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

I never understood why they don't use Olympians more as brand ambassidors. Many years ago I try to find out why Subway would use British Olympians on Irish advertising over their Irish equivalents, oddly I emailed one Irish communications company to find out why, no reply, but the ads changed.

Sadly, they replaced one of the British Olympians with an Irish Rugby star to balance it out, rather than an Irish Olympian, or a set of Irish Olympians for an Irish Audience. Can't find the Tommy Bowe advert for subway, but here are unknown British Olympians.

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This is intriguing.

Ryan is "giving his two cents on Donald Trump" but somebody else is credited with writing the article 🤔.

https://evoke.ie/2025/01/26/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-president-trump

I’d genuinely assume that’s an error as the same article appears in other publications. I’d assume it’s a case of Sinead overstepping and adding her name to the piece as she was the one who had the task of copying and pasting the email from NKM Towers - it’s how the rest of the puff pieces get published, but Sinead it appears forgot there are different rules for pieces re. The Toyman.

This from the Journal yesterday.

Newly-released data shows that just 32% of the public had a positive view of the state broadcaster in surveys carried out between July and September 2023.

The figure had been 69% in the three months beforehand.

The quarterly survey was taken in the weeks following the revelations that secret payments totalling €345,000 had been made to presenter Ryan Tubridy over six years but went unreported by RTÉ.

I know some posters here still believe he'll be back in Montrose by the end of the year, but……

RTÉ’s annual report claimed that 52% of the public had trust in the broadcaster, but this was based on averaging out the figures over the course of the year, which hid the impact of the severe drop in support.

https://www.thejournal.ie/rte-public-trust-6601541-Jan2025/

Tubridy being brought back in would also bring back attention to whole RTE backhanders. Also it has to noted that RTE's disinterest in the storm damage in Connaught is best described as Cromwellian as they seem more interested in the 46a bus route ending.

Satchel c*nt

I thought it was his disguise from when he was raiding the RTE coffers

I think many have forgotten the 150k tbh.

I still think they might soft launch a TV doc with Ryan at the very least doing the voice over, could even be something for Virgin Media TV, rather an indo production for RTÉ, but either way NK just has to suggest it to a producer, something small that's been funded by the CnaM under their Sound & Vision Scheme.

I don't get Tubs being this Political guru that he's now touting, I know he's said this before but even on his perusal of the papers every morning did anyone think he was a Political Anorak? He's to afraid to say boo to anyone or to give an opinion.

Your either going to be Conan O'Brien, able to avoid politics as much as possible and have something funny to say, or your John Bowman, able to bring up what a politician said 4 years ago contradicting what they are saying today.

The Forgotten Man phase is probably most apt considering there hasn't been any public campaign to bring him back. Conor McGregor probably got more support after he was found guilty from his incel followers than the Toyman.

This was raised on another thread but it’s an interesting idea for a new thread - one dedicated to the wider NK Family and the publicity they generate (largely in-house it seems), and their promotion of various wares. ”NK Talent and Freebie Watch” might be a good title?

For some reason our default internet home page and search engine are both Microsoft at work (and we’re not allowed to change this), and every day I’m bombarded with NK Mafia puff pieces in the news sections. This morning alone I saw headlines (note: just the headlines, I didn’t click in to read any of them) about Tubridy’s London Diary, a story about Garrihy’s home renovations (which I assume is essentially a list of all the suppliers who gave her freebies), and then a Dermot Bannon ”Room To Improve leaves viewers in tears” headline - for the second week in a row no less. Beneath the Bannon piece there’s a piece dated the 25th talking about how this weeks episode of Room To Improve will be “moving”.

This was just this morning, and crucially, I wasn’t even looking for anything NK-related. I wonder how much of this top goss about our fave celebs and superstar talent (and what products they’re promoting) we’re missing out on out on across other platforms? I think a single thread dedicated to this would be insightful, akin to the Tubridy Freebie List from his time in RTÉ.

Any thoughts are most welcome.

I'm sure the NK agency isn't the only one that spruiks their assets shamelessly. Half of the Irish Independent is essentially advertising masquerading as news. All those home improvement shows that RTE present as documentaries are probably sponsored by building and materials providers and mortgage lenders.

The absolute vacuum of service during the largest disaster in our history shows the Dublin Broadcasting Corporation thinks it's duty is to advertisers and not the nation.

lol at the music selection - Girls on Film! Is he identifying as female now?

@podgeandrodge I wouldn't be surprised if every morning at 9:30 Kathryn and Ryan have a little hand over chat every morning.