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THE BROADCASTING AUTHORITY of Ireland (BAI) has rejected a total of 12 complaints made between December and April.
The BAI today released the 12 complaints ruled on by the organisation in May and June. The body, which regulates broadcasting in Ireland, handles and rules on complaints from listeners and viewers.
All but one of the complaints related to RTÉ programming, with people taking issue with programmes including the Late Late Show and Liveline on RTÉ Radio One.
Newstalk’s programme The Hard Shoulder received a single complaint in relation to coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Five complaints, submitted by the same person, took issue with what the complainant called an “unequal proportion of broadcast time” given by various RTÉ programmes to the Catholic Church.
The BAI rejected all five complaints.
Another complaint accused RTÉ’s Prime Time of failing to ask Taoiseach Leo Varadkar “a number of key questions” on an episode broadcast on 21 April 2020.
In rejecting the complaint, the BAI’s Executive Complaints Forum said that “broadcasters have editorial freedom to choose the format that interviews take and the questions which are put to any interviewee”.
“A number of challenging questions were asked during the interview and audiences were given access to a range of views,” the BAI ruled.
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Third time lucky my hole.
Nothing floatable about EirCON.
If the EU imposed installation and customer care standards to Eircom this company would seize to exist in a very short timespan❗️
@antonov, cease,
Not surprised….This company is going down the tubes….customer service is almost non- existent.
Absolutely correct. If there was ever a company I’d like to see wiped off the map it’s this one. They are a pure irritant. My sister called them back in January to have broadband installed. They activated the landline, came out like 2 weeks later to install it, couldn’t install due to some problem, said they put us on the ‘priority list’ to sort the problem and get back to us within another 7-10 business days. Despite multiple calls, haven’t seen or heard from them since.
Your having a laugh!
We paid for it through our taxes initially.
It was then flogged off for privatisation and we rolled in to buy some.
They then dumped us out for a fraction of what we paid when the Banksters got together.
It has limped along as Voda shares worth now nothing.
And now they intend to go to the markets again….
Boycott this money pit.
This will be embarrassing
(BREATH HOLD)………baaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha
Congratulations you have just purchased E25,000 worth of eircom shares you should see a return… And it’s gone.
Was it not Albert Einstein who defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
Caveat emptor.
Is like the Robbie Keane of the telco sector – had earned multiples of its intrinsic value in transfer fees alone.
I think I’ll be staying away …
Worst broadband in the country, awful customer service also. Anybody buying shares in this outfit will lose a fortune.
“Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me fool me a third time….??… well your not going to fool me again”George w Bush
Sell the infrastructure back to the government. Even if we pay through the nose for it , at least in the long term it’ll pay off.
unless your selling copper for scrap. Fibre is were it’s at which eircom are late into the game. You’d be better starting from nothing then pay through the nose for eircom.
The company should be split in two… Eirgrid should be made managers of the cables and poles while the call service should be sold off.
Catch me once, shame on you. Catch me twice, shame on me. Catch me a third time – someone is really out to take the p1ss.
They need to just cease to exist at this stage!!
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