Following on from main thread in Current Affairs about Tubs in general (now closed and mod suggestion that Entertainment category is more suitable).
Indeed, entertainment in certain respects is what Tubs has provided, albeit perhaps in a way not intended. And still awaiting 150k payback to the licence fee holder.
And of course, his new career in Virgin Radio which is imminent.
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Virgin radio has feck all listeners to any show except Chris Evans and even his listenership is only a fraction of what he had on Radio two, 5 years on. As for Q102, the previous 10am show on Q102 run for 5 hours until 3pm so with the way the jnlrs work, Tubridy's listenership was always going to look terrible there imo. I'm not sure really what the wireless group expect from him. Would it have been a better idea to have him host a breakfast show called the full Irish arcoss their network of Irish stations ?
That's a big ouch if those figures are correct, 28% of his predecessor's figures.
Meanwhile in the "London Diary" this week, the half trick pony talks about the Leaving Cert, imploring any leaving cert students reading his diary (I'm guessing a big fat zero but Bobson might have a different view) not to worry, that they "don’t test your soul", "you will be judged on what kind of a person you are". (Ahem).
And Tubs knows all about soul. He hasn't lost it after all.
He Is only getting a fraction of what the previous guy was getting. Not holding onto previous listeners. Pretty damning verdict.
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Is that what senior hurling looks like ?
Wow. This is the talentless hack RTE we're paying huge money to in case he went to the UK 😂
Yes Tubridy is very much the London of Senior Hurling
Tubridys career trajectory is as predictable as his half baked prattle.
To repeat, when we had 15% unemployment and thousands including myself had to emigrate he was on around 700k.
I have zero sympathy if he put nothing aside.
Yep but the previous guy is pretty well respected as an indie music jock, would have absolutely no similarity with Tubridy. Wireless group don't really seem to know what they are doing
I predict that in a year or two, when things have moved on, Tubs will come home to RTE. Maybe to replace Lorcan Murray on Lyric FM Drive when he retires.
I predict the people of Ireland will never let that happen even if he pays them the €300,000 he owes them.
Hmm. How much is NKM paying you, Shan?
I think Shan is right. You don't have to be in NK's pocket to see how Montrose works.
Yep, if Tubs had kept his mouth shut, he would have returned to the 9am show on 170k last October
It's probably the same 3 people on the survey still listening to the station the whole time. Any rise or fall could just be to do with the total number of participants in the survey
no surprise. Only caught a few mins a couple of times and Tubridy is utter garbage. Speed babbling on Irish-centric topics that’s barely comprehensible to Irish listeners let alone the UK audience. He’s a dose and getting what he deserves. Found out in a massive way.
Not a hope. Lyric is a dedicated music format and people tune into it to escape every other babble. There's no room for a presenter who thinks they and not the music are the draw.
Different companies but yeah you have to question them, but where are you getting the 550k from, Fair City and the soaps are lucky to be getting close 300k when you include +1 channels, they haven't been close to 550k since the early 2010s. Soaps are comfort TV for some. And I think when you include Online viewership Home and Away might be the most watch of all of them !
that’s a train wreck of a Rajar. But if you completely ignore the actual target audience what did he expect?
I have a diminishing circle of elderly relatives that will have the tv and/or radio in the background just for company.
I sometimes have to ask them to turn them down just so we can talk and the usual reply would be "I wasn't even listening to it".
Theyd all be strictly rte and/or local radio station. Their contemporaries are all the same.
Absolutely. Why would any British person want to tune into a radio show that is not for them? Tubridy turned that morning show into a club exclusively for Irish people. How Virgin's bosses allowed that to continue is beyond me. They should've known from Week 1 that that was the way things were going.
That type of format is diminishing anyway so if they were expecting to scale back or amalgamate stations anyway then a sponsored DJ would be free money in the interim.
If they really cared about growing the slot he would have been pulled after week one.
What sort of format are you referring to? Maybe the UK market is different but any time I turn on mainstream Irish radio stations during the daytime, there's nothing but presenters on music shows talking and trying to be funny
It must be a very crappy Job for the jnlr person tho going house to house, Last summer I was doing some cover work as a courier, I got to a small estate of about 12 houses but the parcel was missing both house number and eircode, so I decided to just knock on a random door hoping that whoever answered would know which house the person named on the package lived in and I was pretty surprised at the unfriendly reception I got, foreign woman opens the door and gives me a look of surprise, I show her the name, she shrugs her shoulders and the next thing her husband comes out asking who's at the door.
I recognised the JNLR lady who came to my door because she had called to our previous house, also doing a survey. On that occasion, it was for a private company.
Yeah I am the same, but they have actually grown tired of RTÉ, often they have Quest or Yesterday on for Bangers and Cash or something similar. And are will watch Catchphrase and the Chase also, and they are never sure if they are watching ITV or VMTV.
Dubliner's were never really into their local radio for talk radio, so its Radio 1 or Newstalk (and have to say they've kind of ditch the Radio as well !)
Not unless Lyric FM's programming changes dramatically (it has changed from being an Classical and Arts station with the addition of Marty Whelan as a false competition to RTE1). Besides, there will always be some RTE retirees ahead of him in the queue. Tubridy is the face of the payments scandal and bringing him back would only reignite that controversy.
On those RAJAR figures, it might make more sense to dump him back on the News UK Irish local radio stations and give the slot to someone else in the Autumn if there is no improvement.
Regards…jmcc
on those numbers Virgin should pay him NOT to broadcast
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