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

What annoys me about Eurovision is their head of delegation. This time last year he was saying : -

While rival broadcasters employ teams of people to stage their Eurovision bids, Michael is a one-man operation, sometimes directing Prime Time, organising RTE’s New Year’s Eve coverage and the Rose of Tralee as he also tries to find a song and performer who could regain Ireland’s Eurovision glory.

Last year RTE splashed out on more than €315,000 sending Derry singer Brooke Scullion to Eurovision.

But Michael said: “It’s not enough to be perfectly honest ….and it’s a dog fight to get every cent.

“At the same time, I think we are one of the few organisation around Europe who tell you what we spend.”

Does matter who is running the show it really about the song and the act, and he is either lucky or extremely unlucky.

Expect more of the same next year from our entry as he's at last found the hook required.

And if it flops he tell us, you should have paid your TV licence.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/thats-rich-rte-splashed-out-27650436

https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/9877941/eurovision-rte-abuse-blame-sacked-michael-kealy/

So no really changes to RTÉ radio following a raft of exits. So the idea that the top stars bring in a auidence can largely be dismissed.

And if your interested due to sport in July RTÉ had a 33% share of the audience, while in June similar figures. RTÉ2 will average about 7% share for the year but will have achieved 14% share in June and July, August will see those figure diminish as will the rest of the year.

I'd agree no bigger hitters, but a group of presenters that 2FM and some in the media considered to be big hitters.

Laura Fox has pretty much take over from Jenny Z and she's getting 141,000 listeners up 6k. Not much less than Westlife show which ended on 155k.

Daithi O Se coming with a run at a the politics now too. Well up on the ballot paper

Also I am thinking that many of those presenters have got away without having to be in the top ten list.

From what I can gather when the RTÉ annual report is published later in the year it will only show the top ten earners, this means because RTÉ have added the executives to the list they then remove many of the people that would have been added to the the list due to lowering of the earnings and the exit of others.

Now we are left with a list that you can't compare to previous lists. Really the top ten onscreen talent should be published along with the top ten non-onscreen talent at RTÉ.

I'd say getting FC and TLLS to become independent productions is to remove those stars from the top ten earners list.

Interesting to see Dáithí "Why would I give somebody 15pc of what I make, like?" Ó Sé on that list!