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

RoTelly

Pat "****" Kenny on tubs podcast!

The toy men unite!

mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122941973#Comment_122941973

The reporting on Tubridy is a circle jerk,

Classic old boys network,

hawley

Just after listening to listening to his interview on Dermot Whelan's podcast. When he asks Tubs about Sinead O'Connor ringing him and saying "You got mugged by God in a hoodie", Tubs acts like a witness in a trial. "I was in the Abbeyglen Hotel with my cousins. It was early evening, so I was sober. I stepped into an office to take the call (proceeds to describe office)". He sounds very uncomfortable talking about it and continuously gulps throughout the exchange. Sounds like it was a load of BS, invented by Noel.

supereurope

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122941558#Comment_122941558

If the rumours are true and Tubs returns to Ireland, how is he ever going to live down the "senior hurling" comment?

That said, I can't wait to see how his friends in the media are going to spin the move to an Irish regional station as a positive and "a great move for Ryan." I bet we're going to see the phrase "There's no place like home" a lot.

lee_baby_simms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122942208#Comment_122942208

You can always tell when someone is making up a story when they add lots of superfluous detail in an attempt to make it sound more believable.

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122942255#Comment_122942255

presumably there will be a relaunch of Q of some sort and it will be effectively Tubridy FM ( maybe Virgin Radio Ireland as speculation here suggests) just like Evans is the face of the U.K. version

podgeandrodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122942200#Comment_122942200

Well then presumably the history of huge RTE payments to contractors will come up etc. etc.

nonetheless

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122942286#Comment_122942286

You never know they may even go with East US call signs, they could even name it after Sparta, North Carolina's WCOK.

leath_dub

Almost every link he makes, pop culture reference he makes, anecdote he attempts us Irish focused:

"I was talking to Barry Keoghan the other night..."

"Saoirse Ronan was Amazon on *** the other night"

"You have to check out Paul Mescal in Gladiator 2"

Etc

Would it be churlish to suggest that he's not really bought into the London Lifestyle and has no interest in building a rapport with his (miniscule) UK audience? 🙂

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122942286#Comment_122942286

I'd wonder if they have the rights to the Virgin brand, as far as I know Virgin Media have the brand due to the historical link with Virgin Media the UK which was also owned by Liberty Global, now it Virgin Media O2 in the UK not sure if it is one full company part owned by Liberty Global and O2.

Though historically NEWS UK was UTV which in turn owned Virgin Radio, not sure how they got that name, but I suspect that all of these services were once owned by Virgin and just carry the brand name by licence.

You will notice that its not Virgin TV but Virgin Media TV and its not Virgin Mobile but it seems just to be Virgin Media for the mobile offering in Ireland.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122942208#Comment_122942208

When I tell the story Noel is it ok if I get a plug in for the cousins hotel?

Well Ryan, it wouldn’t be one of your stories if you didn’t manage to plug something now would it?

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122942534#Comment_122942534

Most 'Virgin' companies just licence the name and branding.

supereurope

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122942286#Comment_122942286

That's depressing. I don't live in Dublin, so will be easy to avoid thankfully.

Though as speculation also suggests, 96FM/C103 down here will become Tubridy FM South, which is concerning. TBH, I find the current 96FM breakfast show unlistenable, but Tubs on there certainly won't make me tune in.

OnAirÉire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122943398#Comment_122943398

Dont forget live 95 and LMFM..

Tork

It's astonishing that the BAI is allowing this to go ahead. Why bother having local radio stations at all if it's acceptable to swap out their presenters for a networked programme coming from Dublin? It's bad enough that they seem to be doing this for Tubridy but where do you draw the line?

nonetheless

It goes against what was supposed to be the whole purpose of local radio. Particularly for music radio together with the overuse of automation, voice tracking and extremely bland programming, it has resulted in the medium losing a level of intimacy and engagement - a sonic fuzz that now sits in the background. The owners of which who are now mostly radio conglomerates are really only focused on streamlining their operations to reduce costs and maximize revenues. Unfortunately in this situation the listener doesn't exist and the regulator really only pays lip service to the public. What is of paramount importance to the owners is that their operations are optimized to produce a healthy return on investment and the regulator will support that. Even at this point it is absolutely disgraceful for a radio station who were awarded a license in one of the main franchises to schedule it's weekday programming as "Feel Good Breakfast", "Feel Good Afternoons" and "The Love Zone" without any human input with the exception of "The Ryan Tubridy Show" (I know, I know, I can't believe I said that). It is highly insulting imo to the folks who are currently presenting on that radio station when it appears that the owners may have already hatched their plan, in the process of executing it and the regulator is onboard with it. And it all seems to be happening so quietly and with such subtlety.

Peter Dragon

maybe he’ll reinvent himself as a Smashy & Nicey type Disc Jockey…….back after these with more terrific top tunes from DJ Toyman, including Ace of Base and Aqua!

He already has the hyperactive delivery down to a tee, all he needs is a playlist - it’s not like he’ll know who any of the bands are anyway, but he can just read them out at 100 miles an hour and sit back thinking “I’m back baby!”.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122945142#Comment_122945142

Considering his taste in music is more crooner and Paul McCartney, it's not music that would suit this persona.

Young fogey.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122945178#Comment_122945178

My tongue was rather firmly in my cheek on that one Niman.

Tubridy’s musical knowledge and that required for a music-driven show are poles apart, but that hasn’t stopped the Virgin crew from giving him a shot at it. I’d say he’s dying on the inside playing Westlife and Busted and McFly and all the other tat that’s on the playlist there.

DJ Toyman has a ring to it though. 🤣

nonetheless

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122945203#Comment_122945203

His lack of general basic popular music knowledge becomes really apparent when they have just played a well known mid 80's power lister such as Mr. Mister's "Kyrie" for which he then announces and thank you very much that was Marillion, now...

He just simply doesn't care for their music playlist in general. He is absolutely out of sorts on a formatted music station and what he is allowed to talk about has to be within the confines of safe light entertainment radio leaving him largely ineffective to even his most loyal followers, which really generates the potential for any competent jock doing his slot and doing it a lot better. It becomes even more difficult to hate listen!!

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122945789#Comment_122945789

🤣

Is the Mr. Mister / Marillion mix-up a comment made in jest or did he really say that? It’s entirely plausible that he did say it of course.

Reminds me of the time many years ago (in my teenage years) when I heard Peter Collins play R.E.M.’s “Orange Crush” and he came back on air saying something like “What a great summer song there from R.E.M. - who doesn’t like some refreshing orange crush on a hot day?”. The song is most definitely not about a refreshing summer beverage…..

nonetheless

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122945826#Comment_122945826

No believe me it's genuine, heard it with my own ears using VRUK playback about 2 months ago iirc. Actually posted about it but I can't find the actual post. What you just referred to there about Peter Collins etc. yes I would agree with you as that sort of thing tends to happen in RTE🙂

Brian Scan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122945826#Comment_122945826

 “What a great summer song there from R.E.M. - who doesn’t like some refreshing orange crush on a hot day?”. The song is most definitely not about a refreshing summer beverage…..

Perhaps his tongue was rather firmly in his cheek on that one, Peter.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122946036#Comment_122946036

It wasn’t. From memory, some sort of apology was issued after the next commercial break.

This was the same Peter Collins btw who was once drafted in to do the Irish rugby team’s post game interviews and proceeded to get every player’s name wrong (one Victor Costello was particularly unimpressed by this) so faux pas were a strength of his.

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122946036#Comment_122946036

Didn’t someone once call Bell X1 “Bell Eleven” on 2fm too?

supereurope

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122945178#Comment_122945178

The "young fogey" who spent his 20s listening to crooners and Nora Jones, then became a Swiftie in his 50s…

Peter Dragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122942123#Comment_122942123

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/leo-varadkar-complained-a-lot-to-rte-whereas-i-actually-got-quite-a-nice-letter-from-simon-harris-oliver-callan/a323415454.html

The interview with Callan I referenced is now linked above. An interesting read, particularly about the time slot and audience.

rightmove

you never realise that Tubs had an emotional crises at the time and that he needed the prodding of the wommin in his life to see things clearly etc.

I dont know maybe he had 150k reasons to leave the LLS but he never mentions that.

Peter Dragon

Just back this morning from 10+ days on a multi-city jaunt in the Middle East and absolutely shattered - I haven’t felt this tired and as sore all over since my sporting days. There was no direct flight from my final port of call so a multi-leg return journey and layover in Istanbul didn’t help (the lounge there is surprisingly nice though - Aer Lingus take note).

Anyway, due to a combination of in-flight boredom and the wonders of modern technology with Wi-fi in the sky I went down a Tubridy rabbit hole and read the entirety of old thread dedicated to his former radio show, and a sizeable portion of the thread dedicated to the payments scandal when it broke.

It really is fascinating to read these with the benefit of hindsight, particularly the radio thread with many posters calling out what was hiding in plain sight for years before the payments scandal broke. What was also interesting to read were the comments from Ryan’s ardent supporters, some of whom frequent this thread. If I had to sum it all up in one word I’d use one of the man himself’s go to phrases - intriguing.

If one were bored over the Christmas break it’s certainly worth revisiting one or both of these.

I’m off to bed now with an ambien, I hope to resurface sometime tomorrow in considerably better form than I find myself in at this moment.

Goodnight and good luck.

hawley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122948244#Comment_122948244

During the interview that Tubridy did with Dermot Whelan, he called Sinead O'Connor a "Cassandra". A figure who would say correct things but would be dismissed by the general public. Tubs really knows how to play the media game, as he tries to align himself with her. Of course there were plenty of Cassandras on the old Tubridy threads, who could see through him and could see how poor a presenter he was. The likes of Tubridy have no real interest in truth or what's right. He recently dismissed those complaining about the new Netflix series set in Northern Ireland, as a bunch of cranks from X, even though it included victims of the IRA, such as Jean McConville's family.