29-06-2023, 08:23 PM
Getting back to the RTE scandal which seems to be never ending. I have found the recent financial statement that RTE released about their income, it seems they release them two years in arrears.
Their income for 2021 was €148.3 million from their commercial side and €196.1 million from the licence fee, so €344.4 million in total.
When you look at that, it looks both huge and small. Huge, that RTE a small Irish broadcaster pulled in over €344 million in revenue, but peanuts compared to the £5 billion pulled in by the BBC.
How hard could it be to pay the top earners (talent, a word used in the loosest terms with regards to RTE presenters) to pay their salaries from the commercially generated income, and thus avoiding all this self inflicted hell they are going through now?
€148.3 million from the commercially generated income could easily cover all of the Top 10 highest paid presenters at RTE.
Their income for 2021 was €148.3 million from their commercial side and €196.1 million from the licence fee, so €344.4 million in total.
When you look at that, it looks both huge and small. Huge, that RTE a small Irish broadcaster pulled in over €344 million in revenue, but peanuts compared to the £5 billion pulled in by the BBC.
How hard could it be to pay the top earners (talent, a word used in the loosest terms with regards to RTE presenters) to pay their salaries from the commercially generated income, and thus avoiding all this self inflicted hell they are going through now?
€148.3 million from the commercially generated income could easily cover all of the Top 10 highest paid presenters at RTE.
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