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Ryan Tubridy - Radio Shows Thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    easychair wrote: »
    As an apparently loyal member of Tubridy's audience, would you not miss him not being there, so you can continue to tell us how dreadful he is, and selflessy keep listening to him wherever he is broadcasting around the world? :-)
    If he was off the air, i would probably stalk him and post here how he fails at other more domestic stuff...post videos of him mowing his lawn etc..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭dixiefly


    I wouldnt be a fan of Tubridy bit I think his tweet about the riots was harmless and shouldnt have warranted that reaction (if that is the case).

    Very surprised that he has completely stopped tweeting as he seemed to push it more than any other Irish broadcaster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    dixiefly wrote: »
    I wouldnt be a fan of Tubridy bit I think his tweet about the riots was harmless and shouldnt have warranted that reaction (if that is the case).

    Very surprised that he has completely stopped tweeting as he seemed to push it more than any other Irish broadcaster.

    Mark Little was on Moncrieff yesterday and came up with the same misquotation (The revolution is being televised). If people are going to try to be clever, then they should make sure they have the right quote to begin with.

    Little and Tubbers are two peas in a pod - both wannabe Americans obessesed with JFK, the Democrats etc. although Little is even more annoying because he speaks with an American twang :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    dixiefly wrote: »
    I wouldnt be a fan of Tubridy bit I think his tweet about the riots was harmless and shouldnt have warranted that reaction (if that is the case).

    Very surprised that he has completely stopped tweeting as he seemed to push it more than any other Irish broadcaster.

    The fact that that tweet and him quiting twitter is connected is only guesswork on the part of The Daily Mail. Tuburidy made the announcement, so an intrepid Mail reporter searched back through Tub's tweets looking for an angle and thats what they came up with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    dixiefly wrote: »
    I wouldnt be a fan of Tubridy bit I think his tweet about the riots was harmless and shouldnt have warranted that reaction (if that is the case).

    Very surprised that he has completely stopped tweeting as he seemed to push it more than any other Irish broadcaster.

    I didn't follow tubs (or anyone for that matter) on twitter and only heard about this after the fact.
    Have to say I felt somewhat sorry for him, since that was exactly the quote that ran through my head on monday night whilst watching the riot coverage (ie the opposite of "the revolution will not be televised, the revolution will be live")...was it really his reason for quitting the tweeting, or merely the straw that broke the camels back?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Caught a few minutes of Dave Fanning this morning. Infinitely better presenter. I enjoyed his segment on movie quotes...I could only imagine the farce if DLB was handling it instead!

    Why is fanning better?

    because he doesn't "try" he just "does".


    I think the producers of the show need to stop spouting sh*te everytime they lose listeners and MAKE THAT CHANGE NOW!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Same again this morning. Far superior show.


  • Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭mrscloudatlas


    Same again this morning. Far superior show.

    Thanks to Dave, I'm enjoying my morning walks again. His interview with Nicky Byrne yesterday was excellent!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Thanks to Dave, I'm enjoying my morning walks again. His interview with Nicky Byrne yesterday was excellent!
    Seriously!! I have actually tuned into dave now as my number 1 show! How RTE can't see the difference in calibre is beyond me! I think i know what it is too.....LIFE EXPERIENCE!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭miketv


    Seriously!! I have actually tuned into dave now as my number 1 show! How RTE can't see the difference in calibre is beyond me! I think i know what it is too.....LIFE EXPERIENCE!
    This is one of those occasions where the fill in is far superior than the main host.
    Tubridy should be nervous. I'm still baffled how he even lasted a year on this show.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,123 ✭✭✭Imhof Tank


    miketv wrote: »
    This is one of those occasions where the fill in is far superior than the main host.
    Tubridy should be nervous. I'm still baffled how he even lasted a year on this show.

    Haha

    Tubridy is not nervous - sure he is the golden boy, he knows it, what has he to worry about really?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Dave chatting about LA today was great and simply flowed with the guests.
    I didn't raise my eyes to heaven once.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    mikom wrote: »
    Dave chatting about LA today was great and simply flowed with the guests.
    I didn't raise my eyes to heaven once.

    Dave Fanning has proved to be the solution to the problem that RTE is hiding from. Failure to act now, and provide Tubridy with work more suitable to his er...talents and move Dave in fulltime is nothing short of irresponsible. IT'S OBVIOUS RTE, ACT NOW AND SAVE YOURSELVES!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Dave Fanning has proved to be the solution to the problem that RTE is hiding from.

    To be fair to Tubridy, he did say the show was "going to be brilliant".. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    Dave Fanning has proved to be the solution to the problem that RTE is hiding from.

    Is he though? Fanning's own show, afaik, has only around 20,000 listeners. His move to RTE Radio 1 didn't work out because enough people didn't tune in. He's certainly better suited than Tubridy is to this type of show, but I don't think he is the solution to 2fm's problems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    I think people would get tired of Fanning fairly quickly. Take away the opportunity to talk about movies and music and there's not much else to him. I used to listen to Fanning's show on 2FM and then when it was switched to Radio 1 and I lost count of the number of times he'd have a segment about "best ever song intros", "best ever gangster films" etc. In the end I stopped listening because he was rehashing the same topics time and time again. He's okay for a couple of weeks to fill in, but he's a bit of a one trick pony.

    Did anybody hear Tubbers on his BBC show yesterday morning talking about the dog his family had when he was growing up? Most people call their dogs something simple like Shep or Spot or Rex. The Tubridys called their dog Ruskin. Talk about pretentiousness! :rolleyes: :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I think people would get tired of Fanning fairly quickly. Take away the opportunity to talk about movies and music and there's not much else to him. I used to listen to Fanning's show on 2FM and then when it was switched to Radio 1 and I lost count of the number of times he'd have a segment about "best ever song intros", "best ever gangster films" etc. In the end I stopped listening because he was rehashing the same topics time and time again. He's okay for a couple of weeks to fill in, but he's a bit of a one trick pony.

    Did anybody hear Tubbers on his BBC show yesterday morning talking about the dog his family had when he was growing up? Most people call their dogs something simple like Shep or Spot or Rex. The Tubridys called their dog Ruskin. Talk about pretentiousness! :rolleyes: :D
    i'll take movies and music over tubs ****e any day!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I read in one of the weekend red tops that he will try to get the listeners back or he will quit

    In any other job he would be fired


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    I read in one of the weekend red tops that he will try to get the listeners back or he will quit

    In any other job he would be fired

    Front page headline of today's Irish Daily Mail...

    "Tubridy: I'll quit if ratings dip again."

    It's not exactly what he said though. The actual quote...

    "Of course, there's a point where I would have to seriously consider giving up the 2fm show. If the figures continued to drop, I would seriously consider everything. But I don't think it's going to be an issue that I'll have to go into the bosses and say I've dragged the show down too much. My philosophy is that we are going to come out and make it better."

    He went to say things like .."grab it by the scruff of the neck"..."shake it up"

    I have a feeling that Tubridy Show is about to get a whole lot more desperate/crap.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Curious that he said this today bearing in mind the ratings came out 7-10 days back. He and his limited bag of tricks is the problem so its hard to see how the slot can be turned around, but that applies to the whole station.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    I read in one of the weekend red tops that he will try to get the listeners back or he will quit

    In any other job he would be fired

    He won't be fired that's for sure...that would mean that those who decided to give him the job were wrong about his talent after all. They'd prefer to see the numbers fall and fall and try ever more desperate changes than admit they were wrong about him...and like he said, he'll quit before that point.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    Rubik. wrote: »
    Front page headline of today's Irish Daily Mail...

    "Tubridy: I'll quit if ratings dip again."

    It's not exactly what he said though. The actual quote...

    "Of course, there's a point where I would have to seriously consider giving up the 2fm show. If the figures continued to drop, I would seriously consider everything. But I don't think it's going to be an issue that I'll have to go into the bosses and say I've dragged the show down too much. My philosophy is that we are going to come out and make it better."

    He went to say things like .."grab it by the scruff of the neck"..."shake it up"

    I have a feeling that Tubridy Show is about to get a whole lot more desperate/crap.

    He's probably pre-empting the situation by quitting before he can get the sack. I don't know where he's going to get the new listeners from. It's obvious why so many people have switched him off - they don't like his style, which has been over-indulged by his 2FM bosses to the point where there is only a small minority of the morning audience who are actually interested in JFK, Jimmy Stewart, Mad Men, books and bon bons.


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    I was up in Downpatrick on Saturday so listened to a couple of hours of his show on BBC Radio 2. Oddly enough I quite liked it. He didn't seem too obsessive about his personal interests.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,382 ✭✭✭jimmyw


    The guy just dont make me want to listen to him (if I could).The BBC show is just more of the same s... Though Fanning is no better, nether is Colm Hayes or John Murray of R1 either, I could go on...so most people on RTE are no good anyhow......................except Joseph Duffy (needless to say;):P)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I think Dave fanning is doing very well.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    I think Dave fanning is doing very well.

    + 1

    Yea, Dave's great. Think he has more in common with the target audience, the 'typical Irish housewife' (ugh...) than Tubridy, life experience and all that.

    Dave's the cool, more knowledgeable older brother whereas Tubridy is that annoying, nerdy little brother who won't stop following you around.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    nobody has come in here complaining that all we do is listen to Dave Fanning and run on here and praise him!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    nobody has come in here complaining that all we do is listen to Dave Fanning and run on here and praise him!!

    US!!!...liking an RTE presenter????!!!???



    ...surely not!! :eek::eek::eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭serfboard


    nobody has come in here complaining that all we do is listen to Dave Fanning and run on here and praise him!!
    telekon wrote: »
    US!!!...liking an RTE presenter????!!!???



    ...surely not!! :eek::eek::eek:

    And upping the ante even further ...

    This forum?! Liking anything?!





    Though I have been on here myself praising Sean Moncrieff a few times :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    He's on the front of the RTE guide this week.. I'm sure that in the interview inside they gave him a grilling about his ratings.. ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 905 ✭✭✭easychair


    He's on the front of the RTE guide this week.. I'm sure that in the interview inside they gave him a grilling about his ratings.. ;)

    You didn't read the article? Are his listenership ratings particularly noteworthy?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    easychair wrote: »
    You didn't read the article? Are his listenership ratings particularly noteworthy?

    Just saw it on the news stand as I was waiting in the checkout line.. Didnt seem to be any particular angle to the story.. Think it was just the perennial pre Late Late Show season interview..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6 Ekat


    Read the RTE Guide feature today.
    In response to any negative comments he gets as a broadcaster, he said he just wants to "enjoy the goodwill that is out there". A quote: "I have this great sense of calm, I am really happy with the world. I don't mind critics, I understand them. I don't mind bad press, I understand it, and it's a great place to be because I can just relax and enjoy my job even more".

    Specifically about the radio show he acknowledged the loss in listeners but brought up the fact that it's an hour shorter again, and "we are still a baby and we will grow."

    That's basically it really. He doesn't exactly say no to running for President one day, says he's already measured the curtains in the Aras, promises that the Late Late this year will be even better and he refuses to divulge any information about his personal life. Same old Tubs!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    Ekat wrote: »
    A quote: "I have this great sense of calm, I am really happy with the world. I don't mind critics, I understand them. I don't mind bad press, I understand it, and it's a great place to be because I can just relax and enjoy my job even more".

    Yep Ryan,RTE is a pretty magical place, no matter how sh1t you are a your job,in the worst recession in living memory, you still earn €500k.

    Something is really fcuked up in Montrose


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Poly wrote: »
    Yep Ryan,RTE is a pretty magical place, no matter how sh1t you are a your job,in the worst recession in living memory, you still earn €500k.

    Something is really fcuked corrupt up in Montrose

    .


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    Great segment Dave did this morning on the best bass riffs and bassists. Delighted Pino Padellino got a mention but how the hell did John Entwistle from the Who get no mention :confused::confused: (well, in the bit I heard anyway which was most of it)

    Bit miffed he never mentioned my text suggesting 'Music for Chameleons' by Gary Numan as the best bass riff ever. Dave, I spread the love for you on here, it would have been the least you could do...well, I just suppose Gary Numan suggestions aren't that 'hip' or 'cool' anymore.

    *Sigh* :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    telekon wrote: »

    Bit miffed he never mentioned my text suggesting 'Music for Chameleons' by Gary Numan as the best bass riff ever. Dave, I spread the love for you on here, it would have been the least you could do...well, I just suppose Gary Numan suggestions aren't that 'hip' or 'cool' anymore.

    *Sigh* :(

    Tubridy?



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    mikom wrote: »

    I knew Partridge had done that before but honestly had completely forgotten so despite the massive coincidence, it was not deliberate...unfortunately. Would have been proud of that one! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭miketv


    Have to admit I found myself laughing outloud this morning with Dave when he was attempting to tell the story of the guy who lost the mattress. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    miketv wrote: »
    Have to admit I found myself laughing outloud this morning with Dave when he was attempting to tell the story of the guy who lost the mattress. :D

    Have you ever even raised a smile with anything Tubridy has ever said?



    ...I thought not.


    Dave Fanning as permanent host in the 9-11 slot please 2FM.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 835 ✭✭✭miketv


    Yes I think I can safely say he has never made me laugh, maybe smile... actually no, well... in a Alan Partridge way ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    telekon wrote: »
    Have you ever even raised a smile with anything Tubridy has ever said?



    ...I thought not.


    Dave Fanning as permanent host in the 9-11 slot please 2FM.


    Been listening to dave the last two weeks and it seems he loves surveys,and that laugh of his well!
    Anyway he is better than tubs and should be left there full stop...:D
    Even knob nation loves taking the p1ss out of dave and he laughs,he has a sense of humour anyway..


  • Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭lacase


    The sooner everyone turns off the better a crap programme


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    lacase wrote: »
    The sooner everyone turns off the better a crap programme


    can add some input rather than that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,294 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I used to tune in now and again..for partridge comedy reasons...however since i tuned in last week and found i actually enjoyed Dave Fanning..i will not be tuning in again ...and as for all that "this show is a baby it will grow"....

    yeah lads...keep telling yourself that..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 825 ✭✭✭macroboy


    the newwwwwwwwwwwwww producers...amazing new idea for ryan isssssss....wait for it...to start palying the song...THEN ...talking over it a little bit...then rising up those faders ...and ,,,,

    lol..this i have to say ...has changed the show in an amazingly "not improved way " at all.

    THE RTE BIG WIGS WERE UP ALL NIGHT THINKING OF THAT ONE...



    UTTER SH1TE!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    macroboy wrote: »
    the newwwwwwwwwwwwww producers...amazing new idea for ryan isssssss....wait for it...to start palying the song...THEN ...talking over it a little bit...then rising up those faders ...and ,,,,

    lol..this i have to say ...has changed the show in an amazingly "not improved way " at all.

    THE RTE BIG WIGS WERE UP ALL NIGHT THINKING OF THAT ONE...



    UTTER SH1TE!!!


    Dont think i heard any of his favourite words today how odd!but there was a roll play scenario he was going on like a 2 year old
    first day back and all that it will be back to square one tomorrow..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 825 ✭✭✭macroboy


    jimmynokia wrote: »
    Dont think i heard any of his favourite words today how odd!but there was a roll play scenario he was going on like a 2 year old
    first day back and all that it will be back to square one tomorrow..


    the role play was utter sh1te


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    macroboy wrote: »
    the role play was utter sh1te


    nothing has changed really.....i missed the first 15 mins so he could of got everything in then lol!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    jimmynokia wrote: »
    Been listening to dave the last two weeks and it seems he loves surveys,and that laugh of his well!
    Anyway he is better than tubs and should be left there full stop...:D
    Even knob nation loves taking the p1ss out of dave and he laughs,he has a sense of humour anyway..
    Whereas mr tubs seems to be able to just about tolerate Nob Nation as long as he is not in Oliver's Sights. I can't believe I actually used to like R.T. These days he just drive me away. Another Ray and Tom clone in the making here. With the current set of cringe worthy horrors on mid morning radio a CD/mp3 player is essential. Dave was doing a much better job.


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