Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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So now Tubridy and RTE want us to focus on the waived 120k fee, and forget about the 200k+ or so he took for the bogus Renault gigs and underwriting of, paid for by RTE, and all the various costs of staging them and the barter account.
The 120k fee is a distraction.
He's been repeatedly complicit in suspicious side deals with RTE. How on earth can he be trusted going forward?
I'd wager its far more than 50%. The consensus is the staff in RTE are disgusted and angry, especially anyone who had to take a cut or pay-freeze, which I would image is the majority. A lot of RTE people interviewed have said they are sad and angry.
Has even a single RTE person apart from the board come out in support of Tubridy? (Noel Kelly clients don't count).
Who is in a position to verify Tubridy's claims that he's received lot of letters and cards and messages of support? What does that even mean? A half dozen a week to Montrose, who would know his home address off the top of their head. Or hundreds/ thousands of letters? It's meaningless.
I did write to him care of Donnybrook and advised him that he had deceived the public and to go. Did Tubridy count these letters too??
who would know his home address off the top of their head
They would just address them to The Toyman 📬😏 Dublin.
Like letters to Santa...
When you are in his position or say a musician for example, mistakes hurt , they reverberate through your bones and cause pain , but civilians don’t notice and when they approach and say well done it’s confusing because all you think about are the mistakes
Ironically the true master of conversation and putting guests at ease, Michael Parkinson, passed away today.
Watch his Muhammed Ali interview if you can, he just lets Ali ramble on. Tubridy would have shut him down whilst watching the clock tick down.
RIP Parkie, a master of the art. The Michelangelo to Tubridy's painter/decorator!
Ah, that's totally unfair.
Having their biggest ratings winner and critical success back on the airways has to be very good for RTE, which is good for people working there. I can't believe many people think Ryan has no decency or integrity, he's clearly a gentleman. Comparing his personality to Putin is surely a bit much, even for Boards.
Where is the critical success? In fairness even Gay Byrne didn't get much critical success.
I think there is somewhere in-between on the feelings about Tubs. He's not my cup of tea and thinking critical without my own bias I don't believe he is the greatest chat show host in the world or in Ireland for that matter, and the same goes for his radio presentation.
There are things I love but I know critically and from a mass media level they would not be considered good by others, I can also see when other like something but its clearly not something that is either critically good or good for what it is, I am happy to like such things and happy for others to like their preferences.
There are even things critically acclaimed that I am happy that I will never get but I can see why it is critically successful.
I think TLLS and his radio show would have they audience that they have had even if he wasn't presenting, certainly people haven't turned off.
RT is knee deep in well wishing cards and letters every week. He will be up to his neck in cards and gifts and flowers and board games on his first day back in Montrose!
He will will start with a 30 second apology and then 30 mins of thanking everyone for their well wishes and gifts : vomit:
There appears to be a lot of misreporting regarding the €120,000 that was not paid to Tubridy. I don't know whether it's deliberate or because journalists haven't bothered to read the Grant Thornton report. Two important points from the report:
First, the €120,000 was for additional services that were not called upon and therefore not delivered during the period. The report gives examples of additional one-off specials on the Late Late and an additional TV series of eight 52 minute shows.
Second, the agreement to waive the fee was made as part of the back-and-forth of negotiations for his current contract period - so it was "quid pro quo", and not an act of charity by Tubridy. The concession would have helped prop up the fees he demanded for the period from 2020 onwards.
Not so much off topic, but in keeping with the license fee protests.
Something I've noticed for the last few weeks are a real, genuine decline in sales of the Rte Guide. Every week, I try to get it's rival magazine, Tv Now for a family member. (They like the articles , features, and knowing what programmes are gonna be on for the week). But for the last several weeks, it's been difficult to get. Sometimes requires me to got to several newsagents to find a copy.
Initially I assumed it was just print declining, but then other Tv guides were in short/ scarce supply. And yet there were stacks of unsold Rte Guides. Multiple stores, newsagents I went to...Tv now sold out. 4 large piles of Rte Guides I spotted in one supermarket. Unsold. And this was on a Friday, so the magazine's were gonna stay on the shelf or get pulped. Then there was one or two copies of Tv Now.
It feels like a mini protest on behalf of consumers who may pay the license fee, to avoid conviction, but are leaving the overpriced Guide on the shelf.
Is that different monies to the 'loyalty' bonus?
For those looking for his viewing figures over the years these figures give an idea, they don't include speicals such as Toy Show, C&W Show etc.;
He was regularly getting 750,000 back in 2010, peaking at 830,000 (not including specials). https://marketing.ie/late-late-figures-up-again/
By 2022 it was in the 350,000 - 440,000 range. To lose 10-20% of your viewers is careless, to lose half is gross incompetence.
Brendan O'Connor's Saturday night show was regularly beating Tubridy by 2015, he took over from Tubridy in 2010. They were both hitting the 500,000 viewers at this stage. https://goss.ie/gallery/chat-show-war-brendan-oconnor-pulling-in-more-viewers-than-ryan-tubridy-on-late-late-show-26529
And Tommy Tiernan was beating him in 2021 in his 5th year of the show. https://evoke.ie/2021/03/30/entertainment/tommy-tiernan-overtakes-the-late-late-show-with-highest-ratings
Both Tiernan and O'Connor had their shows in slots that would not be as desirable and would not have such a head start on viewers as the Friday night LLS would have.
Yes, the past 10 years has bought the biggest change in viewing habits since the advent of TV, with far more stuff being available on demand, as well as the rise of Netflix, YouTube etc., but it's a bigger drop than any other programme of its type. RTE heads just didn't want to know this and that is suspicious in itself.
Undelivered services to the value of €120,000 were offset against an exit fee of the same value.
"Did Tubridy count these letters too??"
Only if the envelope was brown...old FF habits etc
:/ Not sure of this reading: -
Tubridy losing listeners just as he was taken off-air.
Regards...jmcc
Funny you should say that. My inlaws always asked me to pick up the RTE guide. Since this scandal theyve wanted TV Now instead.
We wont be paying the TV license fee ever again either.
We were told he was the most "beloved broadcaster" in the history of 21st century broadcasting???
We were told he was RTE's "star attraction"?
Utterly BAFFLING.
Were they LIES?
Based on the comments about the RTE Guide and the licence fee protest, it seems that the RTE brand itself is becoming toxic.
Inotherwords the usual magnolia listeners have been switching to podcasts by influencers, whilst those looking for serious & intelligent currents coverage are sticking to the longest name in such broadcasting in Ireland.
Mister RTE must be very upset. Every show that the gombeen management of RTE gave him subsuquently lost viewers or listeners. His career has been one of perpetual failure. It is curious that there were no expressions of interest from real broadcasters when Tubridy was removed from RTE. Even Radio Norwich wasn't interested.
Yes inexplicable if all the things "we were told" about Tubridy's broadcasting talents were true that an American network hasn't come in offering him a global opportunity.
A: He hasn't the talent for US TV.
B: He hasn't the face for US TV (facial symmetry is important).
C: US TV stations are commerical broadcasters and are not supported by a licence fee.
There is no reliable feedback loop in "measuring" radio listenership. It is carried out using a similar methodology to opinion polling with a sample from the population that is supposed to be representative of the population.
Podcasts have a completely different audience in that the listener has to consciously select the podcast and actively listen to it when they want to listen to it. Unlike a radio programme, the podcast listener chooses when they want to listen. Podcasts are not background noise like Tubridy or most radio programmes.
The number of people who would actively choose to listen to Tubridy is much, much lower than the number on whom he would be inflicted as background noise.
If you target the right people you get the right answer
When institutions in this country disgrace themselves they eventually get rid of the public faces of their downfall and then carry on regardless
this place is bringing back the chief protagonist of their scandal
is it pure arrogance or complete stupidity?
Pure arrogance, very similar to uk politics at the moment.
“we know better than you, we are your betters, how dare you challenge us”mentality.
my renewal is in October, I will be removing all superheterodyne receivers and replacing them with monitors before then.
let “Thane direct” pay his wages…
Yesterday on Virgin Media either just before or after the news I saw an actual ad for the RTÉ Guide, I have never ever seen this before, they only advertised previously across RTÉ channels.
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