150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122449711#Comment_122449711

Not really. This is a good laugh. Nothing more.

GSF

anyway I’m sure the champagne is already flowing in London as Virgin get the rajar’s the day before they are made public at midnight

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122449728#Comment_122449728

But that's how we feel about this site/thread?

You say you never change our point of view of Tubs but I don't think you've given any real reason why you enjoy is programme, his style of presentation or his old show on RTÉ. Your unlikely to convince me he's the world greatest TV / Radio star, but you've not even tried to convince anyone of why he is good.

Is it just that he has money?

Also where are the mods I have never see a thread and posters go so OT.

nonetheless

Well according to NewsUK Tubridy's YoY figures are still in the red but trending positive and they have summarised that his first RAJAR shows positive YoY growth. It looks like they are really supporting him and it looks like they have spun the figures in his favour. It will be interesting to see if they publish individual presenter performances as they did not last quarter. It must be remembered that ETM's figures compared to Tubridy's last set were like night and day and it's also evident that huge losses YoY have been handed to Jayne Middlemiss.

CollyFlower

Kevin is probably waiting for the RAJAR figures to come out before he offers Ryan a yearly contract of an one hour a day shift @ 150,000.

nonetheless

So Virgin Radio UK now have 1.628 million listeners which is still pitiful for the UK but have increased their listenership figures by approximately 125,000 (8.3%) from last quarter and this could well fluctuate from Q to Q. For weekday programming for the last quarter their data pointed to Ricky Wilson and Bam as the main contributors to growth, this quarter it's mostly Bam and Tubridy but for the next quarter it will probably be someone else. From what I can make of it, It looks like it's really their call as the RAJAR's really just illustrate a general figure of progression either way. But generally in the grand scheme of things Virgin is not really going anywhere fast.

nonetheless

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122451060#Comment_122451060

Exactly. Ryan was so successful in the UK and really contributed to Virgin increasing its listenership figures, but really missed home so much 🙂

TheBMG

congrats to Ryan on a good result in the RAJAR listenership figures. Maybe things not quite as desperate for him as some people would suggest here?

nonetheless

looking forward to the JNLR's particularly 98FM's performance, that should be interesting.

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122448183#Comment_122448183

Kielty could just go back to the BBC. There's a big difference in the LLS going for an experienced performer, as opposed to their previous escapades with a lad from the staff canteen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b1yvg

yagan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122452160#Comment_122452160

All very true, Kielty has options, whereas Byran needs rte.

We still don't know if he actually gets a wage from virgin radio.

Bobson Dugnutt

Lot of that here this morning. I see we are going back to the he isn’t getting paid narrative. Lads, he isn’t doing the Irish Country and Western show on Galway Bay FM on the 7am Sunday morning graveyard slot. Think about this logically.

TheBMG

up to 503,000 listeners from 457k quarter on quarter. Don’t like the show, don’t listen to the show but happy for the chap.

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122452305#Comment_122452305

Same as. Don’t listen to it. Have listened to a few of the podcasts. Harmless enough like himself. Wish him well. You’d think he was the fricking baddie from a Grimm Fairytale. Some people have too much time on their hands.

RoTelly

Seems he's maintaining the previous hosts number alright. The reports then of 134,000 seem wrong?

podgeandrodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122452305#Comment_122452305

where are the figures presented? Could only find overall Virgin figures on RAJAR site.

nonetheless

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122451733#Comment_122451733

hopefully Bauer are just as effective at "spinning" the performance of some of its mediocre presenters and programming.

TheBMG

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122452466#Comment_122452466

did you just reply to your own post? 😂

TheBMG

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122452460#Comment_122452460

https://onaudio.mattdeegan.com/p/rajar-q22024

Matt Deegans blog

nonetheless

I have given you a 'Thanks' but for good measure would also like to Thank You!!!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122452603#Comment_122452603

Bobson Dugnutt

Maintaining multiple accounts and personas must be exhausting.

retalivity

No better person to ask really

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122452739#Comment_122452739

Not true and debunked by moderators.

podgeandrodge

So, I'm no mathematician, on the general figures can people expand on the attached?

"Reach", where Virgin (overall for the few stations) has increased in Q2 2024 from Q1 2024 to 1.628m from 1.503m, is defined as "the no. of people who tune to a radio station within at least 1 quarter hour period over the course of a week. Respondents are instructed to fill in a quarter-hour only if they listened to the statation for at least 5 minutes within that quarter-hour."

From the attachment, the overall Virgin Radio Network has increased by 14.11%, largely it seems due to Virgin 80s Plus and Anthems and Chilled channels. This is for "reach", as defined above, which seems to catch people that tune in for 5 minutes (might even include "hate listeners" !).

But the actual "Listening Share in TSA %", the "percentage of all radio listening hours that a station accounts for in its listening area", has dropped for Virgin Radio station - from 0.9% in Dec 2023 and March 2024, to 0.8% by June 2024 - seemingly an 11.1% drop in Listening Share.

On the bottom graphic, the "Average Hours Per Head" (defined as "the average length of time that a person spends listening to the station, calculated by dividing the weekly hours by the population", has remained static. Whereas the "Average Hours Per Listener", (defined as "the average length of time that listeners to a station spend with the station", has dropped for Virgin Radio by 11.5%.

This, combined with "Total Hours", (defined as "the total number of hours that a station is listened to over the course of a week, being the sum of all quarter-hours for all listeners") has dropped by 3.66% for Virgin Radio (while it's sister stations have all increased).

Not particularly good news for Virgin Radio I would say.

But interested in how the Tubs figures fit into all this.

podgeandrodge

p.s. attached, the

only photo where Tubs actually displayed self awareness following the 150k outrage.

(but recovered quickly, by virtue of converting "if i don't do the work the money will go back" to "Got the 150k, they can't legally get it back, I'm alright Jack".

Real quote in italics. Reality in non italics.

Hyperbollix

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122458865#Comment_122458865

I know he's a wealthy man with a nice property portfolio and many sensible investments but in some ways I'm not a bit surprised he's clung onto that 150k. After getting the boot from RTE, he must've thought the jig is finally up, I'm going to visit the real world for the first time in my life and I'll need every brass farthing I can lay my mitts on. Who knows when and If I'll ever work again in a radio studio again.

It was a poor calculation in my opinion. If he wanted to really sell the story of being an innocent bystander in the RTE fiasco, he should've immediately sought to return the cash to that basketcase of an organization or even better, choose a charity and make a big song and dance about donating it. It would have went some way to repairing his reputation and probably meant he could have stayed in Donnybrook in the first place, certainly would've meant a speedier return for him.

But of all that would mean accepting some portion of blame and responsibility. Something our Tubs could never contemplate.

HildaOgdenx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122459436#Comment_122459436

But of all that would mean accepting some portion of blame and responsibility. Something our Tubs could never contemplate.

Absolutely agree, he could have clawed back a bit of his reputation by handing it back and also acknowledging that he was in the wrong in the way he handled various things. Both while he was still in RTE, and afterwards, as various things began to emerge. Including the way that he handled the appearance in front of the committees.

He seems to have very poor judgment or is it NK who has the poor judgment, I don't know. He almost had his feet back under the desk, if he could have kept his mouth shut. But it seems he couldn't do that. And I think Bakhurst feared that if he did have him back, the first thing Tubridy would do, is start telling everyone how wronged he was. 🤦

NIMAN

Just reading stories today that on the day Rte had to get an 725m government bailout, they were sending €132 boxes od macaroons to advertisers, shows how out of touch the organisation is.

Had Tubs returned the 150k, he'd have been able to distance himself from those folk, and appear a man of the people again, but he missed his chance.

nonetheless

Vogue covering for Tubridy again this week

I take it that Ryan is showing off and being smug. There is now way that leg belongs to Vogue.

Having a few reconciliation drinks with Kevin.

Loafing Oaf

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/08/09/ryan-tubridys-uk-radio-show-pulls-in-over-half-a-million-listeners/

Ryan Tubridy has 503,000 listeners on Virgin Radio UK with his audience swelling 10 per cent between his first and second quarters on air, according to the first listenership figures for his show on the Rupert Murdoch-owned station.

I don't really get the significance of these figures and can't see the full article but I'm sure some of you professional tubridologists can provide the context…