RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Wondered the same myself, he was scathing the morning after the PAC appearance and from then on , he was in Tubridy’s corner 🧐

Its mad to think that one problem has been resolved but that one problem spawned a myriad of other problems for RTE which will take years to sort out (license revenues, board/exec governance failures, dodgy redundancy investigation, required management clearout, reputational damage, further Oireachtas probes, illegal accounting practices, potential legal cases, staff morale issues etc etc).

If you look and sound “slick” “prepared” and “soundbitey”- then you’re probably as far away from sincerity as you can be.

Do lots of people really listen to podcasts though?

I have tried a few, and have yet to find one I kept going back to. Maybe they just aren't for me?

If someone thinks Tub could make a living out of his own podcast, I'd have to disagree.

Yeah I did that life story highlighting* but I didn’t get the 16 thanks you got - ffs 🤪

*in fairness your post is great!

an FOI would be interesting on the Rte radio player regarding numbers of people downloading and streaming individual Rte radio shows “listening back” so to speak…

Yeah, if Tubs wants or is afforded a return it has to come from a broadcaster.

Newstalk could try him out between Lunchtime and Moncreiff, taking 30mins of each show.

VMTV could give him a late night chat show Monday to Thursday after the Tonight Show.

Both would be looking for him into help increase the audience share of their other programmes, if he's unable he'll be gone fairly quickly.

However, I can't see Newstalk doing that but I could be wrong about them, and VMTV just aren't in the business of making TV.

Perhaps move to the UK and find a smaller broadcaster to work with?

I would guess that a sizeable proportion of Tubridys audience have never listened to a podcast.

Big challenge here is that beyond TLLS it’s somewhat un-chartered waters for the presenters:

Byrne essentially retired, then did his Lyric Sunday show and TV projects like Meaning of Life and LLS look back thingy

Kenny ultimately left after putting in the years and time and got a commercial radio deal without fuss and was very happy thanks very much by all accounts (except for his legal actions against neighbours 🤪)

Tubridy? Firstly he’s a lot younger than Byrne and Kenny when they jumped the RTÉ mothership. I reckon he’s going to take a year off, possibly get out of Ireland - maybe Australia even or New Zealand-

I don’t see him sticking around in the short term- he’s definitely hurting - likely because he thought, the public actually believed, what he believed, the public believed (stick with it, the sentence makes sense) - as it happens, the public were just going along with his brand of “meh” because that’s what the public do - just ask The Jam - they’ve predicted all this 40 years ago- the public wants what the public gets

Just looking at the latest update on the Rte 9 O’clock news. Some man who is from independent broadcaster shinawill on it stating people were refusing to pay “Willy nilly” and “nothing was been done about it”. People l know have refused to pay as a token of their anger . It’s not “Willy nilly” also what does he “want done”??? Maybe squads of armed gardai breaking down doors and hauling the non payers off to the cells?? These lndependents and rte have been too long on the gravy train….they see it’s running out of fuel and they don’t like the idea that they may have to get off and walk the rest of the way…tough

What odds from paddy on his offer to return the 150k after being sh@t canned !

In that photo there is a little child on the Toy Show, but you can tell he thinks it's all about him.

"Photograph me, for I am the Toy Man".