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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Still insistent on talking constantly about Irish people, phrases, culture and of course berating his production team. For some reason he kept referring to Kildare in a lot of his links and more Cillian Murphy name drops.
Coming out of 12 o'clock he crashed another music vocal, this time Annie Lennox's Walking On Broken Glass. There is absolutely no excuse for this as there is a GIANT countdown clock allocated to EVERY song as part of RCS ZETTA - and this is on a big screen in front of Tubridy. The timer counts back in BIG LARGE CAPITAL SIZED BOLD NUMBERS 7, 6, 5, 4.... giving him reasonable warning as to when the next song and vocal will commence. This is happening way too much and is not being corrected, normally these kind of blunders would not be tolerated on Virgin Radio UK or on most other radio stations for that matter. Flawless execution when going into a music track would be considered a basic expectation.
The "extra bag of sweets" from last week, and this week going on about some apple drops or something. His whole persona is built upon some non-existent "the way it used to be" charade, presumably to keep instamammies happy that the cheeky chirper is doing "well".
Give him a break, he's only been in radio for what, 25 years?
He might even make the senior hurling yet. He's only getting started.
I'm starting to wonder is it some sort of passive sabotage. Production team are fully aware but just sit back and let it happen.
The Q102 version is plagued with issues every time I tune in - long periods of dead air, jingles crashing music, music crashing jingles, earlier this week there was very audible crackling when I passed on the radio that I thought he'd spun a vinyl record only it carried on underneath subsequent links, ads and jingles. Obviously no-one is even monitoring the output on this side between 10 and 1.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0615/1454763-russell-crowe-on-tubridy-geldof-and-playing-dublin/
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I’m barred from Instatubridy so appreciate clips here 🤣
In the case of the RTE piece, it's an example of having one celebrity on the downward slope of his career commenting on a wannabe celebrity who is on the downward slope of their career.
Promoting his podcast today in his IMoS column. Also covers the Muppets and Jim Henson.
Regards…jmcc
Saw the column linked on another thread. He says something about 'the man child I was to become'. Um, what adult thinks that's a positive thing to say about themselves. 🥴
Still hanging grimly onto the Toyman nonsense, I guess.
Writing is a discipline. It is hard work to create something interesting that people want to read week after week. Without the infrastructure and environment of RTE, he hasn't much left. His numbers on Virgin Radio aren't great. The second quarter (April to June) ends in a few weeks. His Eason sponsored podcast isn't as popular as the lead podcast in the NKM stable ("Paths To Power" with Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates). Around the time of the David Walliams interview, he was talking about writing a new children's book (I think). Hard not to feel sorry for him as his past is all he has now.
Writing is a discipline
I'm well aware of that.
Tubridy may be learning that the hard way.
These weekly diary's he's doing comes across as desperate to me, I think he might be hoping that over time he can regain some interest and favor from the Irish audience. Did he do these diary's when he was with RTE, when he only worked a fraction of the time there?
Don't think so. He was RTE's highest paid star for a while and it wasn't really necessary. He needs to keep some kind of media presence in the Irish market if he is to have a future here. The Q102 syndication and IMoS newspaper column are part of that effort.
This London diary effort is very much focused on an Irish audience and I don't thilnk that the Mail on Sunday (the main English edition) carries it. The Irish Mail on Sunday isn't exactly a Tier 1 Sunday newspaper in the Irish market in terms of sales. The Sunday Indpendent, the Business Post and the Sunday Times (and even the Saturday edition of the Irish Times) sell more copies.
NK will need to get involved again soon to retain interest in this thread. Ryan's rehab is going to take a lot longer than NK had him believe.
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All just serving to reinforce in everybody's minds how he was insanely overpaid in his previous roles, and no where near worth what we were told. The emperor has no clothes. Now what is NK supposed to do.
I was watching a googlebox the other night from some years ago and it featured an episode of the LLS.
As stated previously I only have a TV recently after almost twenty years without so I missed the Tubridy tenure, but by god it was dreadfully bad, yet this was when he was still flying high. Was the whole country on cocaine to think him a good host?
He's yesterdays man…. even this thread is dying a death as the realisation of what most of all knew would happen, is happening, and he's simply fading into obscurity…. even his number 1 defender seems to have given up such is the lost cause that Bryan is, with his chances of redemption held by ropes made of marshmallows
He must have needed a bump over the weekend hence the Russel Crowe love in…
if he was still in RTÉ he'd probably be on the summer wind down by now, preparing to take 5-6 weeks holidays in a few weeks time… meanwhile in London he's probably got a vacation balance that he'll have to use up for any time off….
if only he'd kept his mouth shut….
Was the whole country on cocaine to think him a good host?
No, not me anyway. I tried to watch when he first took over, but he was so bad, I gave up very quickly. Pat Kenny gets slated a lot for his LLS era, but I watched when he presented, and watched in the Gaybo era too. I have mentioned it before but when they appeared as guests on the 50th anniversary of the show, they both wiped the floor with him, completely unintentionally. Tubridy has no natural talent as a presenter, or interviewer, imo. No curiosity about people. No ability to go with the flow. Everything had to be scripted to the hilt. He was in the right place at the right time when it came to taking over the LLS. And the rest is history. I think he would be there yet, fumbling his way through, talking all year round about the toy show, and being paid an astronomical salary, but for the events that came to pass.
Tubs' number one defender who admitted to never listening to his show strangely enough!
The Q102 10 o'clock news was still on when he crashed into his introduction this morning, gabbling his way through 'it's Monday, 17th June, and it's a beautiful day' and something about Christmas. Click.
This thread isn’t going to die anytime soon. One obsessed user, who’s been banned at least twice already, can’t stay away and can’t stop listening.
He left his glasses at home today for which he keeps referring to his glasses being at home and has warned that he will post a picture of all 8 pairs later. He has also requested to be forgiven for being a little more patchy - He is having trouble reading the pre prepared scripts that he has been given, which would tell the listener all they need to know with regards to his abilities as a broadcaster to adlib.
He did a rambling incoherent 4 min link about himself and his Macca stalking, yet he was unaware until 9:45am before the show that Paul McCartney is going on tour of Europe later in the year. A real celebrity or professional would be on the mailing list of Macca's manager and website or would have researched this over the weekend.
In one of his links he has been using the word "dear" to explain expensive in relation to the worlds most expensive cities. Of those remaining 134,000 souls, no one really knows what he is talking about.
If boards.ie isn't worth considered contributing to, why are you here?
Having said that, engagement on Instagram or TikTok isn't going to help Tubs one bit if his ratings are tanking. His proper job is to present a radio show that lots of people tune into. Are they?
They intent on making the thread about them.
Ah, no, to be fair, he’s probably the only one who actually listens to both shows, and the podcast.
It’s just a bit odd when he claimed it was “nothing personal” and was only concerned about his work with RTÉ but to still be devoting a good chunk of his day to hate-listening to Ryan is going well over the top.
And to re-register, at least twice, after being site banned is very concerning.
"Apparently listenership in 10-1 slot on Virgin Radio every weekday has dropped significantly since Tubridy arrived." *source: Internal News UK HQ.
The internal midterm RAJAR Q.2 2024 figures show that he is dipping well below the 100k in audience. From a show he took over with 448k listeners on January 2nd.
If figures like that make it out into the mainstream, it's going to be hard to spin those. I'd love to know what the ratings for the Irish stations are. Especially the weekend shows.
it’s unsustainable. He’s killing the inheritance for Jayne Middlemass and the rest of the day’s schedule. If they must broadcast him put him on at 10pm not 10am
News UK & Ireland are not releasing figures for those radio stations .
Internal tracking means they are aware of it bombing. The summer months period is traditionally a lower total audience of June, July and August. So taking everything into account means he will be probably "shedding" rather than "putting on" listeners across his shows on Virgin Radio UK/Q102 weekdays and on LMFM, Live 95, 96FM Cork Sundays 10am to 12pm.
