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BROADCASTER TV3 SAYS that reports that it is looking to lay off its entire workforce are inaccurate.
Reports in today’s newspapers suggest that all staff have been offered voluntary redundancy, with reports saying that it is a sign that the company is in trouble.
However, a spokesperson for TV3 told TheJournal.ie that the company offers staff voluntary redundancy every year in order to ensure flexibility and avoid the company becoming overstaffed.
The spokesperson added that there are only two departments who are being offered the deal and indications are that less than 10 people will be let go.
Every year TV3 runs limited VL programmes to get turnover in areas where we want some flexibility to move people.
“This is HR best practice.
“In this instance the opportunity to apply for VL is opened to two departments and no one has yet been accepted. We expect a very small number of people to get a VL package”.
TV3 has come under pressure with the imminent arrival of UTV to Irish shores, taking a host of TV3′s flagship shows.
The announcement that Sky had picked up a GAA package previously held by TV3 increased speculation around the station’s future.
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Hopefully it won’t mean the end of Expose….
Real life problems solved every evening in 30 mins…
@Dermot,
I laughed…. thank you!
One of Republic of Telly’s best ever skits was the one they did of Expose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8MdbKf_h7w&list=PLVUstwowEuzAoimqwgQ0nGwpi6tjHPkEs&feature=share&index=7
apparently they are going to rename the station Wayne’s World and it will operate from Martin King’s basement. Nobody will notice the change.
While RTE still pay their staff millions, paid for by us. There should be a level playing field where TV3 get some of the license fee that we are forced to pay.
no, get rid of the licence fee , its theft for the benefit of luvvies and insiders. Why should I be forced to consume TV with this cost.
RTE’s funding by taxpayers, was a breach of unfair practice and breach of EU Laws. I would’ve thought, they have an unfair advantage over other privately operated companies and should be challenged in court!
I know someone who works for rte and they all don’t get paid millions!
I also know someone who works for RTE and he definitely doesn’t get paid millions. That said it doesn’t change my opinion on RTE as an Organization.
In the UK only BBC gets the licence fee but can’t show ads because of this. Here RTE do both. TV3 are able to survive on just ads so RTE should do the same or the licences money should be given to TV3 also.
I agree with you well said
I agree…
Agree!
But I bet they have nice pensions when they leave…
@family guy
In the UK, BBC can afford to survive on the licence fee because the population is much bigger. In Ireland RTE have a smaller amount of people paying the licence fee, and there is mass evasion, so they have to advertise to make up the difference
@Stephen Murphy
“RTE’s funding by taxpayers, was a breach of unfair practice and breach of EU Laws.”
Actually, it’s not in breach of EU law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_News_%28TV_channel%29#History
“Sky News objected to the breaking of its monopoly, complaining about the costs associated with running a channel that only a minority could view from the licence fee. Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 (which, as a licence-fee funded channel was made available to such operators for free) in preference to the commercial Sky News. However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law. The Commission ruled that the licence fee should be considered state aid but that such aid was justified due to the public service remit of the BBC and that it did not exceed actual costs.”
If TV3 are going to survive they need a radical rethink on their lowest common denominator trash tv strategy- along with a rebrand and name change. If they raised their IQ a few notches like with VinB they might actually be worth watching before 11pm…
Vincent Browne raises the IQ? Ha! That’s the first time he had been accused of that….
The only reason I watch Vincent Browne is to see people squirming while being berated by an angry old man. Great TV. Did you ever notice it’s almost always the person who is sitting closest to him that gets it the worst!
That’s just because his hearing aid can’t reach beyond them ;)
Come on, the VinB programme and the presenters on it is a great break from the baby food style of presenting we’ve been fed on RTE for donkey’s years.
Considering the money RTE gets from the license fee plus all the advertising they carry and sponsorships its quite incredible how low their standard of programming is. They are on a track for wanting numbers to feed advertising stats when they should be on a remit for quality. If TV3 demonstrated an aptitude for quality then there is no way RTE should be allowed to grab all the public money for producing trash.
TV3 is effectively a rebeamer of mass produced ITV dross. Popcorn television.
Corrie is a notable exception, and Vinnie B, and his chaotic approach to current affairs, although the blue screen behind him tends to induce a headache after ten minutes or so.
Are you sure it’s the blue screen that causes the headache and not the man himself?
There is no doubt that the acerbic tones of Mr Browne can indeed be somewhat wayward though in the seemingly chaotic impartment of his delivery are some sagacious and perspicacious soundings.
My fear a Amphroai is for the denouement of your ratiocination – with such a smorgasbord of cultural and harmonious stimulants to hand you have elected to direct your prodigious mental aptitude into the sulcation of the masses. I’m sure that the pastoral discourse of ‘Norris’ and ‘Tracy Barlow’ are above reproach but please tell me there is a mere sojourn at twilight for the dulcet intonations of Keats, Yeats or Joyce? If not sir i fear for your mental predilection.
I will miss the reruns of Irelands Wildest Weather. Joke of a station.
HR best practice me hoop. How about letting HR go. HR is the biggest waste of space in any industry.
It has too many ads,if I want to watch anything on tv3 I just tape it to watch later.
Tape? Cool… Old school!
@ Tara wow taping things, do you have a video……you must be the envy of all your hipster friends!
@ Tara spot on I used to enjoy the morning show now I can’t watch it! Add every couple of minutes! Very annoying!
Force of habit Jason… :)
Watch out….. extended add breaks?
There are strict rules on how long a TV station can show adverts for. They all seem to show the maximum amount allowed already.
TV3 is muck ..The Breakfast Programme with Mark Cagney Aidan Cooney and your wan ..Terrible shite to start the day …Jesus when that’s over we have fu—-g Midday with Elaine CrOWley sitting around with 3 or 4 other c—-s talking more shite ..Close this crap down once and for all .
You’re very well informed for someone who doesn’t profess to watch televisual garbage.
Very well informed …Most other peoples opinions are similar to mine …Ive seen these programmes thats how i have an opinion …How would you know if say a film is shite or a new book is shite You have to look at the film or read the book .
I think TV3 are finished. They’re going to lose Corrie to UTV Ireland very soon, GAA going as well and old reliables like the x-factor are becoming stale and people are losing interest in it. If Vincent Browne is the highlight (aired on the ‘graveyard’ slot) then TV3′s demise will
be sooner rather than later. This is what happens when you’re content to run others channels productions and staff lack any innovation whatsoever. Good riddance!
I try my best NOT to watch TV3 , it’s so bad
I can’t understand why TV3 have four presenters talking about the same thing each morning, trying to talk over each other and all laughing at the slightest remark made! Surely there’s only the need for the one presenter! Get rid of three and they’re quids in! The station that is!
Spot on with your comments regards Breakfast Show ..4 muppets talking crap ..Got to say Niall I’d get rid of the lot of them Turns me right off my strangled egg
Won’t miss it if it goes under. Might actually be a good day for Media and Journalism in general if this rag of a tv station goes bust.
The only use I can see for TV3 is to use it in media eduction as how to not make television. It is so bad at times you’d think it was a giant spoof. Although they unveiled their hi-tec studio last year, it still looks like American community television.
How is it legally just to have RTE subsidised and TV3 not? This has got to ne brought to the EU courts. RTE give the government of the day free PR as they pay the wages.
@Mindfulirish
“How is it legally just to have RTE subsidised and TV3 not? This has got to ne brought to the EU courts.”
In September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that public funding of the BBC News Channel was unfair and illegal under EU law. The Commission ruled that the licence fee should be considered state aid but that such aid was justified due to the public service remit of the BBC and that it did not exceed actual costs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_News_%28TV_channel%29#History
I’d be pretty certain that Tv3 will be consigned to history within the next 3-4 years . The arrival of UTV Ireland and the loss of GAA rights are clear indicators of it’s impending demise. All that will be left will be Exposé, Midday, Martin King & VinB. Awful station.
It’s a sign of the times everything going on line and terrestrial TV is going to go the same way as newspaper
Be careful what you wish for. RTE has its faults and is VERY pro trade union but I am not sure I’d want Murdoch or O’Brien determining editorial ethos anymore than they already do (print & broadcast).
I don’t know enough about UTV’s ownership.
Be careful what you wish for.
“imminent arrival of UTV to Irish shores”
Wouldn’t the M1 be a quicker route?
A much better station than RTE, at least they are not pro kenny and his cronies
@Straighttalker
TV3′s news coverage is a joke. It doesn’t even have a summary on Christmas Day.
Repeats repeated repeatedly. Its that bad. Now there’s talk of a soap being produced. Probably make Fair City look like Dallas.
The wont have sport to cover sky wil handle that shame gaa
Ah, the old GAA bashing, Maybe if TV3 didn’t fork out for a ” foreign sport” ie: The Champions League they could have afforded to pay that bit more for GAA rights and matched or beaten SKYs bid…..
The GAA knew exactly what they were doing going with Sky. TV 3 may not even exist in three years time.
Not only was the standard of programming on TV3 bad enough they started 3e with the worst load of tripe I have ever watched! Everything on TV3 from sports coverage to current affairs to the movies they show were sub standard in the 90s never mind now. Also the dull echo that hangs around with all there live studio broadcasts makes them seem very cheap, some may argue that there broke but I would say they are punching above their weight!
What is “VL”?
Doesn’t “redundancy” have a meaning in employment law – it means the job no longer exists. You can’t offer someone redundancy, then fill the position that’s been vacated with someone else on lower wages. Are TV3 claiming repayment of some of the redundancy packages from the state?
Interesting that the picture accompanying this article has the words “make.believe” in the centre of it. I wonder if the “stars” of TV3 are self-employed contractors like the ones who work for RTE – If they are, then they are not technically employed by TV3, and cannot be made redundant by them.
I love it utv imminent arrival to Irish shores hahahahahahaahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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