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

Am I’m saying Virgin radio is a distant 4 in a 3 horse market so I’m not sure why you are so confident

More Everton than Liverpool FC with respect to your supremely relaxed confidence

Getting away from Tubridy what are Virgin trying to achieve in the 10-1 slot? James O’Brien does speech radio better than anyone and forced Talkradio to do several reshuffles in the same slot and still getting nowhere. Times radio in that time slot in very political Westminster bubble. Meanwhile GHR with Ken Bruce are going great guns and BBC radio 2 are refocusing on a younger post Bruce audience

what if anything is Virgin radio’s strategy

and don’t reply it’s better than having a drunk from some boozer running it. Try setting the bar a bit higher

A strong enough hunch for a paddy power bet?

Evans doing some defensive spinning this morning ahead of the Rajar’s for Q4 that get released at midnight to the public

It's like there is a concerted campaign to let people know that they can switch their radio channel. if there wasn't such a campaign the thread would have died a natural death. Guess everyone is struggling to get by.

Perhaps they were sold a pup? On paper, signing Tubridy sounded like a no-brainer. They were taking on an experienced broadcaster who had reached the top of his profession in Ireland. Somebody who wouldn’t have become available if external forces hadn’t done their thing. I don’t hate Tubridy as a person but have always had an issue with how overpaid RTE presenters are. I honestly thought he’d do a much better job than he has been doing. I listen occasionally just to see if he is getting better or adjusting to a British audience. He isn’t, which is startling on a number of levels. If he’s such a great radio presenter, why are the vast majority of people interacting with him back in Ireland? Why aren’t British listeners taking to him? Why is there feck all trace of him in online chatter? By that, I don't mean this thread. The opinions of a handful of boardsies isn't going to make one bit of difference to how he fares in the UK, no matter what your paymasters think.

Since it launched in 2016, this version of Virgin has had a tiny audience, Even Chris Evans has less listeners than Atlantic 252 had in it's final day in 2002. I'm not really sure why rich owners like Rupert Murdoch are propping up all these digital stations with no audience, TalkTV and GB news are other examples of it. The bubble will have to burst someday. As for Tubs, I could see him coming home to Ireland in a year or so(saying he misses the family & Conamara too much) but staying with the Wireless group and doing a syndicated daily show on Q/96/95/LMFM, it wouldn't be mid-morning as that's kept for local pothole talk on most stations but perhaps breakfast (The Full Irish v2) or late afternoons. He is popular with Irish women aged 55+ so there is a market for him here,

The odd comment of Social Media have been somewhat negative. Others are from people baffled at him replacing Eddy Temple-Morris. Even VR's own Alan Partridge joke in its advertising (the king of mid-morning) is a very subtle jibe. It is like Tubridy is being greeted with a left-handed handshake.

Regards...jmcc

Did I read or imagine I read in his last Mail column that he goes to a laundrette to wash his clothes? Surely his apartment has a washing machine at least?

The Levi’s ad…..

I wonder in what way does he remember the ad?

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(I know, my photoshop skills are next level, so deal with it)

Don't think that Tubridy is quite that talented. All he has is his RTE banter.

Regards...jmcc

Tubridy at the laundromat?

Beyond doubt he'll be back in a year or two at most. Whether he'll return to RTE is something I'm not so sure about. His replacements are doing quite nicely and Radio 1 will evolve without him. He's also the public face of all that's wrong with RTE and the optics of taking him back would be terrible, especially if they still need government money. There will also be loads of lower paid RTE employees who never want to see him again, let alone work with him. I think he'll come back and work for Q102.