Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Tbh the storage fees of 8 grand a year are rather minuscule for what are probably big lumps of sets - sound like what you'd expect for a storage unit of that size, although surely there has to be storage space on the RTE campus?... I mean they regularly handle sets...
The bigger picture however and overall project cost is mind boggling.
If they are paying Tubridy his job should be to mind those sets during the day. No phone no books just RTE radio 1 ...
I wonder are they using the same storage use for another public folly, e-voting machines
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Nobody mentioned anything about being fired in relation to broadcasting? Did they? Performance related are usually bonus based contracts - it would based around standards of performance and hitting figures. I wouldn’t share such a dismissive attitude towards what an audience wants either. RTE is in a position to produce journalistic and political/cultural/arts programming. It’s not trying to make as much money as possible or just entertain - that’s always been very clear. It’s a national broadcaster
It's in the link I provided. It's the 11th video down the chain (all 5hrs & 49 mins)
There was an article in the independent that they want to put anton Savage into that slot, more nepotism. Hopefully they keep on Callan, anton Savage in insufferable on newstalk sitting in for ciaran cuddihy now
Of course he does. He'll ask them to send a list of the questions they want answers to. It will take them a week to send that to him. He will then run that by his solicitor. After another week or so the solicitor will write back asking for clarification on a few things. The politicians will at this stage be away on their holliers. Sometme maybe in September they will get back to the solicitor who may be on his own holidays by then . Factor in Tubs taking a bit of a holiday, a month or so, and there's every chance some of the questions may get answered late November early December. That's about it. If Tubs is interested my fee for that advice is €500( which is around 10% of what some PR chancer would charge)
I wonder what Marty Morrissey makes of it all?
A popular journalist and presenter, gets a bit of fill in work when Ryan is away and is said to be a close friend of incoming DG, Kevin Bakhurst, from his stint here as Director of News.
There'll be winners where there are losers......
If by performance related contracts you mean that they either hit a viewing figure or get fired, absolutely not. It'd be a race to the bottom of absolute trash TV. It'd be the antithesis of public service broadcasting.
The whole thing is such a mess. At the very time when quality, solid, trustworthy PSB broadcasting is probably more important than ever, we have a massive scandal that has done enormous damage.
Obviously there's going to have to be an absolutely profound reform of PSB here. We can't just say lessons have learned and move forward. There needs to be a complete restructure.
The concept of independent, public service broadcasting or at least programme making is hugely useful and plays a big role, but the institution that is RTE may not necessarily be how to continue that.
Even the concept of linear channels with schedules is becoming irrelevant and far more rapidly than many commentators realise. A lot is going to change in the next few years because of rapidly evolving tech.
If we get a reform of PSB right, we could put it on a good track for the next half century. If we get it wrong we will probably be looking back with nostalgia with nothing only platforms totally dominated by media moguls and tech bros.
No. Covid was over caller.
I wonder did Toy Show The Musical also get Covid funding?
Incredible way to do it. Its like someone booby trapped the hundreds of thousands of euros isnt it?
But the kind soul never thought to defuse it by declaring it or donating it.
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There was a time when troll accounts put a bit of subtlety into their posts, this is just downright lazy. 1/10
The Oireachtas hearings will continue until morale improves...
They should continue until all info is in place and then fire people. You can't act like this and your job be retainable. That's what needs to happen here. A message needs to be sent for the health and reputation of RTE. If you receive under the counter payments and loss 2 million, you get fired because the way your behaving and doing your job is not good enough.
I mean how can someone like Ray Darcy be producing those rating figures and still be getting that kind of money. Surely, the next step, is performance related contracts at presenter level?
Question might be answered but any PAC tv coverage today? Thanks.
Ryan is a kind soul who guided us through the pandemic. He didn't deserve to be thrown in front of the bus by the rte board.They stabbed him in the back
It's coming back to me 😁
THE state training agency FAS paid almost €9,000 for a "missing car" which was due to be given away as a raffle prize.
The Toyota Yaris was displayed during its FAS Opportunities Fair in 2000 and large numbers of students and job seekers entered the raffle in the hope of winning it. But it was never given away. FAS confirmed last night that it was unable to track down the car, which cost €8,888 (IR£7,000).
You and I both paid for it. I'll moan all I want about it!
The bill for that musical lands somewhere. The money gets slashed out of other useful budgets and ultimately it lands on all of our door mats.
Can’t say. GDPR 🙄🤣
So you don't like it? then don't watch it
Im sure you like plenty of tv programs I don't like but I certainly don't feel the need to moan about them online. It still is one of the highest rating programs in Ireland every year. Give the people what they want
So is the RTE staffer that returned the car the other day male or female?
Anyone remember the FAS car being reported as missing and never found?
Go to the 'hourly' page and committee room 1. The whole thing is there, just broken up into hours.
It starts at the end of the 41st minute in the 12:50 video.
Timmy Dooley asks about the car in the 39th - 40th minute of the 14:50 video and then they go on a break
It ends in the 17th minute of the 18:50 video
https://www.oireachtas.ie/hourly/
The Late Late Toy Show is just a load of adult nostalgia from what I could see.
People from outside Ireland understandably don't get it. I'm from Ireland and I barely get it. I see people getting hyped up about it and tbh I think it's mostly people who grew up in 'two channel land.'
My main sense of the Late Late is my late granny used to half watch it, and she was born in the mid 1920s, and even she often thought it was terrible drivel and much preferred something gritty over on Channel 4 or Podge and Rodge at its peak.
I see RTE getting stuck in ruts a lot. A 1960s style variety show has had its day. Launching it into a musical seems a bit of a stretch to me and spending that much money on it seems a bit lavish... (to be polite)
But from what I can see there's a bubble of nostalgic hype around certain shows and that's not unusual, but I think we also need to get a bit of perspective. A lot of these bubbles don't extend much beyond Montrose and I would rather see RTE lash funds into public service broadcasting that actually has some purpose.
Things like the lack of regional RTE is absolutely shocking tbh.
They're all fecking at it!
Nah the €25k is still taxable income. Its just a way around a salary cap. E.g. can't have a salary greater than €250k but want to pay them €275k, add in a car allowance of €25k.
My understanding is that the €25k car allowance has absolutely nothing to do with funding the coat of a car, its simply a tax efficient way of giving more money to well paid workers. I know a guy who get the €25k but works permanently from home and anytime he needs to go anywhere including the airport he simply orders a taxi on the company dime. Never looked it up but I'm assuming the €25k must be a revenue max allowance threshold
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