RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Tubridy seems like one of those people who have bookshelves full of books they have never read. A typical book can have between 200 and 400 pages. The time people have to read can be quite limited so it would take a while to get through a book. It might be easier to get some researcher to provide a synopsis rather than having to read all those books himself. I think that RTE had a late-night Arts programme (John Kelly may have been the presenter) a long time ago and it had writers and reviewers talking about books. Their enthusiasm was obvious. It was quite different to Tubridy's need to be considered intellectual.

Regards...jmcc

Things will never change as long as some of the usual suspects are still in RTE.

Yep. Most of the time they are harmless. It is when people start taking them seriously that problems arise. With RTE, it seems that there's a high Walter Mitty concentration in management.

Regards...jmcc

RTE's hybrid model is responsible for a dysfunctional market. With such a market, RTE is insulated from reality because there are no penalties for failure. The PAC/Media hearings were a rude awakening for RTE hence the resignations and retirements.

The nearest thing to a free market in terms of broadcast was the Pirate Radio market before Burke and FF ruined it. Small towns supported two or three radio stations. While TG4 is TV, a free market for TV might have easily produced something like it. However, TG4 is also a public service broadcaster initiative. When some of the radio pirates tried to set up pirate TV stations, the P&T and the Gardai were very quick to shut them down.

RTE as a public service broadcaster might work but it would need funding and a lot of its current employees might be out of a job. The imposition of Burke and FF's radio licence model made it far more difficult to have a free market in radio and cross-media ownership was a major problem for Ireland until, ironically, the free market took care of most of it. The future for RTE could be Digital because it has a lot of archive material that could be monetised with a reliable streaming platform. There may be rights issues to be sorted out though. RTE needs to be broken up if it is to have a future.

Regards...jmcc

Why would they stalk you online?

Well when I mean found out, I am talking about when state something which is then proven not to be true. When this happens you hide away for a few days and then start posting again.

That's a good reason to not have him back. If nobody else wants him then his talent is very limited.

Would love to see him reading out the death notices on local radio.

Different opinion? My issue was that you were telling lies. I know now that I was 100% correct C-Suite. Your defence was telling. I have no intention to stalk you. Boards is my only social media. Time to stop the 'pick me' act Doc. And yes, you were found out...Mistruths you might call them 😂

On another note RTE has not read the room right as regards RTEgate as Marty is commentating on the All Ireland Hurling Final.

Yep a degree in Social Work, which might be why his modesty forbids that he disclose this.

All it shows to me is any degree you might have from a top University will get you a job in RTE.

Until his BIK is sorted he should not be on the airwaves or tv.

That would certainly be an improvement - an RTE that is purely public service broadcasting. I would see RTE much smaller than it currently is in this instance. On the downside there would still be the issue of a subsidized player in the TV market among commercial outfits.

An alternative might be to recognize that RTE, when you look at the schedules, is primarily a commercial organization albeit with significant subsidy and a certain level of public service mandate. As such, make it fully commercial and phase out all direct subsidy over time.

With the saving on direct subsidy, separately invest in Irish produced content and make that available to all competing stations including (but not limited to) RTE on an equitable basis. In this way, RTE and other companies can pay what they want to their exectives, have junkets to attract advertisers and so forth, but if they overspend and put themselves in financial difficulty they must sort it out on their own; they can't expect a bailout from the State as RTE are about to get shortly.

Most of the other solutions involve "fixing" RTE: change the management; give them more subsidy; remove the means that people can legally avoid paying them; limit salaries etc. But none of these make fundamental changes to the broadcasting landscape. They are all about getting things back to normal as quickly as possible so that the same problems can arise again in a few year.