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

The prize for the singing show is one million dollars €25k.

They've had a licence fee freeze for a good few years now but don't seem to have learned anything about living within their means. What happened to all that cash they got from selling land? Píssed away covering their losses I expect...

I saw this for the first time last night and thought I was having a stroke. That must be up there among the most horrible ads I have ever seen on TV. Horrible screeching hip version of "anything you can do I can do better" while people apparently are sang at to death, all combined with flashing lights and mega wonky camera angles. The salt in the wound is when the robot with the microphone takes off their helmet to reveal the "oh god not him again" face of Nicky Byrne.

If you are going to get an ex boyband member to host a singing show, you should really try to get one that was actually able to sing. Also, you should stop making singing shows because every time you try, it turns out to be the same old shoite that you always make.

Anyone notice the Fair City exploding car already had the interior stripped out, when it blows the drivers door is open and there's no door panel, all they had to do was film from a different angle

I wouldn'be a watcher but was on a teabreak when it was on and just said to myself, that's slack

As I pointed out sport at the weekend (I will give you mid-week also). Is Telly Bingo even produced in RTÉ Studios?. Is Angela's show pre-recorded? Is Cleas Act coming back? A monthly Crimecall show. Are all of these shows recorded between 9am and 12:30 or from 2pm to 4:30?

Glow up Ireland got less than 46,000 viewers,

Jim Jenning's justification to me when I asked at Radio Days was that it severed a youth audience and that is part of RTÉ's public service remit as much as anything else, though he omitted the my lead to that question regarding children's TV and Drama and comedy.

it is, but to be fair most terrestrial radio probably is as well at this stage.

management at 2fm stupidly think or thought that those listening to the first dance show would stick around through the hip hop show, they don't unless they are one of the small few who like both who would be a minority of the audience for all of those shows.

so the management need to change that schedule and put the hip hop show on first, then the dance music.

Yes Telly Bingo is produced and recorded in RTE studios 3 times a week, Yes Angela Scanlons AMA is recorded in RTE studios twice a week, Yes, cleas Act is coming back, Crimecall was on twice in 3 weeks last Monday. Yes all these shows are rigged, lit, rehearsed & recorded or TXd live from 08.00 - 22.30/23.00. Thos shows I metioned in my post were being shot in RTE studios last week and this. I was just trying to answer your question about what exactly is happening in RTE studios.

Youth station or not, isn't there enough pointless bloody talk on Irish radio already?

Nothing wrong with having stations that just play music - no talk, news, weather, inane chat, or tokenistic Irish, just play the music. Anyone who wants the other things has plenty of other options to get them.

It seems attitudes among the powers that be haven't changed from 40+ years ago when it was somehow seen as immoral that pirates were playing "mindless pop music" all day and corrupting the nation... I thought broadcasting had moved on a bit from the days of Lord Reith but maybe I was wrong.

The crazy wages and competition from the other channels is probably the main reason. That and you've got access to free entertainment on youtube, on a scale you've never had before.

Gay Byrne, for example, despite earning over a million viewers per night each night the Late Late Show was on, and earning another 1 million + for the early runs of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, never got the kind of money his successor's got. Notice how, when he retired, the license fee increased quite a bit.

(Scroll down to see the license fee table showing the increase, year by year).

From 1986, to 1996, the license fee was the same cost, and only underwent a relatively minor increase in 1996. (It increased by £8. Roughly ten euro.) Then from 2001, to 2008, it increased annually. 2002 to 2003 saw a HUGE increase (imo) of the fee going from €107 to €150. €43 euros of an increase.

When the economy went belly up in 2008,the license fee was never increased after that. Tho in 2024, it will undergo a 'broadcasting charge' or some crud.

Well we all know what Burke was up to.

From the wiki article mentioned above:

As one person noted about Bertie, he hid behind women. Remember when he funnelled cash into Celia's bank account and beautician business, and Cecelia Ahern's bank account, and Georgia's too, I believe?

https://www.thejournal.ie/mahon-tribunal-ahern-3972899-Apr2018/

Bertie was (more than likely) taking money too. I'd say there wasn't a clean politician during that era.

Wasn't a clean FFer - now that'd be plausible...