If Tallafornia is one of TV3′s strengths I’d hate to see their weaknesses!!!!!

How many award Ceremonies do we need it’s mostly another outing for the air heads and scobies to get pictures in tabloid mags.

Why is it that RTE can get the license fee and allowed to get revenue also from advertising too. The BBC are also a public broadcaster who cannot advertise. RTE pay the likes of Ryan tubrity more than treble of what USA president gets. Imagine they pay for eastenders and we all know that it’s free to air!

“IFTAs focused on public service broadcasting – and that is not our strength.” – I don’t think broadcasting full stop is TV3s strength. They’ve been coasting along for the past few years with fluff celeb gossip programmes and second rate reality shows – Xpose, FYI, Apprentice, Tallaghfornia, repeats of friends, Come dine with me, Ireland AM etc etc The only things worth watching on it are the Champions league footage and Vin B.

RTE have at least had a stab at original programming with Love/Hate and Raw, both of which have been acclaimed. One TV channel that doesn’t get anywhere near the praise it deserves is TG4. They’ve been the first to break a lot of the big US TV shows like The Wire, Nip.Tuck and True Blood.

Brilliant, fair play to them.
Also, Sinéad if you could, would it be possible to put a picture of the Vincent Browne show or The Apprentice as your main article picture instead of the shot of the Tallifornia cast? VinB and the Apprentice are more representative of TV3 in people’s minds and longer established shows on the station.

broadcast fee? not a good idea in principle because its quite simple whats goin on. this charge is not just to cover broadcasting, its a sneaky attempt at yet another tax! it has nothing to do with broadcasting official lines are “most young people are viewing tv online” rabbittes words not mine. as for rte losing 25M? nope, there just not makin 25M. what next? a tax for havin a wee or a shower? oh ye, that’s comin in water tax’s, a tax for providing heat in your home (if your lucky enough to have a roof over your head ay this rate) oh ye that’s also on the way in carbon tax, oh wait I forgot that’s on top of your household charge, which effectively means even though your house has been bought you will still pay a little rent Every year to the government, sounds like British colonialism times to me. if you want to talk about principle ask rabbitte why he hasn’t asked the internet providers to enforce a levy to cover broadcasting or passed on the responsibility to the providers, oh wait, the government wouldn’t be able to pocket a private companies money, ah now I see, or should I say there you go, no profit for government, no point doing it, and that is the principlr, nothing more nothing less

It’s a shame TV3 won’t be putting the extra money towards subtitling their Irish home produced programmes for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Ireland and only opt to buy in expensive subtitles for trashy UK programmes