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

I see what you mean and I have noted your comments.

I don't think I wish to add to my previous posts on this matter just now.

No offence intended.

RTÉ are not accountable to PAC, PAC brought them in under employment practices at the company.

RTÉ have some accountability to the The Committee on Media, very little really.

@RoTelly yeah, I'm well aware of the reason Forbes was asked to come before the PAC ^

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EcoEye is pure fantasist muck from the delusional mind of Duncan Stewart who was dropped on his head in Chermobyl. 10 minutes of it is enough for the most demure viewer to be shouting at the telly

Duncan “ Land Rover” Stewart!

They had 16 last year so 6 more to go? They previously had just 10 episodes.

Big write up in the SBPost today.

Really RTÉ have no plans to do anything to help themselves, rather lobby the government as to what funding they should get and what services they should be providing.

If I do nothing and just go with the flow, should I pretend that I am having an existential crisis because everything around me is not going my way and I feel like I am look down on myself unable to change because everyone else is to blame. Or should I look at what I have an make the most of it?

So according to the Sunday Times RTÉ have put out a tender for Mass for their news channel.

Mass was original placed on the news channel as part of the Covid response. Personally I see no problem with mass being available RTÉ ONE or Radio 1 on Sunday Mornings, indeed I have no problem with Services (protestant) been broadcast on Sundays. I even support the Angelus. And I can see the reason for Daily mass during the COVID pandemic for older people on the News channel. But even from my perspective I don't see the reason to waste money on a service that can be got from numerous outlets from Radio Maria to local streams of Masses around the country. I say all of this to avoid the arguments that come with religion on PSB/M.

The RTÉ News channel is pure muck, surely this money would be better spent improving the service rather than a daily mass, sure why not have a daily national anthem played live by the RTÉ CO?

It wouldn't take much to improve the RTÉ News channel. Remove the tickers and replace with one ticker along the bottom of the screen, by the RTÉ news logo. Add weather and currency info to top left of the screen, with the time to the top right and social media details in the right hand corner. Schedule repeats of sports highlight programmes after the news such as Against the Head and The Sunday Game, have live hourly updates. Bring back late night news to RTÉ2. etc etc.

So just to mention, TLLS was not in great shape audience wise prior to the death of Gay Byrne, Marian Finnucane etc in 2019. Those shows pre-date the covid and caused TLLS to gain audiences, or to bring back audiences. Then Covid hit and again TLLS gain an audience and kept it pretty much through out.

In feb 2022 a massive decline in audiences for TLLS that not even a St. Val's special could rescue.

Then the sad news of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia hits and audiences return.

And the cynic in me thinks they couldn't possible run another show or guest about the Ukrainian war, but then the cynic thinks that the addition of the Mary Presidents might just be a ploy to raise TLLS audience.

Cynical?

Possibly.

It's a bit early to say though.

If you just wait a couple of hours you can decide but don't be too hard on yourself.

Interesting though that we have a chat show with two former Presidents, both of them women and hugely accomplished in their careers.

Not many countries would have that to look forward to on a Friday night.

I for one will be watching.

You suggested you might be a cynic, not me.

I didn't say tonight's LLS will be good.

How could I before it even starts.

Little point in discussing it later with you if you don't watch it.

Actually makes sense.

Me too.

There are programmes I wouldn't watch if you paid me.

Why was it thought necessary to apologise for the language the Ukrainian MP was using? In the Indo, Ian O'Doherty asked who gave that instruction - he believes that someone told Claire via her earpiece to, as I quote from Ian, "back it up"? If that's what happened, Claire could have disregarded the instruction, couldn't she?

At least extra.ie had a little shred of decency and put "apologising" in inverted commas.

There was no apology you are getting worked up over a non story from an unreliable source.

Hi, I don't usually read tv guides so can someone who does please advise what day/time this week the movie 'Chasing Leprechauns' starring Amy Huberman will be shown?

It’s Amy Huberman, and it’s RTÉ, and it’s a leprechaun movie…….

It simply must be on!!

Why would they complain about Russian invaders being compared to rodents?

I'll just leave this article here:

https://www.independent.ie/news/rte-managers-receive-more-than-11m-in-allowances-over-a-year-41469157.html

"It had aimed to achieve savings of €60m over three years up to 2023, but some of the proposals it tabled have not been implemented."

RTÉ actually only had to save €6m to €9m from costs, as the Minister Bruton gave them €10m in extra funding from 2020 to 2024 (€50m in total), while Minister Martin moved the NSO over to the NCH, a saving of at least €8m, the move made in 2021 (finalized in 2022, after 3 years of discussions!).

2020 - Saving €10m (from exchequer funding)

2021 - as above + Saving €8m (for the move of NSO to the NCH, no paid for via the ... exchequre) total €18m

2022 - as above total €18million

2023 - as above total €18million

Total saving over 4 years €54million

The Executive Board averages €50k in expenses each year, losset was in 2020 at €20,000, majority of which was for flights to NYC for Jon Williams, in 2020, in 2020 in 2020 FFS.

They put killnascully on at 7pm on St.Patricks day, they should have been shut down at 7.05

Reeling in the Years raised its ugly head as well, 1979 for some obscure reason.

RITY may be repeated ad nauseum but it is still light years ahead of the other guff RTE puts out.