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

Ryan looking for a nudge nudge wink wink with the BBC powers that be

Ireland can't understand him ffs

RTÉ and the King's Coronation

I tend not to get bogged down in politics in this thread. But I can't hold my tongue. Firstly, I have no problem with RTÉ airing the King's coronation, I didn't watch, but I had hoped that RTÉ would simply air BBC's coverage of the event along with some Irish commentators, every now and then Mary Kennedy could pipe up "... John its interesting when you think about but his great great great grandmother was known as the Famine Queen ..." with John Bowman replying "... yes it is important to note Ireland's relationship with the royal family...", though even with such a slight I be annoyed two retirees were commenting from RTÉ Studios in Dublin.

But ... and here is the but ... 3 reporters sent to London to cover this ... an hour long six one news ... I didn't watch the nine ... but David McCullough interviewing the First Minister, An Taoiseach and the President in LONDON, why not have John Kilrane do those interviews ... or if you have little faith in John ... have David interview An Taoiseach and the President before the leave for LONDON and the NI corrospondent could interview the First Minister.

There was no need for this type coverage on RTÉ... and before you all reply ...

1. What's RTÉ's coverage of the local elections in NI looking like?
2. What's RTÉ's news programmes like during the Eurovision next week?
3. Why do they take a long break at Summer Time?
4. And do they really have the money to send people off to LONDON?
5. Did they show the Prince Andrew interview with News Night?

TLLS and TUBS

Really there are maybe 5 possibly RTÉ replacements, 3 replacements that are well known in England and none from either VMTV or TG4 that I can think of ... if TUBS is the best RTÉ have failed to develop other so called "talent", it should show you the **** show that is RTÉ.

so the Rte/GAAgo controversy takes a surprising turn, turns out that RTE are 50% shareholders in it and are in cahoots with the GAA to gouge more money through that by airing less games through tv. VM dropped them right in it.

Hell why give the lowlifes something for free when we can charge for it - what's more concerning is that this was never disclosed and now some feeble excuse there was no other interested parties i.e. we never asked anyone else

The always pull the 'RTE is the state national broadcaster' as if that entitles them to first come, first served... but as you noted, they never approached anyone else.

When the GAA signed a deal with SKY, RTE were probably having the biggest conniption over not having exclusive rights. What they were REALLY annoyed about was that the GAA had basically taken the major money from Sky Sports to air the matches, and had sold it to the highest bidder. RTE's sports division has been in the crapper for years, so this 'service' from the people who can't get the RTE player to work, feels like an ever more egregious backdoor charge.

Dee Forbes and the head of sport in RTE Declan McBennett, are both directors in Gaago media ltd.

In a personal capacity? How does that work?

Kind of guessed this, it is strange that VMTV/TV3 haven't changed over the years but that Management seem to kind spout the same kind of stuff.

AKA we don't actually want to make programming.

Nobody wants to watch sports in VM's potato vision.

It's gotten to the stage that you've got one or two shows per day that are new, and the rest are repeats. I can understand the eurosong/ eurovision would disrupt things, but next week will be the same, and there won't be an excuse for that.

I feel the same for VMTV's inside the hospice.

I understand the need to confront death, and sort of move away from the fear it inspires.

But also... I've been thru that with a family member. And I don't want or need to revisit it.

Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK in which Gaelic matches are shown on terrestrial TV. In Great Britain, viewers who want to see matches being shown by BBC NI can only do so via satellite dish, cable or the iPlayer.

In 1992, in the immediate aftermath of the Teebane bombing, Brooke was a guest on the Late Late Show. Gay Byrne tried to coax him into singing Danny Boy. Instead, Brooke sang Oh My Darling Clementine.

Obviously, Brooke himself was criticised for singing on TV just after a Troubles massacre.

But it seems that Byrne and RTÉ were not criticised.

What was Gay Byrne thinking when tried to get a Danny Boy rendition out of Brooke? Did Byrne forget about what had just happened at Teebane?

New thread was going to wait but the former acting DG is on the same bandwagon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058297243/kevin-bakhurst-banging-the-rte-tv-licence-drum-again-60m-uncollected-fee/p1?new=1

None of the political parties are looking for any change when it comes to this.

An example of why it should not come from General Taxation

In 2011 Eamon Ryan in an GP/FF government increase funding to RTÉ via the licence fee (in line with inflation AFAIA)... this was the last time it was increased ... it stands at €160 per year... however TG4 is funded by direct taxation and the same government cut funding from the excheucre to TG4 ... and replace it with funding from the license fee ... this was not reversed until 2018.

Perhaps An Post might get better at collecting the fee.