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

according to one person, he’s a millionaire. I’m surprised he can’t afford even an economy flight to South America. It’s a good place to hide out if you are a wanted man 😉

Another Sunday, another Tubridy puff piece. It's an industry!

sure he’d be well recognised in Chile

wonderful country to travel to, plenty of Irish connections too, endless material to write about

"It comes after he revealed that he was launching his very own podcast that was all about books." The podcast that gets around 150 views a day on Youtube? It is almost as if he ages in those photos as he fades into obscurity.

The Sindo seems to have completely dropped him after the Sindo and Indo almost championed his return to RTE a year ago. Then came the Oireachtas appearances and few, if any, Irish national broadcasters wanted to hire him after those. And it is a week to the end of Q2 2024 and those listening figures being calculated.

Regards…jmcc

Tubridy isn't an A-lister in London. It is very much a "Bryan who?" situation for him. Has there been any UK show biz media coverage of him?

Regards…jmcc

As no. 1 fan, and a big media force, has he not been invited to tea yet at his neighbours?

This is the article if anybody wants to read it. It's not behind a paywall at the moment

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41420929.html

I'm sure being such a vociferous reader and being back in Ireland for the weekend, tubridy will no doubt have his fill of the Sunday/weekend papers and will see that he is still the face of RTE shenanigans and it hasn't gone away, even a year on.

Or he could be just a vacuous shell who spent the weekend eating 99s from Teddys.

Interesting piece in Terry Prone's article for which she refers to 2fm inheriting a bunch of broadcasters who were not hired as such but rather social media practitioners. The loss of those type of presenters would result in 2fm's loss of 'their' audience. She is quite correct with that observation but it should also be remembered that according to the latest JNLR's, 2fm's audience share is abysmal to begin with. Even if the 2 Johnnies, Doireann Garrihy and so on were collectively pulling in that audience, the figures for the station would still be very sobering for any self respecting experienced PD. But yet they continue to pursue a model that is repeatedly failing them and for which one of our worlds greatest minds once described such behaviour as madness. And it does feel quite fitting in the case of Roger Daltrey calling out Kevin Backhurst towards the end of The Who's 1971 hit 'Wont Get Fooled Again'

If you weren't going to say it, I was. You always come through in the end.

you can get the internet on a mobile phone now. You don’t need to sit at home or even go to an internet cafe to read what’s happening 😉

nah, I’m sure his appearance fee was sufficient.

I’m breaking my sides laughing at this!

Does Tubs enjoy Ceviche, raw fish with lime, popular in that region of South America, bit of a food Mecca, including nice teeth of an enlarged guinea pig digging into a cherry tomato on your plate, toenails almost tapping on the ceramic.

That was a stiletto on the end of jackhammer. RTE management won't be pleased. As for Prone, when the story first broke, she was the one who called him The Ryanstone Cowboy. She doesn't mince her words about Tubridy.

Regards…jmcc

The article is very good but you are right:-

I wrote the following based on the headline, but in fairness to Terry Prone she pulls no punches, I was surprised it came from her : -

The glamour at RTÉ faded as soon as they moved into the TV studios in Donnybrook. You can see from old archive photographs the original visual intent of the architect, a modern set of buildings purposefully built to house TV studios with a contemporary elegant entrance. The long corridors facing out on to Montrose house in the leafy Dublin suburbs. At some point however the sufficiency of the design was lost in the hands of RTÉ, as Wardrobe was dropped into a central area only to make it look messy. The same can be said of the Radio centre, who's lobby has had 1990s kitsch lobbed on to it with a lack of vision that the original minimalist lobby would suggest.

Buildings that would invite big name stars, while showing the opulence of our old British colonial past, had turned into a rat infested delipidated set of studios, which RTÉ never cared to maintain.

Surely this lack of maintenance of the RTÉ studios over the years should have shown the lack of management skills at the broadcaster.

RTÉ, the media and our politicians are now fed up with the news that RTÉ isn't up to the job of even running a broadcaster let alone their own buildings in which their studios reside. The audience on the other hand are embarrassed by the broadcaster.

Terry Prone might be right to consider RTÉ to be some kind of glamourous deity in the halcyon days of the 60s, but by the 70s and 80s it had dipped out of favour with audience, and cast a shadow on a bleak austere era, by the 90s nothing had changed and by the heady days of the Celtic Tiger management were now thinking they were working at the BBC, it was far from the BBC they were raised.

Let management and staff at RTÉ look around a crumbling broadcaster, and consider that they forget the glamour and put on a pair of wellies and get to work.

Mario Rosenstock really revelling in this! You get the feeling he had Tubs number from Day1 but couldn't open his mouth or lampoon him too heavily. Tubs held the keys to the late late show guest list and Irish entertainers need that promotional opportunity. Now yesterday's man, he's getting both barrels. 😂

Sampling some of the 2nd and 3rd hour. The theme based on first records bought and band names. The 11:18 am link made for pretty slick radio - Getting a lightbulb for a sowing machine.

Some redemption found at 11:28, a short introduction from Tubridy about the first record you may have bought - A link mostly engineered by the production team and a stark contrast to the usual mess.

At 11:33 Ryan comes back and does his own thing - McDonald's? Seagulls going bonkers? Then going to Bath? and then his voice just dramatically increased in pitch and intensity, the link then just exploded like the Death Star at the end of Star Wars. Even playing Shaboozey's 'A Bar Song' (Tipsy) in between could not make up for the chaotic presentation.

At 12:27 Coming out of 'Don't Stop Believin' led Ryan to announce "That was Journey" then angrily shouting JURNAY!! - possibly causing some listeners to experience a sudden jolt or possibly sending some into cardiac arrest whilst at the same time leading some to question the emotional health of the presenter.

12:58 To wrap up - Kicking walls in Dublin

Love Listening.