RTÉ PUBLISHES HIGHEST PRESENTER EARNINGS FOR 2017, 2018 AND 2019
RTÉ PUBLISHES HIGHEST PRESENTER EARNINGS FOR 2017, 2018 AND 2019
RTÉ REDUCES HIGHEST PRESENTER EARNINGS BY 15% IN 2020
*** PLEASE NOTE: The Board of RTÉ corrected the public record in relation to presenter Ryan Tubridy’s earnings from RTÉ during the period 2017-2022. Please see Statement by the RTÉ Board – June 22, 2023 – About RTÉ (rte.ie) ***
RTÉ today publishes the fees earned by its highest-paid presenters in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In addition, RTÉ confirms that, as part of a range of cost-cutting measures announced last year, the total fees paid to its highest-paid presenters has been reduced by 15% in 2020.
Total fees paid to RTÉ’s highest earning presenters represent less than 1% of RTÉ’s total operating costs.
RTÉ Director-General, Dee Forbes, said: “Our presenters have been crucial to RTÉ’s output throughout this pandemic, as audiences turned to their national public media in record numbers for vital news, information, entertainment and companionship. They continue to make a significant contribution to public media in Ireland and enable RTÉ to optimise important commercial revenue, which is essential to support our public services. RTÉ has reduced overall annual operating costs by over €100m since 2008, and last year targeted additional savings of €60m over three years, which we are on course to deliver. In that context, we continue to keep the fees of our highest-paid presenters under constant review.”
Table: RTÉ 10 Highest Paid Presenters 2017, 2018 and 2019 on an Earnings Basis.
