“Among the services to be closed include RTÉ Plus One, RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, RTÉ 2 XM, RTÉ Pulse and RTÉ Junior.”
Add 2FM. A significant nepo baby breeding ground.
The redundancies are going to cost €40,000,000.
That’s an average of €100,000 per staff member made redundant.
Bear in mind that statutory redundancy is capped at €600 per week, and two weeks for every year of service.
Its an absolutely ridiculous proposal. 40million for 400 employees is absolute shite value.
If Virgin Media or TG4 were to lay off employees it wouldn’t cost them 100k per person!.
Cut the services, give the people their notice, then pay them 6 weeks per year like everybody else gets.
Good.
They’ve went after the low hanging fruit, yet the anachronisms that are RTE2 and 2FM remain untouched.
Time to dust off the Lottie Ryan voodoo doll. Be gone, foul pest !
It needs to be fully shut down if we’re ever to have a trusted national broadcaster.
I feel really sorry for the people who are going to lose their jobs, it’s probably going to be people on the lower end of the pay scale. RTE have huge wastage. I’ve noticed it particularly with the sports commentators. There are so many times when there’s a sports commentator in the studio talking to another RTE sports commentator who is at a sporting venue talking to, you guessed it, another RTE sports commentator. I mean do they really need to have a lad or lass in the studio talking to another lad or lass whose chatting with Marty Morrissey or a rugby/soccer reporter? What is that even about?
Does this mean one in every five actors on fair city will be axed??
Get rid of network 2 and be done with it.
Winning streak wheel is getting a section cut out of it
What do them 1,800 people actually do? It’s crazy that RTE employs that many
Sell off Rte 2, 2FM and Lyric?
Must be closing RTÉ junior now that [Redacted Broadcaster] has been acquited and is on his way back.
It will be the decent hard-working team players that will get the sack .
its a shame, rte should be making interesting programming, I wish we had a good national broadcasting. say what you will but bbc at least still makes good documentaries and shows
What do they mean by independent sector? They aren’t going to keep pushing dreadful TikTokers on us still?
Typical of the corporate world. Executives and top level management fuck up, staff pay the price.
Seeing people be so delighted that 400 people are losing their jobs is really sad. I don’t work for Rte, I do work in media. Speaking as an outsider who actually understands how media works, rTE has some of the most talented people in this industry.
They also make some incredible content. Radio Dramas that have been massive for kids with vision impairments, documentaries and art works on radio one Xtra, shows for underserved communities on pulse. All that just gone.
I’m not saying RTE doesn’t have its problems, but this isn’t about that. This is people wanting things for free and not being willing to pay for home grown content.
Reality is some shows will never have a big enough audience to sustain themselves. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t exist. In Canada for example there’s a broadcaster called AMI. They make stuff for people with disabilities. RTE has an audio description unit. Do we just wave that goodbye because nobody wants to pay for it? Virgin certainly won’t pick up the pieces.
This whole thing is really really sad, and people won’t realise it until it’s too late. I don’t blame Bakhurst for this, but I do blame the politicians who have been instigating this whole thing. That’s every single party. Even the British stood up for Channel 4, but we just wave our public broadcaster goodbye:
All this from Tubbers being a greedy fuck.
Hope they start at 2fm. A lot of “talent” could be released there.
I saw Micheál Lehane saying the 400 redundancies are by 2028!
They haven’t learned. Voluntary redundancy is going to be too costly and not go far enough. I don’t think you can save an organization from financial collapse if the practices that got it there are retained.
You look at this for RTE and you look at the money looted from Defence for decades and you see what the state has been reduced to.
I’m going to say it straight and expect the downvotes but 20% reduction in staff by 2028 is fucking pathetic.
RTE is needing a bailout of something like 40-60 million. These staff need to be gone ASAP along with alot of other cost cutting measures.
RTE should be 20 lads in a studio in city west. Plenty more to sack
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Not before time
“Among the services to be closed include RTÉ Plus One, RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, RTÉ 2 XM, RTÉ Pulse and RTÉ Junior.”
Add 2FM. A significant nepo baby breeding ground.
The redundancies are going to cost €40,000,000.
That’s an average of €100,000 per staff member made redundant.
Bear in mind that statutory redundancy is capped at €600 per week, and two weeks for every year of service.
Its an absolutely ridiculous proposal. 40million for 400 employees is absolute shite value.
If Virgin Media or TG4 were to lay off employees it wouldn’t cost them 100k per person!.
Cut the services, give the people their notice, then pay them 6 weeks per year like everybody else gets.
Good.
They’ve went after the low hanging fruit, yet the anachronisms that are RTE2 and 2FM remain untouched.
Time to dust off the Lottie Ryan voodoo doll. Be gone, foul pest !
It needs to be fully shut down if we’re ever to have a trusted national broadcaster.
I feel really sorry for the people who are going to lose their jobs, it’s probably going to be people on the lower end of the pay scale. RTE have huge wastage. I’ve noticed it particularly with the sports commentators. There are so many times when there’s a sports commentator in the studio talking to another RTE sports commentator who is at a sporting venue talking to, you guessed it, another RTE sports commentator. I mean do they really need to have a lad or lass in the studio talking to another lad or lass whose chatting with Marty Morrissey or a rugby/soccer reporter? What is that even about?
Does this mean one in every five actors on fair city will be axed??
Get rid of network 2 and be done with it.
Winning streak wheel is getting a section cut out of it
What do them 1,800 people actually do? It’s crazy that RTE employs that many
Sell off Rte 2, 2FM and Lyric?
Must be closing RTÉ junior now that [Redacted Broadcaster] has been acquited and is on his way back.
It will be the decent hard-working team players that will get the sack .
its a shame, rte should be making interesting programming, I wish we had a good national broadcasting. say what you will but bbc at least still makes good documentaries and shows
What do they mean by independent sector? They aren’t going to keep pushing dreadful TikTokers on us still?
Typical of the corporate world. Executives and top level management fuck up, staff pay the price.
Seeing people be so delighted that 400 people are losing their jobs is really sad. I don’t work for Rte, I do work in media. Speaking as an outsider who actually understands how media works, rTE has some of the most talented people in this industry.
They also make some incredible content. Radio Dramas that have been massive for kids with vision impairments, documentaries and art works on radio one Xtra, shows for underserved communities on pulse. All that just gone.
I’m not saying RTE doesn’t have its problems, but this isn’t about that. This is people wanting things for free and not being willing to pay for home grown content.
Reality is some shows will never have a big enough audience to sustain themselves. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t exist. In Canada for example there’s a broadcaster called AMI. They make stuff for people with disabilities. RTE has an audio description unit. Do we just wave that goodbye because nobody wants to pay for it? Virgin certainly won’t pick up the pieces.
This whole thing is really really sad, and people won’t realise it until it’s too late. I don’t blame Bakhurst for this, but I do blame the politicians who have been instigating this whole thing. That’s every single party. Even the British stood up for Channel 4, but we just wave our public broadcaster goodbye:
All this from Tubbers being a greedy fuck.
Hope they start at 2fm. A lot of “talent” could be released there.
I saw Micheál Lehane saying the 400 redundancies are by 2028!
They haven’t learned. Voluntary redundancy is going to be too costly and not go far enough. I don’t think you can save an organization from financial collapse if the practices that got it there are retained.
You look at this for RTE and you look at the money looted from Defence for decades and you see what the state has been reduced to.
I’m going to say it straight and expect the downvotes but 20% reduction in staff by 2028 is fucking pathetic.
RTE is needing a bailout of something like 40-60 million. These staff need to be gone ASAP along with alot of other cost cutting measures.
RTE should be 20 lads in a studio in city west. Plenty more to sack
Good.