RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

And who is he? Honestly who even knew who he was really?

They are competing among themselves only in reality.

Qualified with a lot of reservation.

If there's one thing we've found out over the past week is we can't take RTE pronouncements on earnings of their staff as gospel.

Are you friendly with RT or Dee Forbes?

I will be shocked if Tubs resumes his radio show ever. He is clearly not wanted.

He was wrong morally.

His claim is, he only declared the real figures and had never looked at the fake figures the papers were reporting.

And he did make statements of taking pay cuts to help a struggling RTE and how it was the right thing to do.

Funnily enough has fake pay figure from 2017 v fake pay figure 2022 reflects a pay cut of (€52,500)

However. His actual figures show that his real pay in 2022 was higher than the real pay from 2017. So an actual pay rise for Ryan..no cut.

Very underhand.

We are paying very well at the moment and getting shite in return.

Did Tubs claim he never looked at the published figures? If so, he is telling lies.

Yes. Claimed he was oblivious to the wrong figures being reported yearly in the media

Don't forget the director of content (Jim Jennings) knew about "elements of the commercial agreement" - it's like this is some sort of IQ test and we are supposed to fit together the parallel overlapping statements to solve the puzzle of whodunnit, LOL!

Seriously they put out a deliberately cr*p "comprehensive report" to set our expectations on the floor. Tomorrow we'll have Govmt commending the Board on the cr*p report for taking a "vital first step on the long journey to restoring faith in an invaluable institution for democracy..." just to rub the public's faces in it! The dream of getting Zvlensky on the LL Toy Show might still be alive ;-)

There's definitely a role for Ryan Tubridy post scandal. In children's entertainment. He could dress up as a fluffy animal and maybe charge €1,000 for appearing at children's parties. Quite lucrative.

Don’t know either of them.

Just don’t like false claims being made against anyone.

Article on Dee Forbes pleadings from The Phoenix, December 2022:

THE INTRO to RTÉ’s autumn season launch is familiar to perusers of press releases from assorted Irish film festivals, Screen Ireland, IFTA and film industry organisations: “This upcoming season from RTÉ celebrates Irish culture, creativity and Irish talent, with Irish drama, unique Irish stories, and Irish talent taking centre stage.” Yet, do RTÉ possess the ability to follow up on these words with original programmes?

The PR pitch is clearly that the broadcaster’s output exists to underpin its pleadings for more income. In an interview last month, RTÉ director general Dee Forbes said: “We are living month to month trying to manage the finances.”

That may be true, but then Montrose has partnered with many international competitors in recent years, on shows such as Normal People, without whom these series would not get the green light, as Forbes indeed admits, referring to the return of Smother and Kin.

“Quite honestly, we couldn’t afford to do it ourselves. Having people like AMC coming on… is a very good way of making sure that this content is seen outside Ireland,” she said.

The problem is that there is little in it for RTÉ when the international rights are owned by the larger production partner.

A detail neither Forbes nor the recent PR guff addresses is the actual extent to which the new programming is produced by external, independent producers, and how much of that is commissioned or merely bought in by RTÉ. That information could leave the station looking like a hulking superstructure with inordinate staffing levels. It raises the question, if it is more efficient to commission these programmes externally, then why is RTÉ not entirely a commissioner broadcaster?

A. Will advertisers want their brands to be associated with him now? B. Will his listenership figures plummet? I think the answers are A. Not a hope. And B. Yes. The kiss of death for any radio presenter.

Kielty is being very cagey on what his salary is going to be.

I think we have a right to know seeing as we will be footing the bill for it.