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

O'Connor's TV show was consistently beating Tubridy's LLS, I think. RTE management being RTE management, they cancelled O'Connor's TV show instead of getting rid of Tubridy.

Regards...jmcc

He has grown on me over the years. I used to be disappointed when I switched on of a Saturday morning and he was filling in for Marian. Now I'm disappointed when I switch on and Dearbhail McDonald is filling in for him. And yes, he's better on TV than either Tubridy or D'Arcy. 

I worked it out before and it's €1560 per hour of on-air time which equates to someone working a 40 hr week at €3.25m pa

Radio only- Byrne and Duffy got more for TV stuff

That's bad enough, but he's an incredibly annoying presenter

Callans kicks nailed it a while ago:

Guest re the Dublin riots - 'Yeah it was terrible, with the broken windows and....'

OC (BOC) - 'Well we won't talk about that as there's no windows here to defend themselves'

😁

But given his very light workload, one a hour a day. Probably 2 or 3 hours of preparation a day (being generous with that) - that adds up to a max of about 20 hours a week work for this job.

Given as well the very long holidays he will get (8 to 10 weeks off a year) and only 20 hours a week, he will be more than able to have other gigs on the side.

It's not like working 40 hours a week on building site and you're so knackered you can't do anything else.

The new reality in which Tubridy finds himself must be scaring them. Duffy may not be going for another contract. Turbidy is stuck in the UK until further notice and isn't on the same money as he was getting in RTE. The possibility that there will be an RTE contract waiting for him if he retruns decreases with every new RTE revelation about "exit" payments and other wastes of licence fee money.

Regards...jmcc

Given the way that Turbridy was dumped, I think that D'Arcy is most at risk. Politically, in media terms, RTE needs O'Connor more than it ever needed Tubridy or D'Arcy. The Dublin media is quite incestuous and O'Connor is the editor of the Sindo Life magazine (I think). The last thing that RTE would need is more negative publicity from the print media.The way that the Indo/Sindo quickly shifted from "Tubridy as victim" to "Bryan who?" is an indication of how rapidly things can change in the media. Unlike O'Connor, D'Arcy has no such connections.

Regards...jmcc

Everything that twitter account said was known in the media industry at large already, good chance it wasn't a then current staff member; if they'd even worked there at all

It appears he has no interest in the UK audience. This whole Virgin/Q102/local radio tie up is just a desperate attempt to keep him visible/relevant in Ireland

If there was a ceiling of €100k per year for all RTE talent, guaranteed not one of them would leave. Where would they go to? They're not going to the UK and getting cushier than what they get at home. So why are they getting paid so much? A competent director general would try and get them as low as possible. Joe Duffy? 40K. Don't like it? **** off. Same with all the cronies behind the scenes. Why are they are all getting paid so much when RTE's output is utter shite and always has been? Put people in management for a lot less money than the overpaid flutes that are there now. They could hardly **** things up worse than what this shower did!

I wonder is it simply a way of creating a buffer between him and RTE for now? Being physically out of the country and working in a new job is a pretty good way of distancing himself from RTE. Not my problem now, I'm in London with this great new job etc. etc.

In the beginning I thought it might be teething issues. Of course, he was also in the unusual position of being a very famous person in Ireland but virtually unknown in the UK. It was natural that he'd be getting engagement from fans and people who were curious about his new job. That this has never stopped, and that he's still behaving like he's sitting in a studio in Dublin are very curious. I now think appealing to UK listeners was never in the plan. Even somebody like Tubridy has to have the capability to tweak his shtick and know who his target audience is now.

I think the powers that be in Virgin might be happy enough with the engagement from Irish listeners and know that when he moves on, they can just plug somebody else in. They're getting sponsorship from Paddy Power that'll cover a lot of the costs and it's a minnow of a radio station anyway.

One thing is for certain - it's blowing all those old being in demand abroad chestnuts out of the water. I don't ever want to hear that excuse being trotted out again for any RTE presenter, let alone Tubridy.

Ryan Tubridy is the "Face Behind the Voice" in next week's Radio Times... it's a one page interview with questions like:

first radio memory

favourite broadcasters

ambition - says he has mostly fulfilled them but would like to do something on TV involving Travel and Books.

Lots of Irish answers mentioning Gaybo and Wogan, but also some UK references such as Kirsty Young.

Kirsty Young? He's definitely following this thread.

Last weeks was Matt Bailey presenter of BBC Radio Newcastle’s breakfast show. Martin Collins was featured a few weeks ago

Long train journeys can be a substitute for nothing to do.

It well be that he simply gets bored of trying to stay relevant in Ireland, and maybe then he might actually become interesting.