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

Just to mention superannrte.ie is now redirecting to rte.ie, it was always a great site for connecting who was and is who and what families maintained a presence in RTÉ. I believe the photos of the retiring receptionist during covid where found on that site. Indeed many a retirement was put up on the site.

Anyway it is now gone and much like the last 100 years to be forgotten about

if you leave on your own accord or leave a job that is not being made redundant

If you can’t do your job

If you put the organisation into a bad light

No redundancy for thee

give an example

Also KB4 would look very bad if he has to say she was give a payout after he’d said he hoped he wouldn’t have too.

KB4's predecessor D4bs resigned two week before her contract was about to end, she didn't get a payout.

Many of the former executive could have been fired for a number of reason without a redundancy package, if they wanted to contest that with the WRC then that is up to them. Jim Jennings case isn't all that simple, firstly he was out sick for a year and a half and there are questions as to how he was paid during that year and doctors notes, social protection payment etc, on top of their decision to allow him head to court.

Anyway so we are going to defend RTÉ management.

Anyway, RTÉ doesn't know itself: -

One currently leaders suggest that up to the 2000s that RTÉ did do any foreign formats. He himself produced one major one

Popstars Ireland (2002)

WWTBAM (2000)

Who Do You Think You Are? (2008)

Treasure Island (2001)

Test the Nation (2006)

are just a few and then there are the copies of foreign formats that go back as far as the 80s.

Play the Game (Charades), Number 1 (Pop Quiz), Secrets (The Generation Game), two formats they took included candid camera and talkabout.

other similar formats You're A Star (Singing reality TV competition), Cabin Fever, Fade Street, Failte Towers, some Irish dancing celeb competition and on.

But you have to remember that it was the current team and DG that made those decisions.

I can understand to some extent it is far easier to move people on and not deal with courts etc.

I assume that the exit package for GO'L was just her pension pot, which would be very good. I'd hope that they wouldn't go beyond that, maybe just maybe paying her until her retirement but even then that six months pay of a good wage.

I don't think KB4 talks the talk at all really, he seems angry.

Ms O'Keeffe package is part of the whole scandal and was signed of by D4bes and the HR Director.

BTW if anyone was thrown under the bus, I felt it was Richard Collins who seemed to have uncovered a good bit of what had happened, I am not sure he would have survived the failed financial / HR software project, but he could have left because he felt under pressure in the Oireachtas he wasn't a good performer, he should have act like O'Keeffe who then ended up wanting to text in her replies after she was found to have got a redundancy package.

So you come back to Tubs.

Tubs and the "talents" wages never came up much for me except when released those figures and when D4bes suggest that altogether the top 10 amounted to just 1% of RTÉ's overall budget. Outside of this I really had nothing to say about their wages. I believed them to be too high, and Pat Kenny's exit from RTÉ proved that he wasn't integral to RTÉ, and subsequent retirements also proved this.

I was, and still am, focused on cuts that RTÉ made in certain areas (Children's Content, Drama, TV News) while at the same time supporting 2FM and defending such wages when cutting, along with high expenses for their Executives e.g. Jon Williams was getting flights to NYC 3 times a year for work that had nothing to do with RTÉ, but that is what RTÉ gave him in his contract. D4rb's moving fee of 50K, and on, all of this before the scandal hit.

RTÉ management continually say they need to know how much money the get to potentially provide independent producers with clarity and multi year contracts, yet at the same time Talent, Imported Programming and sporting rights all had multi year contracts. This to me is a contradiction.

You only hear the Tubs stuff because that's where you have levitated to. I honestly believe him to be overrated as a presenter and that he was overpaid by RTÉ (This is an opinion) and by doing so RTÉ failed to look elsewhere for up and coming talent, resulting in the new host of TLLS coming from outside RTÉ and a well known name rather then having someone similar to Tubs that they invested in taking on the role.

he seemed less on air than he did on air.

What?

So we are back to the existential crisis at RTÉ

https://businessplus.ie/news/rte-cut-100-jobs-departments-fault/

You have 11 exceptional people on the leadership team. The wonderful HR Director who's done an excellent job with Eversheds, the departure of the CFO, and a great HR IT System, who will take retirement some time this year. And with all of this, is is the Department's fault.

67 employees left under the Voluntary Exit Programme last year, 33% short of its target of 100 when the scheme was unveiled last year.

30 people had left the organisation last year through retirements and other departures.

How many joined?

It's overly stringent. The department seemed to be blocking everything. RTÉ had to show there would be a 100 per cent saving before an employee could avail of the scheme. That's very difficult to do.

There seemed to be no margin of error.

You imagine they will have to loosen up their rules if 400 are to go

Awh it's so strict.

It's more likely that RTÉ put forward a senior role, that they had no plans to make redundant and suggested either bring someone in to replace that role or that the very junior role would get that role.

Hopefully those remaining 30 people will be used to create programming.

George and Emma both on the 6.1 News this evening. Few bob in expenses for George live from Enniscorthy. What's rare is wonderful!

well I don’t think Claire Byrne is doing herself any favours

she’s telling why she left RTÉ, she felt that they were wagging their finger at her.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/claire-byrne-on-leaving-rte-it-felt-like-the-organisation-was-wagging-its-finger-at-me-saying-youve-been-a-bad-person-you-need-to-have-a-pay-cap-to-stop-your-gallop/a180412759.html

It's water under to he bridge , and RT can return to RTE

That's the message from Bakhurst.