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

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  • #1472
    TheBMG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭TheBMG


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121747258#Comment_121747258

    I’ve seen Zetta in action elsewhere and it’s a nice piece of kit.


    I’d agree that stuff like split links/ad breaks are easy enough to do these days but the TOH junction must be more of a nightmare with Dublin running a live local news bulletin while London does something else.

    I caught some of the show in Dublin during the week and it was difficult to spot ‘the join’.

    Q also have Tubbs doing some fairly straight voice tracked generic speed links between songs. Not a bad idea.



  • #1473
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    Response to The BMG.

    Just to provide as much clarification and I am conscious of the fact that we may get shtick from other posters or mods for taking the thread off in a tangent, so I'll just leave it at this ok😊👍

    Right so these are my thoughts on this OK.

    "The TOH junction must be more of a nightmare with Dublin running a live local news bulletin while London does something else"

    London plays a song, usually a 3 minute song or 2 minute song and a promo for Virgin Radio and they hit the end point the same after an adbreak.

    " It was difficult to spot ‘the join’"

    That's because the spotblocks can contain a ton of various items - Virgin Radio, for example have traffic news also during Tubridy's show but Q102 will be playing a promo or going into ads while this is on....

    " Q also have Tubbs doing some fairly straight voice tracked generic speed links between songs. Not a bad idea."

    What you heard is just one very bland sentence that says "You're listening to the Ryan Tubridy Show on Dublin's Q102" which runs at the same time as his announcement on Virgin Radio muttering "The Ryan Tubridy Show On Virgin Radio with Paddy Power Games". IMO it actually sounds terrible and repetitive as he does it in a non natural tone - and hearing it a few times each hour for 3 hours can be irritating to the Dublin and UK listener respectively.



  • #1474
    jmcc
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    Does this format require presenters to hit the starts and ends of their links within a few seconds? If Tubridy cannot hit these targets repeatedly, would it mess up the syndication and the programme itself?

    Regards...jmcc



  • #1475
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,897 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Is Tubs driving the desk in Virgin London?



  • #1476
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748259#Comment_121748259

    I will attempt to make the first paragraph as simple as possible so please bear with me:

    As per BAI /CnaM regulations, if he is consistently late with commercials in say his 1st hour (10am hour) and then he overruns - meaning Q102 is actually playing the final 10am "into news ads" INTO the 11am hour - technically this causes a breach. *which is why a long time ago there was a rule in sister station FM104 and Q102 that the final ads of the hour must be finished by .58past.

    He continually overruns when ads go out. Usually 20, 40 and 55/6/57 are the general News UK spotblocks.

    He continually ignores these hard posts and talks so much that ads end up happening at 24/25, 45/46 past and 59past thus "overrunning". Hope I'm making sense🙂

    It is extremely important that he completes his links as per the time allocated.

    Aside from that he seems to be incapable of doing a speedlink - so for the type of radio that he is now involved in he would never have been welcome at The Sands Hotel Portmarnock, especially under the supervision of a very slick, tight and stringent US radio consultant the late Bill Cunningham. He would have had Ryan out the door faster than you could say the phrase "I listen to the red hot sound...



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  • #1477
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748363#Comment_121748363

    He has an assistant producer controlling his levels and Zetta (through the glass). He has minimal to do bar open his mic.

    As most of the time he doesn't know what song he is playing nor does he respect the music, its best they have two producers trying to do damage limitation from behind the glass🙂



  • #1478
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,884 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    I was listening to Anton Savage on NewsTalk this morning and he had Mark Wogan on. Mark is Terry Wogans son. He has a podcast called spooning and for his St Patricks Day special he has had everyone's favourite lanky w*anker on. He said that when Ryan "first" thought about going to tI mean we all know he UK he had written to Terry Wogan, looking for advice.

    My first thought was: I don't really believe that story.

    I mean we all know RT was close personal friends with Sinead O'Connor and Delores O'Riordan and basically all the other celebrities who died in the last few years or so, but Terry Wogan is kind of a bridge too far for my belief-o-meter.



  • #1479
    Hyperbollix
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    I could see Terry helping out an Irish guy trying to get a foot in. What I don't believe is that Tubs had any intention of moving to the UK before "the events, dear boy"

    He's the most parochial man in Ireland. Even Terry's son mentioned that Tubs has all the culinary sense of adventure of a 7 year old child.

    What his stints at the Beeb did achieve was giving NK more leverage with RTE in his contract negotiations. That was the sole purpose of it.



  • #1480
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Tub's diary is a hoot today. Half it about why Irish bookshops are better than UK bookshops, naming a pile of them, before going on about Michelle O’Neil appointment as Northern Ireland’s first minister.

    He also mentions that he misses Sisi's chipper ....."Now I’m salivating as I type just thinking about some curry chips and a chicken fillet burger…" - cos Ryan, you know, is just your average bloke soaking up the chipper food after a rake of pints.

    His diary is accompanied by a few photos by a professional photographer, while Tubs grins and drinks coffee, with a book.

    I guess there is only so much you can say about your new life in London in a London diary.

    I did miss his childlike prose this week, and wonder were suggestions made to him in that regard.



  • #1481
    CollyFlower
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    Great book.



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  • #1482
    Brian Scan
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121752859#Comment_121752859
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    "Career of Mediocrity" would be a good title for his autobiography.



  • #1483
    ShagNastii
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121752828#Comment_121752828

    His nerdy nerd stuff is just a little bit more palatable than his Oirish oirish oirish stuff.

    I always said RTE could have saved a fortune by putting a broom with a dictaphone to stuck to it to host the late late.

    Just get it to ask two questions "Do you have Irish links?" and "Isn't Ireland a great place? Chicken rolls, Guinness etc etc."



  • #1484
    HildaOgdenx
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    In the latest offering he mentions a book shop owner - 'Louisa remains a loyal, dedicated bookshop owner who can eke out every obscure book or sought-after bestseller for her army of loyal customers.'

    Eke out usually refers to making meagre resources go further eg the elderly man eked out his pension by doing xyz.

    https://evoke.ie/2024/02/11/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-london-bookshops




  • #1485
    Frank Grimes
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121753301#Comment_121753301

    I usually don't read these articles but that was some drivel, he can't wait to browse bookshops and have a bag of chips next time he's home. Like others have said, you'd swear he's in the remotest part of Siberia the way he's going on.



  • #1486
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121753341#Comment_121753341

    He will disappear for good if he ever discovers Amazon. :)

    Regards...jmcc



  • #1487
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭GSF


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121753341#Comment_121753341

    We have chips in London too. Sometimes even fish and chips. Please can one of this internet summarisers pass this on in their next clippings file



  • #1488
    Karppi
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    I've read some shyte in my time, but that's vying for a spot in the top five. I'll eke out a spot. FFS

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  • #1489
    odyssey06
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121753933#Comment_121753933

    Need to get someone with a cockney or London accent to phone up and ask RT if he's ever had jellied eel and he should really try it...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #1490
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Based on his comments from that Times Radio promo interview, it is like he has a few pre-packaged comments about various things (the NI situation, the First Minister etc) and reuses them in his column. They probably have also been used in his show at various times.

    The writing is like that of a teenager with aspirations to be a great writer. The emphasis has changed from the "London Diary" back to his RTE radio style. Without the LLS and the constant stream of selfies with celebrities, there's nothing much happening for him in London. There seems to be no major show business events being mentioned and he's no longer bumping into celebrities. There are no UK TV appearances. It is a different world and he does seem to be missing Ireland. You'd almost feel sorry for him.

    Regards...jmcc

    Post edited by jmcc on


  • #1491
    alzer100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭alzer100


    Tubridy's MoS column is definitely racking up points on the cringe scale for me. He does comes across as a 15 year old that has never ventured outside of Ireland. His opinions on the royal family and things like northern politics. I question his qualifications on these and think he could create even more derision.



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  • #1492
    Emerson Chilly Silverware
    Posts: 24,207 ✭✭✭✭ Emerson Chilly Silverware


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121753872#Comment_121753872

    Amazon or The Amazon?



  • #1493
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,897 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Come on, lads. It’s the Mail on Sunday, he’s writing for his “audience”. If he was writing for The Irish Times, in a more highbrow manner, you’d all be lambasting him for being a faux intellectual.

    Would probably be getting accused of using a ghostwriter there, too. Anything the guy does gets torn down, and mocked, even when, in reality, it’s a big “win” for Ryan.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #1494
    Emerson Chilly Silverware
    Posts: 24,207 ✭✭✭✭ Emerson Chilly Silverware


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121746738#Comment_121746738

    I’m proud to be blocked from InstaTubridy. I never made a rude comment but I did make one very benign factual remark in comments. Anything not gushingly positive gets the block treatment, where a less narcissistic person would let it pass by once not rude or suggesting wrongdoing that never happened.



  • #1495
    Emerson Chilly Silverware
    Posts: 24,207 ✭✭✭✭ Emerson Chilly Silverware


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121754983#Comment_121754983

    I didn’t realise children read the Mail on Sunday 🧐



  • #1496
    Brian Scan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121755010#Comment_121755010

    What did you say, recode?

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on


  • #1497
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121754955#Comment_121754955

    Either one. )

    Regards...jmcc

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on


  • #1498
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121755063#Comment_121755063

    They must be using Tubridy's fame as the "Toyman" to branch into a new market. Perhaps he can write about unboxing the latest Harry Potter novel while quaffing a latte as Paul McCartney walks by and nods. If the Irish Mail on Sunday thinks it is reaching his audience who are we to dispute that? Thousands of budgies appreciate it

    Regards...jmcc

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on


  • #1499
    Chocolatier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Chocolatier


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121753301#Comment_121753301

    Have they no subeditors in the Mail on Sunday?

    Louisa remains a loyal, dedicated bookshop owner who can eke out every find even the most obscure book or sought-after bestseller for her army of loyal customers.

    Fixed that for them.

    And this: 'judiciously-placed' - no need for the hyphen.

    Tubridy is throwing exclamation marks around like a young Princess Diana. And would he ever get a KeepCup.



  • #1500
    leath_dub
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121753341#Comment_121753341

    It really is appalling drivel. He thinks this "Nerd Herd" schtick has some traction and he's going to flog that particular horse until he finds another lifebuoy to cling onto



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  • #1501
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121755275#Comment_121755275

    He's not even a Chapters version of Oprah with her book club. A publisher sponsored "book club" programme might be what he wants (with a sort of Tubridy/Booker Prize for the books he likes most). Think that RTE used to have something like that with John Kelly about fifteen years ago. It used to have authors and critics on it and the arguments were, at times, entertaining.

    Regards...jmcc



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