The band that are on the Late Late show,( used to be on Tubridy tonight) must be paid a lot for their Friday night stint on the show.
I know they do weddings etc and obviously lost work on Fridays due to their late late show commitment.
My point is that Id be very surprised if they didnt get a least 3 to 4 grand(minimum) for the Late Late.
Now thats a lot of money coming out of the taxpayers pockets.
So why have them there at all?
They are brilliant,but do we really need a full band to do a jingle every now and then on the show?
Can we afford this kind of expense ?
Why dont RTE have up and coming bands that would be more than happy to do that gig for free and getting them exposure?
If they got 4k a week ,thats 16k a month which adds up over ten months to 160K!!!
Id say they played about 20 seconds of jingles and perhaps one song,lets give them the benifit of the doubt and say they play for 15 minutes on the late late.Now that would work out at approx 266 euro a MINUTE!!
I know they do weddings etc and obviously lost work on Fridays due to their late late show commitment.
My point is that Id be very surprised if they didnt get a least 3 to 4 grand(minimum) for the Late Late.
Now thats a lot of money coming out of the taxpayers pockets.
So why have them there at all?
They are brilliant,but do we really need a full band to do a jingle every now and then on the show?
Can we afford this kind of expense ?
Why dont RTE have up and coming bands that would be more than happy to do that gig for free and getting them exposure?
If they got 4k a week ,thats 16k a month which adds up over ten months to 160K!!!
Id say they played about 20 seconds of jingles and perhaps one song,lets give them the benifit of the doubt and say they play for 15 minutes on the late late.Now that would work out at approx 266 euro a MINUTE!!