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

If Toy Show The Musical bombs, I can't wait to hear Tubs talk about it.

When it bombs.

Poor auld Forbesy - She's going to have to release the top 10 ten earner figs for 2020 soon, right in the middle of a massive CoL crisis and today's JNLR figs. The optics will be appalling. It's nearly 2 years since she released the 2019 figs (in Jan 2021 iirc) She probably thought about releasing the figs on the 24th of Feb this year but was advised against it.

I've mentioned the three card trick a few times now - it's basically a slight of hand that she's doing which involves making the contractors take more holidays while filling in with replacement contractors that cost almost as much. Total production costs for the show (that we pay for) remain the same but the heavy hitters look like they took a cut in fee rates.

I posted the below in the Darcy thread a few months ago re another theory I had, so just copied and pasted here:

The other version of the 'Three card trick' is the 'Three cups trick' - Dee prefers the 'Three cups trick' variation, the only problem with that is she learned everything she knows about it from this guy :-

Couldn't embed that gif for some reason

Anyway, the freeloading bullsh!tter is just counting down the days til she can gtfo of the place and run off with the €2.5m and the big pension she got for doing fa for 7 years.

EDIT: Jaysus, she'd never try to get to the end of her freeloading stint without releasing the figs would she?

In fairness many of the reports were paid for by the Government.

The problem with Hugh Linehan's article is that the fails to examine the problems in RTÉ over the last 15 years and fails to point out that over the last 5 or so years RTÉ has had a variety of income returned to them from "TG4 portion of the licence fee" to "the removal of the NSO from RTÉ".

Hugh Linehan and many seem to forget that in season 13 of the series RTÉ was given the go ahead to move the NSO over the NCH and that in season 12 and 13 they had had discussions of this move with their counterparts in the NCH. And that for all their crying during season 14 about their income they failed to move the NSO over to the NCH, which didn't happen until season 15 meaning they lost 7m or so in the delayed process.

It puts RTÉ as a beacon of light in how it and media is run in the country. It fails to point out the mismanagement of the services over the last decade and a half.

It's funny (my previous pseudonym here on boards.ie) possible quote the following from a letter I wrote as I got mad as hell in a Peter Finch like moment of my own which said: -

But sure Moya is the elite and she got a response from the Taoiseach. She now exits RTÉ after 7 years, during those seven years she agree: -

1. To cut funding to children's programming
2. To cut funding to drama and comedy
3. To buy in an over priced star of a competitor
4. To continue to fund 2FM through the lience fee
5. To fail to cut funding to 2FM
6. To axe DAB transmissions
7. To fail to axe imported programming costs
8. To cut news bulletins from RTÉ ONE in the morning and 2fm in the Evening, and drop news from RTÉ2
9. To make no reforms to pay
10. To make no structural reforms in RTÉ

From what I've gathered, and this is coming from someone who hasn't watched the LLS Toy show in over a decade, there's no longer any actual toys or games being shown on the show. I know that was a problem because of Covid, but afterwards... instead, Ryan did what he always does- milk the misery, instead.

When did the 'Toy' show become the 'Tears' show? You see so many people on twitter talking about it, and being all like 'crying at my desk'... it's just sheer misery. He brings on some child who's spent Christmas in Hospital, or has a very rare disease that means they're allergic to toys, and suddenly Tubridy is making the viewers bawl.. then reminding folks to donate to a fundraiser... often by signing up with an app that's kinda dodgy to donate. Then proclaiming the viewership 'the best ever'... with numbers that are inflated or made up.

Devious manipulation.

Having watched Tubs on the Toy show it has become less about the toys and more about his ego. Songs and acts have become important... but so to have the tragedies of the children, along with at least one very precocious child. Rather than it being The Late Late Toy Show it has consistently over the last decade become The Late Late Toy Man Show.

I'd believe the viewing figures, but it is really all RTÉ have at this point. TLLS has been massively down in terms of audience this season, while Ask Me Anything should never have been renewed (I read the new Head of Entertainment's praise of the show on linkedin and was thinking "how did you ever get to work for the BBC").

I don't think a week has gone by with out Tubs mentioning or RTÉ mentioning the toy show. From Penney's toy show pjs to the money raised for good causes and from the child with the tragic story to the Toy Show The Musical... it is consistent and boring at this point.

The Musical was badly timed when you consider the cost of living, parents will make choices over the next few weeks as to what and what not to get, and I feel an over priced panto will be last on their list, it terrible for all involved, regardless of my curmudgeonly posts I honest hope it does well for their sake.

Nearly I don't think she ever made it to the BBC, she was in a managerial position in Discovery and prior to her time in Discovery she was in Advertising. It's only about money for her, she hasn't a grasp of TV or Radio. Discovery is a completely different proposition.

Daily Mirror exclusive. RTÉ Radio one boss Peter Woods fears he will lose two major stars, Duffy and Tubs to rival stations .

So many inaccuracies in that sentence

Anyone who still thinks the LL toy show is full of toys is delusional.

Yes of course it has some toys, but only a fraction compared to the shows of the past.

My own 3 kids have been saying just how few toys are on annually. And it gets lower with each passing year.

The show exists mainly to further Tubs persona of 'The Toy Man' which he has carefully crafted for himself. To stroke his ego.

Yes rumours circulating online that Duffy will transfer to FM104's Phoneshow for €750k a year and use of a Jag. RTE are deluded if they think Duffy will go anywhere, he has free run of the place and throws strops if anyone tries to challenge him.

That article reads like a joint RTE/NKM collaboration statement pre an imminent 'top 10 paid in RTE' release

I note Mr Woods is not too worried about losing Ray D'Arcy to rival stations

What the hell are they thinking? Joe Duffy is 66. They have had time enough to figure out his replacement.

RTE is just the slot. The demographic of elderly petals who would switch to Joe Duffy would be far outweighed by the younger audience who would flee in their droves. RTE only had 2 real superstars who would take listeners with them - Gay Byrne and Gerry Ryan