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

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  • #9722
    Marcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Marcos


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120768689#Comment_120768689

    Did the winner actually get any money for winning it, or was that just for Claire Byrne?

    When most of us say "social justice" we mean equality under the law opposition to prejudice, discrimination and equal opportunities for all. When Social Justice Activists say "social justice" they mean an emphasis on group identity over the rights of the individual, a rejection of social liberalism, and the assumption that unequal outcomes are always evidence of structural inequalities.

    Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans.



  • #9723
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,145 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    The likes of Claire Byrne , Joe Duffy and Brendan O'connor should be embarrassed publicly reading out their salaries on air.

    Yes it's very honest, but the figures are shocking for what they do.



  • #9724
    coolbeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭coolbeans



    Delete



  • #9725
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1673248130870001664

    I doubt she will



  • #9726
    jippo nolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,615 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120769366#Comment_120769366

    Probably send in a Doctors cert.



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  • #9727
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,553 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120769366#Comment_120769366

    She said she had no knowledge of the deal.

    Anyhoo having been paid handsomely by the public she could at least do the decent thing.



  • #9728
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Jaysus Brendan O’Connor is paid €245,004 a year for his Saturday and Sunday morning radio show from 11am to 1pm.

    So for 4 hours of air time minus ad breaks news and weather breaks he gets roughly €4710 a week.

    Give or take a few euro that's €1180 an hour of air time.


    Morning Joe what the F is up at RTE.



  • #9729
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,976 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120769655#Comment_120769655

    That is astonishing money. They are all on astonishing money for the little that they do.


    Would anyone have a rough idea of what VM or Bauer pay for prime presenting roles? Even ballpark.



  • #9730
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,553 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120769667#Comment_120769667

    Pat was getting four hundred odd at the start,maybe more now with an increased audience.

    No idea what a weekender would get.



  • #9731
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    I wonder what Ray D'Arcy is getting he was poached back from Today FM on big money after he said many times while there that he would never work for RTE again



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  • #9732
    DarkJager21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭DarkJager21


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120769667#Comment_120769667

    It's absolutely insane money to be paying anyone for presenting a TV show or talking on the radio. They don't offer anything unique that anyone off the street couldn't do with a bit of practice. I have a feeling we are only in the departure lounge yet as to where this journey of RTE being absolutely rotten to the core goes.



  • #9733
    mykrodot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭mykrodot


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120769701#Comment_120769701

    Pat Kenny works for Newstalk not RTE. They can pay him whatever they like as it is not public money paid for by our taxes!



  • #9734
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,998 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120769740#Comment_120769740

    We haven’t even been dropped off at the airport yet…. Never mind made it to the departure lounge…



  • #9735
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,976 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120769917#Comment_120769917

    They can indeed, and nobody argued otherwise. The post you quoted was in response to my query about what presenters outside of RTE were paid.



  • #9736
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    RTE must have been really scared of losing Tubridy. Maybe because he was presenting the LLS as well? I don't know. They will have to change their approach and become really transparent with respect to negotiating with these presenters and their agents. In my opinion, if you are a presenter on RTE as it is the official state broadcaster you should be an employee and not a contractor. If you are unhappy with that, run off to Newstalk.

    These people are getting ridiculous money for very little time/work input. RTE are really going to have to address it. They can't keep expecting people to keep forking out the licence fee for this sort of shite.



  • #9737
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,290 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767009#Comment_120767009

    A Tubsidy.



  • #9738
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,077 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120769667#Comment_120769667

    Prendeville on redfm in cork was on 150k when he left 96fm in 2014. I'd imagine he got a good bump jumping to their rival, so 200k could be a good estimate.

    He's pulling in 80k listeners a day county wide, tubs is getting about 300k nationally



  • #9739
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,077 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120768689#Comment_120768689

    It's puts tubridy getting about 250k for the late late show if she's getting 280k for her radio show.



  • #9740
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,256 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Not sure why ppl are surprised about the salaries, theyve been in the public domain for years, and plenty here have been complaining about it, maybe the events of the last week magnified it.

    And the ppl worried about not paying the license, i havent paid for one since 2007. Left Ireland in 2009, came back in 2014, and never got a tv. Got the threatening letters for a few weeks round 2017, emailed them saying, "piss off, i dont have a tv". Never heard from them since, nor had an inspector at the door.

    EDIT: it wasnt an email, it was this form I filled out. Never had a followup to it.

    https://www.tvlicence.ie/home/tv-licence-forms.html



  • #9741
    Cataleya Howling Canoeist
    Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭ Cataleya Howling Canoeist


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120767089#Comment_120767089

    Next license fee will go the exact same way as the water charges. Not a chance people will pay en masse.

    We are pretty docile in this country and let a lot of stuff go but don't like to be so blatently taken for fools.

    RTE will be absolutely fucked from this and it's hard to see them recover for a long long time.



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  • #9742
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,878 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120770701#Comment_120770701

    They release incorrect figures and it looked like they tried to hide those figures. I don't think they did anything wrong financial, but they lied about the payments.

    They could have said that they were all on 100,000 a year TBH, and they could have got away with that for a few years.

    This then brings into question the amounts paid to presenters of independently produced shows and if any of them should have been on the top earners list. Claire Byrne IMO is showing this with her statement.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #9743
    WealthyB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭WealthyB


    Lads, 10 years ago I sold the telly to some lovely lads a few doors down. Got an ex demo Mitsubishi 55" display monitor instead. Hooked a Nvidia Shield up to it. Installed the legal apps (RTE player, TV3 Player, Kodi) and some less legal ones.


    That's a decade of no TV licence and €1600 saved, and the beauty is (for now) it's 100% legal.



  • #9744
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,998 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Dee will not attend tomorrow due to "ill health"


    Former RTÉ director general Dee Forbes will not attend the Oireachtas Media Committee hearings on the RTÉ payments scandal on Wednesday.

    A spokesperson for Ms Forbes said the former media executive had informed the committee that she will not be attending "due to health reasons



  • #9745
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,145 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    A real disservice to people to really have mental health issues.

    Just man up Dee, and say you're not coming, no need to pretend.



  • #9746
    StevenToast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,217 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Dee Forbes is a coward who is unable to stand over her disgraceful actions that she signed off on and is running scared of being exposed.

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • #9747
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    I think it's more than likely that she is holding off and getting more advice from her legal people. Dotting her i's and crossing her t's so to speak. Come on she has a lot of dotting and crossing to do, bless her.



  • #9748
    TagoMago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭TagoMago



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120772976#Comment_120772976

    Then if she ever does get dragged in front of a committee it'll be the ol' pre-prepared statement to read out and "on legal advice, I'm precluded from making any further comments at this hearing.." 😎

    It's crazy, in the UK not even Rupert Murdoch could pull this kinda ****, no bother for the likes of Forbes and John Delaney before her, though



  • #9749
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    So she is refusing to stand before the  Oireachtas due to health reasons and aslo she no longer works for RTE since she resigned.

    However she is still a director of GAA GO which signed a mega deal with RTE when she was DG of RTE.

    The GAA are also a funded heavily by the public so now they need to answer questions on that deal for me and was there secert payments made to get that deal done between RTE and the GAA and since she is was DG of RTE at the time and a director of GAA GO she would have had inside information that may have effected bids from other companies.


    Time to defund the GAA of public money now as well I say.



  • #9750
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,553 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Really bad for RTE if she doesn't show up.

    Makes you wonder what she's hiding.



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  • #9751
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,248 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120773530#Comment_120773530

    Other posters have mentioned she is still a director of GAA GO, which is jointly operated by RTE and the GAA.

    Is she going to resign that also?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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