Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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So, just in case, I'm not getting this.
RTE faked sponsor payments, with an advertising credit, in order to provide tax payer's money to their "talent". They just got someone else to sign the cheque. Money was laundered through "sponsors" so "talent" could keep getting tax-payer money. There was never a pay cut, they faked it.
They faked the pay cuts to the tax payer so they could continue to lobby for a greater license fee from the tax payers and funding from government (the tax payer)?
Yes. And they still haven't said what exactly happened even though this was identified in March.
What do we have here then
The argument that RTE is a default listen for most people is spurious, individual presenters and journalists do have a fan base individuals choose who they listen to, for example, I will listen to Andera Gilligan on Newstalk but if its click bate I turn back to RTE. I very rarely listen to Pat Kenny even though he's a very good presenter I dislike his arrogance and his bias, if RTE was a default listen no one would ever listen to Matt Cooper.
So is Tubridy now saying that the agent didn't tell him who was now paying it? It is unbelievable. Truely unbelievable.
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I would never lister/watch Tubridy or Miriam O'C. I detest both. If I watch RTE it's for sport. If I listen to RTE then it's for John Creedon.
The rest is drivel.
I'm sorry now but this is getting a little too serious for an Oireachtas Committee. CAB should be asked to investigate this.
Why only 4 available to RTE? And if that's the case why were gt appointed by the audit committee to do the current investigation?
I don't get what you are on about regarding PR
1st one done. Absolutely no punches being pulled, with Messrs Dunphy & Sheahan calling it as they see it.
Saving the 2nd one for the morning.
The media charge is coming regardless - it's a matter of time. What's up for grabs is how much it will be, how it will be levied and who will get it. It is almost certainly going to be broader than the current situation and print type media will be looking to get a slice of it. It seems it will be based on broadband connections as well.
What's also not certain is will RTE in its current guise still exist. I think we are a single revelation away from a major restructuring of RTE, with the splitting of entertainment away from news and current affairs. If the investigations find more secret payments to others then RTE is toast.
A revamped rte consisting of only news and current affairs fully funded from the license fee is a possibility. A new company for entertainment etc could then be set up and it would need to compete for the balance of license monies which would be open to all comers for public service projects. The unions out in rte might need to be careful with what they wish for.
The current model of funding is unsustainable and it will be replaced. It's a matter of when and what that money will be used for. If mass non license paying is what is needed for implementing total reform, then that's what will need to happen. I don't think the current situation with the size of the top ten salaries is compatible politically with license reform.
Sweet Jesus.
I wouldn't be surprised if he legally changed his name to that.
Ok but that doesn't give him the right to take money that wasn't his own.
Yes you can blame Rte for doing that and giving it to him but he surely knew that if he was caught especially when his salary figure was published publicly he be in big trouble. It just wouldn't sit right for me if that happened and I was in the public domain and not declaring that I was receiving an extra €70,000 a year onto the my normal generous salary that RTE were paying me.
Usually all these things of corruption come out sooner or later. There's no going back now Ryan, you are finished and your character has gone rock bottom.
Shocking
Don't really blame tubridy for this, he named his price and rte met it, his 1st statement was ill advised so the 2nd one went down like a lead balloon. Hope he has a good pension, he's brown bread at rte anyway, career done.
The management at rte sanctioned this, their needs to be a root and branch culture change at rte, or just strip it down and keep the news and current affairs parts.
In the years to come when we are ALL paying the 'media charge ', the days off that storm in a teacup over the TV licence misappropriations may come back to haunt.
RTE income - circa 50% from advertising despite limitations
TV license - also used to part fund commercial station
Head to the G.P. tomorrow and get yourself checked out. Your sarcasm detector is clearly fukked.
My god, you need to get checked out yourself, your head has got too big for your body.
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A quarter of a million a year and all she did was copy and paste Byrne's statement from this morning...
I now keep seeing "I received no additional fees" everywhere - legal speak to cover arses. Lying without lying.
Scandalous the amount of money being paid to these people!
Joe Duffy on over 300K!
I was listening to him today on the radio talking about RT & he appeared
to be more in defense of RT than being critical of him! Eventually turned it off!
Talk about impartial reporting! If these people can find employment in other
fields well leave them go & good luck to them. Bon voyage!!!
Lol. Do you not get that Sorolla was being sarcastic? Then you follow-on with a hand wringing response where you were basically talking to yourself.
I think that poster was to be honest.
What lies do you think O’Callaghan told?
I really don't understand how Tubridy is toast. Maybe at RTE yes, but certainly he will have other options outside. That's not the core issue in this. Seems like complete deflection from extremely poor Corporate Governance.
He is crispy black burnt toast!
In the inital years many RTÉ producers basically left RTÉ to set up production companies.
Presenters and producers companies from the past included
Frontier Films (Blackboard Jungle and a few other since, David Heffernan)
Adare Productions (mainly focuses on TG4 content but was set up by Brian Reddin I think)
David Harvey produced Crimeline for years as an indo producer
Indi Pic is different aka Agtel I don't think it had any RTÉ connection, I think it was university based at one stage
Like It Love It (Andy Ruane and Philip Kampf)
VIP productions (Philip Kampf producers of The Restraurant)
I am sure Coco productions as some connection to RTÉ
Tyrone Productions (Moya Doherty)
I mean the list is endless.
If he's toast at RTE, what do think those options are outside RTE?
I struggle to think who would take him if he's dropped from rte?
PAC meeting recap (in advance)
We cant answer that due to commercial sensitivity
And repeat ad nauseam
Then what PAC should say - fine, you get no more funding from the licence fee, thanks for wasting our time. Hey TG4...
Doesn't she just look like a proper ghoul bag
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