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

dr.fuzzenstein

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Am I wrong on the maths on this, or maybe it's not well written, but are they spending the same amount on Fair City that they do on Miriam for hair and make-up? And that's the entire cast, how much does it cost to make 'Miriam' look human? (Keep in mind the Miriam show only runs for 12 weeks or so).

Must be the secret coke and hooker budget.
"Just stick it on hair and makeup, no one will notice"

the_pen_turner

is there a list of all the cost out there.
i would love to see how much could be easily cut

RabbleRouser2k

the_pen_turner wrote: »

is there a list of all the cost out there.
i would love to see how much could be easily cut

Prices would probably be lower if jobsbridge was brought back-would be very useful to RTE to bring in some poor sod to present the news and pay em a tenner on top of their unemployment assistance.

(Not mocking unemployment assistance btw-mocking rte and their 'quality' programming).

the_pen_turner

if they had a cap on presenters salery at 50k and bring in as much young presenters as poisible . use it as a spring board

RabbleRouser2k

the_pen_turner wrote: »

if they had a cap on presenters salery at 50k and bring in as much young presenters as poisible . use it as a spring board

They scrapped their young people's programming division-so that's not gonna happen.

That was always the entryway into RTE.

kneemos

the_pen_turner wrote: »

if they had a cap on presenters salery at 50k and bring in as much young presenters as poisible . use it as a spring board

Presenters salary don't amount to a spit in a barrel.
They're just another sign of the money is no object attitude that seems to prevail.

the_pen_turner

kneemos wrote: »

Presenters salary don't amount to a spit in a barrel.
They're just another sign of the money is no object attitude that seems to prevail.

im not so sure its such a small figure. the top 10 are costing 2.5 M a year.
add up all the presenters and other staff and put them on normal saleries and you would save a nice bit.

the is stupid money spent in all areas. those make up figures are crazy

Brendan Bendar

Here's what I can't understand

Licence inspectors are checking 8000 prems. per week per ad.

They know before they call if the owner is non compliant per ad.

That's 32000 a month around 380000 premises a year!

Surely at that rate and armed with the info they say they have, licence fee evasion should be wiped out long ago.

Where am I not understanding this stuff lads.

VinLieger

CeilingFly wrote: »

Of which probably €150,000 is returned to government in tax.

I always find it funny how the sensationalist media whine about well paid people and compare their own take home pay to the well paid people's gross pay.

So yes her take home salary of 170k is very nice, it's not outrageous in the scheme of things and I believe substantially lower than what she was on in Discovery channel and far lower than private sector equivalent for companies of similar size.

But people will whine away anyway.

Yet they won't whine about the amount spent on emergency housing or if they are a mortgage payer, the amount of their payment that goes towrds those who don't pay their mortgage (estimated at over 20,000 mortgage holders and costing average mortgage payer over €500 a year - three times the TV licence fee)

Nope, you mention that and you get shot down.

Except none of the top earners pay anything close to the tax they should be paying as they use private companies to limit their tax exposure


https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rt-stars-using-companies-to-reduce-tax-exposure-37078528.html


Hopefully this will be put to an end soon

RabbleRouser2k

VinLieger wrote: »

Except none of the top earners pay anything close to the tax they should be paying as they use private companies to limit their tax exposure


https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rt-stars-using-companies-to-reduce-tax-exposure-37078528.html


Hopefully this will be put to an end soon

Sadly, when staff get let go from RTE, due to 'cuts' their pay will then more than likely be given to the people in front of the camera. So no cost cutting measures at all.

Muahahaha

Has anyone seen the sign about RTE above a disused shop on Burgh Quay near Tara St. station?

It goes
"RTEs Best Presenters"
Then three pictures of Dustin, Zig and Zag and Socky
Then "All the rest are Muppets"

fritzelly

Muahahaha wrote: »

Has anyone seen the sign about RTE above a disused shop on Burgh Quay near Tara St. station?

It goes
"RTEs Best Presenters"
Then three pictures of Dustin, Zig and Zag and Socky
Then "All the rest are Muppets"

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3474896,-6.2552947,3a,16.6y,200.16h,93.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sptkWILgc9FFazqp-DV9aSg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

SEPT 23 1989

the 'Hair Bill" for Ray D'arcy was 3.5k last year

RabbleRouser2k

fritzelly wrote: »

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3474896,-6.2552947,3a,16.6y,200.16h,93.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sptkWILgc9FFazqp-DV9aSg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

And Dustin killed his career with Eurovision.

And Podge and Rodge killed their career with that terrible quiz show...

Which just leaves Zig and Zag...and...jeez, RTE have no good presenters now...

Capt'n Midnight

RTÉ orchestra to come under National Concert Hall remit

Will this free up some licence fee ??


Yeah right,

fritzelly

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

RTÉ orchestra to come under National Concert Hall remit

Will this free up some licence fee ??


Yeah right,

Dee has already spent the money

gctest50

Over the course of a few months, they should have a text-in / call in survey

Txt in :

your tv licence number and

YES or NO

to keep this program

BarryD2

gctest50 wrote: »

Over the course of a few months, they should have a text-in / call in survey

Do you work in the telecoms industry

Rossi IRL

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

the 'Hair Bill" for Ray D'arcy was 3.5k last year

Jaysus, it's cost €10 a pop down the barbers and he hasn't got much of it to begin with.

RabbleRouser2k

Rossi IRL wrote: »

Jaysus, it's cost €10 a pop down the barbers and he hasn't got much of it to begin with.

Or shave it all off-it's free. Anyone can do it, and takes zero effort.

AndyBoBandy

So now they’re showing daily repeats (best of) of the today show!

A show they repeat the morning after every days broadcast!!

Currently it’s a show from Christmas im assuming, as there is a Christmas tree! Hi Ho Ho

James Brown

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

So now they’re showing daily repeats (best of) of the today show!

A show they repeat the morning after every days broadcast!!

Currently it’s a show from Christmas im assuming, as there is a Christmas tree! Hi Ho Ho

This is it. Hundreds of media students would kill for a spot on RTE. They actually make programs/short films as part of their courses. Not to mention small independents looking to publicise documentaries and the like.

SEPT 23 1989

Matt Barrett wrote: »

This is it. Hundreds of media students would kill for a spot on RTE. They actually make programs/short films as part of their courses. Not to mention small independents looking to publicise documentaries and the like.

That's the difference between RTE and the BBC the unconnected youth from all regions of the country are given a chance

The results speak for themselves

kneemos

They generally shut down for the summer anyway.
Repeat any old crap time after time.

RabbleRouser2k

Matt Barrett wrote: »

This is it. Hundreds of media students would kill for a spot on RTE. They actually make programs/short films as part of their courses. Not to mention small independents looking to publicise documentaries and the like.

Media, like teaching, is a dead industry-just don't do it.
You will not get a job out of it. It's who you know, not what you know. Look at presenters on RTe or tv3, and you will find people who got jobs with zero required effort. (James Kavanagh, gay instagrammer for one. Glenda Gilson ex-gf for another).

Billy86

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

That's the difference between RTE and the BBC the unconnected youth from all regions of the country are given a chance

The results speak for themselves

Exactly. And a lot of what the BBC make (on their 'lesser' channels) is absolute garbage, but that's grand because they're developing talent and the industry in doing so, which pays itself back in many ways - tourism, box offices, sales of shows (BBC must make a killing off of this) and so on. And then obviously the BBC also makes a lot of excellent stuff to counter the muck, including some of the biggest and best known shows in the entire world.

In RTE it's just a 'happy family' cohort pocketing the money while trying to do, or create, as little as possible. They then pocket more through again the ad money, which I wouldn't actually mind much if that money went to a decent use. Instead it goes towards brushing a bald man's head, keeping the stupidly overpaid products of nepotism even more stupidly overpaid, and pricing private competitors like TV3 out of the market for British/American sitcoms and such because RTE would rather give the taxpayers' money to foreign distributors than even bother trying to develop anything of their own.

I'm faster and faster moving to the side that the entirety of RTE should be scrapped outright.

RabbleRouser2k

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

So now they’re showing daily repeats (best of) of the today show!

A show they repeat the morning after every days broadcast!!

Currently it’s a show from Christmas im assuming, as there is a Christmas tree! Hi Ho Ho

And showing repeats of the LAte Late Show in a prime time slot...

Which draws questions as to whether it is 'such a prime slot' if they can just ram repeats in there without giving a toss. And if not, then its obvious that the Late Late has become filler rather than a genuine culturally important show.

There was a time when the friday night late slot meant something. Pretty much most of RTE's funding was earned via Friday nights.

fritzelly

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

There was a time when the friday night late slot meant something. Pretty much most of RTE's funding was earned via Friday nights.

A time when there wasn't much choice on tv to start with but they're still living in those times

Think it was in the Times about an investigation into all these private companie (sic employees)

Examiner!
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/report-bring-in-law-on-rte-payments-to-top-presenters-472733.html

fritzelly

RTE want the GAA to play more games that they can show because no one else will want to show them - well that is how I read it even tho they have no rights to show them for years

RabbleRouser2k

fritzelly wrote: »

RTE want the GAA to play more games that they can show because no one else will want to show them - well that is how I read it even tho they have no rights to show them for years

They're worried cos Sky have the rights to so many now. The GAA are smart enough to not sell 'all' the games to Sky... but I doubt that will last. The Rugby have moved away from RTE, the horse racing too, the football (soccer) is pretty much a dead weight so nobody really wants it...

...it won't be too long until RTE loses the GAA, and then the All-Ireland Finals. And they'll have nobody to blame but themselves.