The Ryan Tubridy Show **Mod: Read OP**

why did you think of that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not good enough

The consequences of your actions

Elf on the the bookshelf - THANKS

111 pages of it!

with marty morrissey

Yes, it is such a shame Oliver Callan and Joe Brolly don't even realise all the victories they have had over the years despite your anomosity.

Superb post Dr bogson philes. But I think you forgot Middle Aged Men. You need to include all your phrases when you're ranting about posters that dislike your friend tubridy.

Looking forward to next week's rant about the same abominable ballsack boollix that you post about.

how do we know he’s mild mannered?

To be fair to Tubs, this isn't just him. It's ALL the irish media.

I would often mention how I have NEVER heard an irish musician or Irish actor ripped to shreds in a review for being terrible. NEVER.

The closest you'd ever get to a negative review would be on Arena. But if you just listen to Tubs, or D'Arcy or todayfm, every single thing an Irish artist does is amazing. It's so false and unbelievable. Has Ronan ever done a bad film? Apparently not. Everything she has been in has been amazing. She's amazing. Gleesons are all amazing, Hozier is amazing, Dermot Kennedy is amazing, Mescal is amazing.......

Where’s the anger? My post was clearly hypothetical and in jest - a blind man could see that. I’d venture your post about Callan’s Kicks* last week contains more anger and bile in a single post than days of commentary combined contain about Ryan on this thread, not to mention the visible anger in the above quoted post.

I’d suggest (note: just a suggestion, I’m not telling you what to do or ordering you to do something) not repeatedly visiting this thread if it raises your blood pressure so much. Put on a podcast - The Bookshelf even, read a book, or go for a walk; something to relieve the stress and relax. It’s like your hate-thread-reading - if there is such a thing as that?

I just find it all rather humorous tbh.

*I do hope you’re not forced to listen again this week against all your power and free will.

Yes, I am aware of this phenomenon….I did say that others do it too; but perhaps because of his former profile Ryan was the most obvious and most prominent at it.

I’d agree with your question re. have any of these ever produced anything sub-par, because if you listen to the main players in Irish media you’d think not. The problem with praising everything undeservedly is that you lose trust in the reviewer simply because everything can’t be amazing. Its impossible.

Example: Mescal’s upcoming sequel to Gladiator has already been widely ridiculed from a variety of angles, but I can guarantee when he does the promotional tour everyone in Irish media will give it “totes amazeballs”, “must see” etc. brown nosing it clearly doesn’t deserve.

Some folk don’t understand the irony of criticising those who post differing opinions to their own, and then going online to criticise posters with differing opinions to their own.

Tubridy was a big fish in the small puddle of RTE. In London, he's plankton in an ocean of talent. He never really had to compete for a job or make sure that he paid his way in advertising in RTE. Commercial radio is a completely different beast to RTE where failure is promoted and rewarded.

The advantage that Tubridy had in RTE on the LLS was that guests would come to the LLS as it was a major stop on any Irish promotional tour (the Gay Byrne era was the show's peak when Hollywood A-Listers would frequently appear on the show). It was the show rather than Tubridy that was important. In the UK, he's just a DJ on a radio station and agents probably want to get their clients on Chris Evans' programme rather than Tubridy's Mid Morning Matters.

When it comes to celebrities and entertainment, the London and UK market is much more competitive than the Dublin media village and many of the players have been in entertainment journalism for years. Tubridy is as unknown as a Transition Year student hoping to do Media Studies.

Tubridy isn't just out of his depth. He's been under water since he started the Virgin Radio gig and has been grasping for his lifebelt of RTE banter that is completely irrelevant to Virgin Radio's UK audience. The upcoming RAJAR figures could decide his fate. Hopefully, he will have some success in the UK as the Irish broadcasting industry seems to have moved on without him.

Regards…jmcc

There's a clip of Leo Varadkar demonstrating his Hurling skills online and absolutely failing. It sprung to mind when Tubridy was mentioned with the phrase "Senior Hurling". Even the Tubridy muppet at the end of Callan Kicks The Year was more authentic than Tubridy himself. He's strictly Montrose village radio level and desperately wants to get back there. Virgin Radio and the podcast seem to be just means to keep his media profile current in the hope of being rehired by RTE. It seems to be a different (partially) RTE today to the one from which he was fired in 2023.

Some presenters have the abilities to successfully move into production or management. Tubridy doesn't seem to have those abilities. As a result, he seems locked into recreating his RTE glory days of being "the most trusted man in Ireland" while broadcasting from a studio in London.

Callan has taken over his slot and is doing well. Kielty has taken over the LLS and is apparently doing an excellent job. There doesn't seem to be any RTE prime time slots on TV or radio open at the moment and RTE still need to get rid of the toxicity of the Tubridy payments scandal that nearly sunk the broadcaster. There's a whole generation of talent that has emerged in Ireland since Tubridy started in RTE. Politically, RTE will be pressured to focus on this new talent if it is to keep the bailout money flowing.

Regards…jmcc

RTE runs on the L'Oreal principle. They think they're worth it. In reality, they are not.

For the first few decades, until the advent of Pirate Radio and cable TV in the 1970s, it had no competition (apart from BBC and Radio Luxembourg on radio and cross-channel TV offair in the border counties, the South East and the South coasts. Cable TV had people watching channels other than RTE 1 and 2 in the cities.

It wasn't until the mid 1980s when the price of TVs fell and homes could afford a second set that RTE really started to lose viewers. The Pirate Radio stations chopped the legs from under RTE in advertising and younger audience figures. The gombeens in government brought in a "licence" regime to kill Pirate Radio, enrich its cronies and protect RTE. Local radio still seems to outperform RTE at a local level.

As long as the advertising revenue kept coming in, RTE overpaid some of these broadcasters because the management believed that they were bringing in the viewers, listeners and advertisers. It was still the cheapest way for advertisers to reach an Irish audience and this is what kept RTE afloat for a while. RTE did have some real talent like Gay Byrne and Gerry Ryan. It became too dependent on Gerry Ryan and when he died, 2FM nearly died with him. His tea boy, Tubridy, was given the show and, I think, lost about 40% of its listeners.

As for the minister responsible for the bailout, that's a whole different story.

Regards…jmcc