RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I don't think that podcasting is quite the solution for Tubridy. Podcasting requires the audience to be built up over time. The formerly famous Tubridy has no audience. It was only ever RTE's audience (Pat Kenny also learned this lesson but he had the ability and the presence to build his own audience.)

I simply don't trust the figures that are used to justify advertising rates in the Irish media. There's no verification or feedback loop with these figures. With podcasting that feedback loop is present and listeners or viewers can be measured more accurately. That livestream on Youtube of Tubridy's appearance at a pensions gig got 116 viewers according to reports here. Many of them were probably journalists. There are kids unboxing toys on YT who get thousands or tens of thousands of viewers. The formerly famous Tubridy just isn't interesting and without the support system that was provided by RTE for decades, his weekday wibblings are no longer of interest to most people if they ever were. He's not Eamon Dunphy or Joe Rogan. Even the Sindo hasn't given him a column.

Regards...jmcc

I thought bocs show was cancelled because they invested ridiculously in Ray darcy

Correction- what the fck are they still thinking 😀

Twas Ren-alt (PAC pronunciation) not Toyota btw

Podcasting is a tough gig and even those that make it to the top of the Irish charts aren’t making whopper sums of money. The Second Captains lads are doing ok but have been at it a long time and what they get isn’t exorbitant. What they do have is ability and know how in their field of discussion. Tubs is goosed, he has neither talent nor expert knowledge on anything so I can’t see him getting anywhere and his main interest seems to be remuneration. All things considered here, and I’m sure himself and Noel ‘show me the money’ Kelly have also, it probably isn’t a goer. Think tubs should look for some shıt day time game show, one that only pensioners, the unemployed and students that smoke copious amounts of weed all day watch, like that pile of shıte with the giant discs getting pushed seems like a good fit for him and about his limit.

Me too I probably watched 20 minutes though!

Think tubs should look for some shıt day time game show, one that only pensioners, the unemployed and students that smoke copious amounts of weed all day watch, like that pile of shıte with the giant discs getting pushed seems like a good fit for him and about his limit

I'm sure that's already occurred to him, given the TV character he obviously models himself on

I don't understand that article perhaps I am on the wrong foot here.

1. RTÉ's initial report from GT showed the use of the barter account for a top up payment for Tubs, and this top up was never mention in his earnings.
2. That initial report spoke about Tubrity forgoing the "loyalty fee" of €120,000 from the previous contract.
3. I understood it that the first report never suggested that Tubs was in the wrong for the misrepresentation of the fee as reported by RTÉ for those years rather, RTÉ though they had added the "loyalty fee" to the final published fees for those years and when they heard that Tubs had decided not to collect (due to new contract negotiations).
4. They then made the mistake of removing €50,000 from year 5, €50,000 from year 4 and a final €20,000 from year 3.
5. The second report was commissioned verify largely the first report, which it did (though not exonerating Tubs for this part of the the scandal because he was only a minor player who fail to speak up when the lower figures were reported).
6. Then the second report concluded that
   1. RTÉ where simply mistake
   2. or that potentially RTÉ wanted to hide the real fees to suggest that they were making the cuts to top earners wages as they suggested they were doing.

I would go with b. being the major factor, why spread the loyalty fee across 3 previous years rather then adding it to the final year?

Now the Indo inform us that RTÉ knew of these changes made before the report? I would have thought that was why they were investigating it.

But I am open to correction.

Renault

You are familiar with the Sindo/Indo and its adoration of FG and FF? Initially, this story looked like it would only make a Green minister look bad. Cowen had become a liability and a leadership threat to Mehole Martin. Hogan had also become a liability. The Indo has been trying to rehabilitate Tubridy and blame RTE management for what happened. As for understanding the media, I might have some insights which you do not. There's a great quote from a journalism movie that sums up the RTE/Sindo/Indo situation: "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

Regards...jmcc

Podcasting is indeed a tough gig. I have been doing it 7 years and the money is just ok. Very few people podcasting make big money and the money is made in the advertising. Tubs is probably finding it tough to get a sponsor, just look at Cooper and Yates who haven't got a sponsor yet and they are very well known.

There may also be a demographics problem for Tubridy in that a lot of people who supposedly listen to radio shows at that time of morning may not generally listen to podcasts. (Broadcasting being push in that it is directed at the audience. Podcasts being pull in that the audience has to actively select the podcast.) Advertisers love controversy but they absolutely hate being associated with failure.

Regards...jmcc

In a year or two, FFG may not be in government. And things might be a bit more frosty for FFers like Tubridy. It will be hard to effect a cultural change within RTE but the people there will not want to be associated with those who derailed the gravy train. That's why Tubridy will probably be a necessary sacrifice especially if the next government is an SF-led one.

Regards...jmcc