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

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  • #3482
    Shan Doras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Shan Doras


    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 ?



  • #3483
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    That's a big ouch if those figures are correct, 28% of his predecessor's figures.



  • #3484
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    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.



  • #3485
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,870 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122155847#Comment_122155847

    He Is only getting a fraction of what the previous guy was getting. Not holding onto previous listeners. Pretty damning verdict.

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



  • #3486
    fplfan12345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭fplfan12345


    …….



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  • #3487
    fplfan12345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭fplfan12345


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122155794#Comment_122155794

    Is that what senior hurling looks like ?



  • #3488
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122155794#Comment_122155794

    Wow. This is the talentless hack RTE we're paying huge money to in case he went to the UK 😂



  • #3489
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,870 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122155902#Comment_122155902

    Yes Tubridy is very much the London of Senior Hurling

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



  • #3490
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,623 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    Tubridys career trajectory is as predictable as his half baked prattle.



  • #3491
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,120 ✭✭✭yagan


    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.



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  • #3492
    Shan Doras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Shan Doras


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122155898#Comment_122155898

    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



  • #3493
    Shan Doras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Shan Doras


    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.



  • #3494
    fplfan12345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭fplfan12345


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156036#Comment_122156036

    I predict the people of Ireland will never let that happen even if he pays them the €300,000 he owes them.



  • #3495
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Tork


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156036#Comment_122156036

    Hmm. How much is NKM paying you, Shan?



  • #3496
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,954 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156095#Comment_122156095

    I think Shan is right. You don't have to be in NK's pocket to see how Montrose works.



  • #3497
    Shan Doras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Shan Doras


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156112#Comment_122156112

    Yep, if Tubs had kept his mouth shut, he would have returned to the 9am show on 170k last October



  • #3498
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,921 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122155731#Comment_122155731

    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



  • #3499
    Mr Disco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 929 ✭✭✭Mr Disco


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122155794#Comment_122155794

    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.

    Post edited by Mr Disco on


  • #3500
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,120 ✭✭✭yagan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156036#Comment_122156036

    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.



  • #3501
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,540 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122155546#Comment_122155546

    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 !

    ______

    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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  • #3502
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭GSF


    that’s a train wreck of a Rajar. But if you completely ignore the actual target audience what did he expect?



  • #3503
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,120 ✭✭✭yagan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156234#Comment_122156234

    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.



  • #3504
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Tork


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156272#Comment_122156272

    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.



  • #3505
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,120 ✭✭✭yagan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156312#Comment_122156312

    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.



  • #3506
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Tork


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156323#Comment_122156323

    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



  • #3507
    Shan Doras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Shan Doras


    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.



  • #3508
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Tork


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156366#Comment_122156366

    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.



  • #3509
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,540 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156298#Comment_122156298

    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 !)

    ______

    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #3510
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,607 ✭✭✭jmcc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122156036#Comment_122156036

    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

    Regards…jmcc



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  • #3511
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭GSF


    on those numbers Virgin should pay him NOT to broadcast



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