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

Did she announce the Leaving Cert results? Did she say she'd take a pay cut? Did she mention what the relationship was like with Dee Forbes? Did she talk about the service that the public receive and the direction that RTÉ went?

Not economically viable to move the big top out of Montrose and down the country according to their report

absolute bullsh1t

They couldn’t have those darlings having to put themselves out having to travel from the leafy suburbs down the grim Naas Road to go to work everyday is the real answer

all these decisions should be taken out of their hands the same as any other bankrupt company

Stop watching this absolute hames of a half arsed psy-op propaganda station. Nothing is ever going to change at RTE. But you can change your own well being and ignore this absolute total hames of a mess. You're going to literally miss nothing and actually feel better for it.

Sure we are also paying for about 250,000 other things in this country that don't work either, from government policies to roads to health care. The difference is with RTE is that you literally have the choice to ignore its absolute total hames of a mess, it wants to broadcast its noise straight into your face, right into your living room, time when you want to relax and forget about all of the other messes we have to pay for by actually getting up and doing a real days work. If you are watching or listening to this craic while also being driven demented by their total fraudulent criminality then they are literally laughing at you, and they are.

All you have to do is switch their swindle off. If everybody did the same thing they wouldn't have the gas to laugh at any of us because they would finally know their swindle game is truly finished.

You can do it man, I did it, I remember you from the Liveline threads, you were very funny up on that. But I can't even listen to that mess anymore, I can't watch or listen to any of their total disingenuous output, it literally makes you feel bad. Just try stop watching it, please, you won't regret it. Most of my free time in the evening now is reading, listening to music, watching films from my own collections and browsing on the internet. I literally do not watch TV anymore. I don't mind if I have to pay for it, just as long as I don't have to see it. That should be RTE's new slogan. That station and it's output is literally that bad.

And as the poster you quoted, dare you to go on strike, save even more money, don't think anyone would even notice it and then even more reason to slash more at rte

Cheese or snow???

“Staff”

Why is it that, in the past two decades, the producer of Sunday night entertainment on RTÉ 1 has to be either ShinAwil (which it has been for most of the past 20 yeaars) and Tyrone Productions? Why can no other independent producer get a look-in?

But it's all changing now to independent producers, oh wait..

Catherine Martin apparently signalling the government's determination to make a call on a long-term funding model for RTE before the end of its term.

Emphasising she believes direct excequer funding should be on the table. Is that a straw in the wind I wonder.

But that would apply to any government, arguably to an SF-led one most of all (in the sense RTE would be watched most closely for signs of such bias under an SF government)

Don't think this is likely to materialise unless the government of the day is looking to show in a performative way how 'fiscally responsible' it is, which Irish governments never are in my experience.

Governments already control RTE's funding. They've refused to allow a licence fee increase for years. They can agree (or not) RTE to hive off services like orchestras and keep that funding, they can agree (or not) to allow advertising on new services like RTE News channel, they can change how much programming RTE must provide for free to TG4, etc. etc. etc.

Basically everything except ad income is either provided by or controlled by the government.