aka “We’re creating a bullshit excuse for taxing streaming services”
The beauty about doing things in an Irish manner is there is always a flaw to exploit. So I’m not worried about it.
Total. Fucking. Gougers.
Cost of living is insane, but you know what? Let’s tax people who don’t use a TV.
Media inspector: you haven’t paid for your licence.
Me: I don’t have access to rte.
Media inspector: Actually, under the new legislation you don’t need to watch rte, you just need access to the Internet.
Me: What’s the Internet?
Media inspector: You left a comment on a meme in r/ireland 26 minutes ago, clamchower.
An on demand player that doesn’t work.
A small number of presenters on 250k plus a year
Dire homegrown output
Sports coverage becoming worse/losing major events to other broadcasters.
Inflated wages for contract staff (which make up a large number of the staff)
Am I missing anything else that we’re paying for?
My opinion has always been this. Keep RTE news, and sports for gaa coverage (even though they lost most of that) and make anything else like drama output etc pay per view/subscription model.
Fund the news out of the exchequer, €50 a year on the paye of everyone.
What other national broadcaster gets state support, plus ads and still can’t stay afloat?!
A good national broadcaster is required, to give RTE credit primetime gets it right at times, primetime investigates have show light on failures and corruption in Ireland. Seeing the GAA for free is good. On a rare occasion we get brilliant drama production. But there is still overpaid underperforaming presenters. I’m in favour saving and changing how RTE is ran. Don’t forget the TV licence also keeps local radio stations going, which keep the elderly informed of local events.
In other news, under new legeslitation, non-dog owners are now required to hold a dog licence because technically, they have access to dogs.
These cunts don’t seem to register that if they to tax streaming services and I am not using their streaming services it will be completely against anything EU allows.
I will never pay a dime for it no matter how they’re going to peddle it.
Does our department of Finance just spend the budget on health, state pensions and debt ? Where does all this income tax, USC , PRSI, VAT go ?
I don’t watch any RTÉ and televised TV content why should I pay rte to watch Netflix/amazon and Disney? They can shove it up their hole
Madness just wait until Leo brings in the footpath tax
It’s a dying medium. Sky is even losing subscribers. I have the wonderful Freesat+ box (Samsung SMT) I haven’t switched it on in over a year. With a smart TV there’s no need to.
14 yrs. that’s how long I have gotten away w/ not paying.
The Fine Gael party itself should pay for this monstrosity of a propaganda outlet.
In the UK they’re talking about windfall taxes and here we’re figuring out how to maintain a constant bailout system for a failed business.
Let the fucking horse just die already.
I’d pay about about a grand or so to a kickstarter if it could lead to shutting down RTÉ.
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Link to the article?
Link to the article https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/irish-news/who-doesnt-pay-tv-licence-27457481
A screenshot of a tweet of an article of a press release.
Why not just post the [RTE story.](https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/0711/1309666-media-commission/)
aka “We’re creating a bullshit excuse for taxing streaming services”
The beauty about doing things in an Irish manner is there is always a flaw to exploit. So I’m not worried about it.
Total. Fucking. Gougers.
Cost of living is insane, but you know what? Let’s tax people who don’t use a TV.
Media inspector: you haven’t paid for your licence.
Me: I don’t have access to rte.
Media inspector: Actually, under the new legislation you don’t need to watch rte, you just need access to the Internet.
Me: What’s the Internet?
Media inspector: You left a comment on a meme in r/ireland 26 minutes ago, clamchower.
An on demand player that doesn’t work.
A small number of presenters on 250k plus a year
Dire homegrown output
Sports coverage becoming worse/losing major events to other broadcasters.
Inflated wages for contract staff (which make up a large number of the staff)
Am I missing anything else that we’re paying for?
My opinion has always been this. Keep RTE news, and sports for gaa coverage (even though they lost most of that) and make anything else like drama output etc pay per view/subscription model.
Fund the news out of the exchequer, €50 a year on the paye of everyone.
What other national broadcaster gets state support, plus ads and still can’t stay afloat?!
A good national broadcaster is required, to give RTE credit primetime gets it right at times, primetime investigates have show light on failures and corruption in Ireland. Seeing the GAA for free is good. On a rare occasion we get brilliant drama production. But there is still overpaid underperforaming presenters. I’m in favour saving and changing how RTE is ran. Don’t forget the TV licence also keeps local radio stations going, which keep the elderly informed of local events.
In other news, under new legeslitation, non-dog owners are now required to hold a dog licence because technically, they have access to dogs.
These cunts don’t seem to register that if they to tax streaming services and I am not using their streaming services it will be completely against anything EU allows.
I will never pay a dime for it no matter how they’re going to peddle it.
Does our department of Finance just spend the budget on health, state pensions and debt ? Where does all this income tax, USC , PRSI, VAT go ?
I don’t watch any RTÉ and televised TV content why should I pay rte to watch Netflix/amazon and Disney? They can shove it up their hole
Madness just wait until Leo brings in the footpath tax
It’s a dying medium. Sky is even losing subscribers. I have the wonderful Freesat+ box (Samsung SMT) I haven’t switched it on in over a year. With a smart TV there’s no need to.
14 yrs. that’s how long I have gotten away w/ not paying.
The Fine Gael party itself should pay for this monstrosity of a propaganda outlet.
In the UK they’re talking about windfall taxes and here we’re figuring out how to maintain a constant bailout system for a failed business.
Let the fucking horse just die already.
I’d pay about about a grand or so to a kickstarter if it could lead to shutting down RTÉ.