Comments on: RTE - A Prime Example Of The Unbiased Media In Action

By: tazus

tazus — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:08:50 +0000

People!! are you living in the 21st century!!?? What’s wrong with you?
you all know very well that the tv license, now days, is another lame excuse, for the government to raise funds from the poor us…yes it made sense in the 1930, 40, 50’s until the 1990… when in this country were just a few people and for a national tv station to run, the people needed to help out( and it made sense ), but now, we are at in the 21st century, battle of the fittest!! hello!! what ever happened with the right to free, uncensored information, the right to access this information freely and at whatever time you want??? we have the right to choose, a freedom of choice, there is not only the national tv station, we have other choices, if the national tv can not manage themselves than good luck and nice knowing you. But don’t ask the people to chip in, when we have so much choice.
tv licensee? a licensee for a TV?? you realize the times we are living now are much different then the time that this law was issued!? is like that law in England where in some particular time of the day, on a particular street in London you could kill a Scott and get away with it. Yeah …That old!!
You do realize that the national tv stations are making their monies from other sides and not the tv license …i.e. commercials…yeah a good example!! if I pay for a a national tv station to survive I expect that I am not going to be cluttered with people that are trying to sell me things that I don’t need.
We should all stop paying this ridiculous tax!!

By: Gamma Goblin

Gamma Goblin — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:58:14 +0000

I just noticed that you can watch TG4 online with a selction of past programming to choose from. Fantastic channel!

By: Bif

Bif — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:46:59 +0000

Yes and I bet they don’t even mind.

By: Gamma Goblin

Gamma Goblin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:45:28 +0000

Oh man dont mention the weather, there’s one presenter they have that when she turns around, the whole of Connaught disappears

By: Bif

Bif — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:41:20 +0000

I think they spend all the licence fee on Pat Kenny, so I suppose they could just get him to do everything.

It’s true. For a fraction of the money, TG4 do everything RTE is supposed to do and they do it better. They even make the weather watchable.

By: Gamma Goblin

Gamma Goblin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:36:21 +0000

Historically, it was ok to blow up the brits! TG4 is the best channel on terrestrial TV in Ireland. They provide more national content that either RTE 1 or 2 and manage to make it feel local. They show decent films too! If only they got rid of that “alien” language some of the programs are presented in

If RTE got rid of the adds, we’d deffinately be getting nothing for our money!

By: Bif

Bif — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:24:07 +0000

We, supposedly, tolerate the ads alongside the license fee because historically our population would never have supported a totally non-commercial station. Whether it would or not now is another question. I would still argue in favour of a public service broadcaster and if you wonder why, just take a look at TV3 or Channel 6. I just happen to believe that TG4 have shown themselves to be a much more creative broadcaster and would be far more capable of filling the role of national broadcaster - they might even be capable of doing it on the license fee alone. RTE are, at this stage, just carrying too much dead weight.

By: Gamma Goblin

Gamma Goblin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:27:39 +0000

You pay money to watch adds, why do we stand for this kind of shit!?

By: Rich..

Rich.. — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:24:09 +0000

Their strategy is all wrong. If they want to increase revenue they should send Pat Kenny door to door to collect the licence fee. I know even if i never saw a television in my life, I for one, would pay good money for him to go away.