Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Exactly. He's trying to spin this as a positive...........and I suppose it is from the point of view of being unemployed to now working in UK media. But when viewed from the perspective of where he was 12 months ago, it's a huge demotion and, for the moment at least, the end of a very comfortable existence.
He's gone from secular saint, all round good egg and Toyman, fronting the biggest show on Irish TV and the biggest salary for an on-air presenter to having to move to London (with all the associated expense and hassle) to take a job on a relatively small station, with much longer hours and commitments and he will now be actually expected to pull his weight. I sincerely doubt Virgin will supply him with 10 researchers and lackies like he had at RTE. And he's doing all this for a fraction of his old wedge. He's now in an anonymous big city. No more claps on the back and selfies and people asking him about running for the president. Comfy, leafy D4 will seem like the other side of the world. He's going to be expected to attend lots of red carpets and pump and promote his show wherever possible. Not really his natual habitat, especially when the default question is going to be "Ryan who?"
Fundamentally I dont think Tubs has any love for the UK or any real interest in working there. His stints at the BBC previously were only designed to bump up his RTE contract renewals with threats of leaving. He is a homebird and a very parochial one at that. He likes his home comforts, the familiarity of his surroundings, his trips to Galway. He especially liked the high esteem he was held in at home and I'm quite sure he had aspirations for an Aras bid in the future. This London move would only have made sense if he had gone 15 years ago and into a big show on the BBC for multiples of his RTE salary. It certainly makes little sense now. Beyond of course, staying employed and relevant and hoping he can come home to Donnybrook in some guise in the next 3 to 5 years.
Yes, it's up to him now.
It's a tricky enough one for a radio host to appeal to both an Irish and UK audience, imo. Obviously if it's just a bit of music and chit chat from the presenter, similar to the slot as it stands in Q102, he should be able to manage that okay. I don't know what the slot was like, on the UK side.
Anyway this is his chance to prove himself, one way or the other.
"My guess is Tubridy will flop in UK and be back in RTE this time next year"
But this is one of the many areas for which to me it appears that Ryan falls down. Statements have surfaced (assuming they are accurate) in which Ryan sees RTE in the "rearview mirror" or words to that effect. He should not be saying anything with respect to his previous employer regarding his feelings. He gives the impression that his success outside of RTE is a foregone conclusion. This type of arrogance cost him his job, his chance to earn 170k a year for 5 hours work and a podcast! You don't criticise your employer when your working conditions are that good. You keep your head down and say nothing. One of the main problems I have with Ryan is that he is over 50 years old and still doesn't seem to have learned anything from his experience.
He saw himself as untouchable. There's a touch of the Jimmy Saville's about Tubs in that he believed all "his" charity work associated with the Late Late, his many teary interviews with tragic cases, not to mention his FF pedigree meant that he was above any kind of reproach. He could do and say what he liked. The big I am. The very attitude that lead him into this cul de sac. When you're that deluded, you don't worry about píssing off some blow-in like Kevin Bakhurst.
TBH, he wasn't wrong. In spite of everything, and the Oireachas Committee performance, and I do mean performance, the new DG still felt it was only fair and just to reinstall Tubridy back into a primetime RTE radio show, while the licence fee fiasco rumbled on and job losses were coming down the track. That's seems fairly untouchable to me. It was only Tub's inability to accept a scintilla of blame of any sort, that meant Bakkhurst couldn't restore him to the luxury he was accustomed to.
The absolute tool would now be prattling away on Radio1 for €180k pa and his honour largely intact with many viewers/listeners who don't know better. Instead he's now commuting across London on a packed Tube to go look at Chris Evans everyday for less than half that reduced RTE salary. Pride certainly does come before a fall!
I just don't see him being able to coast along on the good ship Mediocrity like he did at RTE.
I don't know the radio station or market well enough to say for sure but I think he might well get away with that. I think you guys are way overstating how discerning the audience for this type of radio is. It's the kind of station that's left on all day in shops and cafes. As long as he sticks to the playlist and doesn't actively aggravate people with his patter he will probably hang on to enough of Chris Evans's listeners to justify his existence...
Oh, live callers? That would be extremely rewarding in the right hands.
I tuned into Virgin Radio today on the smart speaker to check it out.
Plays a lot of music, with the usual inane dj banter in between songs.
It's not a hard job, it's not brain surgery.
He should be grand.
Yep I'd say this kind of 'audience interaction' would be right in his wheelhouse
Only a small note. But I'm pretty certain Bakhurst said it was gonna be 170k. Not that it makes a difference. Absolutely fucken mad money to be paying to someone who is hated by half the country now and that includes his workmates, for a public facing role. Most of whom would STILL be on a fraction of that wage and facing voluntary cuts in future. If I was working in RTE and that happened I'd have fainted from the anger.
And Ryan and Bakhurst still thought that was somehow a tenable situation? Completely detached from reality. We had even worse from Ryans mate Sarah McInerny interviewing Bakhurst "Ah wouldn't you give him another chance like?". Without so much as a single statement of contrition from Ryan. Truly unreal.
It's probably all in Ryans best interest that things went down this way. I'd genuinely be concerned that Ryan would be lynched by a colleague or aggrieved member of the public if was still on the payroll.
Life in London will give him some land. It might sound a bit odd, but you don't go far on £80,000 a year there. It's quickly spent, especially if you're used to the comforts that Tubridy had all his life.
He won't be living in any expensive leafy streets in central London. A 1 bed in a decent part of London starts at £2,500-3,000 and he'd be slumming it a bit compared to Dublin at that rate. Pay for a car, little to no subsidised food and the gifts that are sent in (if any) won't be winding their way into his car boot and he'll have little to nothing left over from the wages. But maybe he's prepared to put in a couple of years as an 'apprenticeship' with an eye on BBC or or similar.
He's totally unknown in the UK, so making friends in the cut throat entertainment industry won't be easy and he'll be largely ignored as he can't offer anybody a way for themselves to progress. The industry, as we know, is full of narcist's and today's news is tomorrows chip wrapper.
He will need an image update to be ladish like Evans, perhaps get himself a red M5 and a few speeding tickets around London to get his name out there before the show kicks off.
How do we know his virgin salary? £80,000 is only an ok London salary, the place is ferociously expensive especially if you like things nice.
IIRC one of the tabloids quoted a 'Virgin Radio insider' after he got the job that he would be on £70-100K and that seems to have been taken as gospel ever since...
That's the current format of the slot on Q102, also, that he is going into.
Should be fine, imo, if he sticks to that.
It's possible he was given a fixed fee for first x number of months or a year, and see how it goes.
It's kinda fun to read how morbidly obsessed you all are with the guy even when the guy is gone. Never change.
Dragging the deaths of teenagers into his downfall was a new low
he is playing to a very small crowd in this country
south east Dublin his people
but I can’t see them being too happy about doing that
He seems to be unaware that people generally don't feel much sympathy for millionaires.
No one here is as morbidly obsessed as RT is
And then there's those who profess themselves utterly disinterested in one of the largest recent scandals in Irish media, completely above it all.
But still curiously find time to visit the thread and post in it for some reason.
It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic. Maybe try change?
If you didn’t pay his wages you got a summons and went before a judge
can’t pay
Jail
that keeps people very interested in this character
Nah, 840 pages and the guy doesn't even work there anymore. And you're all still banging on about him. Like I said, funny.
If someone owed you €150,000 you’d keep an eye on them too.
He's interesting to watch in a 'eyes peering through fingers' sort of way.
Just when you think he can't get any worse or any more self absorbed he brings up those two lads who sadly passed in Greece on their holidays.
This man has no morals. No sense that he's an absolute to$ser with a self inflated sense of worth that saddos like Gerrity and her Ilk keep inflicting on the public.
All this because of greed:
Regards...jmcc
It's the media egos plus the chip-on-the-shoulder types at this stage.
The sheer self-absorbed belief that a scandal about a minor RTE celeb who owes RTE 150k is the biggest scandal in Ireland 2023.
Or one poster who attested that they are personally owed 150k by RT
Or the posters who seem to believe that it's because of the likes of RT that their fabulousness as a producer, director, or presenter isn't recognised by RTE while simultaneously saying RTE is a joke.
It is fascinating.
His big refrain seems to be how much he loves the ‘children of Ireland’ ; ‘the old folk / senior citizens’ ‘ people of Galway/ Conemeara’ and all those that care to listen to his style of presentation. If he loved them all sooooooooo much then why did HE BLOW UP the very platform that he had to show it. He cannot use such reasons that he was ‘burnt out’, that he needed a new beginning , etc, etc. The very fact that he was giving up the LLS should have been a HUGH release /relief to him - giving him a lot of free time , an opportunity to freshen up his radio programme, more time for himself and family, etc, etc.
no, it was not enough for him to keep his head down until he got his feet under the RTE table, his EGO, his reality, ‘do you know who I am’ refrain, inability to ‘read the Room’ , KB you are only a ‘blowing’ here GOT IN THE WAY.
So, one would wonder how much he did really love the Children of Ireland?
He loved his salary.
Adrian Lynch appointed Deputy Director General.
I would have thought he was getting the sack by now, but appears to have received a promotion.
Lets please keep a semblance of reality to the discussion. No one on this thread is owed €150,000 by Ryan Tubridy.
Failing upwards. If any of us poor dopes lost our employer 300 euro in error, we'd probably be sacked. Fritter away taxpayer's money, get a promotion.
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