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

Drawing in good viewers, it's lost a lot of them, though it is going a number of years.

RTÉ always flash the audience figures when they are good, but not so much when they are bad. Watch Claire Byrne's Ireland's Smartest get large numbers in week one, largely by people to see if she's good enough for TLLS and then the following week to have low figures because RTÉ don't seem to know how to produce the most basic of TV programmes.

I think she is. In fact, i'd put money on it.

Why do you think she isn't?

Yeah 12 week run, they have started to record Ask Me Anything, I assume that will start back in September and have a similar run.

Ah skimpy, we've had this one out before.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057868730/dee-forbes-banging-the-rte-tv-licence-drum-again-60m-uncollected-fee-poll-not-working-pl-ignore/p299

A large amount of the NK's contractors don't do the website...it really is as simple as that. They can choose whether to publicly align with him or not - it means nothing if they are not on the site. Take Maura Deranne for instance, she's not on the site either but she is NKM 100%

From Met.ie -

The basic rule is - If someone is a regular on CB radio/TV, they are NKM. Claire is utterly shameless promoting her team mates. I'm not sure why Claire does this or what's in it for her, I guess we'll never know

We've been wondering that for years

It might be but ... RTÉ have form on this ... and even if the show is not good Claire Byrne should be able to bring in those viewers.

And we should take an anylitical look at audience number when it comes to stars remember RTÉ states that these stars bring in revenue and that its only 1% of their total budget and that the rest goes on ... "other things".

Just think of Tubs in Gerry Ryan's old slot for 5 years and how that worked out.

Moving expenses, executive expenses, executive cars, a pension.... Try it some time...

I don't even like quiz shows so I'll be at a loss to know if it's any good.

As I've said many times before all that "top 10 paid too much" won't amount to a hill of beans in the overall picture.

I'd safely say there's not a company or organisation of any kind that couldn't do with a good look under the bonnet.

The sooner the better we decide what it is we want from public broadcasting and then fund it.

Obviously we are in agreement that we don't expect to like everything that appears on our screens but have no problem with it being there for others.

One fairly simple answer is for the new DG's remuneration to be performance related. They'll get a decent enough base salary - If they clean the place up, make the changes needed, cut costs and do what ever else they see necessary, they get a lovely big bonus, if not, it's just the base salary

Dee seemed to think that the job entailed - Getting a massive salary/bonus/pension/car allowance etc and in return, all she had to do was talk management speak waffle twice a year, do lunch with the girls, beg for more money from the government three times a year, hide anytime anything controversial happened and avoid the PAC.

If anything in the country needed to be kicked over to a citizens assembly (at a bare min), it's RTE

But you've never really said what you want or how you would fund it, you can't have an agreement without putting forward some opinion on what PSB/M is or what it should be in the future. You've continual had the line "The sooner the better we decide what it is we want from public broadcasting and then fund it." but you've never really expressed an opinion that either the current service provided by either PSB/M is bad or good. Though I think you've mentioned exchequer funding.

Your argument remains circular even when I point out all of the things that have been progress by different Ministers and departments since Dee Forbes became DG of RTÉ.

You seem not to think that the change in DG helps to constantly review the workings of RTÉ and that you'd "safely say there's not a company or organisation of any kind that couldn't do with a good look under the bonnet." have they even looked under that bonnet?

And to avoid any defense of RTÉ you end your post with things like "I'd hope for a quick and decisive process but I'm prepared to be disappointed."

But you tell us nothing of where you are on the topic at hand.

For example what do you think of the news service provided on RTÉ2 versus its commercial counterpart VMTV ONE or its PSB counterpart TG4. And does the answer tell you something?

I though you were making about about BoC and his relationship to a former RTÉ executive! I think TT's point was lost, when you posted a link to the 99% of "other things" RTÉ provide.

And the Broad community support for what we want for PSB has been given, and several times over, there are only so many consultations that you can have.

I disagree with direct exchequer funding which I have outline and TG4's exchequer funding is a good example of why it should not be exchequer lead.

You want better funding but for what? What we have?

Arrrghhh honestly take out the "we" and tell what you would like. If lets say you were in a discussion at a public forum organized by officialdom and the first question was: -

What do you believe public service broadcasting to be?

How would you answer this.

If you want to explore what people want you need to tell others what you would like? They might turn around and say I disagree but ... I do agree with X, Y and Z. Then you come to some conclusion as to what people want in general. It could be simply be:-

I think RTÉ do a good job on the budget the have and I believe that the only issue is funding and I think we need to increase it, but in general I believe the we should keep the current set up of services and content coming from the 2 incumbents.*

*This is a sample answer to the question. I may agree or disagree with this statement, but would be happy to discuss such a statement in a forum to progress the idea of what the public in general may want or may agree to.

Relax, this is just a friendly chat about telly and radio.

My personal preferences are only peripheral to the discussion.

Answer your own questions and I'll stick to posting in my comfort zone.

So you obviously didn't see the absolute car crash interview with Pussy Riot after they got out of one of Putin's Gulags? This was the first interview they did after their release, and their first in the west, so it was a big thing. O'Connor made an absolute show of himself in that interview. It was almost as if he didn't want them at all and resented the fact that they were getting more attention than he was. Not much nous or empathy on display that day. But plenty of ego though.