RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

You know I'd not be surprised if some of that audience are the same people that come here to derail this thread.

Local radio is king for those over 70 not RTE. Under 30 don't listen to RTE. The vast majority I know between 30 and 50 listen to podcasts so I'm not sure who listens to RTE.

@mariaalice They set the agenda by the news that they either follow or initially report on.

You could say that most news outlets are using RTÉ, The Irish Times and to a lesser degree the Independent to report on the issues of the day.

Thus RTÉ becomes this agenda setter.

The internet allows you to research more in-depth sources.

This is how the news agenda is set.

Really? Where would these Representatives get their news from? Who would choose these diverse people. Would certain people be exclude because they may not think the same way as the others on the committee. How long could you been on the Committee?

IMO RTÉ should only provide news report and investigative journalism.

Neither should be presented in a bias way, rather in a factual way. It is then up to the others to either decided to argue against or for something or to ignore it because it bares no relevance.

RTÉ online is filled with opinion pieces, from Reporters who are rarely on the TV, doing what they should be doing, reporting.

PK has been a big defender of Tubs in this whole debacle. I think he'd also be of the mindset of Moya.

@RoTelly fair play to you Ro. You have the courage of your convictions. People like you are of rare stock and this country could do with more like you. The fighting Irish? Ha, it's a myth. The few who do fight for right are pulled back down into the bucket by the rest of the crabs.

I actually had some respect for Kenny until I read that. I enjoyed his insight from time to time. The man is a shill and he can see the writing on the wall. He'll have to start attaching locks to more and more gates in his area to keep him in the style he's accustomed to.

Could someone cut and paste it?

I'm only getting a capthca repeatedly.

Pat Kenny on the RTE gravy train for a long time. I doubt we're going to get an honest debate about RTE or RTE salaries with him as the chairman.

In fact he's never even had a debate about it on his programme.

I do think @log01 has some point though I don't think saving LW really is the answer.

Gavan Reilly is on twitter questioning how much would either cutting 2FM costs down or axing 2FM save in the long term. After all it is only 3m that they give to 2FM from the license fee.

This reasoning could be applied to DAB, LW and AERTEL. Why ditch them when they don't cost all that much in anycase.

Gavan seems to forget that on the one hand if RTÉ made 2FM cost neutral that 3m or so could go to fund other programming across the board.

on the other if 2FM was axed in the morning most of its ad revenue would go to other radio stations, indeed you may find that both RTÉ Radio 1 and Lyric see a bounce in ad revenue, but also even if it were axed by RTÉ 2FM cost would be gone and that 3m or so could be redistributed again.

then if you sell it on the new owner would first cut back on costs and then would go on to change its format to generate income.

Gavan (and those in the media) seem to think that cuts at 2fm are not possible and even if they were possible 2FM it wouldn't save all that much money in any case!

Again you could apply that theory to the NSO which was bring in revenue to RTÉ while also getting funding from the licence fee.

It's bizarre then to think that with all that saving from axing of LW, the moving of the NSO and the axing of DAB that RTÉ would then go to risk spending such savings on The Toy Show The Musical!

Gavan's and other theory could be applied to any part of RTÉ if they so wish, so why not push that theory over the LW and DAB broadcasts.