RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst said Ryan Tubridy was still being paid by the broadcaster and that negotiations would be his “next step” to resolve the issue, reports Breaking News.
Tubridy, which was the highest-earning national broadcaster, saw RTÉ cut its earnings from 2017 to 2022 after the scandal broke on June 22.
His weekly morning radio show features satirist Oliver Callan and presenter Brendan Courtney.
Asked if RTÉ would continue to pay Tubridy, Buckhurst said: “We need to resolve that, that’s the next step now,” reports Breaking News.
He said the dispute over whether Tubridy was still under contract was still unresolved after he dropped out of flagship TV show The Late Late Show in May.
He said: “Well, I think, as has been said before, he had that contract, which covered both the Late Late and his radio work. When he decided to leave The Late Late Show, clearly there was some discussion about whether he’d left that contract or not, and I don’t think there’s agreement on that,” he told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland. We continued to pay him because I thought it was a fair thing to do over that period, because we would normally pay someone over the summer, and it was our decision to take him off-air for a while. But we didn’t pay him at the level that they were seeking for him to be paid,” reports Breaking News.
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