Radio presenters' salaries

Jobs OXO

How much does you typical national radio presenter earn? Say like Chris Donohoe on Newstalk or Fergal Darcy on Today FM etc

AnthonyCny

Regional radio station 2 hour afternoon show €390 a week. Just a comparison.

https://www.google.ie/amp/www.thejournal.ie/highland-radio-steven-lynch-constructive-dismissal-2443474-Nov2015/%3Famp%3D1

kneemos

AnthonyCny wrote: »

Regional radio station 2 hour afternoon show €390 a week. Just a comparison.

https://www.google.ie/amp/www.thejournal.ie/highland-radio-steven-lynch-constructive-dismissal-2443474-Nov2015/%3Famp%3D1

That's a reduced rate,plus he was getting ad commission. There's a lot more work involved in talk radio I'd imagine compared to playing some music and talking gibberish. A grand plus for established presenters like Chris Donohoe at a guess.

Jobs OXO

kneemos wrote: »

That's a reduced rate,plus he was getting ad commission. There's a lot more work involved in talk radio I'd imagine compared to playing some music and talking gibberish. A grand plus for established presenters like Chris Donohoe at a guess.

So 60k a year? The way Donohoe can't buy a gaff and lives in a house share show he's not flush I guess

Wireless11

With the exception of national names, pay in radio in ireland is not great hence so many supplement with gigs etc. A couple of years back you were looking at €40k for a main presenter on a Dublin station

kneemos

Wireless11 wrote: »

With the exception of national names, pay in radio in ireland is not great hence so many supplement with gigs etc. A couple of years back you were looking at €40k for a main presenter on a Dublin station

Sounds pretty good. People work for a lot less than that.

Wireless11

kneemos wrote: »

Wireless11 wrote: »

With the exception of national names, pay in radio in ireland is not great hence so many supplement with gigs etc. A couple of years back you were looking at €40k for a main presenter on a Dublin station

Sounds pretty good. People work for a lot less than that.

Agreed but making point that it's not as good as people think . As for casuals which many are , pay is quite poor

constitutionus

well not exclusive to radio but heres what the top boys n girls in the UK are earning at the beeb !

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2017/jul/19/bbc-publishes-salaries-of-highest-earning-stars-live-updates



850k for graham norton !

bit mad . i thought he'd be on WELL more. i mean fecking tubs/darcy is on near the same here. dont think ya can say your getting similar levels of quality.

kneemos

constitutionus wrote: »

well not exclusive to radio but heres what the top boys n girls in the UK are earning at the beeb !

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2017/jul/19/bbc-publishes-salaries-of-highest-earning-stars-live-updates



850k for graham norton !

bit mad . i thought he'd be on WELL more. i mean fecking tubs/darcy is on near the same here. dont think ya can say your getting similar levels of quality.

Nortons TV show is an independent production so that's just for radio presumably. Tubs AFAIK gets four hundred odd for TV and radio.

foxtrot101

RTE's top ten earners 2014(released2016)

Ryan Tubridy: €495,000.
Joe Duffy: €416,893.
Marian Finucane: €295,000.
Sean O'Rourke: €290,096.
Miriam O'Callaghan: €280,445.
Bryan Dobson: €195,816.
George Lee: €179,031.
Richard Crowley: €174,120

ford fiesta

In 2008 pat kenny was paid €951k for late late show on tv and his radio show

Out of pure nosiness, does anyone know what contributors are paid for the likes of the Marian Finucane Show, This Week, Sean O'Rourke, etc?

quintana76

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Out of pure nosiness, does anyone know what contributors are paid for the likes of the Marian Finucane Show, This Week, Sean O'Rourke, etc?

If you do a simple calculaction. Marion F is lucky as ****. Guess why? Well she was lucky enough to be person who was paid at the height of the boom at the moderate sum of 510000 EURO a year,
Bless RTE they know how to look after their own.

Marion F only does less than two hours a day during weekends when she is not on teachers holidays..

Her total potential audience is in Ireland is 4 million.
But if you compare it to the BBC (recently released salaries) she would be on 8 million a year if she had the same proportion of listeners if she was in
Ireland

Oops69

quintana76 wrote: »

If you do a simple calculaction. Marion F is lucky as ****. Guess why? Well she was lucky enough to be person who was paid at the height of the boom at the moderate sum of 510000 EURO a year,
Bless RTE they know how to look after their own.

Marion F only does less than two hours a day during weekends when she is not on teachers holidays..

Her total potential audience is in Ireland is 4 million.
But if you compare it to the BBC (recently released salaries) she would be on 8 million a year if she had the same proportion of listeners if she was in
Ireland

Marion Finucane and Joe Duffy's salaries/ fees / whatever are outrageous , Rte should be sold off and the national broadcasting remit outsourced to a competent provider .

Expunge

I think contributors to shows like Marion F and Sean o Rourke if they appear on the show in studio would get what used to be called an 'on the spot' fee plus the taxi ride to and from Montrose.

It might not be a very significant sum but if you're a print journalist like Pat Leahy or a bearded academic or that annoying Senator who also works in DCU and are in there a lot, it adds up and boosts the old profile.