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

Having saw the clip Tubs posted with Vogue, I actually think she could he his saviour....

He began by starting the video with his phone at eye level, to which she scoffed and told him to put it high over his head "obvs" as that's the only way to do these clips.

He then immediately started waffling about her nerd credentials and said "you do actually like books don't you"

She replied that on the 'cool nerd' scale, she sees herself as a 6 / 10, and she sees Tubs as probably a 4, then started laughing at him. He sheepishly then said bye and stopped recording.

If I was Tubs radio producer looking at that, I'd be trying to get her on the Virgin show as co-host!

Perhaps Vogue could teach him to use Google.

BBC's Broadcasting House is a different building.

Regards...jmcc

Think that Tubridy's more likely to appeal to the grandmothers than mammies. He's a 50 year old going on 85. There's a kind of new parish priest thing about Tubridy and his demographic. He's completely out of his depth on Virgin Radio as it is a different audience to the one he had on RTE. Vogue might have a lot more in common with VR's target demographic than Tubridy ever will.

Regards...jmcc

Perhaps Tubridy isn't competing with other presenters but with them.

Regards...jmcc

Listened today for the first time in weeks. It all seems so forced. Books! Libraries! Museums! Laundrettes! 😁

He also spoke more than once about "self love" , which was a little disturbing 🤢. He also refers to the stretch of water between the UK and Ireland as "the pond", which again is baffling

Maybe to Tubridy but to a lot of people in the UK "the pond" is the Atlantic and often used when talking about the US. Tubridy doesn't seem to have spent much time outside his village so his colloquialisms and expressions might not work. At this stage, Virgin Radio listeners must be wondering why he replaced Eddy Temple-Morris.

Regards...jmcc

Ha ha. It might work if they want to send oldies to an early grave.

Let's face it, he has made a mess of a job that should have been a gimme. A job that most other radio presenters in Ireland would have been better at. The only thing I'm waiting for now is the inevitable return to Ireland and the spin surrounding it.

He seems to have upped the “Nerd” shtick 1000000%.

I’d say it’s definitely a podcast. Vogue will up the dumb model ditzy gimmick. Uncle Tubs will be overly bookish and discuss things all intellectually.

High on the every episode bingo card will be. Tubs doing a “is that what the kids are doing now” bumbling idiot bit.

In his Insta post he states that Vogue is teaching him how to hold a phone.

The writers of Partridge will get realms of new material if they follow Tubridys rise and fall, or fall and rise.

A story line where everyone else in the BBC is asked to take paycuts but Alan tries to negotiate a secret deal to get a payrise would be hilarious. He could do roadshows for dettol or something as a cover for the payrise.

They could call it Dumb and Dumber.

I don't have any strong opinions on Vogue Williams, she done well making a personal business brand for girls/ladies who like nice things, and good for her.

I am bemused though as to how this linkage with Tubs works for her brand. Is there Stockholm syndrome at play amongst those who need to hear Tubs and she's using Tubs to reach older ladies who were passive listeners to his RTE shows?

If Virgin Radio tap him on the shoulder and tell him "out" it's also likely he'll try to spin a narrative that England has changed for the worse since the days of Wogan, while simultaneously ignoring Norton's success.

Some poor analysis of the recent JNLR on RTE. Tubridy's old slot is down slightly (-4,000) for Q4 2023 (think JNLRs are mainly quarterly) but up 12K year on year. RTE leads with the dip as a headline but doesn't seem to realise why there was a dip. (Perhaps they were all too busy celebrating Christmas.). Even so, dumping Tubridy seems to have had a positive effect. That 12K increase will cause problems for any remaining Tubridy supporters who want him back. The article didn't include nasty things like data or how the population being surveyed has changed. Loads of fluff quotes from happy RTE management though. A few more JNLRs like this and RTE will be asking "Bryan who?".

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0208/1431012-dip-in-listeners-for-radio-1-9am-slot/

Regards...jmcc