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

It's not just O'Keefe that got an exit package, Coveney did too.

All I know is Coveney got a pay off. I don't know much more than that.

Yeah, that is what I am hearing too. I assume this means he was fired and got severance. Also hearing O'Leary was given something. These are not resignations.

This would have been my press release : -

Would it be worth it? I was up in Dublin on Tuesday.

I listen to their RTÉ podcast and to me it was the same old same old.

I am grateful that Sit down and be counted was published to Amazon but its not the be all and end all. I felt is was 3 RTÉ producers complaining about their own mistreatment from Politics, management and from the public.

The on the one hand bemoan the commercial side of RTÉ and then state we are too small to find good people to go on the TV.

In the podcast they basically give RTÉ an excuse for their mismanagement of the company and that excuse is the wining and dining of advertisers and the commercial arm of RTÉ along with the lack of funding coming from the license fee.

IMO both of these things are just signs of how RTÉ are unable to run an organization rather than a cause of the problems that the face.

Geraldine O'Leary basically stated that if she had not done what she did RTÉ would not have to the sponsorship that they receive, while Dee Forbes continually said the license fee was broken.

This is just people agreeing with the incompentance at RTÉ.

Do you have a link with any of the speakers? and topics to be discussed?

Dee Frobes and Breada O'Keffee 😂

I am not convinced about going.

You do not think that these guys just resign. It's usually a negotiated settlement, minimum wound be the outstanding part of the contract. If it was a recurring contract ( where it was rolled over a number of times) then a decent redundancy payment will come into play.

Nobody walks away from jobs like this just because of public opinion

The employment issue is going way back in RTÉ, this is why I don't really under stand why Eiemer Cusack is still on the leadship team, she'd been in and out of the oirechtas to say she was working on a range of employment issues within RTÉ, which still exists, she is either actively working on this issue, on top of the bogus pay, but their should be at this stage some clear outcome or mission statement from RTÉ at this point.

Questions I would have asked Angie Mazzetti (I'd know her more as a former Continuity announcer, but later on she did news bulletins). What was her pay? What kind of holidays did she have while in RTÉ? and in other words why do RTÉ take a holiday in June, July and August.

For Keith Walsh .... Where you a contractor or an employee? What is his view on 2FM and where it is going? and Does he thinks it deserves the licence fee? What was his contract like and what kind of money was he getting?

I can't image any one in RTÉ or outside of RTÉ explaining the good side of the employment contracts at the broadcaster.

There's a Late Late Show country music special next week. But I thought RTÉ was moving on from the Tubs era.

How do you know?

The show for at Christmas show ( not the toy show) is going to be pre recorded as well I think

I miss certain posters on this thread that have disappeared after years of arguing that we need to take a look at what we really want from Public Service Broadcasting.

Have they been scuppered, they've not commented on RTÉ in either the new thread or this.

Surely we now know that RTÉ is rotten to the core and its time for it to be split up.

Just managementspeak from a bunch of overpaid mediocrities. Had RTE been properly run most of them would not have been in their jobs and certainly not at the salaries they were given.

Didn't Forbes cut kids broadcasting?

As for RTE Player, that's got to be a joke, right?

Anyone looked at the GDPR ramifications of this: "We will evolve the user experience of many of our digital services through mandatory sign in and personalisation"?

Forbes doesn't seem to have been a success. Without the licence fee and repeated bailouts, RTE would not have survived. Now, it wants a 56 million Euro bailout to keep on failing.

Regards...jmcc

Ah no he's still around alright. Kept the head down for 10 weeks or so but has reemerged and is popping up in all the old places...Radio/TV where RTE and everyone that appears on RTE are fantastic - Avoids this and the RT thread though, too much 'blood in the water' to join in here. Thing is, we were all guessing (educated and ultimately vindicated) at the state of the place, but they were so much closer to the action

So SF have finally come to heed my wisdom

I reckon this will nudge the government to get their own plans into gear, as kicking the issue into the long grass yet again will surely lead to the adoption of this model, which M Martin in particular seems dead against, if SF are leading the next government

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 😂