RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

If every thief who robbed something could return it to the shop if they were caught and get a 'well done' pat on the back for being so honest, wouldn't that be the same as them letting Tubridy back for returning the booty, it just cannot happen and expect us all to have respect for the national broadcaster going forward!

I've been watching Frasier on the RTE player first season with his Agent Bebe Glazer brilliant stuff.

RT was asked during the PAC who would he return the money too, and as he was answering Astus, he was corrected by his solicitor and was told he would return it to RTE directly.

"Recently retired RTÉ head of commercial, Geraldine O’Leary, flew to the Spanish capital with four clients and the broadcaster’s head of sales to attend the match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool. The group stayed in the four-star Pestana Mayor Plaza Hotel in Madrid, where rooms yesterday cost as little as €200. However, the broadcaster’s Astus barter account shows it paid €26,576.94 to stay in the hotel.

This works out at €2,214 per night per person. The hotel was opened just a few weeks before the RTÉ delegation arrived for the Champions League Final which saw Liverpool beat Spurs 2-0 on June 1, 2019.

Flights from Dublin to Madrid for the group came to €2,806. “The four advertisers who accompanied RTÉ on the trip were collectively responsible for a spend of €8m with RTÉ in the previous year,” the spokesperson added. A few months later in September, Ms O’Leary clocked up a more than €111,000 flying four clients and RTÉ’s head of sales to the Rugby World Cup in Japan."

@ButtersSuki while boards is largely now more tame than it was back in the 2000s do you know from your knowledge of the people in RTÉ are they aware of boards.ie and do they follow the threads about RTÉ? or did they ever?

It wasn't his fault that the knife slipped.

That argument is that in a competitive advert market across uk and ireland and more importantly the mix of advert opportunities I.E insurance company May have new campaign that it plans to launch across tv, internet, papers, billboards, buses, radio. The determination of the % of budget to each type is where media orgs have to apply pressure as they want a bigger TV advert pie for each campaign.

so not a binary of choice of rte versus virgin with advert budgets.

If say media agency has €50m advertising/sponsorship budget for 2023 rte is trying to convince media agency who handles that account to increase spend on tv/radio to greater %.

if media agency was planning to spend 20% on local tv/radio but RTE bringing media agency to champions league final sways them to increase it to 25% of which RTE grabs majority slice then its increased tv/radio spend by €2.5m for a relatively low cost.

that’s essentially the argument that RTE says when it uses the figures of advertising spend

How exciting,

because without GOL, RTE would be minus 1.65b.. it was very important herself and + 1 attended all these events - just to make sure the event was up to the clients expectations.. She seems the kind of person who would have zero interest in things like that anyway, prefer to be at the desk working on excel sheets.

They reportedly offered €12 million for 49%. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rte-refuses-to-hand-over-information-on-alleged-maximum-bid-8xsbsqzzs

I was browsing this site and came across a few things that i thought were funny. But this.

https://www.superannrte.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8426:rte-interim-leadership-team-2&catid=31&Itemid=104

"Mr Bakhurst said the interim leadership team has the right experience to continue running it, but also to bring some new thinking and some fresh blood on board."

"The temporary team, along with Mr Bakhurst, has been named as Eimear Cusack, Director of Human Resources; Vivienne Flood, Head of Public Affairs; Mike Fives, Group Financial Controller, RTÉ; Adrian Lynch, Director Audiences, Channels, Marketing, and continuing as Acting Deputy DG; Paula Mullooly, Director of Legal; Deirdre McCarthy, Director of News & Current Affairs; Niamh O'Connor, Deputy Director of Content; Conor Mullen, Head of Strategy & Commercial Compliance, RTÉ Media Sales; and Richard Waghorn, Director of Operations and Technology.

Ms Flood, Mr Fives, Ms O'Connor and Mr Mullen were not members of the former Executive Board."

Two clicks later and on the same site there is a photograph of Conor Mullen whom I believe is the other RTE staff member that went to the Champions League Final. With Geraldine "I did what I was told" O'Leary.

GOL and NK more than anyone else seem to be pushing the narrative that neither of them could walk unless Dee Forbes told them to. All of GOL's overspending was obviously down to DF, which is really nonsense. We also heard NK repeatedly saying that RTE are a 100 year old company worth €300 million, I am just a poor small company and other crap.

Conor 'New Blood' Mullen with Gerladine "I did what I was told to do" O'Leary. I hope she had nothing to do with organising that party or the balloons in the background might have cost us €5,000 a piece.