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

You'd have to ask the same about Jim Jennings.

But then it is a small clique, almost all of the Jornos know weather or not Jim and Dee are taking the dog out for a walk on a daily basis or if they are fight some illness.

From the Minister and her department, she absolute avoids any thing I said and has a big opening paragraph of where RTÉ sit,

The minister thinks that Public Service Broadcasting is RTÉ, and has no other view on that. It has nothing to do with culture, democracy or anything else.

Simple the Government can only see RTÉ as the main public service broadcaster, and anything to suggest otherwise will be ignored.

Is poor Dee Forbes out of hospital yet ?

She is still on the gravy train ?

Forbes' contract was almost up so how? she was actually using up annual leave in advance of the end of her contract when she 'resigned'

Forbes had an initial 5 year contract (same for Bakhurst), with a possible 2 year extension, she was given a 2 year extension, so was just about to complete her 7 years when all this broke, she'd said goodbye to staff a week before, I think they had a party or dinner on her departure. So this would have been the normal exit for a DG, she is on a handsome pension from RTÉ.

Geraldine O'Leary was just about to retire, but she took "early retirement" (BTW she had been on the Executive board back in 2003 also, so she's been around for a great number of years at the top of RTÉ, I actually assumed she'd get DG!).

Rory Coveney may have got a severance package, and the same goes for Richard Collins.

But no confirmation about either.

**** scandalous.

Riddles, Mrs Riddles should come on to boards.ie to explain herself 😂

There really is no real change in RTÉ.

The Ghost of Christmas Past (Noel Curran) remains ever present

The Ghost of Christmas Present (Dee Forbes) is a bit ill but still hanging around like a loose wheel

While the Ghost of Christmas Future (Kevin Bakursts) is playing scrooge but in reality not really changing very much.

The Daily Mail Headline states: FIRST TIME tv licence payers drop by nearly 50%, now in fairness to RTÉ it is a misleading headline as it only relates to Frist Time licence fee holders, €17m worth of TV licences have so far not been paid.

Over to page 14 of the Mail on Sunday, its HEADLINE is "Bakhurst axes RTÉ's €5k Christmas Tree", its felt is some quarters in RTÉ that the Christmas spirt has gone (IMO decadence in spending more like). According to a spokesperson we've saved approx. 5k compared to previous years... the question should have been why were you spending so much on such a Tree.

I'd wonder why a Giant Tree in D4, in an area of little attraction to most, which also has large tower, requires such a Tree? It is not like the public would go to seek it out, or would happen upon it on a day out in Dublin.

And then to RTÉ2 and 2FM on the same page "2FM and RTÉ2 WILL NOT BE SOLD OFF"

Speaking thought the Ghost of Christmas Present, the Ghost of Christmas Future stated : "2FM plays a valuable role for RTÉ in reaching younger audiences and the figures for 2fm in the recent JNRL survey are encouraging."

Meanwhile the ghost of Christmas Future stated "we also have plans for RTÉ2"... and that the "interim leadership team have done our best to answer" as many questions as possible..... Just not when the interim leadership team will become the leadership team!

How does 2FM reach younger audiences? It just plays generic crap like any other commercial pop station,the role is more than catered for.

Unlike every other commercial pop station though it can't make money for some reason.

The media are unwilling it seems to point out that 2FM has been loss making since 2011, and that RTÉ have funded from the licence fee since then. The also don't want to mention that RTÉ cut Young People programming funding, Drama and have never had much of an interest in Comedy, you would think that Young People's, Drama and Comedy content would help boost both RTÉ and 2FM for younger audiences, both Drama and Comedy are key to this demographic, but RTÉ are clearly hesitant to do either.

I was just think as I was going for my irregular jogs while listening to spotify that RTÉ might consider taking ads out on the service, the ad could simple be a 1min news update or something about 2FM. Same goes for YouTube ads.

RTÉ seem to have no clear Social Media or Marketing strategy. But then it doesn't help that you have no content.

We are all back to the beginning, RTÉ has no other ideas about how to go forward other than to cut funding. No rallying cries from management or staff to try to save the national broadcaster, no rather let just stop.