European Broadcasting Authority

[bluesball]

Stacky you got there before me. Win,Win for all

 

[Coach and Six]

Neeeilll, first the cost of living and now they're taking me Corinashun Street too!

 

[Fermoylad]

Can't wait. More Baz Ashwamy, livin with Lucy and dancing with the """stars""" for me to not watch.

 

[Al Cohol]

No more EastEnders and Hollyoak's etc?

What is not to like?

Sounds like a good plan to me and more native output.

RTE generally produce shite though.

 

[Stacky]

RTE generally produce shite though.

Soap operas are meant to be "shite".

 

[Drucker]

British channels on permanently in Hotel foyers and pubs should be discouraged.
I’m sick of Sky News with the volume turned down.

 

[Al Cohol]

Soap operas are meant to be "shite".

Doubt if RTE would do any better based on my time watching home produced shite. "Strumpet City" is one of the notable exceptions.

 

[SoundMan]

No more EastEnders and Hollyoak's etc?

What is not to like?

Sounds like a good plan to me and more native output.

What percentage of the EU's population do you reckon have English as their first language now that the UK has left the EU?
I think in broad terms those within the EU who have English as their first language dropped from about 75M in the EU's 450M (16.67%) down to 5M out of 380M (1.32%) thanks to brexit.

That being the case, if the programming changes to reflect those figures you must enjoy a lot of dubbed or subtitled tv to think it a good plan.

 

[The High King]

The EBA has directed that there cannot be more than 30% of broadcasts from outside the European Union.
It puts RTE in a dilemma in that some of the soaps could be axed. It could result in loss of advertising revenue as viewers may opt to watch them on British channels.
Cork born Deee Forbes is very worried about this directive and is likely to look for a deregration on the directive.

By the way is today no link day?

 

[Stacky]

What percentage of the EU's population do you reckon have English as their first language now that the UK has left the EU?
I think in broad terms those within the EU who have English as their first language dropped from about 75M in the EU's 450M (16.67%) down to 5M out of 380M (1.32%) thanks to brexit.

That being the case, if the programming changes to reflect those figures you must enjoy a lot of dubbed or subtitled tv to think it a good plan.

If you are depending on RTE to entertain you on the cold winter evenings, you already have your nursing home picked out.