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

sligojoek

fritzelly wrote: »

https://lovin.ie/news/rt%C3%A9-new-channel

8 channels really, nope, same ****e repeated multiple times.

RTE One, RTE One+1, RTE One HD 1 channel

RTE2, RTE2 HD, RTE2+1, Another channel.

RTE News Now Mostly repeats of RTE1 News.

RTEjr Another channel

So basically 3 channels.

James Brown

During the war Celtic Tiger they were discussing a whole slew of RTE digital channels. One I recall was Zapp TV a channel for kids and a few other niche ones. That's were they are coming from. Whatever about needing more funding to get by they'll happily use what ever they can get on anything apart from quality IMO. Mind it's hard to get good talent when you don't go further than your own relatives.

kneemos

sligojoek wrote: »

RTE One, RTE One+1, RTE One HD 1 channel

RTE2, RTE2 HD, RTE2+1, Another channel.

RTE News Now Mostly repeats of RTE1 News.

RTEjr Another channel

So basically 3 channels.

Dunno why they need the jr channel when RTE 2 is wall to wall kids programmes until early evening.
Hopefully it's the ad revenue they're after and it actually makes money.

ButtersSuki

Coming soon!

RTLottiÉ News! 24/7 celeb gossip we read in the Mail online and will regurgitate on the hour, every hour! Brought to you by Lottie Ryan - who was chosen after an exhaustative and arduous interview process. Lottie will record a 30min show once a day Monday-Friday and it will be repeated all day until the next show. Lottie will be paid €500,000 a year for this show on top of her other “commitments” and fees to and from RTÉ. She will continue to read celeb news for Nicky Byrne working (on some days) a mammoth 45mins. Dee Forbes commented that she was delighted once again to be able to continue RTɒs long-standing commitment to nepotism and cronyism and paying over the top for average at best talent, and promises that RTÉ will soon find ways to siphon taxpayers money to the other Ryan children.

ToBeFrank123

Scrap/privatise it and sell off the Donnybrook land for much needed housing.

TV3 have shown you don't have to be located on prime D4 land.

RTE will always be about nepotism and keeping pals in jobs. The LLS will always be about dragging people in from the RTE Canteen to promote their latest book/program/blog.

All paid for by the licence fee payer who is treated with contempt by the powers in RTE and not given the slightest say in what is broadcast.

If it could be reformed so that Broadcaster A's son/daughter/cousin/nephew/niece/brother/sister is not allowed a job there and presenter's salaries reflected their talent or lack of, then go for it. But we know that's never going to happen. The station is also largely an anomaly in a satellite multichannel and Netflix era.

If it produced quality programming at an affordable price it wouldn't need a licence fee increase as advertisement would fill the gap. Instead its market is declining while presenters salaries are rising. A badly run basketcase.

James Brown

One channel of Irish produced programming and one channel in Irish. That's the lot. If they even have enough material to fill two channels.

Brendan Bendar

ToBeFrank123 wrote: »

Scrap/privatise it and sell off the Donnybrook land for much needed housing.

TV3 have shown you don't have to be located on prime D4 land.

RTE will always be about nepotism and keeping pals in jobs. The LLS will always be about dragging people in from the RTE Canteen to promote their latest book/program/blog.

All paid for by the licence fee payer who is treated with contempt by the powers in RTE and not given the slightest say in what is broadcast.

If it could be reformed so that Broadcaster A's son/daughter/cousin/nephew/niece/brother/sister is not allowed a job there and presenter's salaries reflected their talent or lack of, then go for it. But we know that's never going to happen. The station is also largely an anomaly in a satellite multichannel and Netflix era.

If it produced quality programming at an affordable price it wouldn't need a licence fee increase as advertisement would fill the gap. Instead its market is declining while presenters salaries are rising. A badly run basketcase.

Ooooh!!!

Have to say a lot of bile spunked early in your Boards career.

What can I say, a lot of it justified but I think you blew the stones at Howth Junction on the Howth Luas.

But.....a lot of truth too.

The Late Late Show

ToBeFrank123 wrote: »

Scrap/privatise it and sell off the Donnybrook land for much needed housing.

TV3 have shown you don't have to be located on prime D4 land.

RTE will always be about nepotism and keeping pals in jobs. The LLS will always be about dragging people in from the RTE Canteen to promote their latest book/program/blog.

All paid for by the licence fee payer who is treated with contempt by the powers in RTE and not given the slightest say in what is broadcast.

If it could be reformed so that Broadcaster A's son/daughter/cousin/nephew/niece/brother/sister is not allowed a job there and presenter's salaries reflected their talent or lack of, then go for it. But we know that's never going to happen. The station is also largely an anomaly in a satellite multichannel and Netflix era.

If it produced quality programming at an affordable price it wouldn't need a licence fee increase as advertisement would fill the gap. Instead its market is declining while presenters salaries are rising. A badly run basketcase.

OMG I had the misfortune to see the promo for next Friday's Valentine's show with Tubridy. Cringeworthy, vulgar and smutty. I saw 5 minutes of it another year and it had vulgar cornerboy terms like 'ride' and 'shift' which meant it was drawing from the same well as Mrs Brown's Boys and all the other crude but unfunny drivel. Talk about the misogyny, more misogyny in RTE than in The Republic of Gilead at this stage. This what we are paying the tax for?

ButtersSuki

The Late Late Show wrote: »

OMG I had the misfortune to see the promo for next Friday's Valentine's show with Tubridy. Cringeworthy, vulgar and smutty. I saw 5 minutes of it another year and it had vulgar cornerboy terms like 'ride' and 'shift' which meant it was drawing from the same well as Mrs Brown's Boys and all the other crude but unfunny drivel. Talk about the misogyny, more misogyny in RTE than in The Republic of Gilead at this stage. This what we are paying the tax for?

I saw it last night, it was, shall we say “uncooth”.

Fiftyfilthy

Never paid my license in 20 years, never will either. Lol

AndyBoBandy

Flicking through the channels yesterday evening (early Sunday evening, a relatively prime time slot), and RTÉ were showing an episode of Top Gear! not one of the newer ones mind, one of the older ones with the older cast (the 3 buffoons).

You know, just in case anyone missed it the 2,367 times it's been shown on Dave!

God only knows how much RTÉ are paying to show this and others like it!!

RabbleRouser2k

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Flicking through the channels yesterday evening (early Sunday evening, a relatively prime time slot), and RTÉ were showing an episode of Top Gear! not one of the newer ones mind, one of the older ones with the older cast (the 3 buffoons).

You know, just in case anyone missed it the 2,367 times it's been shown on Dave!

God only knows how much RTÉ are paying to show this and others like it!!

They're repeating 'A Wild Irish Year'...for the third damn time. (It only came out last year).
Watched one and a half episodes of it the first time, found the presenters bland, and it was sold as a nature documentary-but had this 'wan talking about swimming, and the benefits of it, while we only got 20 minutes of nature documentary. It's an hour long... :mad:

There was a guy a while back who did really cool nature programmes-he only needed 30 minutes, and while he was not David Attenborough (tbh, who is?) he was certainly better than Nigel Marven.

Wild Irish Year is muck.

upandcumming

The Late Late Show wrote: »

Talk about the misogyny, more misogyny in RTE than in The Republic of Gilead at this stage. This what we are paying the tax for?

Me bollocks...

kneemos

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

They're repeating 'A Wild Irish Year'...for the third damn time. (It only came out last year).
Watched one and a half episodes of it the first time, found the presenters bland, and it was sold as a nature documentary-but had this 'wan talking about swimming, and the benefits of it, while we only got 20 minutes of nature documentary. It's an hour long... :mad:

There was a guy a while back who did really cool nature programmes-he only needed 30 minutes, and while he was not David Attenborough (tbh, who is?) he was certainly better than Nigel Marven.

Wild Irish Year is muck.

Yet man was a decent presenter. What I saw of it was just going on about how great everything was.

retalivity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPGbNBgS3B0

AndyBoBandy

8:30pm on a Thursday night, showing a repeat of ‘Find Me a Home’


An absolute shambles of a TV station. Getting away with daylight robbery.

Sephiroth_dude

retalivity wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPGbNBgS3B0

Brilliant

RabbleRouser2k

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

8:30pm on a Thursday night, showing a repeat of ‘Find Me a Home’


An absolute shambles of a TV station. Getting away with daylight robbery.

Emmerdale has a double bill that night, second episode on at 8.30. They can't be bothered to show anything new because the ratings will be low and it won't be worth the expense.

Anytime they show anything on a 7.30, on a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday...it tanks. It's the graveyard slot.
Then on Thursday, the 7pm and 8.30 pm slot is Emmerdale-so if you show anything opposite that, it's a waste of money. Dead on Arrival.

RTE learned the hard way not to schedule anything opposite Coronation Street or Emmerdale. (If you remember Treasure Island, that really awful Reality TV show from over 15 years ago, RTE scheduled the first episode of that show to air on a Sunday, in a 7pm or 7.30 pm timeslot. They didn't know TV3 (now VM1) were airing an hour long episode of Coronation Street-just like ITV were. At the same time as Treasure Island.
Sponsors who had paid a pretty penny to have their adverts shown during Treasure Island were livid. Manywanted a refund, or free advertising during another, better timeslot-because the audience T.I. got was a fraction of what RTE promised. Cue headaches for all involved).

Sucks if you want an alternative...it genuinely does.

Billy86

It's almost as if there is something to be said for a state broadcaster, who (are at least supposed to) use public taxes to fund their shows, not running advertisements and treating itself as a private commercial enterprise..........

Gunmonkey

Saw another ad recently that made my blood boil a little: was about a woman watching a "how to" type vid for cooking or exercise or such, and the voice over going "if you stream exercise videos on your TV, you need a TV license!"

To which I am thinking....No ya ****ing dont, RTE doesnt have ANY content like that on it or the RTE player, its the preserve of Youtube; and if RTE are going to start demanding payment for watching Youtube on our TVs they can take a hike!

elperello

The point of the ad is that if you have a TV you must have a licence.
You can watch what you like on a computer without a licence but if you use a TV for any purpose they will demand their pound of flesh.

RabbleRouser2k

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Saw another ad recently that made my blood boil a little: was about a woman watching a "how to" type vid for cooking or exercise or such, and the voice over going "if you stream exercise videos on your TV, you need a TV license!"

To which I am thinking....No ya ****ing dont, RTE doesnt have ANY content like that on it or the RTE player, its the preserve of Youtube; and if RTE are going to start demanding payment for watching Youtube on our TVs they can take a hike!

Um...you actually do need the license. IF you have a tv, you need a license.

If you're streaming stuff from the RTE player on a laptop or a tablet, then you don't need a tv license.
If you're connecting your laptop to your tv-the law says you need a license.

The content is the preserve of youtube-the physical tv demands a license.
Sorry, it's the law.

The Late Late Show

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Saw another ad recently that made my blood boil a little: was about a woman watching a "how to" type vid for cooking or exercise or such, and the voice over going "if you stream exercise videos on your TV, you need a TV license!"

To which I am thinking....No ya ****ing dont, RTE doesnt have ANY content like that on it or the RTE player, its the preserve of Youtube; and if RTE are going to start demanding payment for watching Youtube on our TVs they can take a hike!

Saw that too. The ploy here is to get a viewer to watch it thinking it is something different. RTE's contempt for the public and their closed shop combined with these campaigns are turning more and more people off all the time.

Gen.Zhukov

Can't see Niall Boylan moving to RTE anytime soon:pac:

It's a good listen.

https://www.classichits.ie/podcasts1/niall-boylan/

Dr_serious2

RTE obviously don't have as big a budget as BBC so they only have a few big shows a year which they need to push and which need to chime with the general public. In the last while, they have aired such beauties as Taken Down (Direct Privison Centre Drama: refugees good, Irish bad) Rebellion (1916 rising drama which pretended to believe that the rising only contained women) and Resistance (Very poor retelling of the most important year of Irish history which managed to shoehorn in a nonsensical anti-church storyline) and now this travellers documentary tonight reminding us what terrible people we are to have marginalised the poor travellers who of course never do anything wrong.

Someone who makes the decisions at RTE is very 'liberal' and has decided that instead of making powerful, gritty dramas like Love/Hate they will spend all their money making programmes which try and teach us to be more left wing, more welcoming of immigrants, more accepting of travellers. How about just make good television?

What they dont understand is that young people, many of whom tend to identify with the causes above, don't watch RTE anyway and wouldn't watch it no matter what was on. Older people, who do watch RTE, dont tend to think the ways mentioned above and resent the constant moralising. RTE, due to their relentless agenda, have managed to get my parents to subscribe to Netflix. Quite an achievement.

Sardonicat

You forgot to mention the abysmal dialogue and direction in the above dramas, just to add insult to injury. The acting can only be either wooden or hammed as a result, regardless of the calibre of the actors.

kneemos

Some radical thinking required apparently,rather than more money for RTE, according to a Government official.


https://www.thejournal.ie/rte-public-funding-2-4523166-Mar2019/?amp=1

fritzelly

Time to forget the voluntary redundancies and start compulsory ones - when you're losing millions every year you have to be proactive. Starting with the 100's people involved to do the news.

cameramonkey

tried to watch a programme on their player a few nights ago, not live a programme that went out weeks ago. It would not play properly, just kept stopping and stuttering, strangely enough the endless adds played flawlessly.
Couldn't watch to the because of the problems with streaming.

Anyone involved in their player should be fired, not fit for purpose just like the station itself.

kneemos

cameramonkey wrote: »

tried to watch a programme on their player a few nights ago, not live a programme that went out weeks ago. It would not play properly, just kept stopping and stuttering, strangely enough the endless adds played flawlessly.
Couldn't watch to the because of the problems with streaming.

Anyone involved in their player should be fired, not fit for purpose just like the station itself.

Tried it once,ads broke my heart. Skip forward a bit,more ads,go back more ads, accidentally switch it off,more ads to go back.

If it was one ad even,like ten seconds or something. But no,ninety seconds of freaking ads. Wouldn't touch it.