Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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I know a handful of avid fans who unfortunately ARE podcast listeners, listen to many podcasts of their gurus.
Don’t love you you don’t love me - aha🤪
Big challenge here is that beyond TLLS it’s somewhat un-chartered waters for the presenters:
Byrne essentially retired, then did his Lyric Sunday show and TV projects like Meaning of Life and LLS look back thingy
Kenny ultimately left after putting in the years and time and got a commercial radio deal without fuss and was very happy thanks very much by all accounts (except for his legal actions against neighbours 🤪)
Tubridy? Firstly he’s a lot younger than Byrne and Kenny when they jumped the RTÉ mothership. I reckon he’s going to take a year off, possibly get out of Ireland - maybe Australia even or New Zealand-
I don’t see him sticking around in the short term- he’s definitely hurting - likely because he thought, the public actually believed, what he believed, the public believed (stick with it, the sentence makes sense) - as it happens, the public were just going along with his brand of “meh” because that’s what the public do - just ask The Jam - they’ve predicted all this 40 years ago- the public wants what the public gets
I am delighted that he has been shown the door, he is a smug smarmy looking creepy sort, I have not watched a late late in his tenure bar dipping in to bits of the toy show, which he wrecked for me, there is just something that feels really off about him.
RTÉ still needs a serious amount of reform, one step in the right direction but an awful lot more to do.
Da duh di da, da duh di dah…
To us, sure.
I would guess that a sizeable proportion of Tubridys audience have never listened to a podcast.
To be honest, the ‘be kind’ persona always come across as fake, no matter who adopts it.
Yeah, if Tubs wants or is afforded a return it has to come from a broadcaster.
Newstalk could try him out between Lunchtime and Moncreiff, taking 30mins of each show.
VMTV could give him a late night chat show Monday to Thursday after the Tonight Show.
Both would be looking for him into help increase the audience share of their other programmes, if he's unable he'll be gone fairly quickly.
However, I can't see Newstalk doing that but I could be wrong about them, and VMTV just aren't in the business of making TV.
Perhaps move to the UK and find a smaller broadcaster to work with?
He should collaborate with Harry and Meaghan - now THATS an idea- “Former ROI TV host collaborates with UK Royal(ishes) to create a United Ireland😀
an FOI would be interesting on the Rte radio player regarding numbers of people downloading and streaming individual Rte radio shows “listening back” so to speak…
What makes podcasts so attractive to advertisers is that the people listening to podcasts have to actively select and listen to them. They aren't broadcasting as much as narrowcasting in that they each have very specific audiences. Tubridy's audience figures depended on the background noise effect of a radio being on in the background rather than people tuning in to specifically listen to him. I'm not sure that a Tubridy podcast would work because his target demographics aren't exactly podcast listeners. His name might get a few advertisers and listeners but whether he could hold on to them would be a completely different question. And the narrowcast nature of podcasts means that they would have a far smaller audience than Tubridy's old RTE programme. Would people waste time listing to the wibbling of Tubridy on a podcast? It would probably be like rechewing a years old piece of bubblegum found under a desk.
Regards...jmcc
Yeah I did that life story highlighting* but I didn’t get the 16 thanks you got - ffs 🤪
*in fairness your post is great!
Tubridy is the fool of all fools, he doesn’t work out the potential consequences
Do lots of people really listen to podcasts though?
I have tried a few, and have yet to find one I kept going back to. Maybe they just aren't for me?
If someone thinks Tub could make a living out of his own podcast, I'd have to disagree.
She's a good journalist. That's what makes her unusual in RTE.
If you look and sound “slick” “prepared” and “soundbitey”- then you’re probably as far away from sincerity as you can be.
Yeah, what's up with Fionnanahanananan?
I heard him today and he was..." beep, beep, beep, this vehicle is reversing".
The trouble with Tubs resurrecting himself via podcast or documentary now is that he’s heading into the wrong season for that. The darkness of autumn and winter is nigh, would mean filming opportunities more limited. Some touristy outdoor places on short hours or closed. Light limited leading to poorer production values. However he could always do a Hygga shtick of winter cosiness in libraries, bookstores, old houses, museums etc.
No doubt he has his own bog in the whesshhtt of Oireland. Maybe he can give that money back too along with the 150k he didn’t earn
Its mad to think that one problem has been resolved but that one problem spawned a myriad of other problems for RTE which will take years to sort out (license revenues, board/exec governance failures, dodgy redundancy investigation, required management clearout, reputational damage, further Oireachtas probes, illegal accounting practices, potential legal cases, staff morale issues etc etc).
I think Sarah McInerney is good. She’s not in NK’s stable and was passed over for Claire Byrne for the mid morning slot. Unfairly, IMO
Wondered the same myself, he was scathing the morning after the PAC appearance and from then on , he was in Tubridy’s corner 🧐
I heard someone on Drivetime telling us Ryan needs to work for a living like the rest of us as his daily living expenses would be mounting up. If Ryan, with the amount of earnings he’s enjoyed for years, hasn’t been able to make very good provision for the rainy day, well heck the rest of us we’d jump off a cliff.
Sone of NKM “talent” have been known to cause the odd “problem”. Oliver Callan once did a skit on RTE presenters being all from the same agent.
I’m too tired this evening, otherwise I’d go on the desktop and produce a GoFundMe page for Ryan - not a live one to go online but a spoof for a screenshot as I did once with NKM hyper-praising Tubridy even more than he usually does, a year back or so. Got some reactions!
FS might start to draw too much attention to himself by such manouveres. Change lanes and people start digging as to why?
But he also pops up regular with Claire Byrne, the NKM circle effect? It was noticeable that he was going to bat yesterday evening for Tubridy.
As was Sarah McInerney but I couldn't quite decide if that's because she was posing questions directly on behalf of Tubridy or whether she is also in the circle.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. Sheehan probably decided the mileage he can get out of the leaked information while this goes on will be worth the complete and utter transparent about-face he's done regarding his position about this.
Yes indeed. Now Tubs is in the real world with the ordinary hard working folk. What a fall from grace.
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