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

I can imagine lyric listeners being the most vocally resistant to tubridy being parked on them.

For lyrics the music is the star, not the presenter and Marty Whelan knows this. I doubt tubridy would.

Didn't do any good when Whelan was given the morning slot by RTE management. I think that he even managed to increase the audience for that slot. Apart from the iffy music selection, his programme was competing with Tubridy's slot and doing well. Whelan is natural RTE 1 material. Tubridy was not. Tubridy is a classic example of failing upwards. Whelan, by comparison, put in the hard yards to achieve what he did.

Despite his aspirations to be "intellectual", none of the UK Classical stations appeared to be interested in Tubridy's services and they may not even have been contacted. On Virgin Radio, Tubridy seems to be there to fill the time between the music and ads. On RTE, it was more talk radio. It seems that he is having difficulty adjusting to his new role in Virgin Radio. Either he will conform to Virgin Radio's format or the management will get someone who will be able to handle the format. If there are still problems six months in (two RAJARs), he could, at best, find himself being moved to Q102 etc only. And that would depend on solid JNLR figures.

Tubridy is no longer a national Irish media star as he was while on RTE. The longer he stays on Virgin Radio and on local radio, the less valuable his national brand will become in Irish broadcasting. Even NKM might have to concentrate more on promoting its other clients.There will also be some interesting negotiations with RTE given the new salary limits.

The Irish Mail on Sunday is not a Tier 1 Sunday newspaper in Ireland like the Sindo, the Business Post or even the Saturday edition of the Irish Times (really the weekend/Sunday edition). It is not even the Sunday Times (that cut a lot of its Irish journalists a while back). None of those newspapers gave him a column. Writing for print requires a different set of skills to presenting a radio show. Unless there's a massive change, Tubridy's irish MoS column is just a Phil Space column. If it doesn't bring in some advertising, it will be gone.

Regards...jmcc

More mediocre Mail musings.

Writing style still very poor for a wannabe intellectual. Hard to believe he wrote a couple of books ( that get a mention).

Apart from that he sounds like a 22 year old getting homesick and does some more name dropping, and another photo in an empty restaurant.

Very odd fayre indeed.

https://evoke.ie/2024/02/04/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-mum-misses-me

I live 7 miles from my family and see them as much a Tubridy, no need reconnect at the weekends 😀

He 's making quite a career out of dropping dead celebrities names. Wigan, Shane McGowan, Sinead O'Connor - has he mentioned Gaybo or Gerry Ryan yet?

Somebody needed to remind Moya about that, maybe

Clicked into my Sunday appointment reading today and was left feeling slightly bereft. That piece was not even up to the previous poor standards of earlier offerings.

He paints three and a bit weeks in London like a backpacking trip across Southeast Asia. Pints in a Dublin pub where he tells all and sundry about how great London is and how he loves it there. A short mention of a lunch with his mother and then a few words about Terry Wogan's son. He of course didn't miss the opportunity to tell the reader that Terry practically offered to groom him as his replacement on BBC radio, but Tubs just loved Ireland and family too much and couldn't give them up for all those multi million pound radio contracts. Because as we must remember, money is just not a factor for our hero. It never affected his soul.

Then five sentences on a film he watched on Netflix of a Saturday night.

I thought RTE were getting robbed having him on the payroll. Whoever is paying him for that column is getting absolutely roasted.

The newspapers do take payment for publishing such pieces. It's an assumption they pay tubs.

Anyone have a link to Dunnes article?

What's with the pictures taken in empty restaurants?

Is it to imply that he sat with the.other guy so long that the place.emptied out? Could he be that cute a hoor?

His ramblings in that Evoke article are appalling. He's only across the water in London not bloody Antarctica. And he's only been there a few weeks.

What age is this man? Mentally I mean🥴