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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That 26% increase is a year-on-year figure. It does not account for the trend on Virgin Radio UK for the same timeslot for which Tubridy lost 300,000+ listeners, going from 448,000 to less than 138,000 listeners in "the past few months", yet they said Virgin Radio UK was up overall year on year. However, at Q102 we are looking at a more miniscule audience to begin with on what has never performed since the days of Martin Block's failed Lite FM - A Dublin 4 aimed white collar type service that would have suited Tubridy best as a sort of Dun Laoghaire/Monkstown community radio. He believes that he is a major celebrity but if the downward trend in these mammoth losses of listening share continues on its current trajectory, they will be through the floorboards by the next JNLR/RAJAR book in a few months. Again with incoherent speech, rambling off tangent links coupled with poor interviewing techniques for which he is not improving. Maybe he should take time to look for new jobs online rather than inflicting this on readers of MoS?
Why didn't the Daily Mail ask him what the audience numbers were like?
Surely the editor should say if you are going to write about audience number you must provide the audience for your show.
This is the same for many many articles written for the reach platform. Elaine Crowley from TV3/VMTV was always talking about how audience numbers had increase for her show "Elaine" but no one ever asked what the number were, then it was drop out of the blue! I don't think those numbers were great.
He's made a few friends the past year?
Made a lot more enemies I'd bet.
I hit 51 on Tuesday and found myself reflecting on an erratic year that was strewn with curveballs and kindness. I learnt an awful lot in an awful way.
The Christmas card list was shortened, for sure, but there were countless positives. The London experience has exceeded all my expectations and I’ve made a heap of new friends and colleagues along the way both on Virgin Radio and in Ireland with Q102 and associated stations around the country.
I was particularly pleased to hear that the station has increased its listenership by 26% in the past few months. Here’s to continued climbing and winning!
https://evoke.ie/2024/06/02/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-erratic-year
He is not on the same page as the folks behind the glass controlling the feed at Virgin Radio. For example they played Marc Cohen's "Walking In Memphis". His link commenced after that at 11:10 approx. This consisted of his views on what coloured love hearts he uses when reacting on social media etc and then of course this link (like most) then shot off up to the incoherent sphere leaving the listener questioning if the presenter is taking some sort of prescription medication. The folks behind the glass seemed to purposely crash this link with Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" in which Tubridy uncomfortably cut his vocal mid sentence or they cut his mic feed.
A perfect display and of which could be used at School Of Broadcasting institutes for generations to come as an example of how not to do a radio show on a music station.
Definitely a touch of the ADHD about him.
Beluga caviar appears on the menu, but Lumpfish caviar is served on your plate 🤣
one thought, one link
not something you’d expect to have to tell Ireland’s biggest paid radio broadcaster
There was a good Gift Grub about him, where the producer keeps shouting, finish your sentences!
He needs a sign in front of him, "Please engage brain before opening mouth"
I have heard a couple of very brief clips since he started with Q102, and I wondered if he was as bad as that when he was in RTE.
Rushed almost gabbling speech with his voice rising and falling. Definitely not easy to listen to. I can't imagine what a UK listener would make of it.
He can sometimes mispronounce, talk incoherently and speak too fast with a strong D4 accent and tends not to finish his thought processes which has the potential to leave the UK listener feeling disassociated.
Heard him at one song interlude today. First time listening for several months. Complaining of British pronunciation of Irish surnames such as Moran and Gallagher. He said about 10 sentences, at least 6 of which he failed to finish the last word. All rushed, hard for an Irish person to understand everything he said.
It's very, very obvious what the issue is. Gerry Ryan didn't get to stay around long enough to teach him everything.
There can be many reasons for this but one of them maybe as a result of using the RCS Zetta system incorrectly. If the green coloured NEXT button is hit too hard, it can play small sections of and skip over items such as jingles, promos etc that have been pre-programmed into the system and in some cases may even land in the middle of a song.
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The Q102 online link is down. The Virgin one is up. His link at 12:18 referenced museum raiding in Ukraine from "Indiana Jones with a laptop" to (and this is brilliant!) "Creatures who will take advantage of any situation"🤔
Partridge meets Tap
Epic!!!
“Do you feel that Ryan Tubridys popularity is waning?”
NK: “Oh no, not at all. I just think that his appeal has become more selective.”
Tubridy is like an expensive overrated restaurant that is struggling due to an increasingly poor reputation amongst punters. The restaurant owner, let’s call him Noel, is having to pump more and more money every month into the restaurant to keep it afloat but is starting to feel a sense of self doubt about the general appeal and viability of the business.
Is it available online, I have no access
Is anyone actually monitoring the output in Q102? The last hour has been full of dropouts, dead air, jingles crashing over music and abruptly crashing into ad breaks.
That cracked me. Thank you.
I notice his podcast wasn't mentioned on the Tuesday email from Eason today. It usually is.
my late mother used to call him Bryan deliberately… as in… (shouting down the hall) “your lovely beloved Bryan is on the telly now, come on down and enjoy the pleasure!” Years later I saw Boardsies referring to him mischievously as Bryan
"Not I"😀
Yes, I like that thread too. 😁
Someone pointed me towards that "Bryan Tubridy pointing at things" thread a few months back and it was a glorious discovery…
(Since he's yesterday's, nowhere man, I'm calling him Bryan now)
He could have pointed at them all.
Can't stop laughing at this. 🤣
The Brian Cox
He had a convo with his agent later that day
Awh now. Listen the chap reads Louise Penny, John Boyne and Ragnor Jonasson. Lisa Dwan is one of the worlds leading experts on Beckett. What middleground are they going to find exactly?
