RTE Top Earners 2019

How do they get away with their adverts promoting the truth wall to wall displaying a completely unreadable graphic of the top 10 on the list, it's like a Communist Party cover up. RTE - The Truth Matters...me bollix....


https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0120/1190981-rte-on-air-earners/

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I would imagine the contractors are all paid from the ad revenue they bring in.

Have you listened to the ad breaks on Liveline recently for ads generating actual revenue for RTE?

Poor Tubbers hasn’t had a pay increase since 2017, the poor lad. I wonder how he’s coping.

That table makes for interesting reading.






*makes TV presenter showreel to send to Noel Kelly*

Is George Hamilton a freelancer? Or RTÉ contractor?

What the hell does he do to justify that salary?

Its disgraceful the salwry' they are on. An absolute joke. If Gay Byrne had of earned as much as Tubridy ok I would say he deserved it at least he made the Late Late Show entertaining, interesting and controversial. Ryan Tubridy has not got a clue how to do that. It's all misery misery and more misery from him. Even the Toy show at Christmas was crap. Not a single toy on it either. The top 3 or 5 should have there salary halted at least. RTE need to save money. That is what they should do. They do not like it fine then go get a job at the BBC or somewhere else see how much they will get.

Looking at it on the news they could easily save 1million euros and then maybe pay the low earning staff at the station a bit more he even hire a few more people for the money they would save. I would cut 200thosand from the top two and reduce everyone else's to 200thosand euros. That would save them loads.

Ray is truly a fooking mystery..

Only in Ireland.

AMKC wrote: »

Its disgraceful the salwry' they are on. An absolute joke. If Gay Byrne had of earned as much as Tubridy ok I would say he deserved it at least he made the Late Late Show entertaining, interesting and controversial. Ryan Tubridy has not got a clue how to do that. It's all misery misery and more misery from him. Even the Toy show at Christmas was crap. Not a single toy on it either. The top 3 or 5 should have there salary halted at least. RTE need to save money. That is what they should do. They do not like it fine then go get a job at the BBC or somewhere else see how much they will get.

Looking at it on the news they could easily save 1million euros and then maybe pay the low earning staff at the station a bit more he even hire a few more people for the money they would save. I would cut 200thosand from the top two and reduce everyone else's to 200thosand euros. That would save them loads.

Stop talking common sense

Studz Entertainment Ltd - nicky byrne :pac:

I pay the licence fee fool that I am. Its just to stop some so called inspector annoying me at my front door.
Wouldn't mind but I don't receive rte and don't watch tv per se. Just netflix and DVDs.

There is no way any of the presenters on that list deserve that pay.
A more talentless agrivating bunch of people you'd be hard pressed to find.

Clareman wrote: »

I always thought 2FM was a commercial entity and not included in the overall RTE figures.

Personally I don't think any presenter in Ireland is worth ~half a million a year BUT they are headlining the top shows both on radio and TV so being the top paid does make sense, I'd have them all on profit sharing for their shows rather than a base salary though, that way if their shows do well they do well and there's no money taken out of the license fee.

its the shows that have been around for decades and that are the institutions. Not some toff with the personality of a mop. Graham norton is a good entertainer for example, Ryan tubridy? you reckon he would land a gig anywhere other than this small rock? I mean the LLS still gets good viewership figures and it has been appalling for years... So this nonsense of "its the presenter" it isnt, it is the name of the show, peoples viewing habits, hence they watch the absolute depressing crap

liam7831 wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/revealed-ryan-tubridy-tops-list-as-rtes-top-10-share-95m-over-three-years-39991307.html

Who is their right mind would pay a license to subsidise this.

Couldn't agree more, just beyond comprehensible. I wouldn't mind if there was an ounce of Talent between this motley crew.

During lockdowns, I found myself watching more Irish TV and listening to Irish Radio. Apart from a few presenters (not even mentioned here), the rest was utterly dreadful. News & current affairs presentation in particular just awful.

I just don't get these outrageous salaries, very very simple solution is offer a reasonable salary, they can take it or leave, what's their option? Virgin "tabloid reality show" media? I think not. How RTE ever got into this absurdity is beyond me. One interesting thing I noticed was this claim salaries have been reduced, I'm not seeing this in TURDbidys figures.

Finally, I've also noticed throughout the past few months, most of our quality journalists seem to be working for France 24, Euronews, speaks volumes really.

Sorolla wrote: »

These broadcasters are very well paid - I agree with that.

The reason they are well paid is because they are the Creme de la Creme of broadcasting Talent in the Northern Hemisphere.

Our broadcasters are the envy of the world and let us just look at those who try their luck away from Ireland :

Norton
Wogan
Eamon Andrews
Henry Kelly

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See what happens - they rise to the top.

If we do not pay top wages to our best broadcasters they will be poached by all the big networks - they will also earn top wages.

If we pay our broadcasters peanuts we will get monkeys.

Recently I was travelling abroad and I was speaking to a well-spoken gentleman who was originally from Hamburg and I complimented him on his beautiful diction and he told he that when he was a young lad he grew up in Hamburg listening to RTÉ radio and that is the reason he has a wonderful diction.

So to cut a long story short :

We are the envy of the world

Pay peanuts and you get monkeys

So to speak

I doubt we're the "envy" of the world. Norton was a comedian and as far as I'm aware he never worked for RTE. He went to acting school in London and the acting wasn't working and to get more stage time he started comedy. He was a natural, his first big break was guest hosting a Channel 5 chat show that leads to him getting his Channel 4 show. It's more of a statement of RTE not developing talent than any sign of them being a breeding ground for talent.
To be honest I had to google the other lads, Eamon Andrews & Henry Kelly. I knew Wogan all right. Pretty telling you can't point to more modern names that "RTE" let slip through their figures than those three lads.

I no issue paying people decent money it just comes down to again RTE not investing in comedy talents or new formats. I would say one of the main RTE presenters is Nicky Clarke the lad from Westlife, which just says it all. Anybody with a bit of celebrity from outside Ireland seems to be golden. Jenifer
Zamparelli was on The Apprentice in the U.K. so she becomes the main comedy person in RTE, Craig Doyle did well in the U.K presenting shows so he was given three different chat shows in a row that all bombed. RTE was going to give him another one till he said stop, I can't take anymore. The Irish lad from Love Island last year seems to be someone there grooming too.

It remains startling that these jokers get double what An Taoiseach gets, roughly the same as Pres Joe Biden, and it cannot be unfair to say their work is somewhat more significant. The claim is that they draw advertisers and this is a slice, but if there was anyone at that slot, I suspect fairly similar revenue. The audiences they draw are tiny compared to BBC stars. There are better paid Beeb presenters, but their reach is vastly wider, and if they left it, they could have a reasonable chance of work at another broadcaster. Past experience shows the RTÉ bruisers have nowhere else to go, unless the likes of Denis O'Brien becomes a patron, as with Pat Kenny, and he remains in Ireland. The 'pay peanuts, get monkeys' line is just weak. We already get monkeys and they get more than peanuts. Tubs really must owe his position to political pedigree, making RTÉ employee or contractor (consider also how staff vacancies get filled) the last hereditary occupation. I'd like to see that lot with a harp cursing the foes of Leo or Denis O'Brien in poetic Middle Irish, thinking of an older hereditary occupation.

Nearly all the people cited by Sorolla went straight to the UK and were journalists, actors and comedians who carved out a big audience before they became broadcasters. Eamon Andrews had made it in a vastly larger market before he came back here.

Tubridy should be on children's TV presenter salary, because that's all he's capable of doing.

In the last 5 years of huge political turmoil, I don't think there's been one panel debate on the late late show about the impact of Brexit or Trump. What happened to those great debates that the LLS used to be known for, with audience questions for the panelists.

And instead of any serious analysis of Biden's election, on Friday night, you can bet Tubridy will instead be Zooming to Mayo to chat with his relatives and ask them the crucial question... "How Irish does Joe feel, go one tell us, does he feel.........90% Irish??!!.... HAH!!"

It's a travesty that such a poor, uninformed, incurious interviewer commands the top salary at the organisation.

walshb wrote: »

This pretty much sums him up

And as inept and weak as he is, he is still streets ahead of Ray

Ryan at least had articulation and fluency and some clue about stuff...

Ray...mother of divine jaysus..

Yeah well Ray is no broadcasting titan but he's always given off the vibe of a decent bloke at least.

Tubridy is one of those cnuts that does a great watery eye and heaving chest routine whenever there's a moving item to be covered, but I know full well he would step over a homeless person holding a cup and tell him to get a job while he's at it.

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Studz Entertainment Ltd - nicky byrne :pac:

His father Nicky Snr had his own band called "Nicky and the Studz".

I don't get the advertising argument and anyone with a corporate financial brain in their head should say the same. Tubs is presenting the longest running chat show of its type in the world. People tune in out of sheer habit. I could start presenting with my awkward Cork head and still get an audience. He is such a poor interviewer too it's laughable. Unless it's in a cue card he's lost. He's not everyones cup of tea but to see the difference with Tommy Tiernan interviewing. It's so natural to him and so unnatural to tubs.

The long running threads on boards show a lot of people listen to Joe Duffy just to laugh at how poor he is. Commanding that salary for that poor quality is crazy.

As has been said, leave them go elsewhere if they really think they're worth it.