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

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.

The business model of a pirate radio station is very different from a licensed one which has to pay income tax, PRSI, rates, etc.

The Angelus was cancelled for Biden's visit apparently.

Well they "removed" the religious stuff but still..

It's The Angelus in fairness, it's inherently religious. If they removed the bells maybe and just had folk stopping what they're doing to stare at the sky.

The Angelus is a great distraction why would RTÉ get rid of the Angelus when it cause so many to argue for and against, it completely deflects from the mismanagement of RTÉ.

I have no issue with it either way.

@kneemos RE: number of Digital Radio stations, I assume a wider sense of choice. But again I'd argue that RTÉ can well afford many thing why not spend it digital radio.

RTÉ called for the closure of these stations in their 2024 strategy, and didn't do due diligence on their legal requirements.

This is the same strategy that temporarily cut executive salaries by 10%, I rather see the executives let go of the car allowances and take a 20% cut in salary to funded the RTÉ Digital Radio stations.

The same happened when Obama was in Dublin.

RTÉ had massively cut back on Continuity in the last few years, I don't think they have any before 1pm. They don't seem to be able for pre-recorded intros.

RTÉ's preformance at the PAC and the views of come commentators really just point back to Dee Forbes retoric, even YLE got a mention!

Not been able to keep up with this from afar.

Where is it up to re investigation into wrong doings ?

When is the next meeting ?

Is your one still sick ?

Will anyone every be held accountable or has the long game worked on the Irish public again ?

Why are they making shows for the player?

Bizzare. The other way round surely. Not like there's no room between the repeats for new shows on RTE1 or2.

It really all started with Storyland. RTÉ at that point had largely let go of Monday Night new comedy-drama's on RTÉ2 (The last one being the 1st series of RAW, before being moved over to RTÉ ONE, and becoming a sister show to The Clinic, and then taking over that light Sunday Night drama).

Storyland was voted on by the viewers as the weeks went on one of the programmes would be drop from the line up, with the first or second winners being Hardy Bucky's (They'd already had a large online YouTube following).

It never really "showcased" anything. And was mostly likely perceived way for RTÉ to produce drama on the cheap. Since the arrive of Fis Éireann the new drama's have aired on TV, and consist of 8 scripts developed for the series with 3 going into production.

RTÉ since 2006 have been in constant pilot mode with nothing ever sticking. Remember the Format Farm ... and about 3 years ago a set of comedies that were supposed to result in one be coming a series, eventually it they ended up on RTÉ ONE rather then on 2.

I think this is the original announcement for that:-

Dee Frobes said "Encouraging and developing creatives across the sector is at the core of why RTÉ exists and this initiative will also give Irish talent a platform" ... however we now know herself and Moya were

I don't really know another way to explain all of this: -

• RTÉ spent €18m on Drama, this includes RTÉ's commission unit spent €2.5m on Drama in 2022.
• Meaning that Fair City has a budget of about €15.5m (Though I realize Drama on Radio gets about €500k)
• RTÉ also "imported" €4.4m from Irish producers (this also includes other genres), so I am not sure how much of it goes towards drama, but lets give them the benefit as say 100% goes towards drama.
• That's under €7m on Drama (when we exclude Fair City). Or as RTÉ would say just 2% of their total budget for 2022.

I don't really know why TG4 or VMTV could not do what RTÉ are doing in terms of Drama output based on these figures. VMTV is spending at least €20m on imports and TG4 is spending about €3m. I know much of TG4's imports are children's TV and people may feel that TG4 would be stepping into English Language production but TG4 have always aired English Language programming.

RTÉ basically have moved their RTÉ2/Network2 shows online, and basically this has lead to even tighter budgets but also let to an awful lot of slush that no one is watching.

This is in tomorrow's Independent.

The Gay Byrne Memorial Lecture for the Royal Television Society ( that a new one on me) obviously an anarchist got in. He was shut down by Oat Kenny who was supposed to be a moderator and Moya Doherty felt his contribution did not need to be responded to.

The audience ( all TV people and Journalists) were not impressed.

It's not right that an ordinary Joe Soap gets a say.

Probably worth the price of the Indo tomorrow

There's alternatives to paying

This headline will explode a few heads "How RTÉ wants taxpayers to fund €9m in pay rises it can’t afford"

Dee Forbes and RTE management, egos writing cheques for the taxpayer to cash. This issue will bring a ministers career down should they acquiesce, hard luck for RTE staff, sacrifices will be made.

This is just the appeals. With back taxes and PRSI this bogus contractor bullshit is going to end up costing RTE us a fortune.

A quote from that article in the Independent:

I followed a link at the bottom of the article, one on the current situation in Palestine. I'll quote from that as well:

As I've been following the news on that conflict, I am aware that the current claim regarding Palestinian deaths is over 9,000. While it is not factually incorrect to say "over 5,000", it is at best misleading - so I wonder if our "trust in and perceptions of" D'Indo should be questioned too?

Looking at the business post account of the recent RTS meeting, it seems RTE have their eyes on the "Finnish model" to continue the lifestyle they have become accustomed to. What is that? https://yle.fi/aihe/about-yle/finances

Basically, get Revenue to collect the dosh from private taxpayers and businesses.

Dee Forbes and Moya Doherty stated years ago that they wanted the Finnish model, they are now ... finished!

I'd like a Finnish Model 😂