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Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

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  • #352
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    kneemos wrote: »
    Colm Hayes reackons RTE is slow and bumbling,and progress is stifled by unions and the sheer size of the organisation.


    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/radio-novas-colm-hayes-slams-12803297

    He's some fella to talk. He was getting well over 200k when on Colm and JIMjim on 2fm. Jimjim took court case because he was only getting 90k.


  • #353
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,895 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Jimjim took court case because he was only getting 90k.

    The horror of only getting 90k for working all those hours


  • #354
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    fritzelly wrote: »
    The horror of only getting 90k for working all those hours

    Yeah-whatever happened to Jim Jim?


  • #355
    GhostyMcGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭GhostyMcGhost


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Yeah-whatever happened to Jim Jim?

    He was only getting 90k. Ya wouldn’t get out of bed for that now sure


  • #356
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,895 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Yeah-whatever happened to Jim Jim?

    Writing for The Sun it seems


  • #357
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Did anyone ever ring Joe Duffy to say they dont pay for a tv licence and that its a farce?


  • #358
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    mikeym wrote: »
    Did anyone ever ring Joe Duffy to say they dont pay for a tv licence and that its a farce?

    Emperor Duffy has a time delay on the calls if anyone dared sail that close to the wind they would get a bad line and he would switch immediately to an ad break advertising RTE's two orchestras

    The old USSR hadn't a patch on this crew


  • #359
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,895 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    mikeym wrote: »
    Did anyone ever ring Joe Duffy to say they dont pay for a tv licence and that its a farce?

    Ahh but sure he's worth a grand an hour to listen to people moaning.

    When will RTE ever get out of this deluded mentality if we don't pay them what they want then someone else will get them
    Helllooo, nobody else wants them. FFS anyone can do Liveline, LLS is a piss poor attempt at entertainment recycling the same ol' ****e of a celebrity circus

    Is there really any job at RTE that needs anyone been paid more than 100/150k a year?

    And don't get me started on O'Callaghan - biggest waste of space on TV, she cannot do political, can't even do presenting tbh. At least Pat Kenny had some cop on with that stuff.


  • #360
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,594 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    fritzelly wrote: »
    Ahh but sure he's worth a grand an hour to listen to people moaning.

    When will RTE ever get out of this deluded mentality if we don't pay them what they want then someone else will get them
    Helllooo, nobody else wants them. FFS anyone can do Liveline, LLS is a piss poor attempt at entertainment recycling the same ol' ****e of a celebrity circus

    Is there really any job at RTE that needs anyone been paid more than 100/150k a year?

    And don't get me started on O'Callaghan - biggest waste of space on TV, she cannot do political, can't even do presenting tbh. At least Pat Kenny had some cop on with that stuff.


    Not just saying it,but she is a dire interviewer. Anytime I've seen her glaringly obvious questions get ignored for the ones on her card.
    The constant mmmm does my head in as well.


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  • #361
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,854 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    To be fair Dee only gets €338k a year...
    The RTÉ annual report also lists a total remuneration package for Director General Dee Forbes as €338,000. This includes a salary of €250,000, a car allowance of €25,000 and retirement benefit contributions of €63,000.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0626/973359-rte-annual-report/


  • #362
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    To be fair Dee only gets €338k a year...



    https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0626/973359-rte-annual-report/

    Is that car allowance 25k a year?


  • #363
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,854 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Is that car allowance 25k a year?


    Yes, it would only get a 'modest' supercar.


    It's feckin shocking, a basket case organisation losing €6.4 million a year paying its boss so much, bloody disgrace.


  • #364
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,895 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    To be fair Dee only gets €338k a year...

    https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0626/973359-rte-annual-report/


    "So yeah, I know you're paying me this ridiculous wage to run a company losing a fortune but we need more money"

    Try running it better so its not losing money maybe and justify your wage - radical thoughts I know


  • #365
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    kneemos wrote: »
    Not just saying it,but she is a dire interviewer. Anytime I've seen her glaringly obvious questions get ignored for the ones on her card.
    The constant mmmm does my head in as well.

    I'm thinking Claire Byrne's gonna be 'under review' soon. What with losing a court case, her farcical '8th debate', and two more apologies that she had to make afterwards, one last week was made to Willie O'Dea regarding a slanderous 'perjury' comment.

    She's cost RTE quite a bit recently, and her own show is a dismal, comical affair-recycled debates, recycled arguments...there was more 'serious' discussion regarding bloody Fortnite than there was the rape trial, and the Belfast trial.

    She's seriously unable for the job.


  • #366
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,895 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    RTE should be run as a proper business and not a cash cow for a few elite - if you're losing money you cut the chaff
    The country deserves accountability for where the licence fee is going - hell we pay enough. For a licence fee that is basically the same as the UK we get nothing here in comparison.
    The Beeb run multiple orchestras, regional BBC TV/radio stations, produce world class programs and the list goes on, still some wasted money avenues, but for value for money they are pretty exemplary around the world.

    RTE gives us multiple chat shows regurgitating the same ol', same ol', some rather naff dramas (Fair City been money for old rope) and spend a fortune on UK soaps (and others)
    Always thought the production values on TG4's programmes to be better than RTE

    There is no value for money


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  • #367
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,523 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    kneemos wrote: »
    Colm Hayes reackons RTE is slow and bumbling,and progress is stifled by unions and the sheer size of the organisation.


    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/radio-novas-colm-hayes-slams-12803297

    To be fair if RTÉ was properly ran, he wouldn’t have ever been let near the place, never mind bagging over €200k a year.


  • #368
    RabbleRouser2k
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    colm_mcm wrote: »
    To be fair if RTÉ was properly ran, he wouldn’t have ever been let near the place, never mind bagging over €200k a year.

    I know a few people who studied media-seemed to be going places, but all of their chances were with other stations-UTV, TG4 and TV3. (When UTV closed down, I know a few people who lost their jobs there. One works as a secretary now, and maybe as a Voice over actor. If she's lucky. Tv3 and Tg4 are more likely to employ you, tbh. But behind the scenes-floor runner, PA, etc). Too many have to try and ask parents for support.

    Others went freelance-and another went to England and trained as a gym coach. The latter one was more surprising, seemed to be going places-had a blog, got a once off gig with RTE (a five minute segment on teen RTE website, more than most) and then nada.

    I don't think it can be understated how important the kids tv department of RTE was to getting talent. From behind the scenes, to presenting jobs.
    Now it's just an elitist 'inhouse'...

    Have you ever stayed up late on a weeknight? If you have, you'll see there are an absolute ton of shows on late at night that are just wasted money-they're all cancelled, no longer airing etc But you know RTE have spent quite a pretty penny on them.


  • #369
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    I wonder how much was spent commissioning a series of ads featuring the famous faces reminding us of the great Service provided under the tagline "Supported by your licence fee" Throwing good money after bad IMO.


  • #370
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,854 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    foxy farmer wrote: »
    I wonder how much was spent commissioning a series of ads featuring the famous faces reminding us of the great Service provided under the tagline "Supported by your licence fee" Throwing good money after bad IMO.

    Or how much the running of the "Your Orchestras" adverts cost in lost slots they could have otherwise sold.


  • #371
    Mrhuth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭Mrhuth


    You cruel people, they barely get half a million a year. They are barely surviving. Disgraceful attitude from the posters, I hope they get another raise soon.


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  • #372
    Caspian Petite Corner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭ Caspian Petite Corner


    Mrhuth wrote: »
    You cruel people, they barely get half a million a year. They are barely surviving. Disgraceful attitude from the posters, I hope they get another raise soon.

    Won’t somebody please think of Ryan Tubberdys children 😂😂 the next wave of RTe ‘talent’


  • #373
    CeilingFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭CeilingFly


    grahambo wrote: »
    I don't watch RTE, not even for the Soccer/GAA. I might listen to the radio when I drive the car in the morning (which is once a blue moon)
    I don't use the service, why the hell should I have to pay for it!




    And then there's the salaries of the bigshots
    Ryan Tubridy - €500,000 per year is the biggest Joke of all
    That salary puts him on a par with the likes of Claudia Winkleman, Alan Shearer, Fiona Bruce of the BBC.
    He is nothing compared to them.
    BBC can justify big salaries as it is broadcast around the world, and the content is generally quite good.

    I don't have children. So should I be able to deduct some of the tax paid as I shouldn't contribute to children's allowances or schooling etc etc

    I have my own house, maybe I should deduct taxes that pays for social housing?


    As for the boring Tubridy argument that people always bring up like a broken record - he is a serious PROFIT earner for RTE. Not one solitary cent of licence fee is used for his salary or the production of shows that he is in as sponsorship and advertising of programmes he is in produces a surplus in the millions for RTE.

    The Christmas Toy show alone brings in over €500,000 in commercial fees


  • #374
    yosser hughes
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    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    I'm thinking Claire Byrne's gonna be 'under review' soon. What with losing a court case, her farcical '8th debate', and two more apologies that she had to make afterwards, one last week was made to Willie O'Dea regarding a slanderous 'perjury' comment.

    She's cost RTE quite a bit recently, and her own show is a dismal, comical affair-recycled debates, recycled arguments...there was more 'serious' discussion regarding bloody Fortnite than there was the rape trial, and the Belfast trial.

    She's seriously unable for the job.

    I completely agree. Went from reading the news on TV3 to her own TV and radio show on RTE by way of Newstalk. How did that happen? Way out of her depth.


  • #375
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,594 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    CeilingFly wrote: »
    I don't have children. So should I be able to deduct some of the tax paid as I shouldn't contribute to children's allowances or schooling etc etc

    I have my own house, maybe I should deduct taxes that pays for social housing?


    As for the boring Tubridy argument that people always bring up like a broken record - he is a serious PROFIT earner for RTE. Not one solitary cent of licence fee is used for his salary or the production of shows that he is in as sponsorship and advertising of programmes he is in produces a surplus in the millions for RTE.

    The Christmas Toy show alone brings in over €500,000 in commercial fees


    He's not,the show is.
    Obviously a trained monkey would pull in the punters to watch that depressing crap.


  • #376
    Caspian Petite Corner
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    yosser hughes wrote: »
    I completely agree. Went from reading the news on TV3 to her own TV and radio show on RTE by way of Newstalk. How did that happen? Way out of her depth.

    Quotas/appease the twitter brigade to have a female in the current affairs -


  • #377
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭valoren


    It's losing money but it's 'losing' much of that money into the pócaí of a ream of staff and contractors.
    So in essence nothing will change and the poor mouth will be perpetually be played in future.

    Think of the scenario. Tubridy and D'Arcy et al are called in for a contract review.

    They're all told that RTE is losing money. Here's the accounts if you need the proof.
    They will need to take substantially reduced pay as a consequence. Take a few days to think about it, consult solicitors.
    If they disagree or do a 'Gerry Ryan' on it then their contracts are terminated with immediate effect, the rest of their current signed contracts would be paid out over a period of 5 to 10 years and their respective shows would be, to borrow a Simpsons ref would be "...put on hiatus for retooling"

    It's a contract with a 'company' after all. It would be dissolving of the services from a company i.e. Tubridy's Media Company. It wouldn't be him getting fired so to speak, it's just that his company charges too much given the perilous financial situation, a resolution couldn't be reached and the companies parted ways. That would be the spin on it, that the enterprise is committed to becoming solvent again.

    It's a publically funded entity and it needs to show the public that it can run a tight ship which it currently isn't.


  • #378
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    Iirc removing the top earners wouldn't solve the problem, as even the most basic of jobs in RTE is vastly overpaid compared to any competitor.


  • #379
    CeilingFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭CeilingFly


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    To be fair Dee only gets €338k a year...



    https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0626/973359-rte-annual-report/

    Of which probably €150,000 is returned to government in tax.

    I always find it funny how the sensationalist media whine about well paid people and compare their own take home pay to the well paid people's gross pay.

    So yes her take home salary of 170k is very nice, it's not outrageous in the scheme of things and I believe substantially lower than what she was on in Discovery channel and far lower than private sector equivalent for companies of similar size.

    But people will whine away anyway.

    Yet they won't whine about the amount spent on emergency housing or if they are a mortgage payer, the amount of their payment that goes towrds those who don't pay their mortgage (estimated at over 20,000 mortgage holders and costing average mortgage payer over €500 a year - three times the TV licence fee)

    Nope, you mention that and you get shot down.


  • #380
    johnpatrick81
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  • #381
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,594 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    CeilingFly wrote: »
    Of which probably €150,000 is returned to government in tax.

    I always find it funny how the sensationalist media whine about well paid people and compare their own take home pay to the well paid people's gross pay.

    So yes her take home salary of 170k is very nice, it's not outrageous in the scheme of things and I believe substantially lower than what she was on in Discovery channel and far lower than private sector equivalent for companies of similar size.

    But people will whine away anyway.

    Yet they won't whine about the amount spent on emergency housing or if they are a mortgage payer, the amount of their payment that goes towrds those who don't pay their mortgage (estimated at over 20,000 mortgage holders and costing average mortgage payer over €500 a year - three times the TV licence fee)

    Nope, you mention that and you get shot down.


    Value for money I think is the argument.


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  • #382
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭valoren


    CeilingFly wrote: »
    Of which probably €150,000 is returned to government in tax.

    I always find it funny how the sensationalist media whine about well paid people and compare their own take home pay to the well paid people's gross pay.

    So yes her take home salary of 170k is very nice, it's not outrageous in the scheme of things and I believe substantially lower than what she was on in Discovery channel and far lower than private sector equivalent for companies of similar size.

    But people will whine away anyway.

    Yet they won't whine about the amount spent on emergency housing or if they are a mortgage payer, the amount of their payment that goes towrds those who don't pay their mortgage (estimated at over 20,000 mortgage holders and costing average mortgage payer over €500 a year - three times the TV licence fee)

    Nope, you mention that and you get shot down.

    And if it was a private company of similar size losing 6 million a year, every year then it wouldn't be long before that remuneration figure would be 0. That's the argument; getting handsomely paid despite losing money hand over fist and instead of looking to right that, to go cap in hand to perpetuate it by default. In a private enterprise, you'd like to think every aspect of the operations would be looked at and the best value derived from it. That's the job and if the enterprise was solvent then no one would be complaining about hefty remuneration. The message is we're not going to do that and is essentially a demand to increase the license fee so RTE can continue to lose money.


  • #383
    CeilingFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭CeilingFly


    kneemos wrote: »
    Value for money I think is the argument.

    I suggest you look at how much Union bosses are paid then! - Funny, some unions keep that secret!

    Let's put it this way - some have a package worth well over €400,000! Paid for by union members (whose dues are usually well over the €160 licence fee) who dare not question the mandarins.


  • #384
    [Deleted User]
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    CeilingFly wrote: »
    I suggest you look at how much Union bosses are paid then! - Funny, some unions keep that secret!

    Let's put it this way - some have a package worth well over €400,000! Paid for by union members (whose dues are usually well over the €160 licence fee) who dare not question the mandarins.


    400K!

    Come on now and tell us which ones?


  • #385
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Wesley Teeny Oasis wrote: »
    Quotas/appease the twitter brigade to have a female in the current affairs -

    I'd be asking more questions of Catriona Perry-another woman who has all the capability and warmth of a month old dead fish.
    She's been absent from the news quite a bit-and Keelin Shanley is a consummate professional. She's been in RTE for a solid 20+ years, and deserves her job tbh.

    Collette Fitzpatrick is much better at current affairs-she's a really good interviewer too. Seen her in person, and she's incredibly professional. But also doesn't walk around like an emotionless robot.
    yosser hughes wrote: »
    I completely agree. Went from reading the news on TV3 to her own TV and radio show on RTE by way of Newstalk. How did that happen? Way out of her depth.

    She's a woman who-*prepares for the feminist vitriol*-literally slept her way to the top. Her first job she has an affair with her boss, who leaves his wife for her. He divorces, and then marries her (Claire thought she could have a church wedding-didn't research that divorces can't marry in a church. She spent months planning a church wedding, and, in true blonde fashion, found out that wasn't gonna happen.)
    That job allowed her profile to grow-but you know she got the good jobs because of her boss.

    She then, while working for tv3,was sent out to report on Famine Africa or wherever, covering Goal's (I may be wrong on the charity) efforts to help-she had an affair with one of Goal's workers. He was also married (what is it with her and married men-there's gotta be a 'sister code' or something).

    She leaves her husband-he leaves his wife. They start going out, she leaves tv3, but ends up in court because of claims her contract isn't up. She moves to rte, does an afternoon show with 'Daithi'...which is pants, then that's axed, she moves to Prime Time. (Before her afternoon show is cut-she leaves the Goal guy, but he only find that out in the newspaper). Pat Kenny leaves, and she gets a show-which started out promisingly enough, but as Secret RTE producer revealed-things behind the scenes went bad as stupidity within RTE led to the producer of her show leaving, and now its crap.

    She's engaged/ recently married now-can't see that lasting, tbh.


  • #386
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,154 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Mirror issues an FOI on costs for guests, booze, wardrobe, make-up, etc
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=107461313&postcount=7011


  • #387
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    zell12 wrote: »
    Mirror issues an FOI on costs for guests, booze, wardrobe, make-up, etc
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=107461313&postcount=7011

    Am I wrong on the maths on this, or maybe it's not well written, but are they spending the same amount on Fair City that they do on Miriam for hair and make-up? And that's the entire cast, how much does it cost to make 'Miriam' look human? (Keep in mind the Miriam show only runs for 12 weeks or so).


  • #388
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,594 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Am I wrong on the maths on this, or maybe it's not well written, but are they spending the same amount on Fair City that they do on Miriam for hair and make-up? And that's the entire cast, how much does it cost to make 'Miriam' look human? (Keep in mind the Miriam show only runs for 12 weeks or so).


    3,700 for hair and make up on presenters and guests for the Late Late Show.


  • #389
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,940 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Am I wrong on the maths on this, or maybe it's not well written, but are they spending the same amount on Fair City that they do on Miriam for hair and make-up? And that's the entire cast, how much does it cost to make 'Miriam' look human? (Keep in mind the Miriam show only runs for 12 weeks or so).

    Miriams apparently includes wardrobe too but Fair City adds on another 72k.
    How did they manage to spend 5k on hair and makeup for Ray darcy?


  • #390
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    machiavellianme wrote: »
    Miriams apparently includes wardrobe too but Fair City adds on another 72k.
    How did they manage to spend 5k on hair and makeup for Ray darcy?

    I was wondering that too, then remembered Bertie cost almost 30 grand a year in 2004 for his makeup expenses-which would probably be closer to forty grand now in the years since, inflation and so on.

    No idea how Ray's so expensive-but I do remember that if you paid for Grainne Seoige, her makeup team is not included in the price, and they add another 50 grand or so on to the deal. She had her own individual crew, no RTe 'staff' for her.


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  • #391
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭jmcc


    CeilingFly wrote: »
    As for the boring Tubridy argument that people always bring up like a broken record - he is a serious PROFIT earner for RTE. Not one solitary cent of licence fee is used for his salary or the production of shows that he is in as sponsorship and advertising of programmes he is in produces a surplus in the millions for RTE.
    What part of "RTE lost €20 million" don't you understand? Apparently the licence fee raises €214 million a year and most of it goes to RTE. RTE still has advertising revenue and after all that, including the "profit earner" Tubridy it still manages to lose about €20 million a year.

    Regards...jmcc


  • #392
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Am I wrong on the maths on this, or maybe it's not well written, but are they spending the same amount on Fair City that they do on Miriam for hair and make-up? And that's the entire cast, how much does it cost to make 'Miriam' look human? (Keep in mind the Miriam show only runs for 12 weeks or so).

    Must be the secret coke and hooker budget.
    "Just stick it on hair and makeup, no one will notice"


  • #393
    the_pen_turner
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    is there a list of all the cost out there.
    i would love to see how much could be easily cut


  • #394
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    is there a list of all the cost out there.
    i would love to see how much could be easily cut

    Prices would probably be lower if jobsbridge was brought back-would be very useful to RTE to bring in some poor sod to present the news and pay em a tenner on top of their unemployment assistance.

    (Not mocking unemployment assistance btw-mocking rte and their 'quality' programming).


  • #395
    the_pen_turner
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    if they had a cap on presenters salery at 50k and bring in as much young presenters as poisible . use it as a spring board


  • #396
    RabbleRouser2k
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    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    if they had a cap on presenters salery at 50k and bring in as much young presenters as poisible . use it as a spring board

    They scrapped their young people's programming division-so that's not gonna happen. :(

    That was always the entryway into RTE.


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  • #397
    kneemos
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    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    if they had a cap on presenters salery at 50k and bring in as much young presenters as poisible . use it as a spring board


    Presenters salary don't amount to a spit in a barrel.
    They're just another sign of the money is no object attitude that seems to prevail.


  • #398
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,603 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    kneemos wrote: »
    Presenters salary don't amount to a spit in a barrel.
    They're just another sign of the money is no object attitude that seems to prevail.

    im not so sure its such a small figure. the top 10 are costing 2.5 M a year.
    add up all the presenters and other staff and put them on normal saleries and you would save a nice bit.

    the is stupid money spent in all areas. those make up figures are crazy


  • #399
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,995 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Here's what I can't understand

    Licence inspectors are checking 8000 prems. per week per ad.

    They know before they call if the owner is non compliant per ad.

    That's 32000 a month around 380000 premises a year!

    Surely at that rate and armed with the info they say they have, licence fee evasion should be wiped out long ago.

    Where am I not understanding this stuff lads.


  • #400
    VinLieger
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    CeilingFly wrote: »
    Of which probably €150,000 is returned to government in tax.

    I always find it funny how the sensationalist media whine about well paid people and compare their own take home pay to the well paid people's gross pay.

    So yes her take home salary of 170k is very nice, it's not outrageous in the scheme of things and I believe substantially lower than what she was on in Discovery channel and far lower than private sector equivalent for companies of similar size.

    But people will whine away anyway.

    Yet they won't whine about the amount spent on emergency housing or if they are a mortgage payer, the amount of their payment that goes towrds those who don't pay their mortgage (estimated at over 20,000 mortgage holders and costing average mortgage payer over €500 a year - three times the TV licence fee)

    Nope, you mention that and you get shot down.


    Except none of the top earners pay anything close to the tax they should be paying as they use private companies to limit their tax exposure


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rt-stars-using-companies-to-reduce-tax-exposure-37078528.html


    Hopefully this will be put to an end soon


  • #401
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Except none of the top earners pay anything close to the tax they should be paying as they use private companies to limit their tax exposure


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rt-stars-using-companies-to-reduce-tax-exposure-37078528.html


    Hopefully this will be put to an end soon

    Sadly, when staff get let go from RTE, due to 'cuts' their pay will then more than likely be given to the people in front of the camera. So no cost cutting measures at all.


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