Making an election issue of RTE

Brian Greene is after coming back with a great comment to my post asking why RTE isn't available Free-to-air (FTA) via satellite -

"WE NEED TO MAKE THIS AN ELECTION ISSUE.
We had a 'match of the day' TD before who held balance of power! RTE in the early 1990's wrote about the need not to have one dominant key holder to the crypto, alas they caved in to the mini dish, since then the public service must carry channels IN THE UK have made moves to go FTA and most of them are either FTA or were invested in by $ky. So now we have the really odd situ that BBC is FTA in the UK with 8+ TV and interactive streams (not to mention radio) all free on a Britain & Ireland footprint and RTE is encrypted. Also every ITV region except ireland's TV3 is fta digital satellite.

And then RTE have the wonderful idea to introduce DAB 10 years too late on technology 16 years old and mpeg2 DTT on its way without an owner in sight except Dempsey and his BT tests, when HD mpeg4 is current 2 standard.

Ireland has an opportunity to capitalise on learning from the UK's mistakes as we lag behind about 6 -10 years in tech terms, but all I see is multinational free marketeers repeating the UK mistakes in Ireland with old technology.

Dont press red - SEE RED - change the system from within, I have €153 riding on it every year...

I sometimes feel I'm on the opposite end of the political spectrum from Brian but how could anyone argue with his logic on this issue?