RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Every one of these "sycophants" should be asked, when praising RT, what their views on the 150k pay back (not) are. Might focus things a bit.

yes you do have a point there, however we all realise once RTE 'expenses' go into the main churn of taxpayers money support,JQT will have no way to make a protest, and I for one would not trust any Government to keep a close eye on their spending.

Recent events have proved that they have been riding us bareback, car deals, concert deals, clothing deals, travel deals, nepotism, and that's only the stuff we know about.

The question needs to be asked do we accept being butt reamed by a tight circle in the Monkstown/DL/Dalkey area or fight back.

Rt doesn't have a brand.

My one bit of sympathy I have for him as a human is that he is a product of an unsustainable institution.

When radio and tv were our only windows to the world his style of gibberish wouldn't have got any of the prime spots, he probably would never have gotten a show with his lack of awareness.

But those days passed and tv/radio remained the background noise for those who hadn't gone online, and it's this passive audience that RT was let loose on.

His ego is as unsustainable as rtes budget.

Any advertiser would be crazy to support a podcast by Tubs with serious money.

As many have mentioned, podcasts aren't as popular as many think they are. And fans of the Tubster aren't of the demographic to go and listen to podcasts imho.

So it would be a big risk.

Actions speak louder than words imo

Wouldn't it be classier to say nothing/have nothing said and land the gig...than talk or have it talked about it beforehand?

Offer to do "the big podcast"? Does Hughes think that it is some TV programme like "The Big Breakfast"?

Regards...jmcc

I can actually see him rowing in with some GBnews type setup because he needs a passive audience.

Not being the podcast thing myself. Back when I commuted a lot I used to listen to podcasts a bit but now I have less ‘idle’ time I’ve grown out of them. I just don’t have the place to fit them in in my life these days. Even so I’d only listen to a free and even the ones I particularly like I’d happily skip through the ads. Only 1 would I actually consider subscribing to but, again, don’t listen regularly enough to make it worthwhile.

It was a vacuous statement, ill timed, criticizing him for that is harmless. It many people say it too many people all the time.

No never said that, but then I never talked to the press about how I had taken a pay cut when I hadn't, nor did I go along with publicly announced figures when I knew they were wrong.

RTÉ have a trade union, and no an agent should be seen as a trade union.

No one ever said it was, but we did complain about these high wages and we didn't consider the justifications in anyway real.

Again RTÉ did not have a full monolopy unlike many of their European counterparts, it competed in a country where many had access to UK signals from the very beginning. UTV where very effective at taking the Irish Punt. Granted a different situation in terms of Radio, but many people of an era listened into the Beeb, I know my Dad's family rarely listened to RTÉ, my Mam felt she'd entered a different country as all her family listened to was RÉ, and the top 40 on Radio Luxemburg.

Nothing is worse and we've being arguing for years that RTÉ was badly managed even before this scandal hit. I am not surprised or shocked by it TBQH.

I personally don't need storms to be names, nor do I need Ryan Tuburity's, or this scanda,l to tell me RTÉ is and was a very badly run organisation, I have known it for years.

Again we've argued here and in plenty of other places that this is not just about Ryan Tuberity, he is part of it and his and his Unions dealing with the barter account have shown RTÉ and its management team up for what they are.

Ryan doesn't get to be in some way the whistleblower in this instance.

This is for buttersuki… I’m not wile sure how boards works and I’m not the sharpest knife in the draw …

however … there was a radio program on yesterday about the man who swallowed the dictionary…

I think you’re bloody fantastic… an outlier and I love every single word you write… I actually look forward to your posts … keep the faith butters , you are a marvellous human being with wonderful writing talent… superb

you

RYAN Tubridy has been offered a megabucks deal to host a two-hour show opposite his former slot on RTE Radio 1, The Irish Sun on Sunday can reveal.

Irish station Classic Hits Radio say they will match the €170,000 offer Tubs had from RTE before he was axed.

So double the hours for the same pay, KB taking note

He was been offered 170k at RTE. Pity he hadn’t his world class studio in before he got let go because then he could have worked from home. I jest. Not very good I might add.

Best of luck to him. Will he bring the numbers? I’m not so sure, but this is show business, anything can happen. But ‘Noel’ NKM management right now is nodding sagely in his board room. His ‘boy’ is still front page news. And he is thinking If Fionnan Sheehan be with us who be against us? GB News here we come with his pocket money earned on Classic Hits. Take note leaving cert students… the universe is adventurous place.

Is classic hits a dublin only station?

If so, great, most of the country will be able to fully avoid contact with RT’s particular brand of verbal diarrhea.

It's nationwide. I like Classic Hits (4FM) except when there are talk shows. Niall Boylan is on there. I only tune in for the 80s stuff. I thought Tubs would be above this station. This could be all spin too.

Edit: I thought it was nationwide - see below.