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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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭political analyst


    Regarding 7 Days, this profile of the late Bill O'Herlihy indicates the reasons the tribunal found against him.




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


    I knew one of the families allegedly involved in Cabra West, they moved house shortly afterwards.



  • Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭ Ernesto Rhythmic Stadium


    If the Irish Mail on Sunday is to be believed, the government plans to take the axe to RTE. Would definitely agree with selling off 2FM. Playing pop music is not a public service obligation.

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


    Ryan Tubridy to be remembered forever as the man who brought down the nations public broadcaster.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,549 ✭✭✭✭kneemos




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Just like his Grand father, Todd Andrews, had planned, all those many many years ago...

    Tubridy completed his grandfather's mission...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,724 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    €176k is still too much, unless they base that on an average 39 hour working week and they then pay the actual hours worked. Even then, still too much for what is, in essence, a simple job that is done mainly by a background team.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Emblematic


    If they are talking about salary limits it means they are not really looking for substantial reform. Instead, impose a salary limit for a few years, then when the story has died down, quietly remove the limit.

    Same thing happened in the banking sector. Limits on pay for top executives after the banking crisis when people were angry at the banks. Then relaxed in order to attract and retain top staff.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,364 ✭✭✭Damien360


    It's nonsense talk. Employment rights would prevent reducing salaries of permanent staff at that level. Now reducing contractors pay is a whole different game.

    So begs a question, what permanent staff are paid above €176k. Is their salary a competitive salary based on the current market. Even then, if it was way over, you would have to pay them off and either rehire on a new contract or hire someone else at the lower price.

    Have a read of the whistle blower account and back in 2017, cameramen were taking €100k which may be fine but their helpers were also on the same when other stations had trainees doing that stuff. That's the waste. Even the stage hands moving stuff around were on €100k. Expensive movers !

    Wage limit means little in terms of savings, the place needs a clearout and a complete overhaul of practice.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,997 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    And you’d probably find that a lot of those camera assistants and movers/stagers would be on standard enough salaries, but the perks of having to do your job outside of the normal 9-5 routine of most people would be pushing them into and beyond the €100k territory…

    didn’t that secret producer allude to massive ‘benefits’ through ‘out of hours’ bonuses and working odd shift patterns…

    Then also about the fact that for a certain (large) number of hours during the day, virtually nothing could get done because all the various teams needed to actually do something would all take their breaks at different times.. mad stuff all together!!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    I was in the middle of drafting a post in t'other thread and it was along those lines

    as it stands now - mental money when extrapolated out to someone on those hourly rates to a full 40 hr per week x 52 pa

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    Now divide 176k x 52 = 3384 p/w divided x 40 hrs = 84.60 p/h - They won't like that one bit

    Correct me if I'm wrong there, just in from scoopage



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,830 ✭✭✭jmcc


    His grandfather (Andrews.) wrecked the Irish railways system.

    Regards...jmcc

    Regards…jmcc



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,997 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy




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


    It is so strange: -

    1. Why is she on contract is she really earning that much money to be put on contract?
    2. What benefit is she to RTÉ or 2FM?
    3. Toyota need to talk to their marketing team.


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

    Yesterday



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


    Todd ruined the railways—Ryan ruined the airwaves!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,935 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    4. Who paid for these 1st class flights that she is comparing the car to?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭ZookeeperDub



    They will tell you an hour on camera/radio is hours in prep work



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


    What ever happens at RTE from the fallout of this debacle is one thing but at some point, Tubridy will return to his RTE Radio 1 show and will probably commence his return with a very carefully prepared and crafted statement. He will probably tell his listeners that he would like to put all of this behind him and move on. Initial ratings will be through the roof, which will satisfy RTE. His loyal listeners will tell him that "it's great to hear you back on the radio again Ryan" He will then subtly elevate his levels of smugness as shifting through gears in a car. Going forward he will choose his views and battles very carefully as there will be always someone ready to hit him where it hurts but in a year or two all of this will be old history.

    I hope I've got this all wrong.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,948 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Sums up how underworked and overpaid Ms Ryan is when she has time to be doing nixers in her employers carpark, presumably on company time 🙄



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


    Lottie helping herself to use the RTE campus car park as her personal film studio for her brand deals.

    Jesus wept. I stayed in the Ice house Ballina for 2 nights and Lottie was in for an Influenza freebie so the camera was constantly out and the bloke was in tow with the buggy. She looks like tough work.



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


    A lot of folks are calling out for the sale of 2FM. This is another reason as to why that suggestion is warranted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭Viscount Aggro


    The longer this crisis drags on, the greater the damage being done.

    There will be people not renewing the TV licence, not wholesale, but enough to hurt RTE revenues.

    I dont watch RTE anymore, because of one person... red haired female, Irish speaker. Please tell me shes not on 100K +.



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


    What would they get for it, if anything they need to reduce costs at 2FM they've continued to funded over the last 12 years even though its not money making, it was always susposed to be cost neutral and maybe even return some money to RTÉ for other content across TV and Radio.

    I'd say she is. I'd say if you name any presenter you are prob talking between 100,000 to 140,000. She was on the Afternoon Show AFAIR and I am guessing she was well paid for that and now on nationwide also, she's a staffer.

    I'd not be surprised if the presenters of the parttime daytime show Today are each on between 100,000 and 140,000, 2 of them are part time in a part time job!


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

    Yesterday



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


    I point this out before in another thread in Radio I think : -

    1. Last year 3 2fm presenters were axed from there shows
    2. One was able for the last year to set up a podcast and eventually got a column in one of the newspapers
    3. Another was able to head of to Oz for a few month before returning to Ireland for some event he was hosting, he returned to Oz and I think he's since landed a role on a part-time pride radio station in Sydney
    4. While another moved to London, with no job, but has since got a few gigs over their
    5. One left in a huff, and complained about treatment, the other two said they were on to better things
    6. No offence to the 3 but ... are they're many 30 somethings / 40 somethings can afford to take such time out to recreate their careers?


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

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,549 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    He's a liability advertising wise. He may get stoned to death if he returns after causing possible pay cuts,redundancies ,sell offs etc. The unions might well stage a walkout as he walks in.

    In short,not a snowballs chance in July of him ever stepping foot in the place.



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


    This is more of a response as to what they would get for 2FM. In my view they could make 2FM work by radically changing the stations format. RTE are obliged to deliver a CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio) type format for 2FM, they cannot simply flip the format to a Classic Hits type format as in RTE Gold. However, they could change the type of CHR programming presentation that they are currently running with, as this type of presentation is being replicated on numerous CHR stations across the country. They need to think outside the box and do something different.

    In the mid to late 80s, the Dublin radio based super pirates implemented an aggressive form of CHR that was not personality driven and which basically took out 2FM in the Dublin area during this period. For the audience that 2FM is targeting it was extremely successful.

    In my view 2FM need to get away from personality driven programming and aggressively target its potential audience. Of course with almost anything, some would hate this and some would not, but I do think it would be successful and would dramatically reduce running costs.



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


    That's good because the left want to remove advertising from RTÉ, they believe that RTÉ corruption lies just at that point.

    RTÉ is slowing going to die in a pool of strictly boring programming that no one wants to watch, but will be paid for from taxes.


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

    Yesterday



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


    I am not sure that " RTE are obliged to deliver a CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio) type format for 2FM, they cannot simply flip the format to a Classic Hits type format as in RTE Gold" is this in the broadcasting act 2009?


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

    Yesterday



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,446 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    RTÉ is slowing going to die in a pool of strictly boring programming that no one wants to watch, but will be paid for from taxes.


    Isn't that basically what TG4 is, and nobody seems to mind...



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