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

If they cannot be sustainable through the licence fee then they should not be in existence - they have a budget set by the licence fee and other commercial avenues but they still continue to spend beyond their income and have for years now and go to the government with a begging bowl.

This should have been stopped years ago - any bailout is an approval of them doing no wrong. This isn't the HSE etc where money has to be provided else the sh*t hits the fan, this is a non essential service that is sucking the blood from the public

SF are waiting in the not-so-long-now grass to give RTE a good kicking over perceived slights going back decades even to the Section 31 days (as if RTE could choose whether to obey the law or not) so for me this is the same as the Tories in the UK talking about abolishing the licence fee there

We can and do all complain about RTE (same as they do in the UK about the BBC) but public sector broadcasting is an essential part of a developed democracy and society, it can't have the government of the day dangling a sword of Damocles over it if it broadcasts something it doesn't like.

Depends entirely on the funding level which they can change on a whim and/or hold conditional to certain rocks not being looked under.

If it is direct exchequer funding the organization need to be disbanded and split. Just handing RTÉ with or without conditions is irresponsible. With conditions will they meet them? and for how long?

Television moves to FÍS ÉIREANN | SCREEN IRELAND

Radio with 2RN (Networks and Studios)

Radio and television with TG4 (Along with TG4, TG4 +1 and CULA4)

Radio with National Concert Hall (Concert Orchestra moves to the NCH also)

Radio and Television with NMN (Nuacht na Mean | Media News providing news to FÍS, TG4 and Lyric)

Remove Government interference. The Funding comes from an extra tax on all telecommunciation usage, you have a broadband bill, Mobile Bill, Apple +, Now TV etc you see an extra charge CnaM Culture Fund. It is set by the CnaM and ComReg, the charge would be tiny across all bills and would also be applied to businesses who would not be able to claim it back. This would reduce the burden for all users.

Initial total value of €300m.

Total market revenue for q2 2023 is 910,000,000 meaning 8% CnaM Tax on just telecommunications, excludes subscriptions to online services such as netflix so you could bring this down further. Also CnaM may decide just 200m.

There is no continuity announcer giving programme-specific introductions on RTÉ One this evening - it's just "This is RTÉ One".

Don't think she needs a cert when she has no job.

An independent broadcaster is important for debate and investigation they say.

Independent radio and TV does a similar or better job than RTE at the moment in fairness, Radio1 is an amateur mess. But I suppose there's a stalwart in RTE.

A public service broadcaster rather than an independent broadcaster. There is a difference. The public service broadcaster would concentrate mainly on news, investigation and culture with the commerical part of RTE (light entertainment etc) being spun out into a commerical company. The problem for a lot of RTE employees is that the commercial company would not be funded by the state or licence fee and that would mean job cuts and reduced salaries. They'd have to survive in the real world outside of Montrose.

Regards...jmcc

I did split RTÉ up completely for you, regardless of how RTÉ is funded the company needs to be split up as suggested.

I agree I don't believe you need to change how the fund is funded, to be honest An Post should be asked why the cannot collect. Even if we just decided that An Post would collect the fee and you'd have to pay it regardless of what "Telecommunications equipment you own", An Post would still not be able to collect it.

I don't think they are, I think politicians like to say that they do, there are certain aspects of RTÉ I don't understand (that I outline regularly) ... but Indo broadcasts have largely just done what their license says. Many of the Locals have a semi-monopoly in their areas for advertising, while you have to pay for death notices (one of their so called PSB). An hour of chat, local news bulletins during the day, national centralised bulletins at night (from Newstalk).

While not necessarily applicable to Radio, VMTV really don't provide any of the commercial part of RTÉ on any regular basis.

I think we are all getting into the idea that Independent Broadcasting in Ireland is wonderful, when clearly this is not the case.

I'd argue that Ireland has never really had a great/innovative broadcasting sector. Either Public or Commercial.

Two areas they need to examine, RTÉ2 and programming outside sport (note RTÉ2 has no News and Current Affairs anymore) and then their spending on aquired programming which sits at 20 to 25m (something the DG didn't know, I met him I said it to him and he poo poo'd the idea, you don't want to poo poo and Idea with me, I know people who poo poo'd poo poo :) )

But they also want their Executives to take a 10% pay cut 😂

IMO splitting RTÉ up into the group outlined should help the media landscape (though I believe it to be a bit late).

I am not suggesting selling off 2RN (RTÉ Networks), I think a national studio is an important infrastructure as the network, that why I would propose that 2RN would be then national public service Radio Broadcaster (save for Lyric and RnaG), national broadcasting network and the national studio of Ireland in Montrose (up to them if they continue to stay their or refocus in another area of the country).

I rather see 2FM go in a different direction under 2RN than either reduce it to a local broadcaster or close it for the sake of "Well everyone else is doing a better job of it".

I think it may become to granular if we start selling or closing operations down. I think intially you have to look at the broader picture, and that broader picture is : -

RTÉ is in disarray and inaction will just continue the kind of service that we are all largely unhappy with. Inaction mean keeping the service as is, the mananagement of RTÉ should not be allowed close down serviced due to their own mismanagement of the national broadcaster. I can seem the coming for those Digital Radio Stations very soon, where is the sense in that? and why should they make that decision?

Do not be too worried by Strategy 2024, it was dead in the water in 2019. They already were showing they didn't have a handle on things by that point, just before it they'd hope for millions from the sale of Art work.

3 parts of the strategy couldn't even be completed without government approval, the move of the NSO, the Closure of AERTEL and the closure of their digital Radio stations.

They are lucky that the legislators acted on 2 of those (NSO and AERTEL), while they are stuck with the Digital Radio Stations, I have no doubt they Minister will now be convince to allow RTÉ close them down. @alzer100 The one thing we have is the Broadcasting Act 2009, so they'd have to ask the Minister and Department to close those stations.

But all most all the rest of it was wishy-washy shite - The 1st point on their list of things to do is to move Big sporting events to RTÉ ONE, they only thing keeping RTÉ2 alive. Even considering the Scheduling problems for RTÉ ONE can you imagine RTÉ2 RWC coverage with only the non-Irish matches few are watching Toga V Portugal, or how smaller events would fair without the support of the bigger events, and then what do you consider a big event, Irish games the Women's World Cup doesn't end up on RTÉ ONE ... how very sexist of RTÉ!

And Strategy 2024 is where they stated that the Executives would take a 10%, so I believe it to dead.

CEO needs to get tough.

Citibank CEO, planning big layoffs globally, was quoted this week ... "we dont have room for bystanders"

The ignorance of the Irish media is allowing RTE to get away with a tissue of lies in relation to closing Aertel.

Every single story about it on all media has a picture of the 70s-tech (well, RTE only got around to it in the 80s) World Standard Teletext which for some bizarre reason still exists on Sky. Saying that's obsolete and can no longer be supported etc. is plausible, it's also very slow and limited.

BUT RTE also want to close the modern teletext they introduced with Saorview, they are not providing any justification for this, making all information disposition dependent on the internet is a mistake.