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The Sunday Times have reported last weekend that the Government won't give funding to RTÉ unless significant reforms were made at the broadcaster. Separately; VMTV have written a 4 page letter which was seen by Independent.ie about the type of reforms that RTÉ should be doing to retain it's licence fee funding. It been outlined in the letter that VMTV should take over BBC Studios programmes in The Republic of Ireland along with American shows & films. They also want to RTÉ to go ad free which could signal the government via legislative means to establish a new national broadcasting charge to fund RTÉ services. Is that charge palatable in today's climate among the public?

Knew we'd see some grandstanding as a result of this.   So basically the solution is to not give RTE any government funding and not allow them to air advertising too - so basically have no funding at all.    This should be seen as a governance and largely accounting issue, not about how RTE is funded.