttons' a lot more lately.

Lyric FM I hope they're flying a kite on that one. I listen to it in the car a lot. My daughter, who is doing music for the leaving cert listens to it a good bit too. When not listening to "Jungle music" . Father Stack wouldn't get a look in with her.

RTE2 nobody in this house (mid teens to mid 50s) watches it unless there's a soccer match on.

TnaG great station. I'm not 'mad into trad' but their coverage of the Fleadh is always top notch. I know they do repeats but a lot of it was good first time round.

News Now. Repeats of earlier bulletins .

It's a pity they couldn't do an english language commentary on the league matches on TG4. There's usually at least 5 seconds of a delay between radio and TV . Major PITA. This year there was an option to watch some championship matches on News Now for people who wanted commentary as gaeilge. Which was a good innovation, in fairness.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-09-2019 12:40am

TG4 is a lesson in how to cut your cloth according to your situation, tiny budget, ultra professional output.

fritzelly · 22-09-2019 12:40am

Actually why cant some of the licence fee be redirected to the costs of running Saorview to make it cheaper for other stations to broadcast on it?
As 2rn is a commercial enterprise not sure how that would work but why has no one thought of that. In the UK it is a conglomerate of the main broadcasters but bigger market so does not need it

fritzelly · 22-09-2019 12:42am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

TG4 is a lesson in how to cut your cloth according to your situation, tiny budget, ultra professional output.

Their weather reports are way ahead of RTE - such a simple thing!

22-09-2019 12:48am

I'm not into Ghay-A-A so I wouldn't miss it.

haven't watched it in years really aside from the odd international match here or there, all of which are available elsewhere.

they only have 6 nations and some soccer matches really.

thing like weather information are freely available on the web also.

pare it back to a basic news service possibly and get rid of the rest.

original programming (not counting disposable cheap reality tv shtye) is negligible and most usually dire.

it seems to exist mainly for the sake of the people working there and no other tangible reason really.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-09-2019 12:50am

There's nobody openly querying the spends at RTE, most media types won't question it as they will kill off the hands that feed them.

One More Toy · 22-09-2019 12:52am

I dont know why they keep Alison spittle in a job either

22-09-2019 12:53am

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Can you imagine the laughs Joe Duffy would get if he went abroad and asked for a similar lavish wage?

There are people headlining BBC Radio 2 programmes (with hundreds of millions of global listeners) as well as "serious", flagship BBC Radio. 4 programmes like "Today" who earn significantly less than Joe Duffy. I'm including people like John Humphreys and Nick Grimshaw for combined TV/radio work (Grimshaw including the Eurovision).

The reach of their audiences colossal by Irish standards and we deem fit to pay them at rates not even surpassed by the BBC?

It isn't only the BBC which is laughing, I can hear Joe Duffy tittering from across the bay.

It can be a bit unfair to pick on him because I think he gets some flak because it his accent and background. But that's not the point at all. RTE salaries are madly out of kilter with any conceivable competing station, at home or abroad. Duffy just happens to be a useful example as he doesn't tend to do much TV work, unlike Tubridy and D'Arcy.

fritzelly · 22-09-2019 12:57am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

There's nobody openly querying the spends at RTE, most media types won't question it as they will kill off the hands that feed them.

But you do have the independent companies who give us such delights as Dancing with the Kitchen Staff, How to Paint a Wall White with Seamus "I'm getting paid a million a year to tell you this" O'Flannery, not to forget the outsourced and very memorable C4 Coach Trip rip off where you pay us to take you on holiday (and we ain't paying for anything - except a certain hoteliers expenses and some danger money)

All telling us RTE deserve every penny they get and need more (to keep us in a job)

One More Toy · 22-09-2019 1:00am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

TG4 is a lesson in how to cut your cloth according to your situation, tiny budget, ultra professional output.

Nice weather presenters too

Atlantic Dawn · 22-09-2019 1:07am

One More Toy wrote: »

I dont know why they keep Alison spittle in a job either

The Lottie Ryan interview will come out the week after Area 51 folds.

22-09-2019 1:29am

One More Toy wrote: »

I dont know why they keep Alison spittle in a job either

some high-level exec must have ridden her sideways (possibly the only way to work it) in a blind drunk haze and she'll let the world know if her commissions are cut off.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-09-2019 1:32am

Whoy do RTE employ so few 'people of colour'?

Zaph · 22-09-2019 2:03am

Probably the only thing I make a point of watching on RTE is if the national soccer team are playing a Euro/WC qualifier. And tbh, they're so sh*te it's pretty much an act of masochism, so I possibly wouldn't even miss those games if they were only available on a subscription sports channel. Almost everything else is just dross of varying degrees.

US2 · 22-09-2019 2:06am

I wouldn't miss it as I haven't watched it in 10+ years. Think 1 channel would be enough, keep it all Irish related, there's enough channels reapeating crappy American sitcoms

Shefwedfan · 22-09-2019 7:19am

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Whoy do RTE employ so few 'people of colour'?

Mostly because everyone at RTÉ has to be related to each other.....if you are not a daughter/son/grand daughter etc to someone then no need to apply

Lyric fm serves a purpose.....2Fm doesn’t....apart from keeping a lot of wasters or as 2fm call them “talent” off the dole queue

Who in their right mind thought hiring Lottie Ryan was a good idea?

Wanderer78 · 22-09-2019 7:28am

Yea I'd miss their current affairs programs, like most other media outlets though, they do have a lot of ****e on their schedules

Checkmate19 · 22-09-2019 7:56am

Love to know actually how many are in the news department. Seems to be a seperate correspondent for everything. Nice money if you can get aboard the gravy train.

Shefwedfan · 22-09-2019 7:59am

Checkmate19 wrote: »

Love to know actually how many are in the news department. Seems to be a seperate correspondent for everything. Nice money if you can get aboard the gravy train.

With the massive so of Ireland you can expect someone to drive to a news story....they could be nearly 3 hours in a car......

Dampsquid · 22-09-2019 8:05am

I would miss -

Sports coverage on TV/Radio
Prime Time investigates and other news coverage
Elections coverage - who else would do it?

22-09-2019 9:02am

elperello wrote: »

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.

By all houses i was referring to the late late competition flyer. What do you mean its not a cost to RTE?

branie2 · 22-09-2019 9:03am

I would

Gregor Samsa · 22-09-2019 9:10am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

By all houses i was referring to the late late competition flyer. What do you mean its not a cost to RTE?

Whoever’s sponsoring the competition is paying for the advertising.

22-09-2019 9:11am

I'd miss Home and Away. That's it.

Eggonyerface · 22-09-2019 11:22am

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Whoever’s sponsoring the competition is paying for the advertising.

It was an post,hence the having to buy a stamp and post it back to enter the competition. There was no other way to enter. I doubt it cost RTE a cent

Edit: and it didn't cost an post much extra to deliver them to every house either

Blazer · 22-09-2019 11:25am

I haven't watched RTE in about 25 years...good riddance to when it goes.

mrmorgan · 22-09-2019 12:07pm

there is a very easy way to fix RTE!!

get rid of Tubridy!!

branie2 · 22-09-2019 1:05pm

mrmorgan wrote: »

there is a very easy way to fix RTE!!

get rid of Tubridy!!

Who'd present the Late Late Show when he's gone?

Sierra Oscar · 22-09-2019 1:08pm

Yes of course considering the vast majority of domestic current affairs broadcasting across TV / radio is brought to us by RTÉ.

vriesmays · 22-09-2019 1:10pm

Paschal Sheey reporting on a Turkish asylum seeker opening a barber shop in Castlerea and how immigration is a complete success. Of course I'd miss RTÉ.

Marhay70 · 22-09-2019 2:19pm

The mainstream political parties will never allow RTE to fail, what would they do for a propaganda machine? The only reason FG have not granted them a licence increase so far is, because after all the fcuk ups FG have had with the cooperation of FF, RTE is a bridge too far for the moment.
Wait 'til after the GE and whichever one of the pair of them has the upper hand, RTE will be granted an increase as an "essential part of Irish Life".

antiskeptic · 22-09-2019 6:43pm

Maybe thats why they don't get rid of The Angelus. Get rid of it and it will raise the.more obvious question.

Biodegradable · 22-09-2019 6:50pm

I would miss Cathal Murry's Late Date most of all.

RTE radio one has some very good stuff from time to time.

whisky_galore · 22-09-2019 6:55pm

antiskeptic wrote: »

Maybe thats why they don't get rid of The Angelus. Get rid of it and it will raise the.more obvious question.

They won't get rid of it because ah shur God love the aul wans, they'd be fierce upset.

Doblin · 22-09-2019 6:57pm

Dampsquid wrote: »

I would miss -

Sports coverage on TV/Radio
Prime Time investigates and other news coverage
Elections coverage - who else would do it?

Prime Time investigates is all propaganda

22-09-2019 6:58pm

I watch very little apart from RTÉ so I’d definitely miss it.

How Soon Is Now · 22-09-2019 8:10pm

The only thing i watch on Rte these days is the Gaa and even then i go to a lot of games anyway!

If it went off the air in the morning well good riddance.

Would you miss RTÉ?

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