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RTE Cutbacks The Plan

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    #122
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Re a special entity, RTE sees itself as a great platform for younger viewers too. I haven't watched "The Den" in years.
    It used to sponsor the "Young Scientist" exhibition as well years ago.


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    #123
    Oasis1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Oasis1974


    jk23 wrote: »
    Ryan Tubridy – €495,000
    Ray D'Arcy – €450,000
    Joe Duffy – €389,988
    Sean O’Rourke – €308,964
    Marian Finucane – €300,617
    Miriam O'Callaghan – €299,000
    Claire Byrne – €216,000
    Brian Dobson – €198,146
    George Hamilton – €186,195
    Mary Wilson – €185,679

    These are the top 10 earners in RTE, can anyone justify any of these broadcasters being on this money? :O

    George Hamilton does what every year to get that salary? It's the sports Hamilton right?


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    #124
    facehugger99
    Registered Users Posts: 7,215 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    The RTE Player that doest work.

    The RTE player is the single worst piece of technology I have ever had the misfortune to use in the last 2 decades.

    That's not an exaggeration.


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    #125
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Selling off the RTE Guide.

    RTE luvvies being interviewed by other RTE luvvies, and tv and radio schedules, which you can get online for free anyway.


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    #126
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,832 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    I made that exact point earlier.

    RTÉ see themselves as “really special”. They will happily take up most of the flagship morning national news programme discussing internal RTÉ industrial relations.

    That’s rte’s problems in a nutshell.

    They see nothing wrong and think they should clog up the national airwaves just because someone has the temerity to suggest some cuts to their narnia wonderland that joe taxpayer has been propping up for decades.

    Hate to tell you this but if you go to Newstalk site, it is the top story there too.


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    #127
    u140acro3xs7dm
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    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    George Hamilton does what every year to get that salary? It's the sports Hamilton right?

    He commentates on pretty much every sport, and he has a show on Lyric fm. I don't think he deserves that salary though.


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    #128
    Bazzy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Bazzy


    Does Dee realise she's in charge of the whole thing and its all one big family?? Rte 1 this and Rte 2 that


    The easiest way to save a fortune and i'm surprised it hasnt been mentioned here is to get rid of Fair City !!!!


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    #129
    Howitzer the 5th
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Howitzer the 5th


    Calhoun wrote: »
    Some comments on some of the questionable ones.

    The near one million they spunk on Tubridy and D'arcy is long debated with no sane justification or rationale from any quarters.

    Tubridy benefits from family member Todd Andrews elevation to RTÉ authority in the 1960's which is where one can trace his ultimate and undeserved status as chieftain of Montrose.

    D'arcy's immeasurable fifth rate qualities are barely worthy of regional hospital radio. His is RTÉ's profound mystery.

    Sean O'Rourke is due to retire. Joe Duffy cannot be too far from retirement or some useful selfless act. The late great Gay Byrne's great legacy tarnished somewhat by the irritating omnipresence of Joe f*king Duffy.

    Claire Byrne is their best card. Challenging and earnest. Overpaid but increasingly building a worthy name.

    Miriam Marian Dobbo et al and the gratuitous waste of money all reflective of years of inadequate indecision at government and RTÉ management level.


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    #130
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,509 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    This is hilarious.

    Posters on one side claiming RTE will ignore this story and then on the other saying they shouldn't be giving it so much airtime.

    It's one of the top stories on all Irish media and they are participating in an active thread about it.

    You couldn't write it, actually maybe RTE should make a program about it.

    :)


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    #131
    zeebre12
    Registered Users Posts: 537 ✭✭✭zeebre12


    No mention of RTE News Now getting the chop?


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    #132
    zeebre12
    Registered Users Posts: 537 ✭✭✭zeebre12


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    sweet jesus

    I know times are different now but Pat Kenny was on €951,000 in 2008. Crazy


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    #133
    zeebre12
    Registered Users Posts: 537 ✭✭✭zeebre12


    lisasimpson wrote: »
    I use to feel the same but my opinion has changed. Its not her fault RTE were stupid enough to pay her the amount she is on to be a showbiz reporter...ie read the dailymail.If you were in your 20s and offerred that amount of money for a handy number you would bite their hand off. Another clear example of bad management of RTE in relation to Lottie is not having her fill on for Eoghan McDermot the last few weeks. How much money was wasted on Greg O Shea hes so boring he would put you back to sleep. I have not heard one positive word about him on it. When Lottie filled in for Jennifer Mc on thr previous breakfast show she wasnt all that bad

    The only popular 2Fm show amoung young people is Jenny Green and RTE were shamed into bringing her back

    What is she getting paid?


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    #134
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    AllGunsBlazing wrote: »
    Rte's time has come and gone.

    It served an important purpose back when everything came from an analogue signal via the local transmitting tower. But the staggered arrival of cable tv services, satellite, and then finally broadband internet have rendered it obsolete.

    I'd be for continued (and reasonable) funding for Rte news - but everything else simply has to go.

    RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ 1 need to be kept as an absolute minimum.
    Lyric is also another which the public market does not service.

    RTÉ 2 and 2FM should be long gone.

    Reason the main TV and radio stations need to be kept is that we need a public news service.
    Service for national sports (Sky is not an option behind a paywall) and leaving only Virgin means no competition and sports organisations will suffer. Unless you want government to directly fund the shortfall.

    What we really need is more home made TV drama. Bloody hell we have the actors (always do), the BBC and American TV/Film is awash with our established names. Funds that would be freed up from the bloat could go to funding these.
    And I mean proper shows, not the muck they cobble together on the shoestring budgets they have left over. If UK channels can make Young Offenders, Derry Girls, Falling Down (for the Irish slant) or simple well made shows like Unforgotten, Line of Duty etc there is nothing stopping RTÉ commissioning similar.
    FFS look at the casts on some of these, these people have done well in UK/America, varying degrees to be sure but the talent is there even outside these headliners.

    Love/Hate:
    • Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
    • Aoibhinn McGinnity
    • Charlie Murphy
    • Robert Sheehan


    Love is the Drug
    • Allen Leech
    • Ruth Negga
    • Ruth Bradley
    • Orla Fitzgerald
    • Colin O'Donoghue

    Bachelor's Walk
    • Don Wycherley
    • Simon Delaney
    • Keith McErlean
    • Kelly Campbell

    Pure Mule had Charlene McKenna


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    #135
    Ardent
    Registered Users Posts: 5,277 ✭✭✭Ardent


    RTE want an extra €55M in funding from the taxpayer. €1M only pays Tubridy and Darcy's wages. Think about that for a moment.


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    #136
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    Dillon Dazzling Radar wrote: »
    Heard Brian Dobson interview Dee Forbes this morning. He showed no mercy.
    Was a tough interview which I reckon she regretted doing.

    It was tough but she had an answer to everything. It was a planned interview where he could not be seen going easy on her.


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    #137
    nkl12xtw5goz70
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    facehugger99 wrote: »
    The RTE player is the single worst piece of technology I have ever had the misfortune to use in the last 2 decades.

    That's not an exaggeration.

    Illegal streamers provided a more reliable online service during the Rugby World Cup than our multimillion-euro national broadcaster.

    The RTE player currently gets an abysmal 1.6 stars on Google's Play Store. The BBC iPlayer gets 4 stars and the ITV Hub gets 4.4 stars. Channel 4's app gets 4.8 stars.

    Maybe if RTE put money into things that people actually value, such as a good streaming service, and stopped pumping it into a black hole of lavish salaries for presenters and executives, people would be more supportive.


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    Oasis1974 wrote: »
    George Hamilton does what every year to get that salary? It's the sports Hamilton right?

    Hamilton is on Lyric also and is one of the most intelligent people in that organisation. Not to that money but far more useful than most others, if they bothered using his abilities.


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    #139
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,509 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Noemi Shapely Weakling wrote: »
    The RTE player currently gets an abysmal 1.6 stars on Google's Play Store. The BBC iPlayer gets 4 stars

    The RTE player is terrible but The BBC spend more money on just online services than RTE's entire budget.


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    #140
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    Bob Harris wrote: »
    Tubridy's salary was 723k in 2011. 8 years later and it'll be not much more than half that.
    Still a generous salary but from his point of view it has to sting a bit losing just over 300k per year in that time.

    Sting me BOLLIX. He knows he's still having his cake and eating it, as he wouldn't come close to earning that elsewhere.


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    #141
    Dammer
    Registered Users Posts: 343 ✭✭Dammer


    Anyone remember that Secret RTE producer who tweeted a load of "issues" within RTE

    Heres a list of those tweets on Reddit.

    They really only have mostly themselves to blame...


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    #142
    nkl12xtw5goz70
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    Boggles wrote: »
    The RTE player is terrible but The BBC spend more money on just online services than RTE's entire budget.

    I'm not proposing that RTE should emulate the BBC, which receives licence revenue from a country of 67 million people.

    But seriously, how much would it cost to create a service that could stream even one channel reliably without endless buffering, stalling, and crashing?


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    #143
    Boggles
    Registered Users Posts: 39,509 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Noemi Shapely Weakling wrote: »
    I'm not proposing that RTE should emulate the BBC, which receives licence revenue from a country of 67 million people.

    But seriously, how much would it cost to create a service that could stream even one channel reliably without endless buffering, stalling, and crashing?

    I've no idea, but I imagine more than what is being invested at the moment.

    I doubt they are making it shít on purpose.

    All though saying that, the Ads run flawlessly. :pac:


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    #144
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    facehugger99 wrote: »
    The RTE player is the single worst piece of technology I have ever had the misfortune to use in the last 2 decades.

    That's not an exaggeration.
    The way people consume media has changed and RTE is stuck in the mid 2000s

    I can't understand why they aren't prioritizing the RTE player. It is literally their only chance to survive as a media entity. Instead they produce a half cooked pile of rubbish.


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    #145
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    They lost their way somewhere along the line. To many dawlings and fancy Dan types. State broadcaster, basically they should be on the same pay scales as the rest of the civil service. Before someone someone argues about salaries for "talent", does anyone really notice that much of a difference with the quality of local radio presenters and RTE's top paid presenters. Now there are exceptions and I believe there should be exceptions made. However by and large RTE have notions above their station which is the crux of the issue.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #146
    nkl12xtw5goz70
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    Boggles wrote: »
    I've no idea, but I imagine more than what is being invested at the moment.

    Why, in the world of RTE, is "we need more investment" always the solution?

    If this were a private company, people would be told to get their arses in gear and fix the problem with the resources they already had.


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    Boggles
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    Noemi Shapely Weakling wrote: »
    Why, in the world of RTE, is "we need more investment" always the solution?

    If this were a private company, people would be told to get their arses in gear and fix the problem with the resources they already had.

    Because RTE are not a tech company, they have outsourced the nuts and bolts of the player AFAIK.

    Now it could be because that company or incompetent or maybe the tech that makes it run better is more expensive.


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    #148
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    Noemi Shapely Weakling wrote: »
    Why, in the world of RTE, is "we need more investment" always the solution?

    Well, since Bewley's did'nt go tits up, why should'nt they? - "An Bord Bun"

    An old acquaintance of some eminent RTE staff. - "An Bord ..."


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    #149
    zeebre12
    Registered Users Posts: 537 ✭✭✭zeebre12


    How do other countries with a similar population to Ireland manage their state broadcaster?


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    #150
    ToBeFrank123
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    Changing times and RTE have been slow to adopt.
    Sounds like the digital stations were a significant loss maker.
    They've let go workers before and ended up having to hire in contractors to replace them.
    But its good the government are holding firm on not providing an increase in funding.
    Evasion was always a problem with the licence fee and will also be there when the broadcasting charge comes in.
    RTE need to accept they are no longer a monopoly but existing in a highly competitive dog eat dog environment.


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    #151
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users Posts: 4,797 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Is DAB not on life support anyway? Surely it's days are numbered with internet radio and Alexa's etc and other simpler ways of listening to radio?

    I bought a DAB radio for quite a bit of money for a simple radio :eek: and it never worked, sitting at the back of press somewhere.

    What other countries did with more successful implementations of DAB was allow independents on the platform for free. You see here RTE claim they pay to be on the service, but its license payers money when you think about it. Not earned money.
    Its the same with the Digital television platform. RTE are the only ones in HD on Saorview because they charge a huge premium for HD which of course they claim they pay for.
    But its also license payers money which the independents don't get.


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