A regressive tax used to scaffold the incomes of cushioned de facto public sector insiders surely cannot be “broken”. Surely it is working as planned.
You know what’s utterly broken? Having Christmas TV from a state broadcaster receiving public money that amounts to re-runs of shows from over 10 years ago, coupled with ads.
Add to that paying the likes of Tubs and Ray D’Arcy astronomical amounts to host shows that the majority of population, even those who tune in weekly to the late late, would say is shite.
Maybe review your own wage setup and then look at your current programming and at least bring it even close to up to standard (not expecting award winning dramas etc like BBC or Netflix I know RTE can’t compete with them). Then maybe we can talk about how much public money is given and how its distributed.
If RTE can’t function on their existing budget, then they should just be shut down.
I’d rather that than to be forced to pay for something I never use.
Translation: We can’t manage the money you currently give us. Give us more that will solve it. No need to look at our underlying issues. 🙂
The RTE Player is a perfect analogy of RTE. Spend a fortune on a half arsed piece of shit that never works.
On the other hand there’s surely plentry like me who have been paying the fee for years but have no TV stations. I only stream Netflix and Prime and don’t use RTE player because it never seems to work properly unlike streaming C4 which works perfectly.
RTE should be broken up. Its commercial and public service broadcasting entirely separate entities.
No one in RTE should be on more than 200k a year.
If people want to leave there will be a steady stream of qualified new entrants only to happy to sign 5 year / 200k contracts
And the fucking player is a joke.
Fix that first Dee and shut the fuck up until that is done
It’s unfit for purpose
I can’t believe I’m reading an article where I find myself *agreeing* with Mattie McGrath TD.
We constantly compare our license fee and product in return to the UK & BBC.
What is the license fee situation like on the continent? The BBC is in no way comparable to RTÉ, particularly given its breadth and previous extension into the Commonwealth.
Even with all this financial pressure and alleged rounds of redundancies, the headcount in RTÉ actually increased [1]
> But RTÉ has also increased its headcount of employees to a new level of 1,866, up 35 in a year.
They should be looking at the salaries they pay but another real question just from TV alone is whether they produce enough to justify two channels. My argument is no. While they certainly can make decent stuff when pushed, there’s just so much barrel scraping. I’ve no doubt they could look at Radio as well.
Announcement made just 2 days after the British say the same thing.
Should be a aerial / satellite / set top box license.
I’m also pretty sure that the analogue signal is gone so you have to buy some additional hardware to receive a tv signal, not only a TV.
Slice the top earners wages in half, spend more money on decent productions. And no, the presenters and top earners won’t go anywhere else as they would have nowhere else that would hire them.
I do listen to some Claire Byrne in the morning but Tubridy annoys me and have to turn the radio off before I hear D’Arcys voice as I can’t stand that dull narcissistic man.
RTE are just full of greedy and talentless bastards.
Professional liar talks shite.
So is RTE.
Not a peep out of RTE about the license fee for years and years, then when the BBC changes their policy, RTE is suddenly in a heap over it. Completely expected, the suits there base absolutely everything they do on the BBC. No original thoughts of their own, even when it comes down to the actual running of their organisation.
How long has Dee Forbes been there? 4 year or more?
What other solution has she come up with to reduce the deficit except for increase the license fee?
I know which high earner I would get rid of first.
Dee is on a pension contribution of 68k a year on top of the 250k basic salary received. When your pension is more than the 1.5 times the average wage in Dublin, sweet! If she’s worth it or not is for cleverer minds than mine, envy here Tbh! But those pesky license fee dodgers, shame on you…. Ahem.
Maybe if they showed something worth watching instead of the late late depression session and the rest of the shite they have on 🙄
>”Evasion in 2020 reached a level of 15.2%, ‘No TV’ homes grew to 15.1%”, she said.
What……does she think she mean here? Does she think that people who don’t have TVs are “evading” the license? They aren’t evading it. They’re avoiding it. There *is* a difference. If you don’t have a TV then you don’t need a TV license.
RTE sent me a series of letters telling me to pay up or else they’d send “da boyz” around to sort me out. I sent them a series of polite letters telling them “I don’t have a TV so I don’t need to pay”
Their letters got increasingly-snotty entitled-sounding until eventually I lost the rag and sent them a letter telling them to f*ck-off while they’d legs to carry them.
I haven’t heard a word since.
It should also be noted that Dee Forbes cannot provide any data on gender pay equality. So I think this disproves the theory that equal opportunities at the top guarantees equal opportunities at the middle/bottom. She’s just another high paid CEO eager to keep the gravy train moving. Entitlement abound.
Rte has fuck all I want to see, so why should I pay almost as much a year as I do for Netflix and Disney put together.
I have paid it the last couple of years cos we got a knock on the door once, but i wish I didn’t have to, it’s not worth it
RTE’s problem is RTE. Keep TG4, and grow it.
It is not broken … It shouldn’t even exist.
The license fee system was introduced in a different time, when there was very few channels. Now we have the internet, and hundreds of free view channels by satalite.
RTE should have it’s TV license fee taken away completely and be reduced to a news only channel.
Let the private stations take over. End this ridiculous extra tax on households.
Yeah… so I guess we’ll just have to scrap it?
There’s a program on RTE right now called ‘How to be good with money’, they should practice what the program preaches
I think she meant the ‘RTE Player’ is utterly broken!
Rte broke the system by providing drivel products in the main via lazy bought in programs & have pissed away millions on “stars” like tubridy & darcy who are worth a fraction of their outrageous salaries- and the people who don’t pay this tax are to blame? Wake up Forbes !
They need to split RTE into two companies. One company is “essential” broadcasting (rte news, weather and all of TG4 + a few programs for social issues like politics and dáil proceedings and the essential radio stations. This will continue to get funding from the TV license which should be cut by 50%. The second company is only supported by advertisement / subscriptions and includes everything else currently on RTE including (RTE late late show, RTE sport, RTE drama’s) and they can pay them a salary that is funded via subscriptions and actual ad money generated via their “talents”.
That way, we get a independent broadcaster (no murdocs ) and we can see if RTE talent can pay for itself.
> Deputy McGrath also said he received a ‘phenomenal’ number of complaints about the broadcaster recently.
Where do you submit a complaint? I would like to add to this
In other news, a bear has shit in the woods…
Dee you’re unfit for purpose and so is your entire band of chronically inept talent.
Dump 2fm and come back to us then
Anyone that is paying Lottie Ryan a wage needs to be shut down immediately
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In 2019 it was reported RTÉ’s costs were €339.8 million and €148.5 million of that was related to salaries, thats over 40% of their costs?
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/how-much-money-has-rt%C3%A9-got-and-how-does-it-spend-it-1.4027910
I haven’t paid mine
A regressive tax used to scaffold the incomes of cushioned de facto public sector insiders surely cannot be “broken”. Surely it is working as planned.
You know what’s utterly broken? Having Christmas TV from a state broadcaster receiving public money that amounts to re-runs of shows from over 10 years ago, coupled with ads.
Add to that paying the likes of Tubs and Ray D’Arcy astronomical amounts to host shows that the majority of population, even those who tune in weekly to the late late, would say is shite.
Maybe review your own wage setup and then look at your current programming and at least bring it even close to up to standard (not expecting award winning dramas etc like BBC or Netflix I know RTE can’t compete with them). Then maybe we can talk about how much public money is given and how its distributed.
If RTE can’t function on their existing budget, then they should just be shut down.
I’d rather that than to be forced to pay for something I never use.
Translation: We can’t manage the money you currently give us. Give us more that will solve it. No need to look at our underlying issues. 🙂
The RTE Player is a perfect analogy of RTE. Spend a fortune on a half arsed piece of shit that never works.
On the other hand there’s surely plentry like me who have been paying the fee for years but have no TV stations. I only stream Netflix and Prime and don’t use RTE player because it never seems to work properly unlike streaming C4 which works perfectly.
RTE should be broken up. Its commercial and public service broadcasting entirely separate entities.
No one in RTE should be on more than 200k a year.
If people want to leave there will be a steady stream of qualified new entrants only to happy to sign 5 year / 200k contracts
And the fucking player is a joke.
Fix that first Dee and shut the fuck up until that is done
It’s unfit for purpose
I can’t believe I’m reading an article where I find myself *agreeing* with Mattie McGrath TD.
We constantly compare our license fee and product in return to the UK & BBC.
What is the license fee situation like on the continent? The BBC is in no way comparable to RTÉ, particularly given its breadth and previous extension into the Commonwealth.
Even with all this financial pressure and alleged rounds of redundancies, the headcount in RTÉ actually increased [1]
> But RTÉ has also increased its headcount of employees to a new level of 1,866, up 35 in a year.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/rte-to-seek-licence-fee-reform-as-bbc-plans-two-year-freeze-41254019.html
Like I already said yesterday: FUCK OFF rte.
TG4 does far better television with far less.
They should be looking at the salaries they pay but another real question just from TV alone is whether they produce enough to justify two channels. My argument is no. While they certainly can make decent stuff when pushed, there’s just so much barrel scraping. I’ve no doubt they could look at Radio as well.
Announcement made just 2 days after the British say the same thing.
Should be a aerial / satellite / set top box license.
I’m also pretty sure that the analogue signal is gone so you have to buy some additional hardware to receive a tv signal, not only a TV.
Slice the top earners wages in half, spend more money on decent productions. And no, the presenters and top earners won’t go anywhere else as they would have nowhere else that would hire them.
I do listen to some Claire Byrne in the morning but Tubridy annoys me and have to turn the radio off before I hear D’Arcys voice as I can’t stand that dull narcissistic man.
RTE are just full of greedy and talentless bastards.
Professional liar talks shite.
So is RTE.
Not a peep out of RTE about the license fee for years and years, then when the BBC changes their policy, RTE is suddenly in a heap over it. Completely expected, the suits there base absolutely everything they do on the BBC. No original thoughts of their own, even when it comes down to the actual running of their organisation.
How long has Dee Forbes been there? 4 year or more?
What other solution has she come up with to reduce the deficit except for increase the license fee?
I know which high earner I would get rid of first.
Dee is on a pension contribution of 68k a year on top of the 250k basic salary received. When your pension is more than the 1.5 times the average wage in Dublin, sweet! If she’s worth it or not is for cleverer minds than mine, envy here Tbh! But those pesky license fee dodgers, shame on you…. Ahem.
Maybe if they showed something worth watching instead of the late late depression session and the rest of the shite they have on 🙄
>”Evasion in 2020 reached a level of 15.2%, ‘No TV’ homes grew to 15.1%”, she said.
What……does she think she mean here? Does she think that people who don’t have TVs are “evading” the license? They aren’t evading it. They’re avoiding it. There *is* a difference. If you don’t have a TV then you don’t need a TV license.
RTE sent me a series of letters telling me to pay up or else they’d send “da boyz” around to sort me out. I sent them a series of polite letters telling them “I don’t have a TV so I don’t need to pay”
Their letters got increasingly-snotty entitled-sounding until eventually I lost the rag and sent them a letter telling them to f*ck-off while they’d legs to carry them.
I haven’t heard a word since.
It should also be noted that Dee Forbes cannot provide any data on gender pay equality. So I think this disproves the theory that equal opportunities at the top guarantees equal opportunities at the middle/bottom. She’s just another high paid CEO eager to keep the gravy train moving. Entitlement abound.
Rte has fuck all I want to see, so why should I pay almost as much a year as I do for Netflix and Disney put together.
I have paid it the last couple of years cos we got a knock on the door once, but i wish I didn’t have to, it’s not worth it
RTE’s problem is RTE. Keep TG4, and grow it.
It is not broken … It shouldn’t even exist.
The license fee system was introduced in a different time, when there was very few channels. Now we have the internet, and hundreds of free view channels by satalite.
RTE should have it’s TV license fee taken away completely and be reduced to a news only channel.
Let the private stations take over. End this ridiculous extra tax on households.
Yeah… so I guess we’ll just have to scrap it?
There’s a program on RTE right now called ‘How to be good with money’, they should practice what the program preaches
I think she meant the ‘RTE Player’ is utterly broken!
Rte broke the system by providing drivel products in the main via lazy bought in programs & have pissed away millions on “stars” like tubridy & darcy who are worth a fraction of their outrageous salaries- and the people who don’t pay this tax are to blame? Wake up Forbes !
They need to split RTE into two companies. One company is “essential” broadcasting (rte news, weather and all of TG4 + a few programs for social issues like politics and dáil proceedings and the essential radio stations. This will continue to get funding from the TV license which should be cut by 50%. The second company is only supported by advertisement / subscriptions and includes everything else currently on RTE including (RTE late late show, RTE sport, RTE drama’s) and they can pay them a salary that is funded via subscriptions and actual ad money generated via their “talents”.
That way, we get a independent broadcaster (no murdocs ) and we can see if RTE talent can pay for itself.
> Deputy McGrath also said he received a ‘phenomenal’ number of complaints about the broadcaster recently.
Where do you submit a complaint? I would like to add to this
In other news, a bear has shit in the woods…
Dee you’re unfit for purpose and so is your entire band of chronically inept talent.
Dump 2fm and come back to us then
Anyone that is paying Lottie Ryan a wage needs to be shut down immediately