RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

yagan · 27-08-2023 02:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121033908#Comment_121033908

Rt doesn't have a brand.

My one bit of sympathy I have for him as a human is that he is a product of an unsustainable institution.

When radio and tv were our only windows to the world his style of gibberish wouldn't have got any of the prime spots, he probably would never have gotten a show with his lack of awareness.

But those days passed and tv/radio remained the background noise for those who hadn't gone online, and it's this passive audience that RT was let loose on.

His ego is as unsustainable as rtes budget.

Beechwoodspark · 27-08-2023 02:58PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121033244#Comment_121033244

Also - if the Sunday indo are planning on “sponsoring” the podcast, it will seriously take the pressure off RT actually, you know, attracting subscribers...

NIMAN · 27-08-2023 03:38PM

Any advertiser would be crazy to support a podcast by Tubs with serious money.

As many have mentioned, podcasts aren't as popular as many think they are. And fans of the Tubster aren't of the demographic to go and listen to podcasts imho.

So it would be a big risk.

hawley · 27-08-2023 04:30PM

RYAN Tubridy has jetted off to London and has been weighing in on some "big offers" after being dumped from RTE.

The Dubliner's cousin Brian Hughes has told the Irish Sunday Mirror: "He’s got lots of irons in the fire, he’s not starving of options and choices.

"He’s in London talking to people and he got that offer to do the big podcast. He will never lie down."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/11244562/ryan-tubridy-new-career-move-revealed-axed-rte/amp/

amacca · 27-08-2023 04:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121034698#Comment_121034698

Actions speak louder than words imo

Wouldn't it be classier to say nothing/have nothing said and land the gig...than talk or have it talked about it beforehand?

Beechwoodspark · 27-08-2023 05:02PM

”that offer to do the big podcast” - what a load of horse sh1te

jmcc · 27-08-2023 05:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121034698#Comment_121034698

Offer to do "the big podcast"? Does Hughes think that it is some TV programme like "The Big Breakfast"?

Regards...jmcc

odyssey06 · 27-08-2023 05:04PM

@ButtersSuki I think the term for a tabloid changing course as the Indo has done about Tubridy is a 'reverse ferret'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_ferret

yagan · 27-08-2023 05:07PM

I can actually see him rowing in with some GBnews type setup because he needs a passive audience.

hawley · 27-08-2023 05:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121034854#Comment_121034854

He's off to the big shmoke to do the big podcast.

squonk · 27-08-2023 05:30PM

Not being the podcast thing myself. Back when I commuted a lot I used to listen to podcasts a bit but now I have less ‘idle’ time I’ve grown out of them. I just don’t have the place to fit them in in my life these days. Even so I’d only listen to a free and even the ones I particularly like I’d happily skip through the ads. Only 1 would I actually consider subscribing to but, again, don’t listen regularly enough to make it worthwhile.

Loafing Oaf · 27-08-2023 05:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121035045#Comment_121035045

I did subscribe to Second Captains for a while but I've built up such a roster of free ones I can't see myself ever paying a subscription again, even for the ones I am way more into than that like The Rest Is History

RoTelly · 27-08-2023 05:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121031934#Comment_121031934

Abusing a person is not discussing anything. A major public figure comes out and say some fairly harmless things about the LC, the sky is blue.

It was a vacuous statement, ill timed, criticizing him for that is harmless. It many people say it too many people all the time.

Are you honestly saying if you were offered a figure 3/4 times your salary you would turn it down? That's all Tubridy did. He went out and got someone to get the best deal possible for him. It's normal enough for this to happen. Trade Unions exist for that very reason. NK was the de facto trade union for high profile presenters at RTE. For better or worse that's the purpose of trade unions and equivalent bodies get the best possible deal for members. The only difference here is the profile of RT. Due to the very public nature of his role he is an as easy scapegoat.

No never said that, but then I never talked to the press about how I had taken a pay cut when I hadn't, nor did I go along with publicly announced figures when I knew they were wrong.

RTÉ have a trade union, and no an agent should be seen as a trade union.

The fact is that for decades management at RTE was afraid of losing their big presenters and awarded very high salaries to them. That's not the fault of Gay Bryne, Pat Kenny(take off the rose tinted glasses for a second, remember for most of the GB era competition was effectively banned/quiet literally non exsistent in Ireland) Ryan Tubridy and any other presenter you care to name took complete advantage of. It's been known for a long time that RT and a whole host of other presenters had saleies that were hard to justify and nothing was done. That's the responsibility of RTE management going back decades and involves hundreds of people at this stage.

No one ever said it was, but we did complain about these high wages and we didn't consider the justifications in anyway real.

Again RTÉ did not have a full monolopy unlike many of their European counterparts, it competed in a country where many had access to UK signals from the very beginning. UTV where very effective at taking the Irish Punt. Granted a different situation in terms of Radio, but many people of an era listened into the Beeb, I know my Dad's family rarely listened to RTÉ, my Mam felt she'd entered a different country as all her family listened to was RÉ, and the top 40 on Radio Luxemburg.

What's worse is that RTE have operated a major financial account with 0 controls. Given that that RT invoices were put through this account, it appears that at least some people within RTE were aware of these missing controls and sought to take advantage of it. That quiet frankly is shocking thing to happen at any half decent sized organisation never mind one the size of RTE.

Nothing is worse and we've being arguing for years that RTÉ was badly managed even before this scandal hit. I am not surprised or shocked by it TBQH.

I know being able to personify things makes things easier to understand. Heck it's the reason our storms have names now. Storm Betty wasn't called that for the craic.

I personally don't need storms to be names, nor do I need Ryan Tuburity's, or this scanda,l to tell me RTÉ is and was a very badly run organisation, I have known it for years.

But in this case its shows the problem with this aspect of human behaviour Lets ignore the huge financial scandal and focus on an unemployed radio/television personality for basically saying the sky is blue.

Again we've argued here and in plenty of other places that this is not just about Ryan Tuberity, he is part of it and his and his Unions dealing with the barter account have shown RTÉ and its management team up for what they are.

Ryan doesn't get to be in some way the whistleblower in this instance.

Karppi · 27-08-2023 06:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121034856#Comment_121034856

Is that the one where the ferret faces away from you? Asking for a friend

Bluebell woods · 27-08-2023 06:19PM

This is for buttersuki… I’m not wile sure how boards works and I’m not the sharpest knife in the draw …

however … there was a radio program on yesterday about the man who swallowed the dictionary…

I think you’re bloody fantastic… an outlier and I love every single word you write… I actually look forward to your posts … keep the faith butters , you are a marvellous human being with wonderful writing talent… superb

you

Emblematic · 27-08-2023 06:44PM

Maybe Audible will make Tubs an offer to do a podcast like they did this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mke1gwCaxs4

hawley · 28-08-2023 06:34AM

RYAN Tubridy has been offered a megabucks deal to host a two-hour show opposite his former slot on RTE Radio 1, The Irish Sun on Sunday can reveal.

Irish station Classic Hits Radio say they will match the €170,000 offer Tubs had from RTE before he was axed.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/11245040/ryan-tubridy-rte-update-new-radio-show-classic-hits/amp/

TruthorBust · 28-08-2023 06:35AM

Here’s a multiple choice question for Tubridy:

Does your average LC student think Tubridy is:

(a) a kind man concerned for their futures

(b) a man of good judgement with solid advice to impart

(c) a self obsessed dweeb with a very disturbing interest in young people

fritzelly · 28-08-2023 06:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121036619#Comment_121036619

So double the hours for the same pay, KB taking note

yagan · 28-08-2023 06:55AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121036631#Comment_121036631

I thought his rte deal was €200k, so double time for less.

Still great money for talking through ones hoop.

tom23 · 28-08-2023 07:43AM

He was been offered 170k at RTE. Pity he hadn’t his world class studio in before he got let go because then he could have worked from home. I jest. Not very good I might add.

Best of luck to him. Will he bring the numbers? I’m not so sure, but this is show business, anything can happen. But ‘Noel’ NKM management right now is nodding sagely in his board room. His ‘boy’ is still front page news. And he is thinking If Fionnan Sheehan be with us who be against us? GB News here we come with his pocket money earned on Classic Hits. Take note leaving cert students… the universe is adventurous place.

Cluedo Monopoly · 28-08-2023 07:52AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121036619#Comment_121036619

The Megabucks deal was the half million for <5 hours work a week talking nonsense on Radio 1. It's clear now that his true value was far less. I'd say he will get a short term contract so they can cash in on the notoriety. Just glad he is gone from the Taxpayer.

Beechwoodspark · 28-08-2023 07:56AM

Is classic hits a dublin only station?

If so, great, most of the country will be able to fully avoid contact with RT’s particular brand of verbal diarrhea.

PokeHerKing · 28-08-2023 07:57AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121036619#Comment_121036619

Mad to think that a station I've never even heard of had that kind of deniro to be handing out.

Great money if he can get it and I wouldn't begrudge him if he does as it'll be earned/scrutinised more than RTE gravy train.

Cluedo Monopoly · 28-08-2023 08:02AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121036766#Comment_121036766

It's nationwide. I like Classic Hits (4FM) except when there are talk shows. Niall Boylan is on there. I only tune in for the 80s stuff. I thought Tubs would be above this station. This could be all spin too.

Edit: I thought it was nationwide - see below.

Tork · 28-08-2023 08:06AM

It covers Dublin, Cork and Galway and spills over into parts of the neighbouring counties. Nobody in the north west or south east can pick it up on their radio

squonk · 28-08-2023 08:15AM

I wouldn’t have thought 4FM had that kind of dosh myself. I haven’t listened to them that much but perky my impression is that the kind of limerick they have would be on fair money but we’re past their Montrose or big ticket years and still working away. I figured too that their roster likely have side gigs as well anyway. I wonder I’d it something like a C 3 month contract to cash in on the publicity but in the end isn’t going to cost them a huge chunk anyway? It’s easy say 170,000 for a year but even at €42,500 it’s pricey for 3 months.

lee_baby_simms · 28-08-2023 08:20AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121036766#Comment_121036766

Harsh but fair.

Oscar_Madison · 28-08-2023 08:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121036619#Comment_121036619

That’s a great publicity article for Classic Hits Radio regardless of whether there’s a deal there with Tubridy or not.

As many posters on this thread have agreed previously, getting listeners to turn the dial to another radio station is a difficult thing to do, especially if they’re a very loyal RTÉ radio 1 listener- Pat Kenny had to find a whole new following when he left so it’s quite a fact, not just supposition.

They may well pay Tubridy similar amounts of money that RTÉ were offering but it will likely be performance based on growing listenership.

A lot of hot air press releases at the moment- let’s just see exactly what he’s left with when the publicity dies down.

28-08-2023 08:32AM

So this is a different station from Classic Hits 98FM. I cannot even find their frequency on their website. They have a Select Location option, which just givens the days schedule and the 'How to Listen' gives a 404.

At least Wikipedia gives the frequencies!

RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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