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

Since about 2018 myself and a slew of other posters had identified the reality of Tubsidy’s broadcasting talent or lack thereof, and were confronted with gaslighting type responses by Friends of Tubsidy .

Threads in any way critical of Tubsidy were complained about, and there was a certain narrative accepted by a certain status quo and you breached it with trepidation.

This cohort of early critics have been thoroughly vindicated, but we had to wait because this is How Ireland Works

This is clickbate from Evoke

https://evoke.ie/2023/06/13/entertainment/soaps/10-surprising-fair-city-facts

Go on you want to click it to read what they have said about the audience numbers

On average, 550,000 people tune in to Fair City every night, which makes it the most-watched drama series in the country.

The series even rivals its British counterparts Coronation Street and Emmerdale on Virgin Media as viewers around the nation tune in every

Apart from the launch episode which brought in over one million viewers the most-watched episode to date was aired in 2001 and saw Billy Meehan being killed by Lorcan Foley.

This is not an up-to-date figure they are using.

Home and Away back in the day was getting 300k of an audience!

It first airing on RTÉ ONE has 90k to 100k and RTÉ2's later showing has 40k to 50k, while its often the top most watch show on the RTÉ Player. That brings them close to that 200k figure at least (not to mention the +1 showings of the show, and its omnibus editions). It'd be interesting to know how well each of the tradition soaps are doing across TV and online.

From some newspapers I think we are estimating between 50k and 100k, TBH at this point this is not really what matters IMO

After this Virgin fiasco, any salary for Tubridy as a radio presenter will seem too much. It's he who should be paying the company to put hims on air....

To think he could still be in Montrose hoovering up €180k pa for sweet FA, if only he could have engaged with reality and made a humble apology. I bet he wakes up in cold sweats about that little folly.

Multiple places

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With such awful listenership figures, you’d have to wonder if Noel “Duck Egg” Kelly is considering jettisoning the former golden child Tubridy now???

You can believe what is reported or you can't that is up to you.

As it is a commercial for profit company he is more than likely on a base payment at the reported 50k and the rest is incentive based on listenship and advertising take up since he is not a recognisable name in the UK marketplace he would have to earn the higher end by bringing in the listenership and advertising revenue to prove his worth to that compnay.

However you are again fee to believe whatever you want believe.

Noelly babes took on a product to sell in the first place because said product had guaranteed status, except it didn’t and it’s failure has put Noelly’s operation and methodology into big question. Would be better going back to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory now. Reputation is everything.

Id be dubious about fair city beating home and away. I hear people talking about h&a from time to time (and the in laws still regularly tune in) but never about fair city (apart from discussing the salary for the photographer role).

The radio show would likely have chugged on with a marginal reduction in reported listenership tbh. I'm open to correction on this but afaik the 9am news was rolled into tubridys numbers, added to the fact that the Jnlrs generally do not seem to stack up in the context of a changing culture around media consumption.