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

sxt · 23-06-2023 2:31pm

If only RTE could do one of it's gory primetime investigations on the RTE organization it's self . It would be amazing to see the true levels of debauchery, squandering,reckless spendthrift, and mountains and valleys of hidden skeletons to be uncovered

Hotblack Desiato · 23-06-2023 2:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120753990#Comment_120753990

We need a PSB alright but not the bloated mess that RTE has become.

Hotblack Desiato · 23-06-2023 2:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120754553#Comment_120754553

I wish that Secret RTE Producer Twitter account would come back!

Glaceon · 23-06-2023 2:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120754345#Comment_120754345

TG4 is completely separate from RTE now. RTE provide them with some programming but that’s about it.

RoTelly · 23-06-2023 3:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120754705#Comment_120754705

I know I am saying that they take over RnaG, RTÉjr and RTÉ Radio Junior

You'll note that I didn't mention the NSO or Cor nOg as they now sit in the NCH where the RTÉ CO can now be moved to.

fritzelly · 23-06-2023 3:09pm

Just move RTE under the remit of TG4

RoTelly · 23-06-2023 3:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120754935#Comment_120754935

You just create another megalith.

In the interim potential. Remove The RTÉ Board and the Executive Board, while the changes are made.

lumphammer2 · 23-06-2023 3:30pm

During Dee Forbes' watch the threatening not paying your licence fee ads were stepped up ... many programmes prominent in the era ... First Dates Ireland ... Operation Transformation ... Dancing With The 'Stars' ... all represented everything wrong with today's TV era ... useless reality fodder made on a shoestring ... Forbes' underhand sneaky payment of Ryan Tubridy will do little to get people to pay their TV licence ... quite the opposite in fact ...

Astartes · 23-06-2023 3:36pm

How long until the coverup will be justified because the "For roysh" will use it to further their agenda?

RoTelly · 23-06-2023 3:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120755019#Comment_120755019

She also cut back massively in many areas, though I would argue she did as her predessor did (Noel Curran)

Cuts to Children's Content by 75%
Cuts to Lyric, while threatening to move it out of limerick and even close the station
Cuts to News programming on TV, no news on RTÉ2, 1PM news and final current affairs programming end between 10:30 and 11:30, but mainly 9:30
Cuts to RTÉ2 save for sport, with extra epsiodes of First Dates, just look at RTÉ2's social media
Increase in funding from the license fee to 2FM
Little to no reform, she came in with ONE RTÉ and it never developed
Sold art works
Sold Land
Saw audiences fall
Cut funding to Drama
Comedy any comedy at all.

Anything else?

RabbleRouser2k · 23-06-2023 3:56pm

No Claire Byrne show this morning. Curiously absent with no explanation...

She's probably raging down the phone to Noel Kelly.

And to think of the reprehensible way she treated Joe Brolly... Not even a fan of Brolly, but less a fan of Claire Byrne.

Beta Ray Bill · 23-06-2023 5:47pm

I think there is more to come on this, I'd say it's only the tip of the Iceberg

It's quite incredible really. At this stage the board has to go (all of them), It's their job t ensure the Org is being run correctly. It's clear there was no one at the reins.

I originally posted that we didnt need XY or Z from the Public broadcaster and that they should scale back. At this stage of the game however it's clear that RTE needs to be wound up. It's a total nepotisim/boys club.

It's cheaper and easier to start again than to try and fix something that is this completely broken.

JP Liz V1 · 23-06-2023 6:32pm

Dee should get no pay, as in salary or pension

AndyBoBandy · 23-06-2023 7:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120755825#Comment_120755825

She already got it all though….. She doesn’t have to receive another pay check for the rest of her life and that life will still be extremely comfortable…

sure wasn’t she getting a €25k annual car allowance???? Imagine getting a car allowance of €25k to go to your office… It’s not like she was up and down the country all week.. and she probably only lives 10 minutes away!!

Loafing Oaf · 23-06-2023 7:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120755613#Comment_120755613

Yeah but is this a useful approach if you're going to maintain public service broadcasting in some form? The reality of a small country is the reconstituted PSB is going to end up hiring a lot of the same people, making a lot of the same type of programming, presumably from Montrose. But the interim 'scorced earth' period (of a couple of years?) is likely to see only a skeleton broadcasting service, lose a lot of RTE's current audience...So the new broadcaster will be starting off with much lower audiences, which will embolden those who want to scrap PSB altogether and let the markewt decide what people watch

RoTelly · 23-06-2023 7:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756079#Comment_120756079

RTÉ have already largely done the heavy lifting, and is currently in a very long interim Scorched earth period of complete inertia.

They've moved their music groups to the NCH, the only one left is the CO, it can simple fit into the NCH now.

TG4 as pointed out is a separate company can could take on the roles and responsibilities for Children's Content all of which is produced by indo producers after RTÉ's cuts, RnaG's management prob have very little input from the RTÉ up in Dublin, it and its studios around the gealteach could just move swiftly over to TG4.

Meanwhile you could bring in current RTÉ staff in to run RTÉ2, 2FM and the digital channel on a shoe string, outside of RTÉ.

Leaving RTÉ with RTÉ1, NEWS, +1, Radio 1, Lyric and Gold <<< It would still commission programming.

The heads of RTÉ should go, and it won't damage the perception of RTÉ, and, if needs be, you drop the name.

It would be interesting to know how Greek and Israeli TV is doing after their governments closed their services down and set up new ones.

RoTelly · 23-06-2023 7:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756061#Comment_120756061

Don't for get the moving fee of €50,000 she got also.

Loafing Oaf · 23-06-2023 8:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756141#Comment_120756141

you could bring in current RTÉ staff in to run RTÉ2, 2FM and the digital channel on a shoe string, outside of RTÉ.

Leaving RTÉ with RTÉ1, NEWS, +1, Radio 1, Lyric and Gold <<< It would still commission programming.

But if there's this much continuity are you really 'winding up' RTE?

RoTelly · 23-06-2023 8:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756203#Comment_120756203

No, I am say restructure it, even if you closed the BBC and you get the same group. It is unfortunate, but the lowly managers in RTÉ unless they go will remain.

The one thing that must happen is that all of the Executive board must step down, including the incoming DG, and the board must step down. That will have no profound effect on the audience, there are people there ready to take those jobs, and happy to be given the opportunity.

JP Liz V1 · 23-06-2023 8:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756061#Comment_120756061

How do I get an RTE job

Beta Ray Bill · 23-06-2023 8:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756079#Comment_120756079

I accept the point you're making. There most certainly would be a period of extreme pain for the transition. However that (IMHO) is still easier than attempting to fix what's there. In fact, I genuinely believe what's there cannot actually be fixed. It's FUBAR

alzer100 · 23-06-2023 9:12pm

Just looking at the 9 o'clock news. An excerpt from Liveline, my God Joe looks extremely grumpy.

TheRiverman · 23-06-2023 9:30pm

No licence ad on Radio today, you know the disgusting one that basically tells us we are all criminals if we don't pay it.

TheRiverman · 23-06-2023 9:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756501#Comment_120756501

He also looks massively overweight, with the headphones on he appears to have three chins.

rob316 · 23-06-2023 9:33pm

There should be no pension for dee, for her misconduct.

fritzelly · 23-06-2023 9:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756589#Comment_120756589

Is that for real - its a constant usually

alzer100 · 23-06-2023 9:42pm

Never had much time for Dee but there are more people involved in this. I don't accept Tubridy's statement regarding he wasn't aware and it's just too coincidental that he quit the LLS a few weeks back.

TheRiverman · 23-06-2023 9:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756615#Comment_120756615

I didn't hear it on the 1 o'clock News ad break or during Liveline.

fritzelly · 23-06-2023 9:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120756660#Comment_120756660

Come to think of it, I was listening to the radio most of the morning and don't recall hearing it

RabbleRouser2k · 23-06-2023 9:59pm

Saw Emma O'Kelly on VM News, and on RTE News...

She was clearly angry. Like, she's usually calm, collected, someone you don't see raising her blood pressure.

She looked like she was ready to commit murder. She was RAGING.

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