Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Sure, didn’t they arrange her to win “Dancing with the Staff”
Stephen Merchant, surely.
My thoughts on how RTE will spin the Huw Edwards BBC scandal and (laughs out loud) the Hollywood workers strike in their favour. In relation to the BBC the parallels are that there is potential legal ramifications for a publicly funded television organisation regarding one of their top earners and most known presenters. There is an abuse of position in both, with Edwards it was an abuse of power, with Tubridy an abuse of the false image of him as a top earner. Although both cases are completely opposite they are both national broadcasters and the RTE oligarchy will try and spin it out in their favour. Tubridy was caught out trying to get more pay, he forced his employer into a tricky situation. I reckon RTE will spin it as Tubridy = good, let this blow over nothing illegal done as opposed to BBC scandal.
Furthermore, in light of the Hollywood actors and writers strike, they will try and cast themselves in a similar light to the studios while at the same time straddling both sides of the argument and also casting themselves in the same position as the struggling artists where they can’t afford to pay the salaries of high flying stars. This is laughable. Tubridy is like a Lego plastic man walking around with his Pinocchio nose getting longer and longer the more he speaks. He is also, strident, contrived and wooden. The public do t like meanness or executive decision making and are rallying around him. They believe his mind yourselves act and don’t hold him responsible for being a greedy bugger, demanding pay not be cut whilst lying to the public about it.
Hollywood studios operate as privately run enterprises, driven by market forces and profit motives. RTE doesn’t it’s a monopoly and publicly funded. The pursuit of efficiency and profitability is essential for Hollywood studios’ sustainability. In contrast, as a publicly run organization, RTE may face bureaucratic inefficiencies, such as corrupt payments in the case of Forbes, and lack the same profit-driven incentives to maximize productivity and financial success. Moreover, placing a precedence on workers rights and the inability to fire employees it creates a sick industry and organisation where executives can’t/won’t fire top talent and low hanging fruit.
The studios' stance in the strike, aimed at dictating terms and maintaining control, could be seen as a necessary response to protect their interests and maintain a balance between the demands of creative professionals and the industry's sustainability. Cast this is in relation to RTE and the inability to clear out the inefficiencies by firing dead wood employees every cycle. Financial health is hard to grasp for people who don’t have to perform to save their jobs. And who don’t have competition for their jobs in the form of competing organisations. The demands of the striking workers are unrealistic according to Disneys Bob Iger and the maintenance of graded pay to top performers and studio officials is not required to sustain top talent in a private sector industry.
Hollywood studios operate in a highly competitive global market, where financial success is crucial for their survival. If the studios were to concede to the strikers' demands, it could potentially lead to increased production costs and reduced profitability, threatening their economic viability. This is in direct opposition to RTE which is a financial black hole. By sacking the low hanging fruit the studios save another 100,000 jobs by not going bust. On the other hand, RTE's inefficiency and financial mismanagement, as suggested by the scandal involving Ryan Tubridy, may contribute to its loss-making status, highlighting the need for reform.
The RTE scandal involving Tubridy's undeclared payments raises questions about the organization's integrity and transparency. If RTE and Tubridy were to suffer negative consequences, such as loss of reputation or legal ramifications, it would serve as a deterrent and encourage reforms within the organization, ensuring greater accountability and preventing further corruption.
In fairness the above cases couldn’t be further apart from each other in reality but each case is involved with the entertainment industry in each country respectively. I have no doubt the RTE socialists will try to spin it as the same circumstances and in their favour.
Are you saying he is being untruthful?
I dont think there will be immediate hit to the licence fee revenues, as most people renew it annually.
How the hell would he know that about TV license fees? The story is really only 3 weeks old and the recent revelations will anger people even more (including O'Keefe's crazy package). My license is up in September, I'll be sending it to the Minister.
Let's see how that pans out when the next few month's figures come out. There's going to be a lag in reporting, and following the machinations in the last few weeks, mainly in July, we'll probably be waiting until at least the middle of August before even the management accounts are available to Bakhurst and Co - let alone us!!
We were also told at one stage we didn't need a bailout and were going to have a soft landing ...
I agree. But I would say one thing
If I were Lottie I'd be making sure I was put down as a member of staff, and if RTÉ have to do this they should be looking to move her into an office job / research.
This goes for all contractors who could be done away with tomorrow.
I actually quoted some of that poem earlier in the thread. Absolutely spot on.
He had to say that. Imagine he said that license fee revenue had dropped sharply, a lot of people would immediately think, "well if everybody else is stopping payment then I will too".
He would say that of course. Like a bank CEO trying to stave off a run
Bakhurst has said the advertising clients are sticking with RTE, and that the TV licence fee revenue is holding up well.
I agree the line is crossed occasionally by people and its important not to overdo criticism of individuals who haven't done too much wrong.
I'm not going to criticise Lottie Ryan going forward, not that i did too much. She has benefitted from nepotism, but then again so has an awful amount of people in RTE on front and behind the camera and microphone.
In general.
Read between the lines, Kelly threatened Forbes that he’d sue for the breach of contract which would have exposed this dodgy practice with the slush fund, so she arranged with O’Leary to have him paid off via a fraudulent invoice and UK company name to Kelly’s other company account.
I often thought of that poem reading this thread and watching the shenanigans at the two committees! 🤣🤣
Have they here or just in general?
Painfully transparent piece of saccharine sewage. It's amazing to me that that kind of stuff works on so many people.
"The real talent are the hair, makeup, sound people, even the cleaners. They don't deserve anything approaching my salary of course, but they are the real stars at RTE........ cough"
I acknowledged the last bit. And it's absolutely fair to be critical of someone not having the necessary talent, but I'm talking about how personal people get about her. And the way they blame her for RTE's policy.
Very good point.
Even BEFORE this scandal broke the entire nation couldn't make sense of the ridiculously high salaries for presenters. Since these revelations people are even more questioning now.
I don't have any sense that Bakhurst will rigorously examine issues like Tubridy's return to the airwaves; dealing with NKM in the future; and continuing to pay eye-watering fees to, very often, untalented "talent".
Are you say that no "nice" programs are shown after 11pm?
After how many hours of committees ..
Not one single credible answer given by RTE or Tubridy r.e. the Renault Tri-partite agreement
- No mention of €75,000
- No RTE signature
- Signed in April/2023 by Tubridy
- Only a 1 year deal despite 3 €75,000 payments
Don’t forget he is in the NK stable
I think as a public figure Lottie is open to criticism, though I very little of it here, I am just browsing the thread.
criticizing Lottie's lack of presentation skills is fair comment.
criticizing RTÉ for employing Lottie due to who her father was is also fair comment.
Saw this last night and didn't know who that guy was til I later read "Fintan Drury"
What an absolute plank. The dog in the street knows RT was vastly overpaid for his talents for 10 to 15 years by RTE. The idea that he was some kind of Irish Conan O' Brien or Micheal Parkinson, who had to be stuffed with cash and sweetener deals in order to keep his services is the greatest crock of shíte going. Tubs is an RTE lifer. He neither wants or has the ability to leave the state broadcaster because he knows he'd never get a better deal than suckling on the RTE teat until his retirement day.
Drury's idea that "entertainers" are and should be paid multiples of the plebs who work around them sums him up perfectly. I'm sure he still believes bankers and other exhalted members of the upper class deserve vast salaries too, despite the fact it has little to nothing to do with performance or ability.
Don’t forget the security
With thanks to The Phoenix magazine 😊
What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone;
Romantic RTE is dead and gone. It's with O'Leary in the grave...
Did he say that? Vomit inducing.
How can his fans not see thru his fakeness.
I haven't watched the toy show in years but I always thought his treatment of the children was terrible. He has no patience and used the children to get a laugh. It was very distasteful.
Yeah, very disappointing from PK. I'm an avid listener to his show because he's informed, well prepared and never seems to have an agenda beyond getting to the crux of whatever topic. But he is very obviously in Tub's corner here.
I suppose there is another way you could look at it. Pat is notoriously litigious himself and I'm sure were he in Tubridy's shoes he'd be nailing RTE to the wall over failure to honour contracts, reputational damage and whatever else. So he's probably more speaking from his own perspective than purely batting for an old RTE buddy.
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