RTE cost cutting plan predictions

MrMusician18 · 20-11-2023 4:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121392294#Comment_121392294

My definition of needing to cut costs immediately and RTEs are clearly very different.

I doubt if 10% of this will be implemented. If MoS are accurate and the govt hand over TV licence collection to Revenue then compliance with the charge will go to levels not seen previously.

Hotblack Desiato · 22-11-2023 1:31pm

Cutting the +1 channels will save next to nothing in costs so it doesn't matter whether they do it now, in 2028 or not at all.

I don't see how they can hand it over to Revenue to collect unless it's an across the board charge like LPT. Revenue are not going to be sending customs officers around knocking on doors looking for TVs i.e. the ridiculous charade An Post indulge in.

In fairness if this "broadcasting charge" or whatever it's called is levied on every household, the amount should be reduced, there's no justification for giving a massive funding rise to RTE while allowing them to cut services and keep ads.

marclt · 22-11-2023 8:05pm

RTE appear to have emailed out to people today encouraging them to fill in their survey.

Havent checked it yet…. so I’m not sure how leading the questions are or how much feedback they actually want. Let’s hope they have a section on the RTE player!

I did attempt to watch something on the player the other day on my smart tv. Got to a couple of minutes in and it kept going to a blank screen, then a blue screen with RTE One logo before looping back to a bit of the programme over and over and over again. I gave up.

Tow · 22-11-2023 9:36pm

The only way cutting the +1 channels will save money is if 2RN are charging RTE a fortune to carry them. But this is just the money being shuffled around between two Cost Centres in the Montrose mother ship. The government should force RTE to provide propper costing for the plan.

Hotblack Desiato · 23-11-2023 1:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121401957#Comment_121401957

Love to know how they gathered these email addresses and was consent given to be emailed for this purpose...

byte · 23-11-2023 11:33pm

You are receiving this email because you are opted in to receive communications from RTÉ.

That's on the bottom of the email. And I did opt in for communications from RTÉ.

decor58 · 23-11-2023 11:46pm

Likewise, I opted in, I get news story and programming emails.

24-11-2023 4:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121256972#Comment_121256972

Yes, serious trimming back needed here. Newstalk & Today FM go with one presenter for their evening news shows. Why do RTE need two for theirs on Radio 1? Similar with TV, why all the newsreaders? Look at the way BBC NI do it. Their staff do the news on Radio Ulster (4 to 6) and the same people will also do the main news on BBC1 NI TV which starts at 6.30.

waywill1966 · 24-11-2023 5:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121413003#Comment_121413003

BBC Radio and tv Scotland are the very same.

political analyst · 24-11-2023 7:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058318170/rte-cost-cutting-plan-predictions

RTÉ will have to keep Saorsat to reach those viewers who have neither Saorview nor subscription TV.

political analyst · 24-11-2023 7:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121252564#Comment_121252564

Many people still watch RTÉ 2, i.e. soccer, rugby, GAA. Moving all sporting events to RTÉ 1 was never going to happen - imagine the outcry if Six-One didn't start on time!

political analyst · 24-11-2023 7:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121259699#Comment_121259699

NI is part of RTÉ's broadcast remit.

RoTelly · 27-11-2023 5:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121413605#Comment_121413605

I always find it funny how everyone was on board and large still is on board with Dee Forbes and her Strategy 2024. Though notable that they haven't thought to move RTÉ Sport to RTÉ ONE in this plan.

This plan is not much more than previous plans TBH.

The cuts to staff are over the next 4 years, and it will largely be from retirement and as we are seeing RTÉ not renewing contracts (which both have issues).

The rest is all window dressing, they haven't suggested how much they will save over the course of the next 4 years.

What disappointing is that they believe that they did a good job on Drama and Comedy and on Children's content, when all where largely cut over the last number of years.

This is largely nothing, little change and little improvements. Viewers and consumers won't notice a thing really, and RTÉ will go but we kept it going and isn't that enough!

icdg · 27-11-2023 5:59pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121413618#Comment_121413618

I think that the poster concerned intends that suggestion to be considered in the context of the other suggestions in his post tbh, but we might at this stage (since the plan is published anyway) call a a halt to what over in Commuting and Transport they’d call “crayons on a map” at the point.

RTE cost cutting plan predictions

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