RTE paycuts the new meaning for RTE

jimmynokia · 11-06-2011 12:17PM #1

In the sun today RTE give RTE a new meaning

REDUCE
TURBRIDYS
EARNINGS

here is some extract from the paper

RTE has vowed to slash top presenters salaries.
Chief noel curran warned loaded stars like tubbers,marian finucane,and joe duffy,will have their pay cut by 30 per cent.
This will be complete in the next 2 years.
PAT KENNYS salary will be reduced from €950,976 to €665,683

Will there be a defiance like the last pay cut?

ITS long overdue anyway they have been paid too much for too long.

Here is the NEW RTE logo in the image.

orourkeda · 11-06-2011 12:18PM

It might be the catalyst for Ryan Tubridy to stay in England.

Yay

kfallon · 11-06-2011 12:20PM

jimmynokia wrote: »

Will there be a defiance like the last pay cut?

Course there won't cos they know they are still being overpaid!!! :rolleyes:

jimmynokia · 11-06-2011 12:21PM

orourkeda wrote: »

It might be the catalyst for Ryan Tubridy to stay in England.

Yay

I like the way they say it will be a 2 year completion why two years and not now?
maybe they are hoping certain stars will go and stay in england and some may follow.

wild_cat · 11-06-2011 12:23PM

Sure isn't Marian Finucane on huge money for a few hours a week?

Balmed Out · 11-06-2011 12:23PM

Cant understand how any of these guys in a country the size of ours earns more the 100 to 150,000.

johngalway · 11-06-2011 12:25PM

Balmed Out wrote: »

Cant understand how any of these guys in a country the size of ours earns more the 100 to 150,000.

Why not? That's how Ireland works, cosy clubs where everyone knows everyone else.

jimmynokia · 11-06-2011 12:25PM

Balmed Out wrote: »

Cant understand how any of these guys in a country the size of ours earns more the 100 to 150,000.

I agree the wages should be capped.is it any wonder RTE are broke and us paying a ridiculous licence fee,and be bored to death with certain presenters.

orourkeda · 11-06-2011 12:26PM

jimmynokia wrote: »

I like the way they say it will be a 2 year completion why two years and not now?
maybe they are hoping certain stars will go and stay in england and some may follow.

Thats the dream. See how long liveline lasts in the UK.

mikemac · 11-06-2011 12:27PM

jimmynokia wrote: »

PAT KENNYS salary will be reduced from €950,976 to €665,683

Is Aoife Bannan the new Alison O'Riordan? What a lazy and badly researched article

Kenny was paid €950,976 in 2008 and it was cut to €630,000
Source from the examiner

The return in profit comes in spite of The Frontline presenter taking a significant salary cut in 2009 to €630,000 from the €950,956 earned in 2008.

Another link from the Irish Times in 2009

Pat Kenny again RTÉ's best paid presenter
Radio and TV broadcaster took home €950,976 Pat Kenny again RTÉ's best-paid presenter, writes ALISON HEALY

Secondly he is not on a salary as he is a contractor and doesn't work directly for RTÉ

So the Irish Sun is pulling Kennys money from 2008 and acting like it's the same figure in 2010 and now it'll be cut
And recycling stories from the Examiner and Irish Times in 2009 and acting like it's front page news

I've no issue with RTÉ cutting the money to pay to their so called stars.

I somehow thought journalists for a national paper were better then this. But then it's the Irish Sun

Hank_Jones · 11-06-2011 12:28PM

jimmynokia wrote: »

PAT KENNYS salary will be reduced from €950,976 to €665,683.

Oh....noes.....how will he ever survive.

Biggins · 11-06-2011 12:30PM

jimmynokia wrote: »

In the sun today RTE give RTE a new meaning

REDUCE
TURBRIDYS
EARNINGS

RTE has vowed to slash top presenters salaries.

RTE will lose star-pay savings by restoring increases to staff

Saturday June 11 2011
THE savings made by RTE in slashing the pay of its biggest stars will be wiped out when it restores wage increases to general staff within weeks.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/rte-will-lose-starpay-savings-by-restoring-increases-to-staff-2672188.html

jimmynokia · 11-06-2011 12:31PM

mikemac wrote: »

Is Aoife Bannan the new Alison O'Riordan? What a lazy and badly researched article

Kenny was paid €950,976 in 2008 and it was cut to €630,000
Source from the examiner

Another link from the Irish Times in 2009

Secondly he is not on a salary as he is a contractor and doesn't work directly for RTÉ

So the Irish Sun is pulling Kennys money from 2008 and acting like it's the same figure in 2010 and now it'll be cut
And recycling stories from the Examiner and Irish Times in 2009 and acting like it's front page news

I've no issue with RTÉ cutting the money to pay to their so called stars.

I somehow thought journalists for a national paper were better then this. But then it's the Irish Sun

This is what the sun says so thats whats in the news but im sure in the sunday world tomor there will be a better broken down detailed story.
All in all they still get paid too much and they will get that loss back by other means regardless.

jimmynokia · 11-06-2011 12:34PM

Biggins wrote: »

RTE will lose star-pay savings by restoring increases to staff

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/rte-will-lose-starpay-savings-by-restoring-increases-to-staff-2672188.html

Joe Duffy and Ryan Tubridy did not returns calls made to them.

WHY? to busy with other ways making more money.

Pauleta · 11-06-2011 12:43PM

I dont have a clue how they are being paid such somes. If RTE halve the fees being paid, what are they going to do, go to TV3? learn Irish and go on TG4? They still wont be able to earn the money RTE give them and they wont get a job on British TV. Its wages for the boys, at our expense.

Pat Kenny was on 900k and now on around 500k. There is not a hope in hell he could even get half if even a quarter of that elsewhere on TV3 or TG4, nor would he get much on radio. Gerry Ryan was on 500k and has hardly left a gaping hole at RTE. Joe Duffy is on 250k. Would he get 100k+ at newstalk or Today FM? no. John Kelly 180k. That guy that presents the view on RTE everyweek. The programme is never on earlier than 11 o clock. I doubt, it pulls in the ratings. Mariane finucane is on 400k. Again, she wouldnt get 100k at Today FM or newstalk?

RTE are a law onto themselves. They employ their mates. Guests and audience members for their shows are friendly or family members with employees. The fact Gerry Ryans daughter got a job at RTE despite doing percisely nothing, sums the place up. RTE needs to be sold and a vastly reduced license fee should go to a news service.

RoundyMooney · 11-06-2011 12:44PM

jimmynokia wrote: »

In the sun today RTE give RTE a new meaning

REDUCE
TURBRIDYS
EARNINGS

I can't stand Tubridy, in fact I can't abide the mediocre inept FF stooge at all. But.

Did he piss in your cornflakes or what?

11-06-2011 12:44PM

Id rather pay Ryan Tubridy out of my own pocket than read the sun.

The begrudgers will be out in force in this thread no doubt.

jimmynokia · 11-06-2011 12:54PM

Hezekiah Sweet Packer wrote: »

Id rather pay Ryan Tubridy out of my own pocket than read the sun.

The begrudgers will be out in force in this thread no doubt.

Here we see somebody that does not read the sun,the sun lands in my office or canteen, its free whats the big deal,also the same news is in other papers if i read them other paper does it make me any better? I THINK NOT. i read all the papers when i get time.
So you think boring tubridy is worth his wage? NO he aint.

Tim Robbins · 11-06-2011 08:27PM

There's a facebook page set up for anyone who thinks the RTE presenters are on way too much.

Had your like. Power to the PEOPLE!

SWK · 11-06-2011 08:34PM

My main source of bafflement is that Marianne Finnucane earns 400k. She hosts a radio show, or am I missing the other duties she has at RTE? At least Pat and Ryan are doing two jobs, even if their performance is questionable at best.

Absurdum · 11-06-2011 08:35PM

If it pissed the ***** in the Sun off, then I'm happy for Tubs

Hail 2 Da Thief · 11-06-2011 08:44PM

It amazes me how much RTE presenters are still being paid even after the cut-backs over recent times. What other TV/radio companies would pay the likes of Pat Kenny €630,000 pa? It's not like he has the BBC, ITV, CBS etc. chasing after him for his signature. RTE should be paying these presenters a reasonable wage & if they don't accept the terms just hire someone else. They'll quickly come back begging for work after they've entered the real world!

SWK · 11-06-2011 08:49PM

Hail 2 Da Thief wrote: »

It amazes me how much RTE presenters are still being paid even after the cut-backs over recent times. What other TV/radio companies would pay the likes of Pat Kenny €630,000 pa? It's not like he has the BBC, ITV, CBS etc. chasing after him for his signature. RTE should be paying these presenters a reasonable wage & if they don't accept the terms just hire someone else. They'll quickly come back begging for work after they've entered the real world!

I usually don't bite when the tabs drop a story like this, but your view is the same as mine. Why not cut the wages of the top earners? There not going anywhere and maybe then they might have money to invest in original programming, not that their record is great, or maybe better yet the might lower the TV license fee a smidgen.

Zebra3 · 11-06-2011 09:15PM

RTE advertising on Sky Sports earlier.

Wtf? :rolleyes:

Show Time · 11-06-2011 09:41PM

I am waiting to see which of the current crop of rte "stars" will try the Gerry Ryan approach and moan and bitch when on air about the hardship that involves in reduced pay packet.

FlutterinBantam · 11-06-2011 09:44PM

I would be of the opinion you will wait a long time for that scenario to arise.

Nobody in their right mind would try that stunt in these straitened times.

Not even in RTE;)

the groutch · 11-06-2011 09:45PM

taking a zero off the end of all their pay packets would be about right

Gunsfortoys · 11-06-2011 09:47PM

Hezekiah Sweet Packer wrote: »

Id rather pay Ryan Tubridy out of my own pocket than read the sun.

The begrudgers will be out in force in this thread no doubt.

As will people who need to learn the meaning of begrudger and says it in EVERY thread to do with anything Irish.

Freddie59 · 11-06-2011 10:19PM

Pauleta wrote: »

I dont have a clue how they are being paid such somes. If RTE halve the fees being paid, what are they going to do, go to TV3? learn Irish and go on TG4? They still wont be able to earn the money RTE give them and they wont get a job on British TV. Its wages for the boys, at our expense.

Pat Kenny was on 900k and now on around 500k. There is not a hope in hell he could even get half if even a quarter of that elsewhere on TV3 or TG4, nor would he get much on radio. Gerry Ryan was on 500k and has hardly left a gaping hole at RTE. Joe Duffy is on 250k. Would he get 100k+ at newstalk or Today FM? no. John Kelly 180k. That guy that presents the view on RTE everyweek. The programme is never on earlier than 11 o clock. I doubt, it pulls in the ratings. Mariane finucane is on 400k. Again, she wouldnt get 100k at Today FM or newstalk?

RTE are a law onto themselves. They employ their mates. Guests and audience members for their shows are friendly or family members with employees. The fact Gerry Ryans daughter got a job at RTE despite doing percisely nothing, sums the place up. RTE needs to be sold and a vastly reduced license fee should go to a news service.

+1 to all of the above. I read somewhere a few years ago that BBC Wales operates similar services and employs 800 people. RTE employ 3,500 (I stand corrected if wrong).

As you have pointed out - where do they go? And does it really matter anyway? But they're only the tip of an iceberg. The ordinary working person is working flat out not just to repay loans for which they are not responsible - but the exorbitant salaries of TDs, judges, civil servants, consultants, etc.

It has to be tackled across the board.:mad:

jimmynokia · 11-06-2011 10:32PM

There is 2200 staff at RTE

Show Time · 12-06-2011 03:37AM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

I would be of the opinion you will wait a long time for that scenario to arise.

Nobody in their right mind would try that stunt in these straitened times.

Not even in RTE;)

If anyone was mad enough to try it at least we would get a thread out of it.

RTE paycuts the new meaning for RTE

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