Ah, poor RTE is playing we have no money.....

No more land to sell, know plenty that work or worked there....insane gravy and some poor work attitudes.....just from my experience others will of course have seen things differently.

Could they start selling sponsorship slots on their newscasters clothing?

I think RTE has become totally irrelevant. Sticking to old formulas for running itself, over paying, under delivering and has a public sector mentality.
I don’t use Rte as my go-to for anything current affairs related. I don’t know what the hell they are supposed to cover under public service broadcasting, but I bet virgin could cover it at a fraction of the cost. Time to radically re-think why you exist at all RTE and then, when they can answer that they can maybe start to make the decisions needed to bring their books back in line.

Rte has lots of money.

They're just wasting it away, that's all.

punisher5112 wrote: »

Prime time doing an investigation into how rte themselves have no money....

They have 3 people watching clips and are asked should we be forced to pay...... Guess the answer yes yes we should be forced....

RTE are a shocking set up and squander a fortune....

Broadcasting charge does exactly that, doesn't it; or am I missing something?

screamer wrote: »

Like the HSE really....

Not saying the HSE can’t improve, but it is delivering a service to the public which pretty much no one would accept to live without. The same thing can’t be said about RTÉ.

tonycascarino wrote: »

They should stop paying the likes of Marian Finucane, Joe Duffy, Ryan Tubridy, Ray Darcy etc. astronomical wages. What do they do that is so important to justify their wages? Their jobs certainly don't warrant their salaries and the same applies to everyone else who works in RTE. Sort that out and then maybe that would be a start towards RTE saving money.

Pat Kenny spoke about this some time ago. He said the presenters wages were but a drop in the ocean compared to waste on so many other staff. Researchers by the dozen for each show, far more than required.

Cameramen carry on is the one that stuck in my mind. Camera operator is on premium but the guy holding the cables beside the camera was union mandated to also be a camera operator and paid the same. Twice the cost immediately compared to others.

Abuse of free taxis (at cost to rte) for any old excuse never went away. On a story/buisness fair enough but it was being used for going to and from work for every tom dick and Harry.

Staff are never off the books. Remember when they were asked a few years ago to State the number of staff and they couldn't put a number on it.

I would defend the need for a news service but in the last few years it is just a propaganda piece for the state. There is no critique and I think it is a fear that they won't get anyone to interview if they break rank. The BBC is not much better in that regard but neither stoop as low as Fox news in the US. Paying top wages to read stuff out loud should not be a requirement.

We still need to pay for good news service and everytime rte comes under attack, they put the importance of this as an example of why we should pay more.

Separate news from the rest of Rte, we should pay for news but make the rest of the rubbish pay it's way on commercial income. And that includes staff and presenters wages.

Steyr 556 wrote: »

Why don't they just privatise it? Powers that be nearly fell over themselves to get rid of profit making state and semi-state companies before, you'd swear there was a vested interest in having a propaganda outlet on tv, radio and internet 24/7...

There's truth in what you say (e.g., the National Lottery, which was functioning fine when in fully public ownership and was only sold because the public finances were so dire a few years' back), but even though I rarely watch RTE, be careful what you wish for. Do you really want our national broadcasting service in the hands of someone like Rupert Murdoch?

Nationwide, ear to the ground, reeling in the year, the odd cooking program,
The odd prime time special and occasional there’s a decent late late.

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Forget it, they will just increase the license fee. That's easy.

They have to wait for 20 years to increase it. That will be in 2028.

It’s very important we don’t lose our national consciousness in a world of American dominated media.

punisher5112 wrote: »

I hate this idea they have to sell off public owned land.... It makes no economic sense and it's a one off. They can't do it again next year or in years to come.

Done work experience there and it was an absolute tip with those walking around thinking the sun shone out of their holes.

Same, did work experience there. Craziness and they had a cushy canteen!

mzungu wrote: »

The salary demands of some presenters needs to be looked at. It's mainly the timeslot that brings in the viewers/listeners and most people will get used to a new face/voice hosting the show pretty quickly. There is no way Tubbs is worth 400,000 euro a year. Nor is Joe Duffy worth 300,000 euro. It's time for the taxpayer funded gravy train that is Montrose to come into the real world. Before they go looking for money from Joe and Jane Public, they need to start getting their own ship in order.

Their current affairs output is very good, though.

He's not worth €300,000, he's worth near €400,00 at the last release of RTE wages. Of course these numbers are 3 years old as we cannot find out what they are really being paid this year for 'commercial reasons'.

Pile of bollocks.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/ryan-tubridy-highest-paid-at-rt%C3%A9-as-top-10-presenters-receive-more-than-3m-1.3729014