Ryan Tubridy - From Virgin to Youtube **Mod: Read OP**

TBF. Rogan is at the podcasting game for three decades, has world famous guests and the controversy helps as well.

While Tubs, born with the right connections. Has spent four decades interviewing the RTE staff canteen.

It's not a like for like compariosn.

A better comparison might be Joanne McNally, David McWilliams (who in my opinon should have taken over LLS instead of RT) or Matt Cooper (who also would have made a much better LLS host).

Thats what I would love to know as well.

Does watching YouTube for a minute or two count as a view when they do the tally?

@bellbottoms I noticed that Bobson stated a thread about Tubs before this one but it got closed down. You might get some answers from there.

Incumbency. He had a "Tubridy Tonight" show before it and also a radio show or two. RTE management seem to be risk averse and incapable of innovation.

Regards…jmcc

Would encourage anyone who might be interested to listen back to Brendan O' Connor's half hour interview with Rushdie over the weekend. It was very clear Brendan had read the book, asked pertinent questions about key points in it and allowed the interviewee to talk at length about his stabbing ordeal and near death experience….

There was no whooping, hollering, or inquiries about Salman's love of Ireland, Guinness or carrying pigs under his arm.

Brendan's a real pro!

I remeber a guest on Ryans morning program. He was on somewhere between Jan 2021 and May 2022. He was the head od something or other. But effectivly Ryans bosses boss. He mentioned that when Ryan started he had been told by multiple people above him to keep an eye out for Ryan and to look after him.

That would suggest some connections, no?

That was certainly the rumour.

Gave the slot to Ray. Who had a Jack Nicholson look a like on. He introduced him as if he WAS Jack Nicholson. The audiece gave him a standing ovation (I assume promted by the production team). Then they were told by "No, no. Ya know it is not really him. It is just a look a like".

He wasn't even a professional look a like. They then spent the segment talking this random strangers life. Who he was, if he was enjoying his vacation in Ireland, etc.

I always felt sorry for the audience, being made fools of live in air.

I loved Brendan O'connor on Cutting Edge, he came across with a '**** you' attitude and said what he thought, he's toned down a lot since then, would have loved him on the LLS if he was able to be himself.

He’s still suffering from that on his weekend radio show. To be fair, RTÉ were sued by the, homophobic, lunatic fringe when a guest pointed out, correctly, that they were homophobic.

He’s been a slave to RTÉ’s, dreaded, “balance” ever since.

Ithink I'd struggle to name 5 broadcasters in Ireland. Tubridy would be on that list, but it's hardly an endorsement of his celebrity.

But he's not in Ireland is he?

He might have a slot that's broadcast to Ireland, and he might pander only to an Irish audience on that slot, but he's not in Ireland.

The fact that his show robbed hours off a golden oldies channel in Cork says a lot.

Coming up on the 4 month mark now since he started. The novelty has worn off. The honeymoon over.…The sheer trauma of putting in 3, maybe 4 full hours in the studio, 5 days a week is starting to bite. No impromptu duvet days whenever he fancies it. No week off every couple of months. No teachers holiday schedule to luxuriate in. The only hope, the possibility of Virgin giving him the axe before year end. That would end this purgatory. But what then?

The Toblerone addiction only a matter of time.