RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I don't see it happening all Political Parties are the same on this issue. All believe that the problem lies with the collection of the licence fee.

Dee Forbes' whole raison d'etre was we need more money and the licence fee is broken, the only way to keep doing what we are doing is for reform of the licence fee. Never a plan as to how they might use the extra funding because we know they they just felt that a programme costing them 100k per episode really should be costing €200k because it is that good and RTÉ are doing a stellar job when you consider the budgets that they have!

All legislators really need to think about what RTÉ is doing and what RTÉ will be doing in the future.

IMO bailing them out rewards their mismanagement of the company over the years and it rewards the incompetency of those in charge.

RTÉ must be split up much like FAS was split up. AFAIK FAS was split across Screen Ireland, DSP (entreo), the new company Solas, the ETBs (formally VECs) and the HSE.

Unfortunately as I see it presently, and this may change, but PAC and the Media Committee just want reform of RTÉ. The Cabinet may think differently. The Minister seems happy to throw money at it, and the Minister has largely thrown money at things without any real focus IMO.

I don't know know. With the audience figures in decline they might be thinking are we flogging a dead horse. 😳

Oh what a tangled web:

And all because of the Tubridy payments.

Regards...jmcc

There isn't enough data on Kielty's LLS appearances yet but there is one consistent trend with Tubridy. He lost viewers from when he took over the show. It ceased being the LLS show and became the Ryan Tubridy show. The same NKM faces showing up time and again didn't help. Even with the change in viewing habits (streaming etc), the LLS audience is quite well defined.

The LLS/radio tie-in worked for Gay Byrne and Pat Kenny because they were/are at the top of their game and were interesting. With Tubridy, it was hard to tell where the LLS babbling and the radio show babbling began and ended without checking the time. The reviews for Kielty's LLS have been quite positive so far and they seem to have noticed the difference.

The methodology of measuring the audience for TV and radio is problematic at best.

Regards...jmcc

I agree but it what we have, I'd argue that TVs is slight better, don't understand why Radio use JNLR.

For RTE? Paying "expenses" and overpaying "talent". The fact that Tubridy has not received any firm offers from other Irish or international broadcasters for anything like the money the clowns in RTE were paying shows the level of dysfunction in that company.

Regards...jmcc

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No one can have confidence in the RTÉ Board, most of them are on the board for more than 2 years. The Chair I'd give a chance to as she is just coming into her first year. But I do think she or someone should be asking for resignations. Many are just going to leave the board over the next couple of months without taking any responsibility. Indeed at the Oireachtas I felt they were mollycoddled by the TDs and Senators. Ian Keogh certainly should have been quizzed more as he was Deputy Chair and is still Deputy Chair.

Chair wouldn’t give me any confidence she can handle what is required here

She reminds me of my mother, I have this feeling that behind closed doors she rules the roost but is fair, however IMO my mam would have told any of the older members to leave the board and would have had a blistering attack on Dee Forbes. She also be in tears at the Oireachtas Committee... ah she's nothing like that women, she far better :)

Ah they should replace Kevin Bakhurst with my Dad, he could say every now and then .... "What they need ... is a good ... kick ... up .. the .. arse". 😂

Indeed. It's as rotten as any of the other semi/state bodies that have been revealed in recent years. A government serious about reform would be re-naming it, whole new board, relocation maybe, the works.

As it stands, we're only going to get musical chairs and a lot of old blather until they get the inevitable wodge of cash they need from the state. Slowly but surely it will slide down the list of news topics, public interest will flag and Bakkurst et al will be looking for business as usual. Full state funding would be a gift to RTE. They could really go full bore of wasting money then, and they'd be no pesky licence payers withholding their funding. The cheek of those peasants!

Would have been a very different show. Much more a continuation of the Tub's era.

I'm not sure I like all chat shows becoming vehicles for comedians but considering how poor LLS guest lineups usually are, I think it's better in the hands of someone who can lighten things up and make the most of a bad lot.

It's like when Ben Dunne had his unfortunate episode in Florida. Little did we know or suspect the repercussions of that.

wouldnt put any of the management or directors in charge of a puddle,theres about 1800 staff,what do they do???and as for what they call "talent" about as much talent as a rock...i actually watched the late late last friday,not to bad but then anyone would be better then the last gobdaw and in the interests of fairness as id never watched it before, i watched an episode of fair city the other evening,all i can say is 'holy shite' and they get paid actual money to be one that?!!!?and they wanted a photographer to take photos of it? FFS!! i got the demand for my telly tax yesterday and i dont know if im going to pay it,no way is what i saw,certainly not on fair city,worth 160blips a year....and absoferkinlutely no way should they get any more money until there are huge changes in rte...

That show showed up her limitations in great detail. She is completely over rated, and I think part of it is because she is female.