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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: 3,054 ✭✭✭gipi


    Wasn't Jennifer at TodayFM, isn't that where she made her "radio bones", so to speak? She was Jennifer Maguire back then



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭GSF


    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 😉



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,743 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    no he couldn’t go to Chile, Argentina or Peru because nobody would recognise him out there….. he’d most likely have to attend the concerts as an member of Joe Public… and mix with plebs….. Dangerous plebs to Bryan Tubridy though as they speak a different language, and are slightly browner…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,966 ✭✭✭leath_dub


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭hawley


    Ryan Tubridy has said he has “no escape” from fans as he is recognised by people all over the world.

    The 49-year-old broadcaster told RSVP Live that he has been noticed while on holiday abroad. "I was in Iceland, and a guy went, ‘Tubs, welcome to Reykjavik!’ I’ve gone to some strange countries and there’s just no escape.”

    "The Late Late Show is quite a thing,” he continued. "New York is hilarious, I’ve been to New York and in the subways, I get, ‘What are you doing here Tubs?’ I’m actually okay with it and I love my job so it’s fine."

    https://m.sundayworld.com/showbiz/irish-showbiz/ryan-tubridy-says-there-is-no-escape-from-fans-as-he-is-recognised-all-over-the-world/152416679.html



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


    sure he’d be well recognised in Chile



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭jmcc


    Isn't Tubridy's problem that he is not wanted, especially in RTE? :)

    Regards…jmcc



  • Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭supereurope


    Yep, had the events of last year not happened he'd probably be pitching "Ryan Tubridy in South America" to RTÉ right now.

    Christ, imagine being that deluded.



  • Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭animalinside


    And at the end of that article Tubridy even talking about how much he wants to travel and see the world, less than 2 years ago.

    "I made a promise to myself after the pandemic finished I said I’m going to travel and I’m travelling and I’m enjoying it," he said.

    "I found the pandemic very heavy going, like everyone else, and I want to see the world and I want to run."

    Now's his opportunity. If he's crestfallen then why not go - it'd even give him new material for articles as well.

    https://www.argentina.travel/en/about-argentina/news/paul-mccartney-in-argentina-when-he-plays-and-how-to-get-there



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


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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    A go-fund-me on the radio forum for Ryan's travel adventures would probably keep him in round the world trips for the rest of his life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭jmcc


    "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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Tork


    If somebody else was paying for the jaunt, he'd be first onto that plane.

    What's puzzling me is the comment that McCartney is only touring in South America. He's playing in London and in Manchester at the end of this year and those dates were announced by the time that comment was published. The asking prices for some of those tickets is beyond ridiculous though. You'd nearly be better off flying all the way out to South America instead.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭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



  • Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭animalinside


    You're right, it was announced in the media six days ago: https://www.nova.ie/paul-mccartney-announces-2024-uk-and-european-tour-251495/

    Tubridy must have been planning/writing this article since before his last one was published, and liked the idea of how he was so crestfallen, that he would miss Paul McCartney's final tour because he's a bit old and no doubt won't have any more, and didn't even bother… oh my god - oh my god my sides, I'm getting wheezing laughter, if I'm found dead you know who to blame.

    …he didn't even bother to correct it a week later before putting it in one of the biggest Sunday newspapers in Ireland. Probably he'd be looking for overtime to fix it before going out to thousands and thousands of people. And like that would be interesting information, like a piece of trivia, how Paul McCartney decided to end his touring career like that in just those three South American countries, shows how you can't trust Tubridy for even the most basic of information.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 704 ✭✭✭Mr Disco




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭yagan


    Terry Prone has a piece about RTEs fall from grace in todays Examiner and Bryan isn't spared..

    It looks rundown and disrespected, rather as if a tsunami went through it, just a year ago, although that’s what actually happened. Tsunamis, unlike hurricanes, don’t get names. If they did, this one would be named Ryan Tubridy.

    Later on in the piece she really lays it on him

    But if the Tubridy payments had never been made or discovered, none of the rest would have happened. Unintentional causality must be laid at his door, and what was caused was a broad-spectrum disaster with startling implications, not just for broadcasting, but for public accountability and for the workings of the houses of parliament.

    It's a fair piece but the concluding musings about RTE's present role compared to its past stop short of admitting what the core problem is. Before radio and then TV the verb to Broadcast meant to spread seed, whereas the internet is as revolutionary to the forming, sharing and dissemination of ideas as the printing press was in its time. Broadcasting is the giving and receiving of information, the internet blurs the lines between receivers and broadcasters and legacy media simply can't compete with it.

    Bryan keeping his youtube comments closed is as luddite as it comes.



  • Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭Kingslayer


    Maybe he is trying to wangle a free ticket to the London show. Like an influencer, give me a freebie and I'll big you up in my article and on my show.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭GSF


    his audience of 100 people on virgin radio wouldn’t probably justify the promoters giving him a freebie



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


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



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  • Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭Kingslayer


    Yes, maybe it is a direct appeal to his old pal Macca? Backstage pass and the works.



  • Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭animalinside


    RTE used to be a glamorous workplace? I don't ever remember that in my lifetime. I don't trust Terry Prone's articles.

    She's probably saying that because of how she used to work there in the past since she was 13.

    https://www.ul.ie/ceremonies/terry-prone-0

    Follow the money first, then follow the ego. RTE was a glamorous wonderful place attracting the best talent back when she worked there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭yagan


    I think it was probably as glamorous as it got at one time, but we'd be talking about decades ago, up til the 80s perhaps. edit to add, the threshold for what constituted glamour seemed very low back in those Babysham days.

    But back then Hollywood and movies were the most glamorous place to be.

    It's hilarious that the board still proffer 2fm is the youth channel when its content squarely targets the middle aged who were the youth when the station was started.

    The whole institution is an anachronism.

    Post edited by yagan on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Tork


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,256 ✭✭✭Tow


    RTE looked rundown when I was in it about 5 years ago. It was the first thing you noticed abou the place. It was obvious the money was being spent on the talent, rather than a lick of paint and new carpet tiles. Maybe the 'public areas' are better maintained!

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,541 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭yagan


    If Terry's description of the carnage Bryan unleashed on the average RTE insider is accurate then at the moment then there's no way in hell bryan will ever get back in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭nonetheless


    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'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭nonetheless


    There for every sad closure and death.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 391 ✭✭animalinside


    A real man of the people is Tubs. Very down to earth.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,469 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    He’s out enjoying his day, and some of you are sitting at home making up lurid fantasies and theories about him. Pretty easy work out who is winning that battle to this neutral observer. Completely and utterly living rent free. Total obsession. 😝

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭Morgans


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭yagan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭GSF


    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 😉



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭Red Fred


    Perhaps he was hoping for some closing down bargains/freebies.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,743 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭nonetheless


    Perish the thought of going to some internet cafe, when you can simply do breakfast at Tang and lunch at One Pico.



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




  • Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭Kingslayer


    Rack off lads! lol



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


    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭CollyFlower


    I'm starting to feel sorry for Ryan. 😔He must know he's not doing well at Virgin. Don't know how things work in there, do they have to keep him on until his contract ends or can they terminate anytime?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭jmcc


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Perhaps I didn't know this. Even still she does not seem to have anything outside of broadcasting to fall back on, but she may genuinely not want this career right now, she could come back.


    ______

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

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    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.


    ______

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

    Yesterday



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,417 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Switched on radio, Paul McCartney mentioned. I left it at that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    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. 😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭Kingslayer


    I wonder will Tubs mention how Taylor Swift is Irish now, and then swing it around to JFK?



  • Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭supereurope


    Commercial stations tend to be pretty ruthless if a presenter isn't bringing the numbers in, even more so if the listenership is down on the previous presenter, so I'd imagine his contract would have a clear break clause in it.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,417 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    I'm starting to feel sorry for Ryan. 😔He must know he's not doing well at Virgin. 

    I don't think he does realise it. I know he has to keep up the hearty tones obviously, but I would say he thinks he is flying it. I really would.

    I have no sympathy for him. Greed was his downfall after all the years of being grossly overpaid for a job he was never suited to, in the first place.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭nonetheless


    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.

    Post edited by nonetheless on


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