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150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭nonetheless


    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.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,710 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Karppi


    He needs a sign in front of him, "Please engage brain before opening mouth"



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,710 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    There was a good Gift Grub about him, where the producer keeps shouting, finish your sentences!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭GSF


    one thought, one link


    not something you’d expect to have to tell Ireland’s biggest paid radio broadcaster



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭tohaltuwi


    Beluga caviar appears on the menu, but Lumpfish caviar is served on your plate 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭tohaltuwi




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭nonetheless


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭hawley


    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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,508 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    He's made a few friends the past year?

    Made a lot more enemies I'd bet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,672 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    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.


    ______

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

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭nonetheless


    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?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭tohaltuwi


    Has there been another broadcaster who has felt the need to “big themselves up” as much as Tubs? I can’t think of one right now who seems to have such need to talk about themselves so much in a “life keeps getting better for me” sort of way. It’s like a teenage Instagram tack that those still trying to cut a presence in a small circle would take during the process of growing into a fully fledged adult.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,686 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    He is just like 99% of people on social media, pretending their life is perfect when it's anything but.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    It’s all part of his complex. He is never at fault. He’s the victim but desperate to show off that he’s “taking the high road”. He will often exude a sort of “needless to say I had the last laugh” narc energy.

    The reality is that he needs to accept that he had a good run. He made a small fortune in being promoted way above his ability but the gravy train is now over. I don’t think this kind of realisation is likely. Even far more unlikely is the acceptance of his own role in his downfall.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,686 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    This is exactly what he is doing now.

    The narrative is that he was wronged in Ireland, but despite them bad'uns, he is living it up in fashionable London, living his best life and in a huge job.

    If I was a betting man I'd say little of this is true. He wishes he was back in 2022.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭Kingslayer


    So when is he moving into the Linton Travel Tavern?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭nonetheless


    That's the food budget gone for the rest of the week.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,237 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Lots of people were drawn in to his fakery as well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,686 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    What a manchild.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,883 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    I guess he’s trying to be funny…. But he’s about as funny as cancer.
    cancer of the anus.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,916 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    So looking, while self hating for doing so, at his latest London Diary….

    He "popped into" his local recently with his brother and a friend "where Lucy Blue, a young and extremely talented Irish singer-songwriter was launching her latest record." He spoke to her dad, who told him they had photos of a visit to the Late Late show a few years previous.

    "The master of the house, Oisín, casually pointed to a man on his left and said: ‘You know Paul?’ It took me a moment before I realised it was Paul Mescal who was there with his sister Nell and brother Donnacha. A nicer family you couldn’t meet, and it was lovely to briefly catch up with them."

    Some internet sleuthing tells me that Paul Mescal's sister Nell is best friends with the singer, Lucy Blue. They hang out together in London.

    Which has nothing whatsoever to do with Tubs' co-incidental visit to his local, and the owner "casually pointing to a man on his left", that being Paul Mescal.

    Tubs just happened to be there. Just like he happened to bump into Feargal Sharkey on Paddy's Day. Even his prose "casually pointed" is his píss poor attempt to pretend it's all a fluke.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    After he leaves his rent-free accommodation in the heads of those of us who post in this thread.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,190 ✭✭✭yagan


    Is everyone posting here living rent free in your head?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    Only those who ignore my posts are living rent free.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,190 ✭✭✭yagan


    It's always amusing how tubridy defenders are as vacuous as as him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    The fact that you're quoting me would imply that you believe I'm a Tubridy defender. I'm not. I think he was promoted far beyond his limited abilities and grossly overpaid even for the primetime slots he occupied.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,686 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,190 ✭✭✭yagan


    Then why do you give a crap about others observations of an ego implosion?

    If he were wise then he'd still be in rte getting paid, but his own hubris sunk him.

    So this isn't about personal taste in radio personalities, it's about someone who had a cushy number and publicly trashed it.

    This thread will keep going as long as he continues to pretend he did nothing to break the trust of those who did respect him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    Yes. the Bobson account is for praising Tubridy, and this one is for acknowledging what a piss-poor broadcaster he is.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    I find the thread very entertaining, so I hope it does continue.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 741 ✭✭✭Mr Disco


    as night follows day….yawn…..a very boring and predictable broken record appears as per usual…..yawn (again)……

    Post edited by Mr Disco on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,686 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,883 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    I was on a beach on the Baltic Sea today… enjoying glorious sunshine before heading off to a local restore some splendid local cuisine….. didn’t give Bryan Turgidy a thought until this evening when I saw the updates in this thread… in fairness it’s a lovely way to round off a bank holiday weekend….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭swine


    After last week's impressive guest (Brian Cox), it's back to business as usual as this week's guest is … Doireann Garrihy. I thought it was supposed to be authors?

    Who knows what Ryan and Doireann might discuss (I've not listened to it)? Trips to Cheltenham?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,916 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Nah.

    "Now, in weekly episodes, international guests from the worlds of music, television, literature and sport who all share a love for reading will join Ryan..."

    Doireann is a new low though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭GSF


    at last a regular supply of guests - people who have left Rte



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭pureza


    Just turned tubs on

    1st time since he started

    Talks 5 mins praising his tour of cambridge

    Then at the end of this speech he says,one night is enough,you dont need much more than that...

    Little wonder his ratings are low

    His lack of sense of self awareness hasnt improved nor his fot in mouth abilities



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭tohaltuwi


    Cambridge is a gorgeous little city, lovely to walk around in any weather, and has some fascinating museums. I did a day visit, wasn’t half enough, on my bucket list to return. There’s other lovely places nearby too, like Ely with its magnificent cathedral rising high above the Pens.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Karppi




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Morgans


    Doing non RTE-related ads and endorsements in the RTE studios?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭Brian Scan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    His podcast episode with Marian Keyes from two weeks ago hasn’t even hit 1k views yet.

    Overall his YT numbers are shockingly bad.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭leath_dub


    The English market that Tubs is supposedly. trying to engage will most likely be wondering: "Who the hell is she?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    Greetings fellow young fogies…

    I've been away at my west of Ireland bolthole. I just love the place. After many weeks of long stressful days working til lunchtime, there's nothing that can recharge the old battery like looking wistfully into the Atlantic and taking a windswept selfie for Insta… #WildIreland #ThisIsMyHeaven

    Has much happened since I've been away? Has Tubs become an accomplished and highly respected radio presenter yet?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭nonetheless


    Great to have you back Hyperbollix.

    #BeKind #FireIsDelicious



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,991 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I think you should declare if you received any hospitality from establishments associated with Tubridy... in case we notice a change in posting tone.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    I can categorically state that I received no such freebie….

    However, if there are any thread readers running a delicious little seaside escape or perchance even a picturesque Yurt overlooking Galway Bay, I will of course be happy to come visit in exchange for some obsequious glowing reviews in my postings.

    #MoneysTooTightToMention



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,991 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    Rent? Darling, that's for the little people……Whom I love deeply of course!

    #GivingBack #IrelandISNTFull(WellDalkeyisFullButIHearCorkisLovely)



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