RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

HildaOgdenx · 20-08-2023 11:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005194#Comment_121005194

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.

Gen.Zhukov · 20-08-2023 11:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005232#Comment_121005232

Some timeline of his meteoric rise to controlling the RTE eh...'talent'

https://www.independent.ie/life/why-rte-stars-call-noel-kelly-the-godfather/26793708.html

"I like the fact that I can get on the Luas and nobody knows who I am or what I do."

Not anymore buddy

RoTelly · 20-08-2023 11:06PM

It will be know as The Nine O'Clock Show!

podgeandrodge · 20-08-2023 11:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005305#Comment_121005305

They should take presenter names off the shows anyway, get rid of their ego's a bit.

stevejr · 20-08-2023 11:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005294#Comment_121005294

Cheers, thanks for posting that article.

HildaOgdenx · 20-08-2023 11:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005294#Comment_121005294

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.

NIMAN · 20-08-2023 11:59PM

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.

artvanderlay · 21-08-2023 12:01AM

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.

CollyFlower · 21-08-2023 12:08AM

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.

HildaOgdenx · 21-08-2023 12:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005445#Comment_121005445

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.

stevejr · 21-08-2023 01:20AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005497#Comment_121005497

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.

martingriff · 21-08-2023 01:45AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120999903#Comment_120999903

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.

amacca · 21-08-2023 02:01AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121003391#Comment_121003391

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!

glenfieldman · 21-08-2023 04:40AM

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

21-08-2023 05:08AM

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.

21-08-2023 05:21AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005294#Comment_121005294

says it all really

21-08-2023 05:22AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005599#Comment_121005599

End of NK’s current “business model”, although he’s a tough business guy and will find another niche in the marketing world.

Mena Mitty · 21-08-2023 07:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121003491#Comment_121003491

As the saying goes 'Friends are friends but business is business'

21-08-2023 07:29AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005172#Comment_121005172

He would need a production team

jmcc · 21-08-2023 07:38AM

Tubridy has been purged from the schedule:

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/

Regards...jmcc

21-08-2023 07:44AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005673#Comment_121005673

Ray still on holidays, judging by the photo...

They should stop naming shows after tallent.

jmcc · 21-08-2023 07:49AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005680#Comment_121005680

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.

Regards...jmcc

21-08-2023 07:55AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005690#Comment_121005690

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.

jmcc · 21-08-2023 08:05AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005699#Comment_121005699

More people will miss the RTE Long Wave service than will miss Ryan Tubridy.

Regards...jmcc

Brendan Bendar · 21-08-2023 08:08AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005072#Comment_121005072

Francie doesn’t see that that at all….

Take a look at the Drivetime thread over the last few days Colly😂

Beechwoodspark · 21-08-2023 08:49AM

front of the Irish Mail : RTÉ will NOT chase Tubs for the 150 K ...

squonk · 21-08-2023 08:53AM

It occurred to me this morning that it’s maybe quite a dark day for Tubbs today. His name is being wiped from the schedule and somewhere reality must be starting to creep in.

I’ve moved around jobs myself a bit over the years. I e worked in places though where quite a few have been there since they left school or college and are now heading into their 50s never having worked anywhere else. In part envied then for being able to stay at a job they liked for that long. The places I’ve liked always seemed to go to the wall at some stage so I couldn’t stay out I got laid off.

equally right I’ve also felt really short for those people because they are so caught up in tge system sbd culture where they are that it would be very difficult to change being somewhere else. They also don’t have a few recent-ish CVs lying around so if the worst happens they’re starting from scratch. They’ve also not done an interview in years. A post college/school interview is different to one at sn advanced career stage and, even if they weren’t, the whole recruitment pieces would have moved on so much.

Im assuming Tubbs got his start in RTE in a fairly handy way and after that was kind of sponged and shoehorned into plum positions. It does seem that he has Pele in there who looked after him. The smart thing to do would have to have been a company man, rolling with the punches, taking the pay cuts and carrying on. I’m assuming he was staff at one time. I’d have held onto that or, if they wanted me to go contracting for tax purposes, I’d have had a clause that in could jump back at my choosing even if it meant taking a negotiated cut. It looks like another case of you don’t electorates The things you get too easy.

Don maybe today, but at some stage over the next while reality is going to hit home and I’d imagine Tubbs may have some quite dark, soul searching days. I do feel sorry for him and hope he has some good friends and family around to support him because it’s not easy, no matter what you think of him professionally.

21-08-2023 08:56AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005673#Comment_121005673

The 9 O’Clock Show, how imaginative a title. Why not something like “Blow the Cobwebs” which would allude to light/comic/trivia content. No farm though in keeping “talent” names out of shows. Ray F’Arcy’s could be known as “The Afternoon Show”, Claire Byrne could be dine “The Today Show”.

However I’d like John Creedon to keep his name on his show, he’s not got undue notions and has a particular brand of knowledge of music, culture, folk history, and besides he always reads out my mentions 😁

jmcc · 21-08-2023 09:01AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005815#Comment_121005815

The word "Blow" has some unfortunate connotations in RTE. It is slang for cocaine. :) RTE needs fewer branding problems rather than more.

Regards...jmcc

artvanderlay · 21-08-2023 09:07AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121005690#Comment_121005690

People just listen out of habit. You could put Dustin the Turkey on in the Tubridy slot and he'd get the same listenership (probably more). As for D'Arcy, a transition year student would be an adequate replacement for him. Same with all of the fluff presenters on RTE. Joe Duffy is at least fluent in the bollocks that his mental audience want to hear, but he's like Alex Jones for old biddies; hardly something to be proud of.

RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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