The future of RTE after Tubsgate.

I wouldn't put or buy any office for rte.

Plenty of industrial units outside of the M50 .

A few containers converted or portacabins would do nicely and they can go to the local shop for their lunch.

Why sit on that land? It looks to me like they just stopped maintaining a huge amount of buildings, not just building that they seem to have abandoned but also buildings that they are using.

So you think they should be looking at any sports coverage that they don't necessarily need, and renegotiate or sell off. I'm sure VM would take the Tuesday CL game.

Oh sorry, I started that question incorrectly. I didn't even mean that to be related to the earlier point.

Would just be interesting if they would be reviewing their sports deals especially for international events like the football World Cup and Euro's. Fair play to them though for broadcasting such events like the U21 international games and Women's football including the upcoming Nations League matches. It's possible that no other independent broadcaster would choose to show them

They will need to do something to change public opinion of them.

Ads cost a lot of money to make and broadcast. Why should companies pay for a second ad in Irish just for one channel that, no offence to TG4, hasn't got a fraction of RTE's viewership?

Everyone, bar a small number of some foreign nationals will understand an ad in English. Most Irish people won't understand an ad in their own language.

Why no split, I haven't suggested selling RTÉ2 OR RTÉ2fm.

I have also not suggested moving out of Montrose, I have suggested that it should become the National Screen and Sound Studio, owned by 2RN (a current subsidiary of RTÉ).

I have sold nothing, and it would be up to 2RN if it might consider selling Montrose to move elsewhere in the country.

Much of a muchness. I don't find anything interesting on either, or anything that I do find interesting that I can find anywhere else.

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It's just a better ran station , it's like rte is delaneys FAI and tg4 is the gaa , just run by better people

Times change, RTÉ2/Network2 always had some domestic programming aimed a younger audience. The idea that you'd invest €25m on imports for RTÉ in an era when those types of programmes are ubiquitously available is killing the audience for RTÉ2 and its home produced programming. RTÉ should be trying to create something else and they can't even say ... but wait we moved it online ... look at the player originals... RTÉ's strategies are failing the era from which it was developed is now over time for something new and now is the time for that change.

Ridiculous box ticking exercise. Even more so when they google translate and get it wrong.

Really this is where An Coimisinéir Teanga comes in, nothing to do with the broadcasters at all.

I am not the strongest Irish speaker but have found the PSA translations to be dodgy and some of the pronunciation dodgier, but this really need to be put to the An Coimisinéir Teanga, they can't just make a rule and not follow through on the rule properly.

I'd also argue that many of the PSA even in English are largely pointless but also ineffective due to how they are produced. The ad people really need to re-think their strategies. Now it could be due to interference with the end product from the client but they should really point out how ineffective they all are.

It seems that way alright. It'd be interesting to know who the top national advertisers are on Radio, and then to take a look at who are the top advertisers on local Radio. It helps them to increase their price for advertising due to the increase in competition from the PSAs.

Unfortunately Departments are taken as separate clients, TAM Ireland usually has a list and "The Government Of Ireland" is never one of the top TV advertisers.

RTÉ's new direction approved by Board, to be presented to Staff, audience and stakeholders to be consulted. ENDS.

https://about.rte.ie/2023/11/08/update-a-new-direction-for-rte/

The big thing is that TV as it is, is on the way out. None of the young people I know watch RTE or any TV station anymore.

The TV licence is dead. They need to come up with something else.

No I don't in both.

There are even problems with both CBC and ABC. (Though I have little knowledge of ABC, some of its Drama and Comedy out put seems good at times)

CBC TV is commercial it runs ads, only CBC Radio has no advertising. CBC RE: sports its a slightly different market, with little sports appearing on CBC over their commercial rivals, their commercial rivals...well both NZ and Canada's commercial players did involve Canwest much like TV3, though canwest has gone.

Also Canada is heavily influence by the US, while Australian commercial TV has a content requirement for Australian Drama and programming, though they could have eased that at this point.

As I say even though I don't like those 3 options ... (btw Australia also has SBS, NZ has Whakaata Māori and while not separate CBC has Société Radio-Canada, long with several provincially run PSB such as TVO in Ontario, Télé-Québec and the Knowledge Network in British Columbia)

I think we have moved beyond the monolith that is RTÉ, and as I say time for it to be broken up while remaining in state hands.

And in fairness to ABC and CBC both have regional variants something we don't have.

There is always the 3rd option and that is to split up RTÉ, much like that of France, which can't be much worse than what we currently have.

I think keeping RTÉ they way it is will just lead to it staying the same, and as much as I think CBC is bad, I think RTÉ has sunk and my bias to being attach to RTÉ may taint my eyes to CBC.

I guess the question is wherever, after the costs of relocation & purchase of new associated equipment, there would be enough monies raised to both tackle existing liabilities as well as keep costs sustainable in the longer term?

Yeah I was just reading there that they put a new radio studio in to the Television Centre, I'd assumed that they upgraded RTÉ Radio Studios, can anyone confirm either or both happened.

How much money will axing Pulse, XM, Junior and R1 Extra save?

Never heard any of them.