RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Should Duffy stay on €351,000 a year so? I don’t think so. I don’t listen to him because he’s so good - I listen to him because he’s so BAD!! He can be condescending, shout people down if they don’t agree with him, ( then cut them off) , laud certain of his “cronies” and give them airtime, , promote his books for free, put on a camp voice at most inappropriate occasions, defendRTE to the hilt (but not so much recently I note), discuss death at every available opportunity, look, I could go on, but you get my drift. He’s only there because Gay Byrne took a shine to him years ago.

”Talent” he is not.

• "every opportunity he gets to bring in some gay angle he uses it"

Down with that sort of thing.

Antenne Deutschland launches Germany’s first AI radio station (broadbandtvnews.com)

Very listenable AI hit music station from this German media group is up and running. That's 2FM as we know it done for (should be, anyway). That'll be a start.

But...But...who will prevent all dah DIS-infohmation from dah gubberment?

I agree the license fee should be scrapped. The advertising market in Ireland is saturated at the moment and will bring in a certain amount of money to RTE. You have the likes of Sky and Channel 4 sucking the life out of the advertising industry here. Then you also have Virgin Media who are looking for their slice of the advertising pie.

As we know RTE are state owned organisation and don't have the big bucks like Sky and the above mentioned. So for RTE to succeed in it's public broadcasting remit after this scandal is over the government will have to allocate enough of the tax payers money to fund what ever is necessary. I think big sacrifices will have to be made by the new DG whether it's down sizing RTE which would more than likely mean capping the so called top ten salaries or possible job cuts.

I'm open to correction here but RTE cancelled Scrap Saturday which was produced by a production company which Morgan owned and which infuriated Morgan.

Morgan then starred in Father Ted which Channel 4 ran with.

I don't remember RTE ever coming out and saying publicly that Dermot Morgan won't be working with us again.

I presume thats what a lot of people are hoping KB will be saying about RT...all im saying is I don't expext an announcement like that.

You are expecting a bit much for me to summarise a thread with almost 17k posts on the matter in one post.

But for the record, I didn't miss several points that you accuse me of. I did mention the Renault/RTE deal. I did mention Tubs being paid out of the Barter account. I did mention the invoices. I did mention that things said by RT at the PAC didn't appear to be the truth. And I did mention that Tubs let RTE report his salary incorrectly without correcting them.

The only thing I didn't mention that you accuse me of is the fake Renault gigs. What fake Renault gigs are you talking about?

If there were extra payments 'off the books', then they were off the RTE books. Therefore that's an RTE issue.

i ABSOLUTLY agree with all ur points. But it is the absurdity of the show that I enjoy and especially the PURE GOLD episodes that break out of nowhere - especially when Joe is put in his place. Eg the Irish American who eventually rang in about the memorials he was betting local craftsmen to make and erect them to commorate the famine and implicating the UK for ignoring it . Joe was not expecting him to ring in . Also the day Michael o Leary called in to defend Ryanair charging for seat booking if you book late. I could go no and on.

As a matter of fact most of the comments on the LAVH Lahn thread is what brings the show really alive. So please, please, please do’nt rubbish it , for my sake at least, in case RTE takes it off the air

Apologies, you are correct 👍

It is in the emails discussing his contract negotiations, NK refers to commercial rights for The Toy Show Live, I presume they thought they could sell out the RDS like Top Gear Live did.

Yeah don’t see the point. That’s what toyshops are for if the kids want to play with toys. Even adding kids entertainment isn’t exactly a massive draw.

Look, really, Gaybo came up with the Toy Show idea way back. Good idea. Defo a ratings draw. Show hung around long enough to become a national institution. Good stuff there too. That’s all it is though, a Christmas edition of a chat show with toys and happy excited kids and entertainment for kids.

You might wake up one day and be a bit up yourself and think it’s be a great canvas for a live experience. Then what happens though is you float the idea around the place and by lunchtime most people have comfurned it’s a big pile of toss and you climb out if your arse and go do dive real work.

It just shows how much of an echo chamber these people live in that they just like everyone’s creative ideas without any ounce of critical or realistic thinking altogether.

Have you watched ITV lately, game show central!

Oh, there was intense political pressure exerted by the Charles Haughey led Fianna Fail administrations. There was a pathological hatred of, not just a bias against RTE exhibited by the likes of Ray Burke when he held the communications portfolio. Those two crooks got their comuppance in the end.