Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
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I agree tubs has effectively distorted the former rte management and any credibility they may have had.
Their hubris has been their undoing.
But while bakhurst talks of 400 jobs to go either voluntary redundancy or otherwise, unless everyone from the top down is singing off the same hymn sheet, things won't change.
I appreciate the man came into a new job and doubtful he saw the sh$tshow that was to come.
Piece in the Examiner just now saying there 8000 downloads last week for the Virgin radio app, 4 times the usual week download rate. So the RT bump was only 6000. It seems very low considering all the hype.
Yes, but I would also urge any regular poster here to be careful before posting information being sent from someone else.
Claire Byrne could host the Toy Show in her sleep.
Or in her shed, if they're looking to cut costs...
Sorry if this has been mentioned already and I missed it but, I wonder are Virgin paying his wages to "Ryan Tubridy" or to " Tuttle Productions LTD" or to another company set up for his UK gig.
And
Will any taxes due be paid to HMRC or to the Irish Revenue Commissioners?
I don't get the want to have the LLS remain after PK stint.
It's it so important to this country or to the watching public?
It seems to always be the same formula. Same rotation of guests.
The demographic of viewing public is changing. The older generation who would have watched it religiously are dying out. Do younger people brought up on a diet of streaming and access to everything on the net really want to watch the LLS in the coming decades?
Personally thing it should die a quiet painless death and let rte admit that this country doesn't have access to the celebrities needed to keep a 'talk show' going.
I know I don't watch it. Haven't since the early 80s and have no interest in doing so.
And don't get me started on viewing figures. Where they pull the numbers of viewer/listener figures from for tv or radio shows is a mystery to me😃
Kevin Bee was the Deputy Director General in RTÉ for 6 months when Dee Forbes was DG, Kevin Bee had been acting DG for 6 months prior. He knows how RTÉ works, we are just finding out about it now, what he is fixing he knew about and had been aware of almost all of it, I doubt he was surprised, his only problem is: how does he fix something that he'd hope to return to?
IN MY OPINION :)
I never watched it in the Kenny or tubridy years, but I had enjoyed Kielty gigs over the years. He can read a hall the way the other two never learned how to.
I actually found myself for the first time in my adult life feeling disappointed it wasn't on last Friday, and that's only because I enjoy Kielty.
Will it survive after Kielty? If it doesn't no loss.
how is ryan doing today?
The Orish appears to have been turned down a lot, from what have heard this morning. Talking about (free) museums, local pubs and walking around Soho with his daughter. Delightful that he was recognised and photo requested a English Native...
Absolutely knocked it out of the park , great broadcasting
I often listen to Q102, when I'm at home, I like listening to something light and easy, just background music.
I have turned the dial since he arrived, but happened to hear that. So he is already being asked for photos... 😉 what next!
was he pointing?
Probably, he has now gone back to Orish mode, as a caller talked about the Young Scientist Exhibition.
Cue Home Countries caller outraged they are exhibiting the Young Scientists like zoo animals.
This format will make Tubridy a star , his problem on rte was he had too much airtime , now when he has said the main banter they cut to a song and he doesn't have to waffle himself out
The whole Tubs saga points up the utter idiocy of RTE paying such unrealistic salaries to their "Stars".
"We have to pay them mega bucks 'cause they would be poached" was the Montrose bleat'
Well now their biggest "Star" who was on North of 550K euro is plying his trade in the UK on a very small fraction of that.
Rum do ...innit ??
Has he started to move past being Irish yet, or is it still all about being Irish and Ireland again this week?
If so, he's probably not intending this to be a long term gig and has little interest in making it big in the UK. Its a stopgap until RTE believe he has served his time and he's brought back in. And if RTE do that, its curtains for RTE and licence fee revenue.
He's giving the waffling a fair lash all the same.
He was asked for a recommendation for a person who is not really into reading. The book he recommended (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), was one that he did on his book club on Radio One more than ten years ago. He did the same thing a few years back when asked what is his favourite book. He answered 'Never Let Me Go', which was also part of that book club.
Considering that the book club only lasted for about a year and included maybe a dozen titles, it's odd that he's still almost exclusively picking them as his favourite books over a decade later. Makes me think that he's a spoofer of the highest order when he calls himself a bookworm. Also, he didn't pick those titles for the book club on RTE, so it's not like the were his all time favourite books. He read them as part of his job. He seems to love short books, that are only one hundred pages long.
Is there a Toy Show in the UK?
Not yet, but perhaps NK is working on that.
‘Sunshine’ is a decent option for that if you’ve gone off Q102.
To be fair to him, books are like music in that you don’t, necessarily, recommend your favourite book, or album, to someone who isn’t that into books or music.
He has never pretended to be an intellectual. Low-middle brow is his terrain, Liz Nugent that kind of thing.
They could probably run it through a Sterling barter account, they would have the know-how for this already
No, they have the BBC.
Thanks, I switch away just while he is on.
I think I landed on Nova today. Will try Sunshine too.
It’s all nervous energy, amateur hour stuff. The guy is absolutely atrocious at what he’s supposed to be doing. You’d almost feel sorry for him if he wasn’t such a horrible individual.
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