The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

If he wants to make a go of it in London, he'd be better off joining the Daily Mail there.

Irish Daily Mail rather than the Daily Mail. Not sure that the main edition will be be carrying it. It is all part of keeping Tubridy's Irish profile current and making him more marketable to Irish broadcasters. The problem with a return to RTE is that RTE is now a slightly different RTE to the one that dumped Tubridy and lot of the previous management has been replaced.

Regards...jmcc

Gift grub did a great sketch of him this morning.

I feel like I'm hallucinating reading some of this. The guy is out of his depth in the UK and being completely exposed for his lack of wit and personality. Suggesting he could be a good fit for a bigger job in the US is ludicrous in my opinion.

Ah would ya stop

Apart from a nationwide radio show in Britain and a national newspaper column over here? NK proving why hes worth his commission.

This James Corden?

Didn't Tubridy try to break into the US broadcasting market about ten years ago with his "The Irish Are Coming" book. It got him a few interviews on local and morning TV programmes but I don't think that there were any job offers. Do you think that he's going to try to break into the US market (again)?

Tubridy seems to be an RTE lifer whereas Corden seems to have a range of talents. Fast-forwarding a year, do you think that Tubridy will be back, full-time, on an Irish radio station?

Regards...jmcc

This is such a disappointing response. Anyone who tries to inject a bit of reality into the debate, to increase the standard of discourse from base-level pile-on, is deemed a shill. This is designed to silence anything that goes against the narrative. It's unhealthy, and it's wrong.

There's lots of things to criticise Tubridy about, but it's just bizarre that his obvious and objective successes keep being used.

Let's just look at the facts.

In July last year, Tubridy and Kelly were up in front of an Oireachtas hearing, being rightly grilled in front of the Committee and the nation about the payment scandal that was had rocked the country. In August last year, RTE announced that Tubridy's contract would not be renewed. Everyone thought; that's it, the end. Both he and Kelly would fade into obscurity. Kelly was dismissed as a jumped-up chocolate salesman who had got lucky with fooling an inept quango into hiring an incompetent nepobaby for obscene money in a job he was unqualified for.

Then, less than 6 months later, Kelly has secured for his client:

• A national daily radio show in the UK on a private radio station owned by none other than News Corp.
• Syndication across multiple Irish radio stations
• A dedicated syndicated Irish Sunday radio show
• Sponsorship from a major international corporation
• A weekly column in a national Irish Sunday newspaper

Remember, these are all private, for profit, companies we're talking about. Operating in a cut-throat environment where every cent, every second, every drop of ink, every pixel counts and has to be accounted for by and to the major players of the media industry. It's not RTE, it's the real world. There's no reason for ANY of them to engage with Tubridy at all, other than the pursuit of success and cold, hard profit.

Is this the work of an out-of-his-league chocolate salesman? Is this the work for an inept "Alan Partridge" type broadcasting buffoon?

Be honest, if not here on Boards, at least in your heart.

Like him or loath him - and there is much to loath - Kelly has delivered for his client. 100%

And there's so, so many things to criticise Tubridy for, but his objective success to date at bouncing back from certain ruin is not one of them.

And no, I'm not a shill for Kelly or for Tubridy. Not a fan, not on his side.

I'm just pointing out objective facts. And if you're going to condemn me for that, its says an awful not more about you than it does about me.

See where you're coming from regarding Mr Kelly.

Or you could also say that his client, who used to be on air in Ireland for a max 8hrs per week for €500,000, is now working in London (with the expense that incurs) for reportedly a fifth of that amount for twice the amount of hours.

To say he's done well for his client is perhaps looking on the bright side a little?

Anyone know where yesterday's gift grub can be heard?

edit: found it;

Wow: They nailed it.

No. I meant the people that are being paid to post positive BS about Tubridy.

Your list of those five achievements is quiet impressive until one starts to think only ‘a little bit’ about them.

• the private sector is not risk adverse so it is taking a punt with someone who MAY be of help to them for VERY LITTLE money to add to their profit line - so why would’nt they take the risk an see how it goes. If there is a loss it would be only pennies to them
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• all of them are only starting so we will have to sit and see how each will turn out
• the Independant gig was predictable given the support RT has been getting from there from the get-go. I’d say that the suggestion came from the paper rather than from the Kelly camp.
• how big an achievement was the acquiring of the sponsorship - was there not a personal relationship there already ? Am wondering how hard did Kelly have to work to get it?

On Newstalk too.

I would agree that NK has done a great job for his clients, the problem is that for the most part it has been at the expense of license fee payers. Hopefully that has changed now. I don't think RT has a lot of fans personally, I have not met anyone who is a fan (obviously haven't asked everyone I met!) which given he was supposedly the best broadcaster in Ireland, seems a bit weird. I think he has been promoted by his agent well beyond his abilities. NK keeps him in the news with the help of a compliant media, where RT "reveals" he is going for a walk in Connemara or some other rubbish. I think we are all being gaslit. I am paying the license fee now, if he comes back to RTE I will stop.

I don't think he'll be popping up in Newstalk ad breaks for the rest of his life...