Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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More people will miss the RTE Long Wave service than will miss Ryan Tubridy.
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Not has much as the reduction in Salary and NK being barred from negotiations.
I see they still have LW252 on the website, Peter Woods must have missed the memo that the transmitter is long shut down and the mast was blown up a few weeks ago.
Tubridy getting removed should worry other RTE "talent". The fact that the figures for Tubridy's show didn't really change much would point to people listening to whatever is on the radio at a particular time rather than to particular presenters.
Ray still on holidays, judging by the photo...
They should stop naming shows after tallent.
Tubridy has been purged from the schedule:
He would need a production team
As the saying goes 'Friends are friends but business is business'
End of NK’s current “business model”, although he’s a tough business guy and will find another niche in the marketing world.
says it all really
Any broadcaster needs to put aside a taint day fund. Anything can affect the ability to continue the job, voice issues especially that mightn’t stop another person from carrying out a job. Actually if he had been a regular employee of RTE, on much lesser salary, he’d have kept a job there. Famous case, many decades ago newsreader David Timoney had a massive brain haemorrhage when young and almost died, he was left with a lot of brain damage but kept a job in RTE, not reading the news, but as part of the team.
Ohhhhh my
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rtes-kevin-bakhurst-wont-deal-with-noel-kelly-as-stars-set-for-pay-cut/a2004878004.html
RTÉ's Kevin Bakhurst won’t deal with Noel Kelly as stars set for pay cut
Isn't that awful sexist altogether? Sure aren't men just as good as women, why couldn't they host a lovely girls contest as good as any women🤔
But it is Daithi I suppose, he could use a counterpoint......but Kathryn Thomas??? .... I don't think think that's improving any situation!
If this thread goes dormant it is a travesty and shows people were only interested in RT and not the whole story.
RT payment may have got this story starred but its only the entrée to the main course of RTE finances.
It shows some are only interested when there is a big bad they can hold on to and not carry on when it is a much better problem.
In order to do this effectively, I'd say RTE will need to rid themselves of NKM altogether or at the very least establish some sort of "code of conduct" to regulate the talent agencies they deal with.
An unhealthy, asymmetrical relationship was allowed to develop and yet it's only but a symptom of the underlying disease that's slowly killing the sick man of Montrose.
Some bitter pills on the way. Long overdue.
Oh absolutely.
The begging bowl was already out, if I remember correctly before the most recent debacle happened.
One way or the other the taxpayers are on the hook, as usual.
Hopefully though there will be better oversight on spending, and ridiculous over the top salaries that could never have been justified, will become a thing of the past.
Bakhurst said: “I hope for him there is demand because he’s a talented guy – he’s got a mortgage to pay.”
I read that in The Journal.. Did Bakhurst really say that? I didn't hear/ read it anywhere else. Seems a bit personal for Bakhurst to mention that.
Tubridy will never do anything where he has to stand on his own name. Deep down he knows he needs RTE. Mediocrity can excel there, but by himself he is a big nothing. If he is stupid enough to do a podcast by himself, he'll get a few thousand curious listeners for the first episode and his audience will dwindle to nothing after that. He has no appeal and he's only known because he was given cushy gigs on RTE all his life. People watch/listen to RTE out of habit, they don't do it for Tubridy. He won't even do politics because he'll have to get people to vote for him and very few will do that. He's about to get a dose of reality about how "popular" he really is rather than bullshit TAM ratings/JNLR figures. Delighted for him, the smug git. "Be kind" Ryan, and hand back the €150,000 you owe RTE or even better give it to the SVP charity that you promote, urging us to "be kind"! His misery is my joy.
Some folk are revelling in seeing how much Rte are losing in licence revenue, and it is a kick in the teeth for them and perhaps less them know the public is fed up with their ways, but you all know that it's ourselves, the taxpayers, who will have to bail them out when the begging bowl comes out in the autumn.
A very interesting article!
"I am very choosy about who I take on," he adds. "I turn down people all the time if I don't think the fit is right or if I don't think their attitude is right. I don't want to work with people who feel the world owes them a living -- I admire those willing to put the hard graft in."
I don't think Tubridy knows what hard graft is tbh.
I always think that a good presenter makes the job look easy - which it isn't.
Tubridy never made it look easy, imo. Always tense and tapping the desk and reading cue cards. Awful stuff.
I hope the chickens have come home to roost for NK with the departure of Tubridy but I have no doubt he has plenty of money made over the years anyway.
Cheers, thanks for posting that article.
They should take presenter names off the shows anyway, get rid of their ego's a bit.
It will be know as The Nine O'Clock Show!
Some timeline of his meteoric rise to controlling the RTE eh...'talent'
"I like the fact that I can get on the Luas and nobody knows who I am or what I do."
Not anymore buddy
Exactly.
He must have plenty of assets and savings. He has been taking home an enormous salary for many years.
Hopefully his financial advisor is better than his PR advisor...
Daughters are 17 and 23.
Putting this up for posterity. Hope I never see it again. "Fast paced"?
One wierd thing Bakhurst said about Tubridy was that he felt for him as "he is a guy with a family and a mortgage" - I would have doubted Tubridy has a mortgage, unless it was a tax hedge of some kind. He's being reeling in mega bucks for a long time.
Going by past RTE contractors he probably doesn't have a good grasp of planning for rainy days or maybe he's all in on Evergrande - suffice to say when you're used to a lifestyle it's hard to break it when you don't have the same money coming in
Well if that was indeed what happened, it's just laughable that a Semi-State could find itself in such a position.
Imagine if you're running a business and a supplier tried to dictate not only the prices but also tried to get you to fudge your accounts to no-ones benefit but the supplier himself.
Funny to think back now of Kelly's play-acting now during the PAC hearing. Misrepresenting himself and his company as the 'little agency that could'.
I'd say there's been some Jerry Maguire type begging going on in the past few weeks to keep his remaining clients.
How far does he go back as an agent I wonder? He was certainly Gerry Ryans representative for some years before he died.
I guess he had an easy enough job negotiating Gerry Ryan deals as he was untouchable. I guess he saw what they were willing to pay, what he could get away with, who he could bully or not and learned his trade there.
Still astonishing for a purveyor of chocolate to slide into such a field over what I assume is a short number of years.
It's just the start, give the man time.
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