RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Beaker is still banging his drum in the Indo today. He seems to want justice applied to those who weren't truthful in RTE and the reporting of Tubridy's salary. Apart from the very Alan Partridge appearance at a pensions seminar by Tubridy, Tubridy seems to have dropped out of the news cycle or at least what passes for it in the Irish media. Those fantastic job offers seem to be just that -- fantasy. The sheer lack of job offers is going to have a serious effect on salaries for other RTE "talent". Beaker does have a point. The pruning of RTE needs to be more than just the staff. The management responsible for the mess that is RTE deserve to be in the front line for job cuts.

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/fionnan-sheahan-rte-applied-the-rod-to-tubridy-but-its-quest-for-justice-seemed-to-wither-before-the-rest-of-them/a1278044555.html

Regards...jmcc

His recent appearance on Dunphy's podcast recently was ridiculous. The two of them competing to rehab Tubs. The angle now is to pretend he was just an innocent bystander, a mere patsy, in this much larger story which is the den of inequity that is RTE.

As I've said numerous times, forget the Renault sham to get him extra salary top ups, forget even the 150k that no one is ever going to see again. Tubridy presided over a closed shop on the LLS. He and his agent turned it into the Noel and Ryan Show where practically every week a succession of NK Mgt people were wheeled out to self promote their RTE work and often their own businesses. This was often at the expense of valid stories that got no airing in the Tubridy era, simply because their was no revenue raising angle for NK, or because of some conflict of interest issue with LLS sponsors.

For that alone, the little wizzend pr**k should never be allowed on the grounds of RTE again, never mind all the serious financial chicanery.

I heard that today but I'm questioning all the figures. I can imagine Kielty's LLS got 1m viewers. So many people I know including myself watched it. But you can't tell me Tubs was getting 750k weekly viewers. I could count on one hand the number of people I know watched it. Outside of the toy show which has become a tradition, you would be hard pressed to find a viewer.

Looking at the figures for the 2022 season it was only around 500k and dropped rapidly with each successive episode.

RTE's Late Late Show sees dip in ratings since start of season - Irish Mirror Online

Thats not fair. BBC already got landed with him once. Think they should be exempted this time round.

The spines of paperbacks provide an indication that a book has been read. If they have a glossy cover, as most do, there will be wrinkles in the gloss. They also tend to have a concave curve due to people holding them open to read. Without his radio show, Tubridy probably won't generate high numbers of sales, I'm not sure that publishers would even risk running an an endorsement from Tubridy as a blurb. If his Instagram fanbase is largely women then he should be mainly promoting Chick Lit titles. That's a very competitive genre and Tubridy's opinion wouldn't account for much.

Regards...jmcc

From medialive.ie adults 15+ (random months)

1. Jan 2010 - 676k
2. Feb 2011 - 696k
3. Mar 2012 - 600k
4. May 2013 - 521k
5. Sep 2014 - 501k
6. Apr 2015 - 479k
7. Oct 2016 - 494k
8. Dec 2017 - 452k (ex Toy Show)
9. Nov 2018 - 428k (ex Toy Show)
10. Oct 2019 - 423k
11. Mar 2020 - 570k
12. Jan 2021 - 468k
13. Oct 2022 - 340k

Tubs kept up his audience by introducing specials, Valentines, Country and a few others over the years. He'd dip on a weekly bases that 340k he was dangerously close to getting but he'd have some special that would increase the audience. Then that bounce in 2020 well that's the mid-misery bounce. This is Covid era TLLS, but also it comes from 3 "successful" specials for Gay Byrne, Keelan Shanley and Marian Finnucan, somewhere even dissappointed that he didn't do a Larry Gogan episode, that week the numbers were also up.

Figures are for the +15 age group, random months from medialive.ie, average for TLLS in that month of broadcast.

Pat's last month had 652k viewers .... and his first ..... 658k

It would be interesting to know her qualifications and her previous work history.

How she got the job and was there an interview process or was it good old nudge nudge wink wink it's Rte.

You're asking why people are obsessed about RT on a thread about RT.

Would you accuse people on threads dedicated to weather of being obsessed with weather?

Like RT you have problems reading the room.

I presume they will have to get RT back for the Toyshow? Can't do the Toyshow without the wooden Toyman can they? Will PK be able to be as cringe and awkward around kids?

Yeah I’ve seen figures where he was around 380k some weeks- very poor.

And of course let’s not forget- 2020 and 2021 were the lockdown years- if you can’t get an audience then, well FFS what are you doing?

Just thinking back on some of the last toy shows- they gave the reason of “many people suffering financially” for not showing the normal level of toys/ I call poppycock to that considering the toy show took place in the 1980s at a time of mass emigration and double figure unemployment - more like they wanted to promote Ryan as some sort of Peter Pan children saviour and milk his “brand”

I didn't want to name her as I don't think she should be thrown into this. I agree but again I would say that she is largely a corporate photographer. As I say she took over the role from RTÉ employees who were full time with the company, saving RTÉ on the range of things she mentions in her post.