RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Looks like the comments are being made for attention-seeking. Taxing gaming services and streaming services would terminate the careers of the politicians who tried it. FF is already in trouble in the younger demographics in terms of votes. FG is losing badly to SF in those demographics. The old broadcast model has been on its last legs since the introduction of VCRs (video cassette recorders) and to some extent, tape recorders, in the 1970s. That gave the end-user control over the schedule and changed the broadcast model from a synchronous one where people had to watch or listen to programmes when they were broadcast to an asynchronous one where the audience could record the programme and watch it later. Then came the digital video recorders. Now, there's streaming.

According to the record companies, tape recording was killing music. It didn't. According to the studios, pirate video sales were killing studios. They didn't. Now, streaming is supposed to be killing broadcast. It hasn't. The difference between RTE and services like Netflix and Prime is that people pay for Netflix and Prime because they want them not because they are forced to pay. RTE has to innovate or die.

The problem for RTE specifically with Tubridy and the other zelebrities is that, to paraphrase Johnson, what is good is not original and what is original is not good. Unless RTE resolves this problem and the financial side of things, it faces becoming more unpopular and more irrelevant. RTE has a lot of historical content that it could use if the RTE Player wasn't so iffy. Even LLS from the Gaybo era would be far more interesting than those from the execrable Tubridy era.

Regards...jmcc

It's enough to wear you out completely, and disappoint the other half!

Looking at your words, "off the books", Niamh of NKM (the lady with the chauffeur driven car) has in her bio that she has "a background in events and below the line marketing."

So the only problem in RTÉ is funding?

I can't see any of that happening, unless the Guards get involved Forbes won't be talking.

Kevin Bakhurst made a point of saying he needed to talk to people in RTE before deciding on what to do with Tubridy. Is there any evidence he did that, or was it just for show?

Has he asked the opinions of Tubridys former or future colleagues or taken an informal poll of opinion in RTE? Doesn't sound like he did.

So lets start with the reform and improved oversight first and then the funding issue.

The license fee payer did not break this social contract. RTÉ came to us cap in hand begging for more money, every year, failed to explain their future plans with that money, and then went out and used their power to gain money for themselves.

And the government did capitulate on several occasions: -

1. 10 million in extra funding for 5 years 2020 - 2025 (total of 50m)
2. Restoration of the income from the DSP
3. The move of the NSO and Choirs to the NCH
4. The return of TG4 portion of the license fee to RTÉ in 2018
5. And interim funding until a decision was made about the license fee

While they government may not have restructured how we pay for the license fee, they did do a number of thing for RTÉ over the years.

Indeed RTÉ failed to move the NSO over the the NCH in 2021... due to staffing arrangement and covid ... but they were able to organize the barter account.

RTÉ have massive internal problems which they must now sort out before anyone can consider signing any social contract with them.

You dont need two meetings to tell someone their services will not be required ......

Looks like they are working out easiest route back in for RT...

Renault can't afford Tubridy anymore as their sales have fallen so much during their association with the late late show

The 1st Brolly/ Fanning podcast on RTE is like that - Brolly is a bit OTT. But in the second he tones all that down and it's sharp more often than not. The quote about Moya Doherty is bang on - he has her to a T. He also gives a good analysis of the vacuous nature of the presenter and many other matters.

Ah lads you've got this all wrong, look at the increase British royalty are getting: