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

I live in England and nobody literally nobody is taking about Tubridy or Virgin radio

Hope that helps!

Look, I factually point out one agreeable post about him from a UK listener, and I’m accused of putting a “positive spin on everything”.

There’s plenty of things to criticise Tubridy about. Plenty.

But let’s not pretend that negativity is the only option available to the general public.

What you did point out is that it took an someone familiar with him to even start a discussion on a popular UK forum, a discussion that fell flat, like Tubridy in the real world.

Just to clear up a common misconception, the term "talent" in the broadcasting industry doesn't denote any particular ability or exceptional aptitude. It's merely a jargon term that identifies the on air/on screen employees, as opposed to those who work behind the scenes. It's analogous to "cast" in a dramatic production.

Whenever Evans left Radio 2 for Virgin there was a bit of a buzz about it but it’s settled down now. The people that still want to listen to him, his core fans went with him, the rest just got on with the Zoe Ball show or drifted off who knows where. Other than that I’ve never heard anyone mention Virgin Radio

What Tubs is not in the Clooney league, you could have fooled me! 😁

I suppose people want to see where Ryan is in relation to the UK audience. From Youtube he's being "ratioed" by Irish people so hard to see anything in that cacophony. So we've no real way of guaging.

I listen for a few mins during the week, still a lot of Irish input.

That's definitely where my interest in this lies. We were led to believe over the years that he was so good and so much in demand, he deserved to be in the elevated position he was in at RTE. The man with the best radio and TV gigs, the man with the highest salary, the man handed other nice gigs on the side. And now that he's in the UK, he seems to be making little impact at all. He's on a two-bit radio station with about 5 listeners who aren't Irish. He might as well be sitting in an Irish studio for all the difference it makes.

In an Ideal world it should have bigger implications for him and all other RTE presenters who have been paid way above what they're worth. Would Joe Duffy or Ray D'Arcy fare any better in the UK? I don't think so.

And Courtney on €400 per show of €2k per week as his understudy:

A source at RTE revealed: “Brendan's holiday cover contract has been renewed for another two years. When he does cover, he earns €400 per shift.30 Jan 2024

Duffy or D'Arcy to uk radio, that did make me laugh. Good one.

Yeah, cos what the UK radio scene is missing is a burping misery guts who wants to talk about things that happened before most of us were born, or a dj of 30yrs experience who still can't hit the right buttons on a near daily basis and has dead air frequently.

I think there was a bit of an issue about him doing his corporate gigs on the side - that's lucrative as far as I know. But yes you're right about the salary. It does look like RTE has learned nothing. I wonder what an acceptable salary for that presenting job would look like?

No one cuter than Brendan O' Connor in RTE. Tubridy did well for a man with all the charisma and ability of a stale piece of cheddar but he had the family pedigree and connections to smooth the way.

Brendan came up from Cork with a paunch, a face like a bulldog's slapped arse and about as much charm. He married well, became deputy editor of a national newspaper, got the covering role for Marian Finucane, and then took over the cushiest radio gig at the station.