Its press silly season, so anything like the current issue will be blown out of all proportion and the sf members of the pac simply see a massive publicity opportunity to kick rte.
Yes, errors were made especially in kotowing to any and all demands of Noel Kelly and his "creative" solutions. Dee Forbes should have called his bluff. She agreed to pay Tubridy more than the 3rd best paid presenter on the BBC in a TV market 85% smaller! That was just ridiculous.
But at least he was doing radio and TV. Ray D'Arcy is on €450k for just 90min of radio a day and has one of the lowest listenership rate at under 180,000 which is near 50% lower then Tubridy's figures.
Kevin Backhurst now has the opportunity to make some serious changes and my guess is he'll start with Tubridy on a new radio contract that will set a price ceiling on "talent". 250k is my guess