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

The problem with that scandal is that it continues on. D4bres is still sick. It is a major scandal that hit the national public service broadcaster with little to no penalties handed to the broadcaster. Indeed from what I can see the government basically handed RTÉ everything that D4bes wanted via the bailout funds and the non-payment of license fees.

RTÉ may have worked through all of its governance issues but that is only the top line of things. Some think that RTÉ was a perfectly acceptable service prior to the scandal, this is the view of KB4 who is continuing down the same tired road when it comes to content, in other words while his predecessor may have made mistakes by enlarge she and RTÉ did a good job during the last decade and long may it continue.

Well look at this, The Toyman out talking about RTÉ and TLLS again and the TSFs and the NKSFs wonder why his name keeps popping up in commentary about the scandal. To paraphrase @cyclingtourist you’d think he’d stop talking about a place he hasn’t worked in for 3 years….

Here’s a link where you can read all about it:

https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/ryan-tubridy-says-todays-late-37276103.amp

It makes for a delicious read.

And now I’ll leave you with a little song from my good friends A-Trak and Armand Van Helden under their Duck Sauce moniker:

Such a catchy little number.

It's a weird nickname that makes no sense to anyone but that poster, but he insists on using it over and over again.

Thanks for that, was completely lost. Still not 100% on it, seems very niche.

Yeah I think you'd say that B4!

Strategy 1: RTÉ should always make sure there is an 'elite'

While employees must always make sure that they remember RTÉ's content is great regardless of the DG.

Poster who created acronym to describe posters decries the thread as being “weird” without a hint of irony or self-awareness.

Ah poor aul Ray, one of the best broadcaster we've every produced, I could see him as the next Late Late Show host. He's a great fan base all the same. Missed by RTÉ, very sad, ah sure!

Both D'Arcy and Tubridy.…Jesus Wept.

They both became rich men on a series of those RTE talent contracts.

Can't they just fcuking leave it.

I get it that they are asked questions by journalists they have agreed to talk to to promote their God awful podcasts but could they refrain from offering these types of opinions, in the interest of moving on???

Just. Don't. Talk. About. RTE.

That's all, it could be truly healing for them.

Yeah, you repeat this a lot. Again no one ever said they would refuse, we've continued to point out that they've all been overvalued by both themselves and RTÉ, in an era when RTÉ supposedly had so little money they couldn't maintain some public services and complained they couldn't enter into multi year contracts with independent producers, both of these would suggest that RTÉ valued their talent over and beyond what they were worth.

If any of the presenters felt that they were unhappy with RTÉ, they always had the choice of leaving, I wonder what was stopping them?

Anyone with a bit of sense or properly advised would have refused where it involved the kind of dodgy deals that if they came to light had the potential to damage their long term earnings.

Overplaying their hands versus RTE (which also should have been more prudent) has back fired badly for Tubridy, D'Arcy.

if only The Toyman would stop talking about RTÉ then maybe after a prolonged period of time people would stop talking about The Ryan Tubridy Pay Scandal and how it’s central to the mis-governance of and the dodgy financial dealings of RTÉ.

Again The Toyman and Mr. Kelly fail to see that doing it is amplifying it.

It’s funny you mention the average industrial wage as Joe Duffy (from your favourite agent’s stable) used to be paid over twice the average industrial weekly wage PER HOUR when hosting Liveline. A true man of the people.

#NKSF

More delicious tales of a very special Macca-centred FREEBIE from The Toyman this week. One can only hope he behaved more professionally this time than a previous encounter from his time at RTÉ where despite being requested (told) not to ask for a selfie The Toyman did so anyway. It’s a tale The Toyman had told repeatedly on air on his former 2fm, Radio 1, and Q102 shows and multiple times in print (handy to be able to recycle the same stories over and over again to fill those column inches - much like his RTÉ repeat so many shows) the story is a remarkable portrait of a man with zero self awareness describing that out loud. You can read just one of those below, but there are many.

https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/8964453/ryan-tubridy-recalls-mortifying-encounter-beatles-paul-mccartney/

In other news, a Corkonian living in Cork (a different Corkonian to my media friend who lives in Dublin) told me he saw Dee Forbes in Cork airport yesterday. Hopefully Ms. Forbes is going somewhere nice, quiet and relaxing to aid in her ongoing recovery. As always, I wish her well in this ongoing cause and hope one day she will be fit enough to give her version of events.

But I don't think anyone disagrees with any of the above. It was a scandal. But you can't blame the presenter's for getting the best deal they could at the time.

The deals done were a joke but that's the responsibility of RTE management. People join unions for this exact reason. Instead of SIPTU or Unite, high profile presenters had Noel Kelly. He was the union rep for presenters. No real difference except that like every corporate organization trade unions have the normal corporate bullshit to cover the fact that they are only interested in getting the best deal/most profit for their shareholders/members.

Targeting Noel Kelly and the people he represented is just an argument to remove employee representation for people over X salary. Which is a very slippery slope.

The only problem with blaming RTE management is that most people don't have a clue to most of the people were. A lot of people developed para social relationships with the presenter's. Assuming if the presenter's were any way half decent. Anyone mentioned on his thread obviously had/has the ability to develop a para social relationship with their audience otherwise people wouldn't care that they were paid.

To repeat Ryan Tubridy, Ray Darcy etc did not run RTE, they may have been the face and the people developed para social relationships with they didn't run the organization. Running RTE was never their job. The weird obsession with the fact that Tubridy has a life outside RTE ignore why the mess happened.