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

podgeandrodge

Maybe the new "Director of Audio" or the new "Director of Video" will strongly consider all available talent on the island of Ireland, while also looking at Tubs to ensure past mistakes aren't repeated.

Morgans

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121978778#Comment_121978778

Yeah. Most people tolerated him, even if he was poor technically at his job, until himself and his agent buried their reputations last summer. That should give the hate listeners enough energy for a few years. Even if he did repay the 150K to the taxpayers, the underhanded nature of his conduct has soured many, who now see that his position in Irish broadcasting was not deserved.

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979076#Comment_121979076

Anyone know what the salary is for those roles? It’s not an audience facing role, but i can’t imagine you’ll be getting director grade talent for less than 150k.

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979216#Comment_121979216

ah sure apply anyway. The interview practice will be worthwhile if nothing else!

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979421#Comment_121979421

I already make a little more than that and am self-employed. I know there’s probably a few perks in RTE, but getting a job there is hardly a plum role these days. I also know almost nothing about sound and vision.

Tork

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979165#Comment_121979165

Are you classified as a hate listener if you've tuned into his show and concluded that he's not doing a good job? I don't hate Tubridy as a person - I don't know him and don't want to know him. But I hate the way he made it to the top of the tree in RTE even though he wasn't the best presenter in the place. I hate how RTE management over-paid its "talent" and kowtowed to their agents. He has been well and truly exposed as a broadcaster. I'm sure he'll continue to work once this radio gig is over but I don't ever want to see him being handed prime-time radio or TV shows again.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980349#Comment_121980349

Only by one person, to be fair listening to Tubridy is like listening to David brent and I get the same laugh from him, it's less hate listening and more cringe comic listening

Hyperbollix

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980349#Comment_121980349

Exactly. The Tubridy apologists always want to make it personal, whether that be making a statement on our feelings about the formerly 'most trusted man in Ireland' or making assumptions about our own motivations / life situations. It's tedious, trite and tired.

This whole fiasco since last summer has just shown, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what most RTE viewers with a whit of common sense knew for 20 odd years…….that Ryan Tubridy was an over promoted researcher that hadn't the charisma, knowledge or work ethic to front flagship TV and radio programmes. If he was as good as RTE were telling us for two decades, he would now be top billing at the BBC or ITV with a proper morning talk radio show and a primetime TV chat show. A ludicrious proposition on the evidence of the last three months.

I tuned into a bit of the GAA special on last night's Late Late. Despite having zero interest in the sport, it was entertaining thanks to PK at the helm. A real person who can connect with his guests and who obviously lives a life outside of tv fame. As always, it struck me how tragically funny it was that RTE only stumbled onto this formula by pure accident of circumstance, not by any plan whatsoever.

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979435#Comment_121979435

Sure the best paid lads there don't have a job in RTÉ either.

HildaOgdenx

From today's column.

I'm sorry but the irony of Tubridy using the word coasting about anyone has made me laugh. 😁

podgeandrodge

https://extra.ie/2024/04/07/entertainment/celebrity/simon-harris-school

So…Simon Harris, Highgate Cemetery, asks a "man in the highviz jacket" where George Michael is buried, and happens to be standing beside the grave right then and there, and then asks the "man in the highviz jacket" what his "role is in the cemetery" (as you do when you meet men in highviz jackets in cemeteries), only to be told that he is "security detail for the filming of a TV show there. He asked me had I ever heard of Strike. As a new fan of the Strike series of books by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling) I was thrilled to hear this news so I went up for a poke around and sure enough, there they were, a massive crew working away on turning The Ink Black Heart into a TV drama."

Riveting. And co-incidental. Probably was hoping to meet someone famous to latch onto.

Actually, the "diary" finishes so abruptly I found myself scrolling to see the end, but it had ended. Such are his talents.

CollyFlower

Some big news coming..

.https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/12692960/ryan-tubridy-big-news-podcast-break-exciting/

https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/12692960/ryan-tubridy-big-news-podcast-break-exciting/

hawley

JK Rowling has become an icon for a lot of women over the last few years. Tubs becomes a huge fan of her books, is pictured holding one of her books on photoshoot. The cynicism with how he tries to portray himself is staggering. You can be sure that Noel Kelly devised this marketing ploy. His fanbase is mainly women, so he's trying to appeal to them. Completely disingenuous behaviour.

leath_dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121990776#Comment_121990776

Obligatory Paul McCartney reference too. Tubs has decided that his public persona .is: Books, coffee shops, books, Paul McCartney, museums, books etc,etc, etc.. Rinse and repeat. It all comes across as utterly fake

fplfan12345

It will fail. For a podcast to make money it will need an audience. He will need to actually create something. He hasn’t a chance.

It’s one thing him being forced on a nation but now he’ll need people to seek him out and for his podcast to be recommended by others. No chance.

GSF

the lad had an unhealthy obsession with hanging around graveyards

Bobson Dugnutt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121991235#Comment_121991235

maybe that is who he is. You not liking the books, Beatles, coffee shops, few pints thing doesn’t mean it isn’t true. It wouldn’t even be particularly uncommon. What we do know is that it really gets on the tits of some people. Bothers them like.

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121991546#Comment_121991546

I’ll accept he likes the smell of books and holding them if that makes you happier 😉

mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121991534#Comment_121991534

he has come from RTE, it’s ingrained into current and ex staff, RTE relish death, cancer, etc.

listen to Duffy and Darcy

AndyBoBandy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121990938#Comment_121990938

Jesus Christ if ever there was the definition of a paid for article, this is it……..

Some absolute gems in there such as;

Ryan Tubridy leaves fans 'excited'

or

Ryan Tubridy's fans all can't wait for his podcast to be out

The 50-year-old's fans were all delighted to hear the exciting news and congratulated him.

Nicki said: "Finally a podcast been waiting for over a decade."

Sandra commented: "Have a great break Ryan."

Caroline wrote: "Looking forward to the podcast Ryan enjoy your break."

Another fan added: "Ooh excited to hear your podcast news.... I know you dropped a few hints a couple of months ago with Vogue and Noel Fitzpatrick, so I'm predicting something to do with books.

We can clearly tell that the excitement levels amongst his fanbase are at absolute fever pitch… they almost broke the internet rushing to congratulate him…. all 4 of them……

AndyBoBandy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121991534#Comment_121991534

The (Tubridy's) Late Late Show was a misery fest….

myself and my OH actually had a running joke where we'd flick through the TV on a Friday night after 1 show had ended, waiting for the next to start, and would sometimes flick onto the LLS for a few minutes, and 9 times out of 10 it was some form of misery porn..

And even then he could only muster about as much empathy as a wasp stinging a gorilla's nut sack would show…. but it still suited Tubbers better than any light hearted stuff, as he was/is simply unable to engage in any back & forth banter, even when the punchlines are put on a plate for him…

HildaOgdenx

It seems to be one of the regular Q102 guys on this morning, so I don't need to turn the dial. Presumably someone else has to fill in, across the pond, on days when Tubridy is away.

SharkMX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121991856#Comment_121991856

That more of an Irish thing though and Tubridy was all for milking it.

My future FIL is Italian and he has often pointed out to me that Irish people, more than any others he has ever seen, love to see other people worse off than themselves. Even to the point that if they perceive anyone to be better off than them they will even make their own position worse just to make the other person suffer,

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121991896#Comment_121991896

someone called Steve Denyer. Used to do Heart regional shows before they went 100% networked outside Scotland

leath_dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121992011#Comment_121992011

Please note that when mentioning that Ryan is on a break, the only acceptable way to describe it is: " well earned" break

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121992194#Comment_121992194

he’s worked harder these last 3 months than he has in many years. I don’t think anyone can dispute that

leath_dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121991896#Comment_121991896

I wonder who fills in for him on Virgin?

Has there been any indication how well he's being received over there?

It could be risky for him letting a UK DJ stand in for him for a whole week. Perhaps the natives will prefer the stand-in

amlinopta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121991896#Comment_121991896

Martin King filling in on Q102. Long time since Tubs went 3 months without a break, if ever

Bobson Dugnutt

Podcasting is pretty much a saturated market at this stage, and I can see a lot of them folding as the VC and advertising money dries up.

That said, he has the recognition, will be able to leverage his years broadcasting to get good guests on, has the NK pipeline, should be able to get a sponsor pretty quickly. This won’t be some blob mouth-breathing into a microphone in a spare bedroom for an audience of 20 listeners.

Will probably get some hate listeners as well, at least at the start.

leath_dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121992652#Comment_121992652

Not if it's not free, he won't 😁