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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Definitely slowing down.
I've yet to hear a single second of his Virgin show, just haven't had the interest, despite this thread.
With Nominative Determinism being a thing, and the fact that golf is a common pursuit among well-off men, there's actually a very good chance that he is a keen golfer. He's only 71, he could well be getting a few rounds in.
Interestingly, the Golf Course Manager of Exeter Golf and Country Club is a John Parr (https://exetergcc.co.uk/about/john-parr/). I assume no relation.
As a joke, it's certainly not a hole in one; probably a bogey, to be fair. But it's not like he'd take a Mulligan on it - it's fairly standard daytime radio fare.
No traffic in this thread today. Has everyone had enough?
That's a lovely bit of business. Gowan Tubs
I think that Wireless are focusing his show on the Q102 audience intentionally. Virgin have done very little to promote Tubridy which means it makes it easier for them to remove him from that slot in a subtle fashion if they feel that they need to. I think that the endgame is for his show to continue for the foreseeable future on Q102 regardless of listenership figures in Dublin. I think they are having a "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" attitude with respect to possible declining listener figures for Q during Tubridy's slot. As another poster pointed out, Wireless could have plans to offload their Irish franchises...
He mentioned the toy show most days throughout the year.
It was cheap filler garbage for him to wind down the clock with.
Has he mentioned the Toy Show yet?
He used to give it a mention at this time of the year.
By the sounds of it he's talking to his UK audience as if he was already known to them. An unearned confidence.
Quite correct. Imagine coming out with the statement "I've never been to Australia" and this is live on air not on some Adrian Mole style diary musing. For someone who is meant to be such huge global superstar and omnipotent fountain or oracle of all knowledge what a crass admission to make.
Usually people try a radio show for a week or two and adjust their listening habits accordingly. I fail to see how this appeals to Mary in Finglas doing her ironing or Mick in his Taxi. It was the fail that Lite FM (now Q!) had when it was too white collar and "culture vulture" back in the early 00's. Talking "down" to your audience will result every time in losses of listeners. For a Dublin only show its too generic Irish and "into de wesshhht" and as a UK show it stands up as some pop up or opt out St. Patrick's Day Parody stream and not relevant to the mainstream. If Ken Bruce spoke with a fast Glasgow accent in coloquialisms some Scots might understand and yarned on about books, museums and lectured parents on giving kids mobile phones how far might his success have been at Radio 2 or GHR? Or Vernon Kay done an "Up North Only" focused 3 hours on R2 where else might the audience of 8 or 9 million have tuned?
Pretty much all Virgin radio listenership is to either Evans (1M) or Norton (0.5M) the station listenership in total is 1.3M. So the other shows are doing tiny listenership figures
Real Alan Partridge stuff.
Regards...jmcc
He just shows that he's never been abroad for any real length of time.
There is a point as an Irish person abroad that you do this thing where you distinguish the differences between the Irish and English. After 2 days you discover that the English are decent people who don't need a lecture on all things Irish and your boring them and they don't need a lecture on the famine.
Snacks exist in the UK, they are Cadbury's Snack, I know sometimes there are a few Cadbury's things that are particular to Ireland e.g. Moro though it has since been rebranded to the UK name Boost.
It is sounding more and more like Irish people are listening to this show over the British audiences.
Back to topic! Is anybody listening? Either via Q102 or via Virgin? Is he in fact putting on listeners or having a marmite effect? The overwhelming majority of comments I have viewed both in The UK + Ireland are of the sentiment "I listened for 20 minutes on day 1 / pick any day and I won't be listening again / back to Vernon/Ken/ Sunshine... Nova respectively.
Will that Q audience be + or - the estimated 41,000 it had before this exercise began a few weeks ago when the JNLR for that slot is totted up in February? And how well are the UK audience taking to him? If incoherent heavy accented garble, in-jokey Irish-isms that are old hat and incomplete thought structures is a new style of radio we are about to discover how successful it can be for a TSA of 64+ million people on DAB perhaps?
Me FM - Where you are never more than a minute away from another namedropping reference / US political reference / book recommendation / art gallery review.
Senior hurling according to Tubridy himself. Lol.
Been going a few years now :)
1st joke of the day
Song playing: John Parr - St. Elmos Fire
Ryan: Thats John Parr - keen golfer (probably)
Such a pro. Ryan is in flying form... week 3 and his feet are firmly planted... It's Magic Baby
...and people are still calling this a 'step up'
Is there a dedicated thread to rte culture?
Feels like there should be. This thread is about tubridy, but it was via rte's gravy train culture that he's elevated far above any discernable talent as a tv/radio host.
Pass the sick bag! 🤢
Moya Doherty has had her snout in the RTE trough for years. A sickening individual - probably the main reason Lottie Ryan got a gig in RTE as well, despite having no discernible talent
Never forget. Dee is as outstanding as Tubs.
2016:
Moya Doherty, chairwoman of the board, RTÉ, said the appointment marks “a significant moment in the development of RTÉ. Not only is this the first director general in almost 50 years to be appointed externally, but she will also be the first female to hold the role. RTE is at a pivotal moment, one where the future shape and financing of public service broadcasting is being re-imagined."
”I am delighted to have someone with such a breadth of industry experience, such a creative and visionary understanding of the global broadcasting market, and a proven management record.”
Don’t think he’d like to be recognised and greeted by many Irish tax payers.
knowledge of LLS host could be part of cognitive testing, like Who is the president of America? If they forget Ryan it doesn’t really count as a score 🤣
Are they ever getting Dee in front of a Dail committee?
If she's still "unwell" someone should set up a gofundme for her medical expenses
And this is the crux of it…
It doesn’t matter who’s hosting the LLS, or who’s doing Radio 1 in the mornings…. It was never the presenter, it was always the slot/show that had the audience regardless of who was doing it…….. so again another fatal shot in Dee’s ‘We must retain the ‘top talent’ spending orgy’ RTÉ embarked on under her watch…
Was watching the lls with an elderly relative who "how many years has he (keilty) being doing this now? He's a lovely fella. I didn't like Kenny, he was no gaybo."
No mention of the other fella.
"While many would find his level of fame overwhelming,"
Now come on.
It's not "fame" to be recognized if you're a television presenter on screen all the time.
Getting recognized is really a metric for people like young actors/actresses and singers. NOT people plastered on tv. Young females particularly blend in a bit sometimes and their look changing, so if they're getting recognized they know they've made it. Tubridy is also so odd-looking it's also a face that's hard to forget.
Is Marty Whelan more famous than Cillian Murphy? I bet people would recognize him more.
It's also obviously only Irish people that recognize him and maybe a small handful of people in the UK if his picture has been in the newspapers interested in that he might be like Terry Wogan. Thinking this is one of the best presenters in Ireland today.
Well Virgin have him down as the "King of the mid mornings!", and I guess that would equally apply if his shift switches to a 1am start.
He went from depending on a dozen researchers and skivvies in RTE to do his job for him, to landing a number in Virgin that is so vapid and fluffy, practically no prep is required. Listen to auto-chosen playlist and read texts. I'd say he's wafting in at 9.50am like a pungent fart and his chair is spinning empty in the studio at 1.05!
Still, a massively stressful workload for this gilded prince.
Oh my gawd, sure the man couldn’t e en go to Antarctica without everyone recognising him. London is so big, so many to recognise him,
"She's not holed up in a 1bed flat on the borders of Kiburn waiting for him to come home exhausted after a 3 hour working day, to turn the pages of the books he pretends to read."
Thank you for a genuine LOL!!!
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