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

Pretty much what I expected. From other poster’s posts above it seems this is not a once off but I’ll keep an eye on it if I’m in the car again when he’s on air.

Actually, that begs the question is this a Tubridy show only issue, or a wider Q102 one? Is the London broadcast source causing issues for Dublin?

In this week’s diary, Ryan tells us about two famous actors who had the pleasure of meeting him this week, briefly mentions food (without using the word delicious), and comments that ”It was lovely to catch up with yet another wonderful Irish person who flies the flag in Britain with an understated class and a widely appreciated skill” - aren’t they all wonderful, and don’t they all have lovely bottoms?

The highlight however was the uproariously amusing anecdote where Ryan and Chris Evans discuss the new Jerry Springer documentary on Netflix. Chris asks Ryan if he interviewed him and humble Ryan replied saying he’s interviewed so many people, he can’t remember! Imagine meeting the at the time most famous man in the world, and forgetting it - presumably because their talent was dwarfed by the following guest from the RTÉ canteen? I mean, that’s completely credible isn’t it? And then guess what? Chris couldn’t remember either! I know, right? What are the chances? But then, through the miracle of the internet and some super-sleuthing by Ryan, it turned out that he had. He relayed this information to Chris and by golly, so had he! It’s all just bonkers. Needless to say on this occasion, they both had the last laugh.

The strange thing is that Tubs' power or asset to RTÉ Radio had largely been proven untrue by RTÉ from September 2010 until July 2015. This was when he replaced Gerry Ryan following Gerry's death.

During this time John Murray was the main presenter at 9 on Radio 1.

Tubs failed to bring an audience in for the mid-morning slot on 2FM, while Murray retain the 9pm listenership over on RTÉ Radio 1.

Kevin Beforbes stated in an interview recently something like "I was there when we move Ryan over to Radio 1, which was a very good move", I don't think Beforbes knew Tubs had left that slot and had languished in the mid-morning slot on 2fm for 5 years, while RTÉ continued to pay his high wages.

I have no doubt that if Beforbes thinks their might be an opportunity for Tubs to return he will allow it, expect an Indo production featuring Tubs take the Train from Dublin to Galway dropping final destination his Cousin's place.

Beforbes now just wants to move on, you can tell from the Media that there is a large belief that he has reformed RTÉ and no more should be said about the organization.

So stop your complaining and be grateful for Beforbes.

Politcans and the media don't care. Over the first few days of this year the media have been gushing at how RTÉ has reformed, and highlighting their highlights from 2023 and how they are moving on with their new schedule for 2024.

Just look at how a former You're A Star winner and a currently news reader defended them, then look at their annual report an see how Befrobes spent 21k on expenses in 2023, while the leadership team each got 19k+ in allowances.

Beforbes is out of touch and I promise you an independent production is in the works for Tubs to present, something nerdy and public service like but is mostly a vehicle to get Tubs back to Ireland. I expect it in Dec 2025 or early 2026.

Apparently he heats beans with a bunsen burner

Fine line between needy and desperation

The “When a job doesn’t feel like work you’ve hit the jackpot” is illuminating.

Either he is blissfully unaware that’s exactly what he had in RTÉ (and blew through his own arrogance), or it’s an attempted dig at RTÉ (a “look at how great things are here, suckers!” type comment); both conveniently ignoring the fact that his annual “jackpot” was x times his current remuneration in Virgin. Bonkers.

You have to remember that most people aren't diligently dissecting his PR campaign like we are here, they are passively consuming it while forgetting about him. This is why towards the end of the year RTÉ can quietly give him a small one of Doc towards the end of the year.

Ryan Tubridy's WB Yeats and Ireland or some such faux-PSB bollix.

Newstalk (allegedly) did……this was pre signing Pat Kenny btw.

I would imagine they’re thanking their lucky stars they dodged a bullet on that front in hindsight. Still, Newstalk’s loss was ultimately our loss as no doubt his agent managed to bump Duffy’s fees on the back of such an approach. In fact such was the incompetence in management in RTÉ at the time and since that the whole thing could simply have been made up as it were to extract more from the taxpayer-funded state albatross, I mean broadcaster. It seems on all available evidence to have worked. Repeatedly.

We have a suite of NK podcasts, next step NKFM? I mean these superstars are so talented, they’d hoover up all of the advertising revenue in Ireland…….

I’m not actually being serious here btw. But…..

If you become a more regular listener you’ll get to hear him burp loudly into the mic on occasion. As far as I’m aware he doesn’t charge extra for these.

The headline is misleading. While no one from Newstalk would comment officially, they did unofficially:

"NewsTalk has refused to comment officially on the claims but senior management at the station have admitted they are frustrated at the constant speculation.

"It's no secret we'd like to get a big name but we don't want to get drawn into a bidding war," the source said.

"There is only a small number of people who would fit in with what we want and Joe Duffy isn't one of them," he claimed.

"Dropping 'Liveline' into our schedule just wouldn't fit and the figure of ?600,000 is ridiculous. Even Eamon Dunphy wasn't to get that.

"Joe would send us the odd Christmas card congratulating us on our coverage of this or that and it's obvious he wanted to set up some sort of relationship.

"If that helped him to get a better contract at RTE, then fair play to him."

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/duffy-snubs-massive-double-your-money-offer-from-newstalk/26368983.html

The next step might be to charge for extra content like Yates and Cooper's Path to Power podcast. It is the only NKM one I listen to, so the others may well be charging already.