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

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Trust me even for the under 60s and potentially the under 70s!

My parents are not watch RTÉ as much anymore, I say they are watching UKTV, Discovery channels (GOLD, Yesterday, Quest, Quest RED etc), TG4 and my Dad likes action movies so Great TV!, they watch RTÉ for the NEWS and Dad for live sport, that is about it. Mam still watches TLLS but Dad he's not a fan, heads to the GAA club. They are both in the late 70s.

The difference is that Netflix and Disney are not public-service broadcasters (PSBs). PSBs have to cater for minority groups (e.g Irish speakers) as well as the majority - and I can't imagine Virgin Media providing many Irish-language programmes, to be honest!

Whaaaaat?... you mean to tell me you don't like to relax after a hard days work with "dying with dignity" or "mater hospital live" or "countdown to the top terrible diseases of the world" , what will make it to number one this year? Or "covid latest" to ensure a pleasant nights sleep?? 🤔

That's not the point weather you watch or not. RTÉ have cut back and yes I know what Irish language programming they have produced and broadcast.

You forgot pulling with my parents, sure isnt that what all 20yo's would like to do/watch

You have read that in 2016 that they were moving it out of RTÉ, but that they were not cutting funding to Children's content right?

You then found out that they'd already cut it by 25% in 2016 from 2015, and that in 2017 the cut it by 50%.

And that funding in total remains around 5m but that the independent productions unit spent 4.2m on children's content or as RTÉ like to say just 1% of their total costs!

The move to indo producers isn't a radical move, its the cuts the made which they said they would not make.

They basically kept indos producing content for RTÉ on the same footing and axed their inhouse production team with no increase to independent producers.

The cut something they said they wouldn't cut.

Those viewers don't get much of a voice, they are the weakest set of viewers. They have seen Irish children's content drop across the board, do they really care? Of course they don't because they are children and children aren't going to be like adults and say well we don't get this and that from RTÉ.

I mean your defending RTÉ on two ideas

1. I don't care because I don't watch and

2. Do children even notice that their isn't as much content as there had been previously, they won't complain.

Children's TV is of benefit not only to children but also to new people coming into the industry. Name anyone currently that has the same access to training as any of the hosts or producers or crew of Jo Maxi/Echo Island/Juice/The Den/The Beat Box/Pajo's Junkbox/FISH/TX/The Saturday Club or what ever had been produced more recently in RTÉ, that product doesn't exist anymore. So no time to gain experience. It doesn't have to be in house.

And its not just Children's TV. The judge in Anne Ropers case even signaled to RTÉ about up and coming TV producers not getting a chance because RTÉ axed children's TV, and not necessarly because they had too many people over the age of 65 still working.

I didn't say anything about Irish Language TV children's content or TG4.

My point is, as is yours, that as a PSB RTÉ have various different services that they provided. however to argue that they services all of those areas equally and fairly is a falsehood, and I am pointing that out to you that one of the most important parts of PBS (children's content) RTÉ have largely killed off: -

Your argument is :-

1. don't know enough about it (even though I have laid out to you)
2. Sure what does it matter its not like children will notice.

are you intentionally obfuscating my argument, in an attempt to pour water over it?

Just reading the headline to this article???

Is she for real?

Claire Byrne's interview is bizarre and really only confirms my belief that she asked for a pay rise and didn't get it.

Perhaps she is hoping the new show will do worse than her show and they will change the day of CBLIVE.

According to her her day to day is as follows.

She cycles to work everyday leaving her home at 6am to get to work at 7am, for a radio show that starts at 10am and finishes at noon.

On Sunday she is away preparing for her Monday night TV, she returns home for an hour to be with her children on Monday afternoon and then goes back to Donnybrook (She doesn't say if she cycles back to Donnybrook, I doubt that she does) CBLIVE goes out either at 9:35 or 10:35 for a ~35 week run.

She continues to work on the TV show until Wednesday.

Now IMO she's made a decision to get to work by 7am and she's made the decision to cycle from her home.

She does not say when she leaves work, I assume around 1:30 to pick up the children at 2:30.

Again she has a 40 days of AL and Christmas off, that's 9weeks that she has to herself and her family, and again she is well paid, meaning she probably has the ability to have a very nice life with her family.

I don't believe her work life balance has anything to do with the decision.

BTW all of the stars of RTÉ have it just as good, to dress it up as "woo is me" is bizarre.

The interview seem to suggest that she's being presenting Today with Claire Byrne for the last 7 years, as we know this is not the case, and prior to that she had a weekend show.

I also saw another interview with her radio boss suggesting she woke at 5am every morning.

Also neither Claire Byrne LIVE or Frontline did as well as RTÉ seem to want to suggest.

https://extra.ie/2022/08/03/entertainment/rte-claire-byrne-tv-replacement

@RoTelly Cheers for the synopsis (some of that stuff was paywalled)

Re: C. Byrne - She's on c.€400k I'd guess since she got the radio show, so she can afford as many nanny's, au pairs, drivers etc as she wants. Those articles are just all NKM driven sh!te imo - lets face it, he has form. That picture above (comedy ref) sums up her TV show perfectly - The 3 in it are NKM

As for that other cabbage. Am I to believe that cash strapped RTE, only went and hired the RDS for their autumn launch? Great financial management and great optics. She doesn't give a crap and she never did. She just winged it for the 7 years. Where was she when RTE Gate broke? - in the stationary cupboard probably, for about 10 days.

Dee will swan off in the middle of next year with €2.5m of our money for doing jack s**t in those 7 years - To put that another way, a useful person (say a nurse) on €50k, has to work for 50 years to get that.

'Ms Forbes, will you come before the PAC to answer some questions regarding the many self-employed contractors that seem to have regular employee status in RTE?'

'Ah no, I'm grand thanks'

^ That's what I'll remember the freeloading tart for doing - sfa!

Didn't Gay Byrne have an issue with folks being unable to pronounce their 't's'? It was either that, or they were either too harsh with the 't', or too soft 'with the 't'. Like 'later' would be pronounced 'laTER', or LAtER'... (trying to convey that via text is tricky).

Continuity announcers been weird for a lonnng time.

Speaking of voices, and also slightly OT. Who do you think will be the new presenter on Dancing with the Stars, and when do you think Lottie Ryan will get the job?