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

Not sure why ppl are surprised about the salaries, theyve been in the public domain for years, and plenty here have been complaining about it, maybe the events of the last week magnified it.

And the ppl worried about not paying the license, i havent paid for one since 2007. Left Ireland in 2009, came back in 2014, and never got a tv. Got the threatening letters for a few weeks round 2017, emailed them saying, "piss off, i dont have a tv". Never heard from them since, nor had an inspector at the door.

EDIT: it wasnt an email, it was this form I filled out. Never had a followup to it.

https://www.tvlicence.ie/home/tv-licence-forms.html

They release incorrect figures and it looked like they tried to hide those figures. I don't think they did anything wrong financial, but they lied about the payments.

They could have said that they were all on 100,000 a year TBH, and they could have got away with that for a few years.

This then brings into question the amounts paid to presenters of independently produced shows and if any of them should have been on the top earners list. Claire Byrne IMO is showing this with her statement.

Dee will not attend tomorrow due to "ill health"

Dee Forbes is a coward who is unable to stand over her disgraceful actions that she signed off on and is running scared of being exposed.

Really bad for RTE if she doesn't show up.

Makes you wonder what she's hiding.

It's 100 percent a conflict of interests and I wonder was this declared at all. She could be on think ice with that one if a curious journalist decides to start digging around which inevitably they will.

What I mean to say is did she personally profit from GAAGO? I don''t think so reading into the detail of the setup. As DG of RTE she was automatically appointed to the board.

Not in relation to GAAGO, a decision would have been made on who should be put on the board of GAAGo RTÉ decided that the DG and Head of Sport should be RTÉ representatives on the board. IMO this is very bad governance / decision making.

DG has overall responsibility to RTÉ, not to any subsidiaries, and decision made by GAAGo should not be on there desk. She/he should only get involved where it is loss making.

Head Of Sport is involved in rights negotiations, by being on the GAAGo it may seem as though he is bidding against himself.

Really Head of Commercial and the Head of Strategy should have been put on the board, to put it at arms length from RTÉ.

The Like's of Netflix and BBC are going to headhunt Tubridy. His RTE salary will pale in comparison to want he has the potential to earn

What exactly will they be headhunting him for?

A tell all exposé on how he brought down a publicly funded monopoly?

To deliver a "how not to interview/present" training course?

To reach the high cobwebs with the duster?

The full version of the RTE Player is now up on the Sky apps I see.

An RTÉ statement on the controversial payments to Ryan Tubridy says former DG Dee Forbes was the only RTÉ Executive Board member that had all the information to know that his publically declared earnings were wrong. It also details the involvement of other senior executives.

Was watching them discussing this on the Tonight Show on VM1, and it was pretty much 'Statement answered nothing'. The press release was meant to be released at 3 pm, and wasn't put out until 5.29.

Eamon Dunphy was extremely critical.

Saw interviews with RTE staff, many of whom were crying, then Emma O'Kelly discussing how RTE staff were denied maternity pay whilst on Maternity leave because 'there was no money'. (Isn't that illegal, not to provide maternity pay?) Editing equipment that is broken, and how there wasn't 'any money' for crew if a journalist had a story they wanted to cover, with the excuse 'no money' or the story might be killed.

The whole debacle is DISGUSTING. And it was highlighted on the news that Dee Forbes hid behind Virtue Signalling (actual words used on the RTE 6.01 report) whilst actually being HORRIBLE to staff, no matter their gender.

Yes I could see Tubs taking over from Chris Hemsworth in Extraction

Which contract that belongs to one of the big earners is up for renewal next?

I don't think Tubs is on the same planet talent wise as Joe or Pat.

There I have said it.

Absolutely spot on, but all are minor at best. Joe and Pat are on Pluto while Ryan is on Makemake.

Talk to Joe.

Rte coming out of the 1st PAC very badly.

And as expected, the one person who can really answer the questions ain't going to show.

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That's part of the problem for RTE's commercial revenues, their audience for their traditional big hitting shows is dying off rapidly and they have little to appeal to the non-OAP audience. Increased competition and streaming is the other part.