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

Why does Tubs need 4/5 staffers for an hour long show?

He was indeed

RTE's youth programming being killed was genuinely heartbreaking.

But as for RTE presenters... we saw how unwanted Pat Kenny was when he parted ways with RTE. UTV dumped him before they went under, now Virgin Media have dumped him.

If RTE are trying to justify ridiculous salaries... then Dee Forbes is being just as incompetent as John Delaney.

We should be all glad to hear that Larry Bass resigned from the Board of RTÉ.... just waiting for the rest of them to follow!

Maybe he should have sent a family member to sit on the board in Moya Doherty John Mc Colgan style.

Listening to a lot of RTE radio 1 today, and notice that at the end of each programme, they tell us who did the research, who was on sound, who produced, who edited and who the bco was.

Now from what I could gather, it appears there is a different team of people behind the scenes at each programme. I don't remember hearing a name being repeated.

Why could the sound person not be a 8 to 5 job and have one person do it all day? Could any of those other jobs be done by one person? Could someone do research in the morning and then for another programme in the afternoon?

Is it someone's full time job to do sound on LiveLine for example? For 75mins each day?

I am not sure Will Leahy is?

From my understanding many of the contractors get a 5 year contract from RTÉ, though at this point all of the above would be outside any 5 year contract. I thought Dan Hegerty was still on 2FM?

Due to the seriousness of the allegations. Obviously. But these allegations catch up. We saw that with the homeless charity fellow who took his own life, and is now the subject of a serious report.

Plus nothing can be done unless someone comes forward. As in the case of Anthony Flynn, many people had come forward to detail the very serious allegations made against him. And they came forward while he was alive too.

Unless someone comes forward, nothing can be said or done. And to discuss it here would only get boards into trouble.

Got home from work and as I walked in the door, rte were showing an ad for a new show called Cocooned.

Remember how scared and unhappy we all were during the pandemic? The uncertainty, the constant bombardment of death tolls and infection rate and stay safe and two more weeks. Well, as great as it is that the world is going back to normal, don't worry because rte are here to show you just how sad you were. You may not remember every difficult moment, but rte is here to remind you.

I heard mention on the radio during the week of people questioning telly people being allowed into the hospitals during the pandemic. Guess this new show must be from that.

Oh it's completely suspicious. Majorly so. But we saw all sorts of 'hush hush' and 'we didn't know' surrounding Jimmy Saville, or Harvey Weinstein. (I know they are extreme examples, but still). Anthony Flynn had credible allegations made against him whilst he was alive. But he was left-wing, so wouldn't surprise me if they were brushed under the table as 'the ravings of a homeless junkie' by his friends.

People who market an 'agenda' are so quick to ignore disgusting stuff happening in front of them. We've seen it time and time again. The silence is often deafening.

34k viewers - any other station would just drop it there and then but RTE says its doing really well on the player that never works so every time someone goes to watch it it stops and you have to start over again....ahhhh I see a plan here....it's broken by design...

(some might say surely they record the IP, I laugh in your face)

Is there any verifiable numbers for viewers of shows or even users of the RTE player? Like 3rd party numbers, similar to JNLR or something.

That does seem like something that would be a lot easier to just make numbers up for, instead of TV viewers - "We had 500,000 viewers of it on the player in Aug 2021, no more questions"

"The way people watch programmes like Glow Up and 'The Rotunda' have changed," RTÉ said in a statement.

"Last week's third episode had an average of 57,700 viewers - Live + Vosdal. The viewing figures increased as the episode progressed and had a reach of 134,600. The show did well among women aged 15-34 and had a 20% share in the category.

"Glow Up Ireland has been doing really well on RTÉ Player - with over 60K streams for eps 1-3 to date, making the top 15 most popular shows on RTÉ Player since launch."

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57,700 is an average over the course of the programme

Reach I am not sure what they are talking about, if it is just TAM Ireland reach, it is purely how many viewers it reached over the course of the episode live.

"Really well" on the "Player" 60,000 streams for 1-3 eps, is that 60,000 for each episode or 20,000. Even still this isn't great, especially if your Number 15 show is only getting 60,000 viewers.

This tells me viewing habits are changing but not to the RTÉ Player.

To do “research” as he does absolutely no preparation whatsoever. Unlike Gaybo in his day.

There is something to be said for if everyone has to pay it its akin to a tax and those receiving it should be paid in line with other state bodies, no excuses for anyone on near half a million a year to bumble their way thru an hour or so of radio "presenting" a day