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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Switched on radio, Paul McCartney mentioned. I left it at that.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
Rack off lads! lol
I’m breaking my sides laughing at this!
Perish the thought of going to some internet cafe, when you can simply do breakfast at Tang and lunch at One Pico.
nah, I’m sure his appearance fee was sufficient.
Perhaps he was hoping for some closing down bargains/freebies.
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 😉
Living his best life, like you.
If you weren't going to say it, I was. You always come through in the end.
A real man of the people is Tubs. Very down to earth.
There for every sad closure and death.
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 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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
Yes, maybe it is a direct appeal to his old pal Macca? Backstage pass and the works.
As no. 1 fan, and a big media force, has he not been invited to tea yet at his neighbours?
his audience of 100 people on virgin radio wouldn’t probably justify the promoters giving him a freebie
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.
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.
he really is like a helpless child
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.
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