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February 16, 2007
Please sign the RTE -> FTA petition
Brian Greene has setup an online petition with regards to the FTA transmissions of RTE (which I've written about a few times before). Kudos to Brian for keeping after this issue. Please take a few seconds out of your day to sign it. Or visit the new site - www.rte2fta.com - to learn more. Here follows the text of the petition -
To: RTE & Irish Government
We call on the Irish Government, RTE & its Board & Audience Council to make all RTE transmissions free to air.
With particular focus on digital services the licence payer is funding the transmission of RTE signals that are encrypted and not equally available to all citizens of Ireland.
Article 21 (2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states "Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country"We demand all public service broadcasts be Free To Air.
Sincerely,
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Consider my name on that one for sure. I've complained before about RTE, the service and the now proposed increase and expansion of the tv license system. If other stations and countries can provide a similar service, why can't RTE!
Posted by: Ken McGuire | Feb 16, 2007 12:05:45 PM
Free-To-Air RTE on Astra 28.2 degrees!
LETS GET THIS SORTED.
I support this petition.
Posted by: Guy McClure | Mar 13, 2007 2:42:46 PM
rte shoule ensure that everyone can recive a quality tv picture.people pay tv licence,why should they pay greedy sky,to watch free to view channels.do the people of ireland know what they pay sky to encrypt the irish channels....
Posted by: adriandabney | Jun 5, 2008 12:43:36 AM
People!! are you living in the 21st century!!?? What's wrong with you?
you all know very well that the tv license, now days, is another lame excuse, for the government to raise funds from the poor us...yes it made sense in the 1930, 40, 50's until the 1990... when in this country were just a few people and for a national tv station to run, the people needed to help out( and it made sense ), but now, we are at in the 21st century, battle of the fittest!! hello!! what ever happened with the right to free, uncensored information, the right to access this information freely and at whatever time you want??? we have the right to choose, a freedom of choice, there is not only the national tv station, we have other choices, if the national tv can not manage themselves than good luck and nice knowing you. But don't ask the people to chip in, when we have so much choice.
tv licensee? a licensee for a TV?? you realize the times we are living now are much different then the time that this law was issued!? is like that law in England where in some particular time of the day, on a particular street in London you could kill a Scott and get away with it. Yeah ...That old!!
You do realize that the national tv stations are making their monies from other sides and not the tv license ...i.e. commercials...yeah a good example!! if I pay for a a national tv station to survive I expect that I am not going to be cluttered with people that are trying to sell me things that I don't need.
we should all stop paying this ridiculous tax!!
Posted by: tazus | Jul 17, 2008 10:50:36 AM
