RTE "stars" salaries.

spadder · 29-01-2009 04:49PM

Can the government sell RTE?

but include a clause in the sale contract that they must continue to offer a certain amount of documentries, news, poitical stuff etc. Fair city, turbirdy, ryan and the rest of the brainless sh1te can go.
The new owner can hire and fire as they see fit.

RATM · 29-01-2009 08:18PM

Im always flabberghast about the RTE wages, I really am. What I dont get is that they work in a market economy where their wages should be decided by the demand for them yet market forces don't seem to occur for our so called 'stars'.
Like what demand is there from RTE's competitors for Gerry Ryan? What media outlet in this country would be willing to pay him €600,000? None I'd guess so therefore he is not worth it and is grossly overpaid for the crap he spouts off. Let him go to the UK and see if anyone over there thinks he is worth €600,000. I doubt it, he's a total unknown over there and on the continent.

There are loads of mouthy graduates of media courses who could do the job a lot better and would love a bash at his job but will never get the chance. Presenters and people who want to be 'famous' are two a penny. As soon as they start making crazy wage demands based on their listenership figures they should be dumped and replaced, theres no lack of people to replace them with. No one person is bigger than the organisation and that is how Ryan behaves with his comments on how indispensable he is.

Duck's hoop · 29-01-2009 08:54PM

RATM wrote: »

Im always flabberghast about the RTE wages, I really am. What I dont get is that they work in a market economy where their wages should be decided by the demand for them yet market forces don't seem to occur for our so called 'stars'.
Like what demand is there from RTE's competitors for Gerry Ryan? What media outlet in this country would be willing to pay him €600,000? None I'd guess so therefore he is not worth it and is grossly overpaid for the crap he spouts off. Let him go to the UK and see if anyone over there thinks he is worth €600,000. I doubt it, he's a total unknown over there and on the continent.

There are loads of mouthy graduates of media courses who could do the job a lot better and would love a bash at his job but will never get the chance. Presenters and people who want to be 'famous' are two a penny. As soon as they start making crazy wage demands based on their listenership figures they should be dumped and replaced, theres no lack of people to replace them with. No one person is bigger than the organisation and that is how Ryan behaves with his comments on how indispensable he is.

Don't like him myself, to put it mildly, but plainly hundreds of thousands do. That's why he gets the wedge he gets, to stop him hopping ship. He is a mouthy unfunny boor though. Used to listen to him just to get annoyed!! I know....

FlutterinBantam · 30-01-2009 09:58AM

Hopping ship to where exactly............??

Frankie Lee · 30-01-2009 10:06AM

I don't know of anyone who likes Gerry Ryan, where does he get his listeners from or is it just people in shops or hairdressers who turn on a radio and leave it on 2fm?

Degsy · 30-01-2009 10:07AM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Hopping ship to where exactly............??

Good point son.
Nobody in thier right mind would hire the fat,obnoxious slob.
If 2fm had some balls they could sack him and replace him with some mouthy twat fresh from college for one tenth of the money.
He might think he's indespensble now but he'd be forgotten in no time flat.
Remember Carrie Crowley..

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 11:34AM

Degsy wrote: »

Good point son.
Nobody in thier right mind would hire the fat,obnoxious slob.
If 2fm had some balls they could sack him and replace him with some mouthy twat fresh from college for one tenth of the money.
He might think he's indespensble now but he'd be forgotten in no time flat.
Remember Carrie Crowley..

Having not even heard of Carrie Crowley, I had to Google, and came up with this line in Wiki, where there is barely a paragraph on her.

"She appears RTÉ Radio 1 every Sunday night, unfortunately"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Crowley

Degsy · 30-01-2009 12:23PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Having not even heard of Carrie Crowley, I had to Google, and came up with this line in Wiki, where there is barely a paragraph on her.

"She appears RTÉ Radio 1 every Sunday night, unfortunately"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Crowley

My point is that a few years back she was on the telly 7 days a week.
They had her presenting about ten shows,being guests on shows,presenting eurovision etc etc.
To RTE she must've seemed pretty irreplacable untill she left and *bang* she'd been forgotten about.
Just like trout-mouth gerry ryan would be.

Biggins · 30-01-2009 12:57PM

The fact that that boring plank Kenny gets paid €850,0000 a year is just crazy.
...and he complains about a possible 10% cut!
O' dear, how ever will he be able to afford the price of a loaf!

Dunphy calls for cuts after taking one: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/dunphy-puts-it-up-to-rte-colleagues-with-10pc-paycut-1620416.html

DublinWriter · 30-01-2009 01:43PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

I just cannot understand how RTE pay Marion Finucane 455k to present two two hour shows a week, for probably 30 weeks in the year.

Awww, that's not fair, who else could they get to say things like "reeeeeiight", "sin sceal eile" and "before we all end up in a home for the permenently befuddled" whilst sounding like a petrol lawnmower being pushed up a gravel driveway.

Degsy · 30-01-2009 02:15PM

How much do the crooked-mouthed stroke victim seoige sisters get paid i wonder?

deadhead13 · 30-01-2009 02:39PM

I suppose, you have to give Dunphy credit fo taking a 10% cut. But it does beg the question, wtf was he doing to be paid 300,000 in the first place?

javaboy · 30-01-2009 02:41PM

Jesus Degsy did RTÉ run over your dog or what?

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 03:10PM

javaboy wrote: »

Jesus Degsy did RTÉ run over your dog or what?

He hasn't been the same since his dog was employed to front the 6.01 news.

madmik · 30-01-2009 03:19PM

i think they should sack gerry ryan and repllace him with eamonn dunphy

rte would save 330,000 euro a year and we could scrap gerry ryan and be entertained by dunphy and his view on the world as only he sees it

30-01-2009 03:24PM

iMax wrote: »

If you want to whine about RTE salaries, whine about how Gay Byrne got €100k a year for five years not to go to any competitor after retirement... (ahem... allegedly)

In all fairness, if he had turned up on TV3 the next week on "The Gay Byrne Show" in the same format as the Late Late, they would have probably lost far more in revenue.

People like Pat Kenny getting 850k though...I mean if he was payed half of that I could maybe understand - being the Late Late presenter and all that. I mean if they cut his salary in half it's not like tv3 or a UK station would take him on. He has nowhere else to go.

Biggins · 30-01-2009 03:26PM

Rojomcdojo wrote: »

People like Pat Kenny ...He has nowhere else to go.

...except further down! :rolleyes:

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 03:37PM

Biggins wrote: »

...except further down! :rolleyes:

Can you imagine him doing Jonathan Ross's show? :eek: The only swearing involved would be the viewers ringing up the BBC telling them to get him off the fucking air.

phasers · 30-01-2009 03:38PM

Cut their pay and cut the bloody license fee, they only ever show rubbish

Edit: I'll present the Late Late for free RTÉ

Fulton Crown · 30-01-2009 03:40PM

Whats all the heat ??

It's simple really - RTE is a COSY CLUBwhere the members of that club get to decide each others salaries.

An a great thing....you can almost never leave the club..honest ! Look at all the "senior" liggers - Fanning / Gogan / OMuirceartaig / O'mahony etc etc.

The thing is it's run by civil service types who are not risk takers and who are fixated by keeping their "stars" ...why?

Because it's easier to pay these people exhorbitant salaries an prop up the listnership figures that to have to recruit young edgy broadcasters and develop them and RISK a dip in listnership.

news for you boys - not really a risk - look at Marty who left the mother ship and sank without a trace.

Ian Dempsey / Ray Darcy did a bit better but the sky didn't fall in...Tubridy replaced Byrne on radio..Kenny replaced......ummm cough splutter.

Its simple these liggers have no where to go on this Island - bite the bullet lads don't be so generous ...hang tight on a few of the contract negotiations and watch the so called stars sweat.

Great time to do it too.....:D

ejmaztec · 30-01-2009 03:41PM

phasers wrote: »

Cut their pay and cut the bloody license fee, they only ever show rubbish

Edit: I'll present the Late Late for free RTÉ

Pat Kenny could be your first guest - that would be worth watching.:pac:

Biggins · 30-01-2009 03:41PM

phasers wrote: »

Cut their pay and cut the bloody license fee, they only ever show rubbish

Edit: I'll present the Late Late for free RTÉ

Great idea. Pighead, Javaboy etc on as guests.
Get the AH mob in as an audience. The show would be a riot of entertainment! :pac:

Degsy · 30-01-2009 04:23PM

Biggins wrote: »

Great idea. Pighead, Javaboy etc on as guests.
Get the AH mob in as an audience. The show would be a riot of entertainment! :pac:

I remember the Late Late back in the mid 80's..rows were always breaking out with audience members and the panels that they used to have.
A memorable episode had two skinheads in t he front row shouting that RTE was a load of shiit and another guest telling Gay byrne to "shut up you,you dont know what you're talking about"!.
Gerry Ryan should appear on a special edition wherby he's given two hours of audience questioning to justify his salary without mentioning
A)his wife by name
B)Wongs chinese in clontarf
C)Fine dining
D)Sex
E)Women's periods
F)Money,his.
G)His expensive taste generally.
H)Harry crosbie
I)Bono
If the audience vote him off he should be shot on camera at once.

Zzippy · 30-01-2009 04:41PM

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Whats all the heat ??

It's simple really - RTE is a COSY CLUBwhere the members of that club get to decide each others salaries.

An a great thing....you can almost never leave the club..honest ! Look at all the "senior" liggers - Fanning / Gogan / OMuirceartaig / O'mahony etc etc.

Can't believe you included Micheal O'Muircheartaigh in that list - he might be senior but he's still doing as much work as he ever did, probably more, since RTE cover more live games now than they did 10/20/30 years ago. He's also one of the greatest commentators on GAA ever, professional, entertaining, informative and a mine of information. And I bet he doesn't get a fraction of what Gerry Ryan gets.
Ger Canning on the other hand, argghhhhh what a muppet!

Duck's hoop · 30-01-2009 04:50PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Hopping ship to where exactly............??

Well I suppose anywhere that wants to attract an extra hundred thou listeners or so. People obviously like him, posters on here may not, but they probably don't watch Kilnascully - RTE's most watched prog over crimbo - hundreds of thousands do though. I mean look at Ray D'Arcy, he's hardly the font of all entertainment, but he jumped to todayfm and gets a packet for it, same for Tom Dunne to Newstalk, none of em much cop but they get the name/profile with one station and jump to the highest bidder. Least that's the way I thought it worked. Only an opinion. No expert.

Tom65 · 30-01-2009 05:17PM

phasers wrote: »

Cut their pay and cut the bloody license fee, they only ever show rubbish

Edit: I'll present the Late Late for free RTÉ

You'd be doing for the chicks, wouldn't you?

todolist · 30-01-2009 05:24PM

dsmythy wrote: »

What does Joe Duffy get paid? Be an episode from the twilight zone listening to him and his callers whinge about his pay.

I can't remember Joe ever allowing a punter on his show to whinge about RTE and its overpaid "stars".There's obviously a list off stuff that's out of bounds on Joe's show.

todolist · 30-01-2009 05:33PM

Degsy wrote: »

I remember the Late Late back in the mid 80's..rows were always breaking out with audience members and the panels that they used to have.
A memorable episode had two skinheads in t he front row shouting that RTE was a load of shiit and another guest telling Gay byrne to "shut up you,you dont know what you're talking about"!.
Gerry Ryan should appear on a special edition wherby he's given two hours of audience questioning to justify his salary without mentioning
A)his wife by name
B)Wongs chinese in clontarf
C)Fine dining
D)Sex
E)Women's periods
F)Money,his.
G)His expensive taste generally.
H)Harry crosbie
I)Bono
If the audience vote him off he should be shot on camera at once.

You forgot to add...
1...New York (ad nausea)
2...Fitzpatricks Hotel
3...Rolys Bistro
3..Holidays in Florida
4..Shannahans on the Green

akaredtop · 30-01-2009 05:34PM

We are a small island with a population of 4 million.There is very little competition for RTE especially on TV. Say RTE were to offer Pat Kenny 250,000 per annum. If he was not happy where would he go. TV 3? I'd doubt it. BBC? They would not know him there. RTE do not have to pay these people such vast sums because you can be pretty certain they would easily settle for half if not less than what they are on now. Also I cannot really see any talent in any of these people. They could easily be replaced and Ryan, Kenny etc would be a distant memory in no time at all.

RATM · 30-01-2009 06:15PM

What he said.

Too right the TV market here is so small that the only options are RTE, TV3 & TG4. Theres no need for massive salaries to be paid, if they demand them then they should be told to take a hike to the UK where they have the licence fees of over 50m people and can afford higher wages.

This is not just an Irish phenomom though, Jonathon Ross gets some £17m a year. Jeremy Clarkson is supposedly paid even more. Obscene amounts of money.
The only thing you could say in defence of it is that Clarkson and Ross have more talent in their little fingers than the whole of Gerry Ryans fat gut.

RTE "stars" salaries.

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