RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Rise ‘n’ Shine with Ryan on Sunshine FM.

The only thing missing is Sidekick Simon.

And if you’re a classic hits regular listener, you’re doing so by choice and likely because there’s no way in hell you want to listen RT or indeed any other presenter rattle on about their personal musings- you want wall to wall music noise in the background whilst you do whatever it is you do - far from gain listeners, Tubridy moving to classic hits will lose them listeners.

Presenters are expected to do long hours there. It's not uncommon for someone to come back again in the evening after doing a morning slot. Looking at today's schedule, everyone is on for 3-4 hours. Presumably their production staff is minimal. Tubs had seven people working on his one hour programme. What were they all doing? He wouldn't last five minutes there.

A team of 7!

Sweet lord. And the show was generally pretty terrible.

It was 25min of him rambling about what tv shows or films he had watched, where he had gone for a walk the previous day, various news stories out of random papers.

Then moved on to a 15min chat with usually a random person.

And 2 songs and adverts in between.

How did it need 7 people to produce that.

Here's looking at you, Joe Duffy, eh?

I do think KB has good intentions, Tubridy is obviously a massive ego and imo hasn't made the best choice for himself- maybe the best for the audience though. Being a presenter is just a job at the end of the day, but Ireland is a very small pond and we have the same fish just swimming around and around constantly, with some added nepotism for good measure. To pay these dopes as much as we have been is pointless when there are plenty of people walking around who could easily do it aswell as if not better than they can. It's not a race to the bottom but if they could be poached by other broadcasters let them. RTE should be a stepping stone for new talent anyway, not an old boys' club.

Maybe this lad is angling for the role, sort of combined with 'Cousin Greg'

You'd have to laugh though. A total of two (three?) Irish people made it big in UK broadcasting in the history of RTE Television and this line of "the BBC will offer them better terms" is used to keep the taxpayer paying out the big bucks all these years. Who cares? Pat Kenny and Marty Morrissey can be the old guard for the pensioners, get rid of the Kathryn Thomas types and see who wants to pay for Joe Duffy to bore on about tenements and social work in the 1960s. A new dawn indeed 🤣

Agree with you there! Pat does exactly what it says on the tin, his preparation is apparent when interviewing. I find him boring but he's reliable and I daresay does an honest days work.

It feels the the equivalent of getting your mammy to go out and bat on your behalf

“Spoof” or organised PR campaign? I can see why individual stations would jump on the PR bandwagon to create cheap publicity for themselves with Ryan being open to offers- my question really is, are these articles originated by RT and his media team or are they independent PR campaigns to simply promote the stations mentioned?

I have Classic hits 4fm on car radio almost permanently for the music.

It will be deleted from presets if tubs ends up there, and I'll find something else.

Can't see him taking that job either, it's just pr to keep his name in the news. Keep him relevant, as he is becoming less so every passing day he isn't prattling on on the airwaves.

Even his fan-mums will soon forget about him.

I think a show with Niall Boylan and Tubs might work.

Well Niall would certainly be up for winding him up.