RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Nothing to Hide for Tubs

This has to stop. This a subtle way of helping to bailout RTE.

Two state agencies spent millions on advertising and sponsoring television shows on RTÉ, and used Noel Kelly’s clients to front promotions.

More detailed scrutiny of the goings on

And on and on it goes.

As others have noted, yes, it's not the talent that brings in the advertising.

If the show was good, if the audience was tuning in, then the advertisers would be banging on the door to advertise in the time slot. But the media landscape has changed so much, there's no guarantee that the audience one 'wants' is the audience one 'gets'.

In times gone by, RTE could ask whatever they wanted for the advertising slots during the LLS. And certain time slots charged more. (I think the last third of the LLS was the most expensive in terms of advertising revenue, at least to those who wished to advertise their product on the LLS. It was usually when the best interview would be on the show, and Gay might go overtime when interviewing them. Audiences would often tune in for the final part, either coming back from the pub, or after putting the kids to bed.)

RTE could ask what they wanted, because they knew they'd get it. And that's not even mentioning the spot prizes, and 'there's one for everyone in the audience'.

When Ryan was at the helm, the spot prize was things like peanut butter.

Spot prizes in Gay Byrne's time would be anything from holidays to hotel getaways. Really expensive stuff.

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Well I don't believe a word of it C--Suite. I think you are completely making up a persona to suit your narrative. Yes I am saying it's all lies. There were quite a number of back-to-back tell tale signs including boasting about your salary/PhD on Boards. I let you off while you were enjoying it but I call nonsense now. Watching too much Succession maybe. Any political connections?

I am not going to lie 😂 Oh don't be such a snowflake Doctor. You could play the mental health card like Ger O'Leary. What political affiliations are those? I have never even noticed you on Boards before and I have no idea who you are. Nor do I care. You can dish it out...but 😉

Even when you pay top money you still seem to get unaccountable monkeys so that pees on your argument. RTE is riddled with incompetence, fiscal mismanagement a gravy train mentality which all needs to come to a shuddering halt.

I also agree the 100k ceiling is too low. However there are better way of making an argument than making up stuff. And I agree that you are the only one being targeted here since this scandal broke and long before from the sounds of things.

Unless I am mistaken, this platform has from way back,via various contributors, been exposing the ridiculous wedges payed to RTE presenters and the spurious arguments given by the ‘management’ to try to justify them.

It seems to me anyway, that RTE management going well back over the years were perfectly content to sit back,let the ‘status quo’ tip along, let one individuall control way too much of presentation staff, and shure dig their snoutsdeep in the taxpayers trough themselves,whilst putting the hand out for more money every year.

Now if that’s ‘management ‘ to you, good luck to you, but it’s certainly not management to me.

Now I’m well aware the presenters wages are minor in the overall picture, but it’s the optics, my friend.

Thats where the rubber meets the road between the consumer and provider and that’s where the dam burst in Montrosia.

Tubridy claims to be an avid reader. Give him a books review show on Lyric FM (which initially was supposed to have been an Arts and Classical stationl until some RTE management types decided to turn it into a retirement home for RTE DJs). Move Marty Whelan to Tubridy's Radio 1 slot where he belongs.

Regards...jmcc

That's the wonder of online forums. People could claim to have various degrees or to be paid large salaries. It is very much like those who display a pirate flag on Twitter. You can be damned sure that none of them ever went "on the account". RTE's problem is that it overpays mediocrities and loses money because it can't compete even when subsidised by the licence fee. The idea, obviously not original, of adding the licence fee to electricity bills doesn't indicate any real understanding of business. RTE is losing money. Giving it more money, without fixing its problems, will cause it to lose more money.

Regards...jmcc

Tubridy seems like one of those people who have bookshelves full of books they have never read. A typical book can have between 200 and 400 pages. The time people have to read can be quite limited so it would take a while to get through a book. It might be easier to get some researcher to provide a synopsis rather than having to read all those books himself. I think that RTE had a late-night Arts programme (John Kelly may have been the presenter) a long time ago and it had writers and reviewers talking about books. Their enthusiasm was obvious. It was quite different to Tubridy's need to be considered intellectual.

Regards...jmcc