The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122294416#Comment_122294416

The article is very good but you are right:-

I wrote the following based on the headline, but in fairness to Terry Prone she pulls no punches, I was surprised it came from her : -

The glamour at RTÉ faded as soon as they moved into the TV studios in Donnybrook. You can see from old archive photographs the original visual intent of the architect, a modern set of buildings purposefully built to house TV studios with a contemporary elegant entrance. The long corridors facing out on to Montrose house in the leafy Dublin suburbs. At some point however the sufficiency of the design was lost in the hands of RTÉ, as Wardrobe was dropped into a central area only to make it look messy. The same can be said of the Radio centre, who's lobby has had 1990s kitsch lobbed on to it with a lack of vision that the original minimalist lobby would suggest.

Buildings that would invite big name stars, while showing the opulence of our old British colonial past, had turned into a rat infested delipidated set of studios, which RTÉ never cared to maintain.

Surely this lack of maintenance of the RTÉ studios over the years should have shown the lack of management skills at the broadcaster.

RTÉ, the media and our politicians are now fed up with the news that RTÉ isn't up to the job of even running a broadcaster let alone their own buildings in which their studios reside. The audience on the other hand are embarrassed by the broadcaster.

Terry Prone might be right to consider RTÉ to be some kind of glamourous deity in the halcyon days of the 60s, but by the 70s and 80s it had dipped out of favour with audience, and cast a shadow on a bleak austere era, by the 90s nothing had changed and by the heady days of the Celtic Tiger management were now thinking they were working at the BBC, it was far from the BBC they were raised.

Let management and staff at RTÉ look around a crumbling broadcaster, and consider that they forget the glamour and put on a pair of wellies and get to work.

HildaOgdenx

Switched on radio, Paul McCartney mentioned. I left it at that.

Hyperbollix

Mario Rosenstock really revelling in this! You get the feeling he had Tubs number from Day1 but couldn't open his mouth or lampoon him too heavily. Tubs held the keys to the late late show guest list and Irish entertainers need that promotional opportunity. Now yesterday's man, he's getting both barrels. 😂

Kingslayer

I wonder will Tubs mention how Taylor Swift is Irish now, and then swing it around to JFK?

supereurope

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122296267#Comment_122296267

Commercial stations tend to be pretty ruthless if a presenter isn't bringing the numbers in, even more so if the listenership is down on the previous presenter, so I'd imagine his contract would have a clear break clause in it.

HildaOgdenx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122296267#Comment_122296267

I'm starting to feel sorry for Ryan. 😔He must know he's not doing well at Virgin. 

I don't think he does realise it. I know he has to keep up the hearty tones obviously, but I would say he thinks he is flying it. I really would.

I have no sympathy for him. Greed was his downfall after all the years of being grossly overpaid for a job he was never suited to, in the first place.

nonetheless

Sampling some of the 2nd and 3rd hour. The theme based on first records bought and band names. The 11:18 am link made for pretty slick radio - Getting a lightbulb for a sowing machine.

Some redemption found at 11:28, a short introduction from Tubridy about the first record you may have bought - A link mostly engineered by the production team and a stark contrast to the usual mess.

At 11:33 Ryan comes back and does his own thing - McDonald's? Seagulls going bonkers? Then going to Bath? and then his voice just dramatically increased in pitch and intensity, the link then just exploded like the Death Star at the end of Star Wars. Even playing Shaboozey's 'A Bar Song' (Tipsy) in between could not make up for the chaotic presentation.

At 12:27 Coming out of 'Don't Stop Believin' led Ryan to announce "That was Journey" then angrily shouting JURNAY!! - possibly causing some listeners to experience a sudden jolt or possibly sending some into cardiac arrest whilst at the same time leading some to question the emotional health of the presenter.

12:58 To wrap up - Kicking walls in Dublin

Love Listening.

AndyBoBandy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122297633#Comment_122297633

Getting a lightbulb for a sowing machine.

beacuse it's radio that matters.

jmcc

RTE even out-Newscorp News UK. Lottie Ryan is gone after just a few weeks.

https://www.thesun.ie/tv/13234006/lottie-ryan-axed-drivetime-show-the-2-jonnies/

Wonder if News UK will be getting thoughts about Tubridy?

Regards…jmcc

yagan

Isnt Lottie an employee and not a contractor now?

Won't be surprised if 2fm will be the next under the axe.

leath_dub

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122298302#Comment_122298302

That is one hell of a sub-headline: RTE has been accused of disrespecting the name of the late Gerry Ryan by badly treating his DJ daughter Lottie.

"Entitled, defined in a single sentence"

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122298394#Comment_122298394

There's a chap in London who would have jumped at the chance to replace her. It is a bit of a shock though.

Regards…jmcc

supereurope

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122298302#Comment_122298302

It seems that just like our friend Ryan, Lottie has been found out. I wonder if she has been making car ads on RTÉ grounds again? The sub-head now reads "RTE’s Gerry Ryan would ‘give bosses earful’ as ‘betrayed’ girl Lottie axed from new show and replaced with TikTok star" which sums up Lottie perfectly. She wasn't "betrayed", she was promoted beyond her abilities, solely because of who she is. All other things being equal, if she was Lottie Hogan, daughter of plumber Steve Hogan, we'd never have heard of her. Her entitled "My dad was a big star here so you owe me a living too" just proves that she's be nothing without her surname.

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122298513#Comment_122298513

It is RTE. There might be a sideways shift into management if she has some abilities in that area. It is certaintly a very different RTE from the Tubridy era-RTE. RTE does need to be seen to be doing something as the RTE licence fee issue hasn't been sorted out yet.

Regards…jmcc

tohaltuwi

An Empress without clothes, so to speak.

Tork

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122298578#Comment_122298578

The question is why they should be facilitating her at all. Maybe they're stuck with her but other than that, I can't see why she's on RTE's books at all. Especially when the station is looking for voluntary redundancies.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122298513#Comment_122298513

Gerry Ryan died 14 years ago last April. To put that into perspective, there is a large swathe of 2FM's current listeners who know very little about him. At best they might've heard him on the kitchen radio when they were growing up but that's the extent of their experience of him. Sadly for his family and for his fans, he's a long-gone relic of the past. He might as well be Din Joe as far as the younger generation are concerned.

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122299848#Comment_122299848

Probably a sense of guilt over Gerry Ryan's death. A bit like Gerry Ryan's teaboy, radio broadcasting doesn't seem to be her thing.

Regards…jmcc

NIMAN

HAs Lottie a famous agent? To get such a sub headline written?

NIMAN

Re: that new Tubs gift grub.

It was pretty poor overall I thought, like most GGs for the last decade. Well past its sell by..

But I do wonder how come such a huge name like Tubs never had any sketches about him over the 14yrs he was at the LLS?

Had Mario no balls to slag him? How brave of him now to start taking digs.

nonetheless

Cannot say I am a fan of Lottie but Dan Healy has a lot to answer for. That guy has not got clue what he is at.

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300110#Comment_122300110

She was previously NKM but parted ways when the Tubridy payments scandal emerged.

Regards…jmcc

hawley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300116#Comment_122300116

That episode of Gift Grub is two years old. I stopped listening to it fifteen years ago.

Red Fred

Bryan loved and misses Top of the Pops but yet can't be sure what night it was broadcast on.

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122298394#Comment_122298394

maybe the probation period was used - one can let go an employee during the probation period without giving any reason

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300969#Comment_122300969

"You're sh1t Lottie, away you go".

nonetheless

Came across as being a little unsympathetic of Celine Dion who is suffering from stiff person syndrome. Q102 then carried a commercial that is supposed to be for LMFM. Discussed Italian perceptions of crimes against the preparation and eating of pasta for which he believes he is innocent for the most part. Couldn't say the same about crimes committed against radio.

supereurope

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300936#Comment_122300936

Tbf, it did move around the schedules a bit in its later years. From Thursdays to Fridays and then to Sundays.

I've been watching the TOTP repeats on BBC4 every Friday for the last few years (once they hit the mid-80s), they're now up to April 1996, so the move to Friday nights, now considered the beginning of the end for TOTP, is just around the corner.

nonetheless

And now Donncha O'Callaghan's exit from 2fm is coming soon...

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122302449#Comment_122302449

Confirmed:

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0625/1456619-donncha-ocallaghan-to-leave-2fm-breakfast-show/

Regards…jmcc

NIMAN

Sinking ship.