Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

Tommy Bowe landed more hits on Eamon Ryan on breakfast telly than the RTE news team could, Catriona Perry better suited to Nationwide if that's the best effort at grilling a minister

Ah, it's all guesswork at the mo cos Forbesy is too busy dodging the PAC to release the figures, but my estimate was based on the fact that he was getting 210k in 2018/19 before he took on the 1.0 o'clock news which I presume was a promotion. The pay levels are one thing (they are scandalous) but the quality of these people to me is the problem. Not Dobbo as such, but D'Arcy, Tubs, O hEadhra, Duffy, Brendan O'Connor, Perry etc. Awful people imo.

Keelin Shanley is such a loss on the 6 O'Clock news. She was the one who would hit the politicians with the hard questions, whilst letting them think they were in for a soft interview. Cannot be overstated how much of a loss to RTE she truly was.

The most intelligent person in the room, quite often, but no airs or graces about her.

Took the job seriously, but didn't take herself seriously, even when she was dying. Her loss is felt everytime I switch on the news.

The Late Late Valentine's Day special is over... gotta be grateful that twitter does all the heavy lifting for me, so I don't have to watch it.

More car crash than cringe. Cringe would enjoy someone enjoying it, car crash just lets you know it's another disaster.

Paying a photographer to take pictures of Kathryn Thomas breastfeeding. Yes, that happened.

(Not that I'm anti breastfeeding. Just don't know why the heck you'd take a photo of that and post it on on social media?)

I assume the absolute fee that rte pays to tubridys company remains the same, but could it be considered a pay increase of sorts given that the late late show is now finishes up earlier? I.e same money for less 'work' is a pay increase?

Sure you neither have to watch it or read about it?

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Ant & Dec's Limitless Win will be going head to head with Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway next weekend, you couldn't make it up.

Where one person might say 'it encourages breast feeding' someone else (myself included) would say that it shames women who (a) choose not to have children or (b) shames women who choose not to/ cannot breast feed (for a variety of medical reasons).

Wouldn't surprise me if she is getting paid for her insta feed. IF she is, she should be marking the posts as paid advertising.

Her company makes more than Tubridy gets in a year.

@garrettod @RabbleRouser2k Katherine Tomas will never appear on RTÉ top twenty earners as she is employed by Independent production companies.

In one year she hosted The Voice Of Ireland and Operation Transformation both of these are big ratings winners for RTÉ. I would be surprised if she is getting €10,000 per episode, which bring her to at least 100,000 or OT. This is along with stepping a guest presenter on RTÉ Radio 1.

Imagine the cost of Amanda Bryam on DWTS, and if you are wondering how Jenny Z got her own Radio show... part of the deal for her to replace Amanda Bryam.

I still don't understand how TG4 can implement a player, RTÉ seem to want to reinvent the wheel. I know TG4 Player wouldn't have the numbers that RTÉ have going to the player, but often the issue on the RTÉ player is with not getting passed the ads, I don't think this has anything to do with the number of streams at anyone time. The only issue seems to be bandwidth if you get a player out-of-the-box and rebrand it. They only problem with TG4 site is that it has no login and it doesn't remember where you left of, AFAIK.

God be with the days of Realplayer on the RTÉ website.