Boycott Tubridy

DublinWriter

In light of his recent decision not to voluntarily take a wage cut due to 'legal reasons' (yeah, right!) and the utter banality of his radio and TV offerings, I've chosen to personally boycott him.

Big deal, I hear you groan, what's that going to achieve?

Forget writing to the DG of RTE. I think we should petition managing director of the sponsor of his radio show (won't say the name) via both snail and email to voice our collective dissatisfaction.

I think the same method of direct action to the principle corporate sponsors of other RTE 'talent', such as G. Ryan, would be effective.

Again I say, forget writing your strongly worded letters of protest to RTE. Don't forget that these are the guys that were happy to write off the multi-million payment owed to them (and ultimately, us) from Beverley Cooper Flynn's failed liable action.

mike65

Harsh, he does have a new woman to feed as well as the kids and pay alimony.

Sam Kade

mike65 wrote: »

Harsh, he does have a new woman to feed as well as the kids and pay alimony.

It must be very hard to feed them and pay for them on a salary of a few hundred thousand a year.

todolist

Who else would pay this mediocre broadcaster,Tubridy 400k a year? How the hell did he negotiate such a deal.He's as dull as dishwasher.

Real FM

Good luck with that one. Cant really see it making much of a dent in the couple of 100k people that listening to him.

mrsdewinter

Sigh. Look, I'm no fan of Tubridy and we all know - including Tubridy, I'll bet - that he's stretched a little charm and intelligence a long way. But RTE has a habit of promoting 'rising stars' to all the plum jobs before over-exposing them and eventually working them to the point where they either go into management or leave for a plum job in PR. (Unless you're Carrie Crowley, that is. Anyone know where she disappeared to?) Honestly, in five years time, we'll be moaning over some woeful new Bright Young Thing and wondering whatever happened to that irreverent rapscallian Tubridy.
Just let nature take its course

Armin_Tamzarian

Tubridy should present his show for free.
He's raking in more than enough moonlighting as the 7Up logo...

I don't like Turbridy but who cares if he takes a wage cut or not?

Seriously, I could'nt care less. Some people appear to be bitter on here.

I'd be more in favour of TD's taking a massive pay cut tbh, as in 30-50%

pigeonbutler

DublinWriter wrote: »

In light of his recent decision not to voluntarily take a wage cut due to 'legal reasons' (yeah, right!)

Given that he's separated from his wife it's very possible that he does have legal obligations to pay a proportion of his salary to her. I'd imagine her solicitors wouldn't be long about challenging his decision if he voluntarily gave away some of his salary and thus decreased payments to her.

Duck's hoop

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Unless you're Carrie Crowley, that is. Anyone know where she disappeared to?

Wasn't she the US correspondant for a while there? Before that turkey Charlie plucked it from her?

I been switching Tubridy off since forever. Can't listen to Herbie Hancock anymore either.

Our man in Havana

Tubridy is not an RTE employee. He is supplied to them under contract via his management company. I would imagine the company has some legally binding contracts with RTE that cannot be renegotiated for some time.

spadder

Good Idea on the Boycott, RTE I see, have given up trying to chase license fee for TV via broadband.

Could someone answer this:
Was tubridy's Father a DG of RTE at one stage?

Iv'e googled RTE etc.

Preset No.3

LIke them or love them, the 'stars' like Gerry Ryan or Ryan Tubridy have one thing in common. They bring in millions every year in advertising revenue to RTE. Just because they, as the public face of RTE are asked to take a 10% paycut and choose not to whats the big problem. Im no fan of a lot of rte staff, but their audiences tell a different story.

What I didnt see was all the RTE middle and upper managers taking the same 10% paycut. Did the DG come out and ay I agree, Im going to cut my salary. I think not!

deadhead13

Senior management are taking a 17% pay cut. RTEs facing a 50million euro shortfall for 2009. Revenue for ryan's and turbidy's show down 35% in the past year. Poll of general public shows 87% in favour of the paycuts. A large portion of whom would be license payers. In the current, or for that matter any, climate their salaries are not justifable.

pfk-0p

i always boycott tubridy, purely because of the fact he's pure ****e

ergo

deadhead13 wrote: »

Senior management are taking a 17% pay cut. RTEs facing a 50million euro shortfall for 2009. Revenue for ryan's and turbidy's show down 35% in the past year. Poll of general public shows 87% in favour of the paycuts. A large portion of whom would be license payers. In the current, or for that matter any, climate their salaries are not justifable.

this is a very good point.

I remember a year or two ago Gerry Ryan coming out and protesting that he brought in x amount of advertising revenue so damn it he was worth his 400k or whatever

now that this revenue is down they can't justify these massive salaries. It is our money at the end of the day (we the license payers)

but I suspect his (Tubs') separation agreement may complicate him being able to voluntarily take a cut.

Which presenters have taken a cut btw?

spoonbadger

I'm sure he is on an exorbitant salary, and perhaps it does seem unreasonable that he doesnt want to take a pay cut. But i sure as hell wont boycott him. He is one of the few good personalities on the RTE payroll, and definitely the most articulate and interesting.

If you want to cut down some boring fooker's salaries then why not go for pat kenny, or gerry ryan, or caroline morahan. At least tubbers has some quality that merits his salary (or a fraction of it at least) in contrast with most of the RTE staff. And compared to ryan/morahan at least he doesnt have an ego the size of the hindenburg.

I'm sure that his management contract does complicate matters, but i still wouldnt' boycott him regardless of the circumstances because i actually *like* his work. If you want boring, banal television/radio with more human-interest/sap than entertainment value, then go for the gerry ryan show and the Late Late.

.....And If you just dont like mr. tubridy because you find him too posh/pretentious (or whatever your little reasons may be), then i hear "ear to the ground" is an excellent alternative :rolleyes:. But dont try to explain your dislike for the man by referring to his salary, when we're surrounded by overpaid assholes in every form of entertainment (....and government, banking, consultantcy etc. in this country ).

deadhead13

Finucane, Kenny, Duffy, Dunphy, Dobson, O'Herlihy, O'Callaghan, Mooney.....basically all the top earners except Ryan and Tubridy.

spoonbadger

deadhead13 wrote: »

Finucane, Kenny, Duffy, Dunphy, Dobson, O'Herlihy, O'Callaghan, Mooney.....basically all the top earners except Ryan and Tubridy.

In fairness though,they aren't bringing in as much as ryan or tubridy, with the exception of kenny and duffy.

Our man in Havana

deadhead13 wrote: »

Finucane, Kenny, Duffy, Dunphy, Dobson, O'Herlihy, O'Callaghan, Mooney.....basically all the top earners except Ryan and Tubridy.

None of them are RTÉ staff except Mooney. They are all self employed contractors. Mooney is RTE staff.

deadhead13

Bond-007 wrote: »

None of them are RTÉ staff except Mooney. They are all self employed contractors. Mooney is RTE staff.

This is a just a way for them to pay less tax.

FlutterinBantam

Purely a tax reduction issue Cap'n.

Someone asked if Tubs father was DG out in RTE.

Not so as far as I know, his grandfather was Todd Andrews Chairman of CIE and father of the Andrews brothers of Fianna fáil

I think I am correct on that little snippet.

there was a Dorothy Tubdridy goin around years ago I'm told who was big into the Kennedys , his mother??

deadhead13

spoonbadger wrote: »

In fairness though,they aren't bringing in as much as ryan or tubridy, with the exception of kenny and duffy.

That logic pretty much debunked here.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055474661

spoonbadger

deadhead13 wrote: »

That logic pretty much debunked here.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055474661

Sorry, i meant they're not bringing in as much viewers as ryan/tubbers .

SaintHubbins

This is the Radio forum - RADIO. Please read the charter, in particular the bit that talks about personal remarks about presenters.

Cole

I usually listen to Radio 1 throughout the morning, including Tubridy.

I don't think that I will have to make a conscious decision to boycott his show, because I'm starting to switch over to anything else between 9-10. He is becoming increasingly difficult to listen to.

Tuned in late this morning and he was chatting about books...again. Then had a couple of media mates in to discuss 'feel good movies' and he goes on about the movie 'It's a Wonderful Life'...again. Awful stuff.

As others have said, it's so banal, almost like listening to the same show over and over.

Big Tone

For a guy who does just one hour a day on radio, 5 hours a week, how can RTE justify paying this guy nearly 400k a year...it would be an hilariously funny joke if it wasn't so serious!

IronMan

I would have to agree with most of the sentiments expressed above. The guy is the Edam cheese of the radio one schedule.

Morning Ireland is an excellent show, I believe Aine Lawlor to be the finest anchor in the business.

Then Tubridy comes on with his book club, selection of movies that he likes, some historical topic seen through a pair of Fianna Fail tinted glasses, a couple of texts, show over. Come back Myles Dungan, all is forgiven!

ManFromAtlantis

ah hes brillo. not as annoying as when he was on breakfast on radio 2fm. but fair play to him. ye knockers ye.

Leaderbored

I think the problem is that just "OK" isn't quite enough to justify a salary of 300k+ a year.

I don't begrudge Tubridy for negotiating a ridiculous salary far outweighing his worth, (I blame Rté for giving it to him when it was clearly too much , and they simply didn't have it) but if he had any common sense or intuition regarding public opinion, he would simply take PR advice & say "Fair enough. 8 hours broadcasting & 30-odd hours research a week probably doesn't really warrant the best part of a half a million Euro per year. Lets have another look."

Instead, he gallantly blamed the fact that he's adamantly refusing to follow the lead of his more "in-touch with the public" colleagues on his needing well over €300K to feed, clothe & educate his two kids.

That must be most comforting to his vast number of listeners who have to do the same and more on €25k a year or less.

Same principle applies to "G" Ryan. Not worth one twentieth of what he believes himself to be.

Big Tone

5 hours of work a week on radio, 1 1/2 hours on TV for nearly 400k, nice work if you can get it and Tubridy is laughing all the way to the state guarnteed-Bank...but maybe not for much longer!

Leaderbored

As you can see from my earlier posts, Im not a fan, but to suggest that he only has a 6 and a half hour work week does him a disservice.

The suggestion that a radio presenter starts work at 2 minutes to the hour and ends work at one minute past the next hour is a fallacy. I would reckon that a 40 to 45 hour week would be more accurate.

However, I acknowledge that research and development is not the same as digging ditches in the rain, and I would not like this injection of reality into the proceedings to be interpreted as any kind of supporting claim to Ryan Tubridy being worth silly thousand Euro a week. He isn't.

None of them are.

heybaby

40 to 45 hours a week to prep and broadcast 6.5 hours of tv and radio is nonsense. Have you listened to his radio show? Minimal prep needed here, considering he probably has a production team and researchers to do the leg work for him. He may have to read a book to review or watch a film once in a while, but for the most part his programme comprises discussions on topical issues with a panel or a one on one interview, again with the aid of a research team his own work load would be greatly reduced. I apply the same formula to his tv programme which I would deem to be Late Late Lite in comparison with Gay Byrnes original, (I dont acknowledge its current incarnation). The tv show would take much of saturday to prepare in terms of dress rehearsal etc etc but prep wise very minimal, I mean they generally just interview one of the coronation street crowd or else one of the other members of RTE staff that they manage to find strolling around the corridors of montrose. Look, I think Tubridy is articulate and an intelligent broadcaster and have absolutely no issue with the guy, as I dont know him, but is he worth 400k of tax payers money as a contractor to RTE?.. Absolutely not. Mind you Mariane Finucane who just works saturday and Sunday mornings earns roughly the same as Tubridy, and few people mention her, Great and all as she is, and I have the utmost respect for her as a broadcaster, she isnt worth the money either. Its a sin to pay these people such crazy salaries out of the public coffers. Between Ryan, Kenny, Tubridy and Finucane we must be forking out 2 million euro a year combined!!!! utterly utterly sinful!! and shame on the listeners and the electorate for accepting this. Iceland? its Zimbabwe they should be comparing Ireland to.

Diabhal Beag

I think its stupid to boycott Tubridy of all people. Why don't ye try to topple Kenny or Ryan. They are getting paid way too much

2fivers

heybaby wrote: »

40 to 45 hours a week to prep and broadcast 6.5 hours of tv and radio is nonsense.

I would assume you're basing this on guesswork and opinion rather than having ever worked in Radio presentation & production?

If I'm wrong about that and you DO in fact have considerable experience in the broadcast arena, I do apologise, but really, speaking from experience, 45 hours of prep and review for 5 separate current affairs / info-tainment radio programmes on live radio and one weekly live television broadcast is quite credible. Probably a little light actually.

Not defending him mind you. Not if he cured flaky scalp and the common cold after winning the Eurovision & the Grand national would he be worth €300,000 a year to me.

bobbbb

ahhh. The begrudgery of the posters of boards.ie knows no bounds.

Boards has to be the number one spot for Irelands new breed of begrudgers.

Its full of them.

Seems to me nobody on boards likes to see anyone do well for themselves or get a decent wage.

Tristram

Must say I really enjoy Pat Kenny's radio show. Don't think that as a show it really compares to what either Ryan or Tubridy do. Kenny = informative and interesting whereas Tubridy/Kenny = chuckle brothers.

An earlier poster listed those who have already accepted a pay cut. Is there a link to a source on that? Thanks to anyone who can provide!

deadhead13

bobbbb wrote: »

ahhh. The begrudgery of the posters of boards.ie knows no bounds.

Boards has to be the number one spot for Irelands new breed of begrudgers.

Its full of them.

Seems to me nobody on boards likes to see anyone do well for themselves or get a decent wage.

Ok justify...

Kenny - 850,000
Ryan - 558,000
Finucane - 455,000
Duffy - 367,000
Tubridy - 346,000
Dunphy - 320,000
Mooney - 246,000
O'Callaghan - 222,000

....when RTE are going to make a 68,000,000 euro net loss this year.

Tristram

68 or 58? Keep hearing different numbers.

2fivers

bobbbb wrote: »

ahhh. The begrudgery of the posters of boards.ie knows no bounds.

Boards has to be the number one spot for Irelands new breed of begrudgers.

Its full of them.

Seems to me nobody on boards likes to see anyone do well for themselves or get a decent wage.

I take exception to the term "new breed of begrudgers".

I've been a begrudger for years.

(although, if you read back on this thread and the similarly themed Gerry Ryan one, the prevailing opinion seems to be that although people may dislike these presenters, they don't begrudge them for taking stupid amounts of money; instead, they blame Rté for offering presenters stupid amounts of money that simply didn't exist in the long term budget.

It's not as if TV3, Newstalk or Today FM would have been in a position to poach them at the same wage, so really, Rté overspent horribly to protect perceived "assets" that they were in no real danger of ever losing at all.

I don't begrudge opportunism. I DO begrudge wastefulness.)

deadhead13

The Independent and the mail have it at 68.

btw Tubridy has agreed to take the 10% cut.

DublinWriter

Tristram wrote: »

Kenny = informative and interesting whereas Tubridy/Kenny = chuckle brothers.

Tubrudy is banally-retentive and 35 going on 55.

Book-clubs, Lounge music, Sinatra, occasional OB field-trips to the bakeries of Ballygoshite and a bizarre speech-impediment no-doubt caused by the triangular nature of his face.

...and that PR flea-circus of a TV show? Don't get me started.

In media terms, he's a complete 'no-no'.

At least Gay Byrne retained Producer status on his shows and instinctively knew what make good Radio and TV.

Tubridy would be lucky, and I do mean lucky, to be pulling in 60K as a link-man/weather reporter on a regional ITV station in the UK.

I never thought RTE had the balls, but one of the nationals today carried a headline about one of the reporters on Morning Ireland doorstepped Tubridy about his salary last Friday, and how all hell-broke loose.

Fair play to Cathal Goan.

FlutterinBantam

DublinWriter wrote: »

Tubrudy is banally-retentive and 35 going on 55.

Book-clubs, Lounge music, Sinatra, occasional OB field-trips to the bakeries of Ballygoshite and a bizarre speech-impediment no-doubt caused by the triangular nature of his face.

...and that PR flea-circus of a TV show? Don't get me started.

In media terms, he's a complete 'no-no'.

At least Gay Byrne retained Producer status on his shows and instinctively knew what make good Radio and TV.

Tubridy would be lucky, and I do mean lucky, to be pulling in 60K as a link-man/weather reporter on a regional ITV station in the UK.

I never thought RTE had the balls, but one of the nationals today carried a headline about one of the reporters on Morning Ireland doorstepped Tubridy about his salary last Friday, and how all hell-broke loose.

Fair play to Cathal Goan.

Fair play to Cathal Goan!!!Isn't he the geezer who oversaw these contracts in the first place??

Ssssssshteady up there DW. This business would never,I say again,never have seen the light of day were it not for the economic situation and the fact that they knowthat a licence fee increase would be laughed out court.
If the situation was not as disasterous as it is,it would be whoip whoip, jack up the auld fee a few Eurons and tell Guilbaud to keep the pheasant coming in.
Don't make any mistake about that.
Nothing other than total meltdown would have caused any stir from that crowd.

Min

Ryan Tubridy took a paycut as the legal matters were sorted and according to RTE he had originally donated a large sum of money to St Vincent de Paul instead of a paycut, so now he has done both.

Gerry Ryan should be boycotted as he is just money obsessed and materialistic. He can't take a paycut as he had too much money to pay out like on his family, his too many holidays/breaks to count on two hands.
I use to listen to him but I got sick of his materialism.

Gerry Ryan is the only one who refuses to take a pay decrease, if RTE go broke he should be the first to go in cost cutting measures and take his TV programs off the air unless he decides to do an operation transformation and take a pay cut and lose some weight himself.

Don't listen to him until he gets the message, he is as bad as those corrupt bankers, too interested in their pay packets and to hell with the business.

ateam

10% is certainly not enough. They're should be at least a 30% cut for the work they do. Tubridy's show is 60 minutes long and sometimes he has only 2 guests, how much preparation does he need? Not a lot is the answer. Rubbish, seriously dock all their wages, they are simply not worth it and they certainly won't leave RTE, they love the limelight.

PS.. What Tubridy does with his money in relation to legal fees or charitable donations is his own business and should not determine the amount of pay he gets.

Dotsie~tmp

I can honestly say when I hear his voice come on the car radio I cant hit the buttons quick enough. Anyone who uses the term Celtic Cubs should be battered.

Brien

I'v been boycotting him for years without even trying

Armin_Tamzarian

Dotsie~tmp wrote: »

I can honestly say when I hear his voice come on the car radio I cant hit the buttons quick enough. Anyone who uses the term Celtic Cubs should be battered.

I once smashed an Alarm Clock Radio when I was woken one morning by him.
In my severly hung-over state the controls proved too complicated so destruction was the only option.

mrsdewinter

2fivers wrote: »

Not if he cured flaky scalp and the common cold after winning the Eurovision & the Grand national would he be worth €300,000 a year to me.

So, so true

JonathanAnon

Dotsie~tmp wrote: »

I can honestly say when I hear his voice come on the car radio I cant hit the buttons quick enough. Anyone who uses the term Celtic Cubs should be battered.

I used to have the "Tubridy Test". See I if you can listen to the pretentious fop for more than five minutes. Usually the mention of his book club was enough for me.