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

I can appreciate how it might come up from time to time. But he isn't doing a magazine show anymore. His name might be on the title card. But the gig is short links between songs.

I wonder if he foresaw Trump's election, from a few years back and if that played its part in his decision to leave RTE. Thought that it might be bad for the Irish economy and that his wages would go down. The UK won't be as badly effected by tariffs. He got in ahead of the slump and is building a strong profile in a bigger market. He's a political nut and he knows everything about US politics.

They have made it the 14th most listened to station in the uk which surely has to be the pinnacle of achievement in the uk radio industry

Lovely show this morning, Ryan had a lovely chat with Gary Lightbody from Snowpatrol. Highly recommended - worth listening back to if you missed it.

We’re not allowed to discuss that topic so I can’t answer that question. Apologies.

No. There was some back and forth between them about old British comedies but otherwise it was mostly a book related chat.

I may be completely wrong on this but I got the feeling it was pre-recorded and not live - I’m genuinely curious if it was recorded at the same time Lightbody visited for Tubridy’s side-project. It’s not the first time I’ve suspected segments or interviews aren’t live on the show (you can almost always tell with the slight difference in audio quality/settings from the live stream) - there were a few times during yesterday’s show when things seemed so too. To be clear, it doesn’t hugely affect my enjoyment of the show - but I am curious as to whether this is happening or are my ears deceiving me?

I’m not sure of the BAI rules about this sort of thing (perhaps one of the radio insiders can elaborate on same if rules exist?) but I do feel that items such as interviews that’s aren’t live should be declared as such - your classic “my chat with X was recorded earlier” type disclaimer.

In post #8 on this thread I called attention to Miriam O'Callaghan inserting a recorded piece into her programme. It happens a lot on the radio. One of the overnight presenters on BBC Radio 5 used to do the programme from America where he lived. He wasn't Up All Night at ungodly hours, but he never made much mention of it. It's all harmless stuff, whether the listeners are aware or not.

while they are at it the BAI (if it still existed!) could comment on the rules re simulcasting a show from another country and another network in prime time

BAI is now CnaM, there was some questions raised about the simulcast when it was announced, though I think many hand point to Nova's broadcasts of syndicated programming after 7pm.

I not be surprised if Tubs is simulcast on one of the DAB radio stations also. I wonder if this test expands Q102 into all of Leinster or is their foot print to remain only in Dublin?

The thing I find most jarring on the broadcast is the 0044 (UK International access code) prefix given for Whats App’ing the show. It sounds weird to me listening in Ireland when all Irish stations (obviously) have Irish numbers. A minor quibble for sure, and one that while it doesn’t take enormously from my enjoyment of the show just as I said earlier jars with me.

It must equally sound weird to UK listeners who are only hearing the Intl. access code prefix given on Tubridy's show. Ryan’s determination to race through the number doesn’t help either, but that’s a separate issue.

It would be interesting to see what the IRE:UK audience breakdown is after 15+ months on air. Going by the messages that are read out I’d suspect it’s mostly Irish - and as an Irish listener that aspect doesn’t really bother me, but I’m not sure how I’d feel if I was a Brit listening in Britain and being constantly peppered with mentions of Ireland and “Irish things”.

I do think at this stage moving him permanently to Q would be in everyone’s interests. I would view it as a sideways move rather than a demotion - put it this way, I doubt I ever listened to the station before this year and now it’s my mid-morning station of choice so they must be doing something right!

As I’m sure you’re aware there’s a difference between a repeat and a pre-recorded segement.

Re. The “you called me Joe” moments you refer too, aside from not again not being the same thing as live/pre-record the issue listeners have is how the host (Joe Duffy) handles these calls - quite often rudely rebuking the person he’s talking to when the conversation isn’t in alignment with his own thinking, or when Joe says something that implies that the person on the other end of the line called into the show and initiated the conversation or topic - which isn’t correct in many cases, hence the reply,

The BBC/America example you give is again different.

Greg Allen was on with BO’C earlier from Augusta. It was live, despite being relatively early in Georgia at the time - and I’d have had no issue with that segment having being recorded last night btw given the time difference.

The issue I have is when something is presented as live when it isn’t. I feel such an issue can be overcome with a simple disclaimer or announcement that said piece was pre-recorded - this used to be the norm btw for radio and tv.

There’s a transparency and trust issue here between broadcaster and listener in my opinion. If your opinion differs on that, that’s fine - that is allowed.

The point I was making is that it does sound edited, and hence jarring - to me at least. If it doesn’t to you - great! We are entitled to have offering views on things.