Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

RTÉ have multiple podcasts that they don't support. I often wonder what kind of audience they are getting. Many are badly produced compared to small time podcasters.

Also RTÉ Player is inundated with smaller lifestyle programmes from the RTÉ "The Lab", often between 10 and 15 mins long and often with a main sponsor / product placement.

Looks like that FOI story has legs. A thousand documents have been requested. The Indo is on the case.

https://www.independent.ie/news/fionnan-sheahan-exiled-ryan-tubridy-now-wants-data-watchdog-to-get-him-1000-documents-on-payments-scandal/a1131477561.html

Regards…jmcc

it’s not exactly a common name so you’d have to assume it’s him. He is not a producer by trade or training so if it is him questions would surely have to be asked as to how he’s back in RTÉ in any capacity, yet alone in a job he’s not qualified for.

it really is yet another 2 fingers from RTÉ to the taxpayer.

That would be Ronan Coveney who's the producer for Claire Byrne.

It seems to me that Ryan is looking for information after he and she both left RTÉ, not anything for example regarding anything that RTÉ and he might have said prior to that.

It is amazing to see how the media can be so distracted.

Its as if they know. The NUJ branch for RTÉ possible went to Kay Before and said, you know this issue you having how about we demand that you demand that Israel not part take in the Eurovision? Yes, please then the soft meeting with the Media Committee might not be about the IT system and everything else.

story this morning

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-boss-kevin-bakhurst-says-meeting-with-alan-kelly-was-constructive/a381524147.html

RTE director general Kevin Bakhurst said his meeting with chairman of the media committee, Alan Kelly, over Israel's inclusion in the European Broadcasting Union, was "constructive".

Kay Before: Joe, Joe I used to listen to you from London but you know your time has come

Joe: A time does be do be coming for them there and you might do being going yourself

Kay Before: Let's not get ahead of ourselves Joe, as you know we have a bit of a write down problem

Joe: Those do be dreadful Kay how are you feeling about it

Kay Before: Terrible Joe just terrible

Joe: When did you do be find bout about it Kay

Kay Before: After I signed off on the annual account

Joe: Jayus Kay those annual report do be does be terrible

Kay Before: They do be Joe

Joe: How can I and liveline help

Kay Before: Retire and we will mention you'll be an important part of the 100 years

Joe: Oh! how much does I do be getting Kay

Kay Before: Lots just it has to go through the independent producers

Joe: Oh! those Independent producers do be great

Kay Before: but sadly we be letting go of a few people

Joe: Oh that does be do be terrible

Kay Before: You could go on the late late show

Joe: Oh that does be do be great, me as host of the late late show in 2026 after the interloper Keilty goes.

Kay Before: Yes, yes now what were we talking about

Joe: Who knows that does be do be how the media works.

Kay - is short for Kevin (like D for Deirdre)

Before - taken from Star Trek, the inital design for Data

before - he was acting DG before Dee Forbes (he was also Deputy DG for 6 months when she was DG)

fore - Forbes

KB - His initials

I had gone with Kay Beforbes for a while, perhaps that is better.

Your possibly right but won't stop me calling him Kay Before, all the same.

Anyway just thinking Joe will prob get a weekend job on Lyric, that or he will get a holding fee like his mentor.

https://www.independent.ie/podcasts/the-indo-daily/the-indo-daily-ryan-tubridy-joe-duffy-eurovision-is-the-rte-soap-opera-back-in-business/a608999845.html

Kay Beforbes: Well I didn't know about it so I couldn't raise it

Ellen Coyle: But I am sure someone knew about it

Kay Beforbes: Well eh look …it was in the accounts … ddudu.. they were publicly available and the were laid before the houses of the oireachtas … look I better go in I've got to see Mr. Kelly

This is where the problem is, Beforbes is right the Annual reports for each year of the write offs were put before the oirechtas… but the nervousness comes from the fact that he signed off on those accounts and should have been fully aware not "Well I didn't know … but it was all publicly available"

Kay quick question "why did you sign off on something you knew nothing about?"

Hopefully not pumping more shekels into the nest of numbnuts out there.

These dudes need to understand reality sometime soon.

I don't know how RTÉ have got away with 10,000 + with this list

There is nothing to say the average number of request per person, the 3 requests for the 3 - 4 people getting 10k could all come from one person, You'd assume over the course of 3 months anything over 10k is a lot of work outside your normal day to day.

same goes for the 11 requests between 5K and 10K, lets say the average is 7.5K 1 person could be getting 30K !

Can Dee come out to play? 😂 Shame to be cooped up indoors in some of the best weather we have had in years 🌞

pensionectomies are very rare TBH, many have to travel to get such procedures,  

Just to also mention RTÉ Sport, you could argue that to move RTÉ Sport over to Indo Producers would take time, but I don't think RTÉ are considering this. You also have to look at RTÉ Sport's non-live productions.

Are all of the podcast necessary what audience do they get, out of interest I dropped into them, and TBH I have seen better produced amateur YouTube videos on sport, and podcasts. Game On is that really necessary on 2FM? It has about 50k listeners but 2FM is a music station not a sport station, it very rarely carries any live sport, and I'd argue that that has only happened in the last decade.

Here are cuts where you could utilize the staff in better areas of sport production, are they really considering moving those podcasts and chat-shows out to independent producers and if so why? of what benefit are they to RTÉ? and for that matter the sport audience?

And even if you are moving live sport to an indo producer are you really commissioning a programme? Surely this is more of a contract over a set number of years than a commission.

Are they honestly saying they need a Sports programme commissioner to get 3 year contracts for different live sporting events, is this not something that the Head of Sport and his team would work on.