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

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122440584#Comment_122440584

I believe this advice. You should also givenit to Dee Forbes, Geraldine O’Leary, Jim Jennings, Rory Coveney and Richard Collins.

Don’t you think?

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122441839#Comment_122441839

did I mention any senior management in a commercial semi-state body?

I don’t think I did.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122442464#Comment_122442464

no, I don’t think i mentioned anyone currently working for that company.

tohaltuwi

Career rehab continues

https://extra.ie/2024/07/29/news/rte-kevin-bakhurst-tubs

Atlantic Dawn

Dud Tubs ever do niteclubs or weddings as a disc jockey in his earlier days so to speak?

tohaltuwi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122443246#Comment_122443246

Well now, I don’t know about that, but I could think a re-go at the rubber chicken circuit could pay a bill or two, like €150k.

lee_baby_simms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122443242#Comment_122443242

some interesting comments from Bakhurst saying that he likes RT but that feeling probably wouldn’t be reciprocated.

He also makes it clear that many things would need to happen and suggests that certain people have to take responsibility and acknowledge their own role in the fiasco.

I think we all know how likely that is to happen!

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122439779#Comment_122439779

Indeed- carefully choreographed - a few articles here, a few photoshoots there, maybe attending a function or two and before you know it, it’s the morning show with Tubs.

He’s obviously doing his 40 days and 40 nights in the desert in the UK- I’d give it till next Summer at most and he’ll be back - I haven’t been in this thread for a number of months but if Tubridy is still doing that speaking a mile a minute every 10 minutes for 2 minutes sort of presenting that he was doing a few months ago on Virgin, he must be feeling demented at this stage.

yagan

While the rehabilitation of Bryan is been pushed now in the silly season there will be pushback after the holidays from the golden circled who've had a hobbling thanks to barter boy.

Edit to add the number one priority of any bureaucracy is survival, and Bryan's hubris torpedoed the ship. The barter payments was Bryan taking a whole lifeboat for himself.

HildaOgdenx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122443574#Comment_122443574

if Tubridy is still doing that speaking a mile a minute every 10 minutes for 2 minutes sort of presenting that he was doing a few months ago on Virgin, he must be feeling demented at this stage.

I listen to Q102, apart from his show, but occasionally catch a very brief clip before I get to turn the dial. Yes, still jabbering a mile a minute. I would find him difficult to understand, and not at all easy to listen to. I can't imagine what a UK audience makes of him.

I'd say he thinks things are going marvellously. I really would. Bakhurst must be well and truly off his rocker if he is planning on leaving a door open for him to return.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122444061#Comment_122444061

I’d need a bit more time to think that one out.

It would be a business decision first and foremost.
So, let’s look at the as-is position.

1. Presenter fees are way down what they were- that’s a good thing so you’ll get RT relatively cheaply compared to past fees

1. Next is a bit more complex- Tubridy likability. OK let’s face it he still has a fan base but obviously you and me aren’t included in that - so he’s devicisve as a presenter . I hate his condescension, his pandering to whatever agenda is flavour of the month such as woke etc He doesn’t know how to just be himself as a presenter - he tries and in my view fails to endear himself to many instead of just saying “this is me” accept me or not- a much braver and solid thing to do. Also his lecturing - there was a time when that was somewhat acceptable and indeed good - Gay did it; Gerry did it- it’s not the done thing anymore but he’s still doing it

Advertising- would he bring in the money? Probably not much more so than any other presenter- he’ll still need a primetime slot and will need to show he can grow his audience again

in summary I don’t think Tubridy will change -and for me that’s the one reason not to bring him back- if the DG thinks he’ll make money then fine but I won’t be tuning in

maebee

"Bakhurst must be well and truly off his rocker if he is planning on leaving a door open for him to return."

Yes and Bakhurst would need to give some serious thought as to how his staff would work with Tubridy. It would cause enormous tension, imo.

nonetheless

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122443246#Comment_122443246

You only have to listen to his radio shows to understand that Tubridy is technically inept and lacks the most basic skills required to DJ in nightclubs or at weddings. He mispronounces 99% of the song artists and song titles (even though they are written in LARGE FONT on the playout screen infront of him) he has no grasp of the term "crunch and roll" and he is also unable to mix. Most of the time the music is played by a tech op who constantly has a battle to keep Tubridy from crashing or walking over the vocal. He has no comprehension of audio levels, engineering or motor skills required to be a DJ or Producer. After all as he was practically "raised in Montrose" where music, ads, "stings" and other such insignificant trifles are all played out by: "the boffins on the other side of the glass"

If Ryan Tubridy had to actually self-operate his Virgin & Q102 show (without the aid of minimum wage tech ops) he would most certainly take those stations off air or crash the playout system as he has done on numerous occasions by hitting the green "NEXT" button with such aggression causing the ads to cascade into a tailspin until resting on the piece of music that follows those ads.

robwen

Is the only way to get the 150k back from him, is to to retire him??

HildaOgdenx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122444122#Comment_122444122

He doesn’t know how to just be himself as a presenter 

That's the nub of the whole thing, imo. He was always so uneasy, trying to have a persona, the toy man, the book man and so on. The insistence on never veering off a script, the cue cards.

There were things that Gaybo/ Pat Kenny/ other presenters got wrong betimes, of course. Things they probably looked back on and thought oh I wish I had handled that differently. Said this, and not that. But they weren't afraid to be authentic, and so they did get things wrong from time to time.

There's no authenticity with Tubridy whatsoever, in my opinion and that's why I gave up on him early doors on the LLS. (I never listened to his radio programme.)

If there's no authenticity, in a presenter or an interviewer, there's nothing there for guests to engage with. It's just a shame that he wasn't found out a long time ago.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445099#Comment_122445099

Yeah I think so - genuineness and credibility is so important in the line of work he does - you can’t fake it because it shows- some things I didn’t like about Kenny Ryan and Byrne - indeed throw Fanning into that mix too - but overall I enjoyed their radio shows - it’s a different type of show to something like Ian Dempseys morning programme - he’s probably the last of the old style “Djs”- he leaves the ego at the door- I think that’s part of the secret - you let the music, the guests and the phone in callers be the “stars”- when you think you’re the “star” that’s when you should go.

mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122444140#Comment_122444140

Bakhurst gave Darcy a 250k a year contract,

Very little has changed unfortunately

mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445720#Comment_122445720

are you the guy who tells us to be nice to tubs?

GSF

Not everyone worked in Cadburys before making it big

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445944#Comment_122445944

 I didn’t came anyone.

???

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445972#Comment_122445972

the thread has climaxed

podgeandrodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122445972#Comment_122445972

He was thinking of Tubs.

NIMAN

I love the little Beatles figurines on his window sill.

podgeandrodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122446042#Comment_122446042

The lady doth protest too much.

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122446061#Comment_122446061

dangerously close to blowing it 😂

RoTelly

Just before all of this happened in RTÉ I was in the middle of a very long circular argument with a poster on boards (on the Dee Forbes thread). The poster would never give a direct opinion on RTÉ. Their go to was "we must first define what we want from Public Service Broadcasting, before we decided on funding model", no matter how hard I tried to elicit an opinion the poster would never let go of this circular belief. The poster has since left that thread as they know that their faith in RTÉ as an organisation was massively misplaced and that really they never had much to say weather good or bad about the organsation.

The idea of an opinion board is to give your opinion weather others agree or not. It seems to me some posters only want negative opinions when it suits them and then dismiss other comments as to "Why do you bother with this site, its not relevant, your view isn't relevant, you are not relevant". You'd wonder why they bother with this type of non-arguement and non-opinion.

This thread can be harsh on poor auld Tubs, this is true, but Tubs wrapped in himself up in the frivolous believe that he and the other top stars in RTÉ were untouchable and RTÉ needed them. This may have been true with Gay Bryne and Gerry Ryan but both were excellent communicators and both largely had a monopoly to themselves (this is due not just to RTÉ's legal monopoly of the airwaves at the time but also the narrow communications types available). Indeed just look at Hollywood and how over the last decade the "stars" have faded, though there are some actors and actresses making a name for themselves, but with so much content available they are over shadowed by niche interests of audiences and the easy of access to communications.

We now live in a world were we can all set up a podcast, post videos, gifs, comment, create and argue online (even on more relevant platforms). So the idea that Tubs was a big star even in Ireland is a something of another era.

I'd argue that Tubs was better placed a year ago to take a year off and relax and return, the pace at which RTÉ wanted to return him to his radio show was way out of the actual timescale, now I'd argue they may return him slowly but that eventually he'll be largely forgotten about and not worth the hassle for RTÉ. I'd say the only people that will really remember him are the few that are somewhat fans, mainly people who never liked what he did and the rest will kind of go "yeah that wasn't a bad show, I remember that". He's now nostalgia for "boomers", not a great market for nostalgia TBH.

Hyperbollix

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122440115#Comment_122440115

As well as adjectives, he leans far too heavily on "That time I chatted with this big deal over here….." His columns are less of an insightful analysis, which is what he think's he providing, and more of an opportunity to link himself to some topical mover and shaker, thus giving the reader the impression he is a mover and shaker himself.

I look forward to next week's column, where Tubs talks about the time he ventured around the North on his summer holidays, took a dip in a river and got chatting to a lovely young man called Daniel Wiffen, "a child of the peace process, English born, Irish raised, who isn't interested in silly conflicts or flags, he justs want to go out there and make everyone in Ireland proud, from Bushmills to Bandon" ……..or some such auld twaddle.

RE his return to RTE, it's only a matter of time. I heard Dara Calleary on the radio this morning, back from his period in the wilderness and ready to resume public life. How long will Tub's period of exile last? I suppose that's up to Bakhurst. I'm going to say '25 will see Tubs back and "open for business"

yagan

The thing is if the internet is now everyone's prime source for aural and visual entertainment then where does Bryan fit into a scaled back essential national broadcasting service?

Based off his performance as a light entertainment host Kielty he could easily transfer the format to TV3 after his RTE contract is up, or even produce such a show to sell to RTE; Bakhurst already mentioned transferring the LLS off campus.

Whatever about the wishes of his cheerleaders I'm not sure there'd even be schedule room in a rationalised RTE for Bryan in the future. The nature of the ministers blank cheque bailout will always make his return problematic as to the public the barter account matter is still unresolved.

mountain

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

the issue here, isn’t about Tubridys talent or lack of it,

It’s much more than RTE, with Bakhurst at the helm, don’t really care about the public, RTE in the main is primarily about cushy jobs for the chosen few,

Bakhurst will bring the shyster back, on a wage of 250k, ignore any criticism, and it will be business as usual in 2 years or so.

If RTE was a commercial company we would see change

GSF

The next Rajar result covering April 1st to June 23rd out at midnight. I’m sure Virgin are getting the press release ready