Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Interesting to see so many come out for the RTÉ little guy.
At no point in the last 7 years, has any RTÉ employee ever spoken out about the direction of RTÉ.
It wasn't that Strategy 2024 was bad it was that it was moving Lyric out of Limerick, or the proposed closure of services.
No offence to the little guy, but call out Dee Forbes at this meeting today. Mention her name again and again and again.
Call out Moya Doherty.
Easier to axe it, is that their plan to move Fair City to an indo producer?
Honestly, this thread is absolutely packed with complete ignorance at this stage.
If 400 people leave RTE via redundancy, or via retirement, or of their own free will, and these 400 positions are not backfilled, this is 400 job cuts. Job cuts is the elimination of roles, how the roles are vacated in the first place is immaterial.
Whenever you see news about job cuts this doesn't mean that number of people are forced out the door.
If fair city is an independent production then it is far easier to control costs - RTE pay a single lump sum and the production company has to deliver for that price. If RTE wants a 10% reduction, it pays 10% less and doesn't have to figure out how to do that.
It also makes it far easier to cancel the production as RTE will be removed and protected from the IR blowback.
RTE should be scaled back to 20% of it's current size. Not just culling 20% of it's current workforce.
That site is massive, can you imagine how many Asylum Seekers we could accommodate on that campus?
It doesn't quite have the same human impact as an involuntary redundancy though. When someone leaves voluntarily one can assume that in most cases they have organised their lives in a way that they will be ok.
Therefore how jobs are lost is not immaterial - it's actually very important.
The implication being made was that there wasn't really going to be job cuts because 400 people weren't going to be forced out the door.
The point was that people here don't seem to understand what a job cut is. It's an elimination of a role, not a person. The role is eliminated and whether it's vacated by voluntary redundancy, involuntary redundancy, retirement or just someone leaving for another job elsewhere it's still a job cut.
400 roles will be eliminated at RTE. I am sure this will be a mix of redundancy and natural attrition. Even if 200 of the roles are eliminated through natural attrition and 200 via redundancy of whatever guise it's still 400 job cuts. Even if 100 of the eliminations are for roles that have no current occupant, it's still a job cut.
I'd argue that most people don't really believe that there will be that many job cuts in RTÉ over the next 5 years. I imagine it will be closer to 100 if RTÉ are lucky and then for them not to begin recruitment for those roles.
What paycuts are the top talent taking... if any ?
For example, the guy with the horrific Dublin accent.
I see RTE has budgeted €40 million for 400 redundancies. That's €100k per redundancy. Given the average annual salary there is €60k, on the face of it, it seems very generous indeed. I'd imagine anyone within a few years of retirement would grab it with both hands.
It's worth noting again that this €40 million is a NEW cost to be borne by the taxpayer, and is IN ADDITION TO the tens of millions of taxpayer funding needed to make up the shortfall in the annual RTE budget AND the tens of millions now needed to make up for non-payment of TV license fees this year.
wait..what? so let me get this right...that an EXTRA €40mill on top of the,what was it....? €40mill or €60mill,ok call it €60mill as its only taxpayers money, they needed to keep going?so...so far according to my adding that a cool €100mill....? ask the butt end of me bollix comes to mind...
Is Tubs in or heading to Iceland this week? If so, it's not looking good for him:-
"The plan says RTÉ will “commission significantly more content from independent production”. This puts big programmes such as The Sunday Game and Fair City in the line of fire for outsourcing to external companies, according to Government sources."
I'd see industrial action being taken over that. You'll get all sorts of commentary about the likes of the Sunday Game being extracted from RTE.
Joe Dufficy? Massively overpaid
56M in extra funding from the Tax Payer: Normal programming has resumed.
I feel the government is just blindly walking into this. Leo and Co have given the go ahead for 56m in funding to RTÉ for 2024.
Meaning RTÉ should have a loss of 30m this year due to licence fee non-payments.
end of the day - we get the same shite.
Rock on a year later and id be 100% not a single thing has happened from that plan
Scandalous waste of money.
The licence fee is history.
Emma O’Kelly on the News at One sees no need for job cuts, doesn’t know where there is any fat in the work force
She's a lifer at RTE. Doesn't know what it's like to work in a private company.
Yes, but at the same time, both she (NUJ) and the SIPTU representative were clear that they had no objections to the proposal for 400 voluntary redundancies. She said 120 will retire within the timeframe, which leaves just 280 that would be needed to sign up for the voluntary redundancy scheme. Given the €40 million budgeted for the scheme, it seems some very generous payouts could be on offer.
Meanwhile Dee Forbes is still sick.
As expected, the Government actually has no interest in reforming RTE as the status quo works for them. So we can expect more of the same.
A major opportunity to reform broadcasting has been missed, as expected.
No doubt Tubridy will be back in a few months to square off this episode.
A few minutes earlier she'd have a heard a professional newsreader read out the headlines then handover to another professional newsreader to give the full stories.
She could start with that farce.
Tubridy won’t be back there.
Any offers coming over the phone for the Ryanstone cowboy? That big Virgin Radio job hasn't materialised. Even if it is just holiday cover for Christmas, it isn't a fulltime job. The discovery of his overpayments led to the gravy train being derailed for a lot of RTE management.
Regards...jmcc
Tubs will always be remembered as the man who sunk the rte ship.
I couldn’t tell ya what offers he has. But can’t see him ever been wanted back or been offered a gig in RTE again. I know some here thinks the fella is a national treasure, but he ain’t. He was simply a very lucky lad that got a heap of money of a very dopey bunch of people.
And there was a time when the PR fluff was claiming that he was "the most trusted man in Ireland". What a difference a few months makes.
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