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Ryan Tubridy joins The Wireless Group - Thread bans in opening post

  • 16-11-2023 10:54am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭Dipole Keith


    Ryan Tubridy has joined the News Broadcasting and Wireless Ireland family. After many months of speculation, He will present a daily 3 hour music and entertainment show on both Virgin Radio UK and Dublin’s Q102, starting early in the new year.

    He will also present a weekend show that will broadcast on Q102, Cork 96, Limerick 95 & LMFM.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,780 ✭✭✭squonk


    Christ that’s 15 hours a week plus maybe 2 at the weekend! 17 hours and a few hours prep. I just hope he’ll cope with long hours like that in the long term!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭Paterson Jerins


    Delighted for him

    Hopefully his enormous salary doesn't affect his soul like his last job



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Expunge


    Weekends on LMFM!!!!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Expunge


    Thanks to the shareholders of The Wireless Group for taking over the financial burden from the Irish Licence Fee fools.

    He'll have four Rajar surveys to make it a success.



  • Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭chilloutrelax


    I wonder what the Q102 schedule will look like with this change.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭Dr. Nick


    Same show for UK and IRL audiences? really?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Expunge


    It seems Tubs is now working for the lovely Murdoch family's News Corporation now. Nice!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    Only Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Louth and Meath will be able to hear his show... not Galway, Waterford or the rest of the country



  • Registered Users Posts: 224 ✭✭Muller1991


    Probably not too different.

    Breakfast with Aidan and Venetia 6am-10am.

    Ryan Tubridy 10am-1pm

    Andy Preston 1pm-4pm

    Liam Coburn 4pm-7pm


    Or something to that affect.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,561 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    You're posting on the internet so you know it exists.

    Anybody, anywhere will be able to hear the show that's if they wanted too.

    I know I won't as I just don't see his appeal as a broadcaster.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    Can’t keep a good man down. This is terrible news for a load of malcontents, losers, oddballs and ne'er-do-wells on Twitter. The all-day anger merchants who think anyone who makes more money or is more successful than them is somehow on the take.

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,780 ✭✭✭squonk


    Look I don’t wish him bad luck with this and do hope he lands in his feet. I don’t want to see anyone left without a living. It’s a fact though that he did present a pretty poor show on RTE five days a week and was pretty abysmal as a TV presenter so he has an uphill struggle ahead. Not withstanding all that, I wish him well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Furze99




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,342 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    He was massively overpaid....as has been shown by the fact the figures in his slot are up since he left.

    I wont be listening but hey for those who enjoy him grand stuff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭Mr Velo




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭waywill1966


    Who is he replacing on Virgin? Havent listened to it for years!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭its_steve116




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭its_steve116




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭KildareP


    Whatever about the weekend network show across the Irish stations, I wonder how C na M feel about a primetime networked show from another country - one that isn't even in the EU at that - being broadcast on Q102?



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭Sorolla


    This is big news and I am delighted that our greatest broadcaster (alongside Wogan, Eamon Andrews, Gay Byrne) will once again be on our airwaves very soon.


    in my parish there has been a lot of lonesomeness since he left RTE.


    radio is one of the most wonderful mediums of communication and I look forward to hearing his booming voice soon - I certainly will be switching the dial on my radio.


    there will be so much fun in my life soon


    He is a national treasure and brings great joy to a lot of people in Ireland.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,489 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Anyone that comes on tv every Friday night with a sad face begging for money off normal families while publicly claiming to be doing his bit all the while being topped up on the QT to prevent him from actually doing his bit is a dick, pulling a dick move and based on the evidence of him being in possession of a large sum of money that all agree should be returned due to work not being done, being on the take is not an outlandish description.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭archfi


    Funnily enough, he mentions the broadcasting giant Terry Wogan who was many thousands of miles above himself in broadcast legend, here:

    Tubridy paid tribute to legendary broadcaster Terry Wogan, who he said

    was on his mind today: “He was a lovely representative of our country in

    this place. I'm thinking about him a lot today.”

    Are Virgin AND Tubridy expecting another Wogan in the UK?...erm...

    He's moving to Islington (surprise, surprise)

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 678 ✭✭✭TheBMG


    It’s a weekend show for the Irish stations I think



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,780 ✭✭✭squonk


    Anyone know a good ice cream shop in Islington? I’m sure he’d be eager to find out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    YES .. on Q102, Cork 96, Limerick 95 & LMFM for a show at the weekend. BUT will be on Q102 Dublin all week from 10am-1pm simulcast

    "Ryan Tubridy is returning to radio with a show on Q102 in Dublin and Virgin Radio in the UK from London.

    He’ll be on-air across the two stations from 10am till 1pm weekdays, following Chris Evans on Virgin Radio UK and Aidan and Venetia in Dublin."




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭Acosta


    Mid morning matters



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    So despite tripling his weekday broadcasting hours, he still needs a weekend gig to supplement his income. I suspect he's found out his value in the open market was nowhere near what he was being paid by RTE.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,150 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    will The Wireless Group provide him with a suitable company vehicle ?


    "...no Joe, you rang me !..." A.Caller.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭waywill1966




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭archfi


    That's normal attire and transport method around the gentrified streets of Islington!

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Slideways


    Ireland one again loosing its best and brightest to foreign shores 🙁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Brian Scan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    You’d have to presume that Tubs is making more coin as a result of this gig than he was in RTE. Showed some amount of stoicism in fairness. Didn’t respond to all the cranks and naysayers.

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,059 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Wonderful news.

    What a man. And what an agent!

    Thankfully, being good at your job, and looking after your clients, won’t be an impediment in the UK

    Post edited by EmmetSpiceland on

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭Acosta




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭KildareP


    He is on Q102 10am-1pm weekdays which will be a simulcast of Virgin Radio UK.

    This is the next step in networking that we've seen creep in, what has up to now been networked from Dublin, could going forward end up networked from further afield.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭archfi


    He's already brought up two dead people to agonisingly get to some kind of morality tale in that X clip.


    Best of luck to Virgin listeners Mid Morning :)

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    It's hard to say - his stock was very low when he went out into the market looking for new work, and was definitely approaching any negotiation from a position of weakness. One would expect that the likes of Virgin commercial managers are not pushovers like Dee Forbes. In any case, as we are not paying it doesn't matter. From RTEs perspective though, it would be interesting for them to know what the open market rate for their best star ended up being.

    One thing for sure though is that he will have to work a lot harder over there, three hours every day is a lot of time to fill and keep interesting at the same time.

    As I said, he's got a great slot and is punching above his weight with it. The problem with that though is that if you don't quickly step up, you will get clobbered.

    He won't get a better chance to become an internationally successful broadcaster.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,780 ✭✭✭squonk


    He got a great slot filling in mornings the Graham at the BBC and didn’t manage to name more out of it. Hopefully he’ll be more successful this time



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    I have wondered will the current 10-1pm shows on Cork 96, Limerick 95 & LMFM be in time replaced with Tubs show?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,161 ✭✭✭bigroad


    Will he have a virgin toy show on air.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,170 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Best of luck to him. He's a good presenter and hopefully this works out for him. Certainly don't begrudge him getting this gig



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Brian Scan




  • Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭Lord Nelson


    Terrific news. Means we’ve finally seen the back of him. Norton and co must be quaking at the thought of being in his presense!!!



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,068 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    No the weekdays show is only the Dublin station



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    I wonder will there be a hate-listen thread started here where people who hate Tubridy listen to him each and every day so they can pass comment on everything?

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭aidanodr


    Yip realise that, and thats the case for the moment. If it is a big success on Q102, one could imagine a simulcast also on other Irish Wireless Group stations - Cork 96, Limerick 95 & LMFM - is a possibility?

    I did say "in time" in my sentence on this :D

    It would be an interesting thing? A UK + IRL daily Radio Show live broadcasted in both Jurisdictions with callers from both Jurisdictions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    Hopefully they will be paying the British TV licence to excuse their bilious outbursts, that's the justification you'll see around here. It's abominable, B.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,896 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    From what little I know I would have thought Virgin's profile was a bit younger & poppier than Tubs? I guess he can tailor his schtick, not so much Dean Martin and Tony Bennett, the way he presumably did when he moved to 2FM...



  • Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭smallfridge


    Unlikely in Cork anyway, PJ Coogan is pulling 60k - 70k listeners according to latest JNLR so can't imagine Tubs will end up on in Cork in that time slot anyway.


    Good luck to him though, always liked him on tv and radio and I hope it works out for him.



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