Eamonn Sweeney: è solo nella torre d’avorio di Rté, dovrebbero smettere di tenere lezioni costrette a vivere nel mondo reale
https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/eamonn-sweeney-its-lonely-in-rtes-ivory-tower-they-should-stop-lecturing-people-forced-to-live-in-the-real-world/a1093517172.html
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>Last week Virgin Media Managing Director Áine Ní Chaoindealbháin revealed they’d been turned down when they asked the Government for €30m to help fund their current affairs operation. Meanwhile, RTÉ will receive €725m over the next three years. The fact that RTÉ, unlike the BBC, benefits from both public funding and advertising places it in an enormously privileged position. For years, it has been paying exorbitant salaries to people who wouldn’t get anything remotely similar elsewhere.It’s a good thing RTÉ hasn’t succeeded in putting Virgin out of business. There are few more interesting stories in Irish sport than the League of Ireland’s renaissance. Virgin came to the rescue of domestic soccer fans. They have done Irish sport some service while operating at a considerable State-imposed disadvantage. We’re told RTÉ must be funded because “we need public service broadcasting”. Tell that to League of Ireland fans.RTÉ has always kow-towed to authority. In plastering up to Croke Park RTÉ Sport merely continues an ignoble tradition. The Donnybrook gravy train is the racket which never stops giving. Its passengers should thank their lucky stars and quit lecturing people forced to live in the real world.RTÉ isn’t worth one cent of an Irish sports fan’s money.
Its a big club, and the Irish taxpayer isnt in it.
I’m starting to think Virgin Media (owned by Liberty Global, annual revenue 3bn+) has it out for Irelands public service broadcaster but it’s just a feeling, I don’t know. I’ll just wait for the Irish Independant (owned by Mediahaus, annual revenue 1bn+) to convince me that Irish taxpayers should give them 30mil to make up for the “state-imposed disadvantage” they are bravely continuing to operate under.
I’m not into sports at all so these type of opinion articles tend to pass me by. It’s a pretty central idea of pubic service broadcasting that topics and activities are given exposure in a way they wouldn’t be covered by a purely for profit, commercial broadcaster. The comparison of RTÉ to the BBC is based on the licence element funding alone. I sometimes think RTÉ would be better compared to Channel 4 in some ways as it uses advertising. But any comparison between RTÉ and a UK TV corporation is difficult. We’re comparing a company of a state with a population of 5 million and company of a state with a population of 68 million (and a state that’s still kind of powerful and very globally significant). I think it’s useful to compare the Big National Station with say TG4 and look at how TG4 caters to both more specialist interests and culturally important activities.