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Ryan Tubridy - From Virgin to Youtube **Mod: Read OP**

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  • #7592
    swine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭swine


    Tubridy presenting a Talksport program is like getting Bosco to front Primetime.

    Perhaps the 15 hours a week on Virgin were too much for him.



  • #7593
    its_steve116
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082787#Comment_124082787

    As if he is.



  • #7594
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082818#Comment_124082818

    Wouldn't you?

    ______

    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #7595
    Expunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,397 ✭✭✭Expunge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082818#Comment_124082818

    Course he is.

    He doesn't have a proper job in the media anymore. He has a half assed makey uppy gig that's really for someone very old on the way out of full time work or indeed life itself.

    All this because of greed and deception which, at best, he went along with.

    I hope you're right but at this stage, if the overnights on Lyric FM or R na G became available to him, he should bite the hand off RTE to take it.

    Tubs is a busted flush.

    Eventually someone in the national media will put what seems to be a fear of NK Management aside and publicly call this disasterous career management for what it is.



  • #7596
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,489 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    It’s over for Ryan to be honest. A 2 year gig on virgin he should have leveraged into a solid career move but either didn’t or couldn’t and now a YouTube series and a vague mention of a gig on TalkSport. For a guy who was at the top of the tree at one point, his career trajectory has more in common with Alan Partridge than Eamon Andrews or Terry Wogan at this stage.



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  • #7597
    its_steve116
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082837#Comment_124082837

    I very strongly think he's staying put in London. I think he is about as likely to return to RTÉ as Gay Byrne.



  • #7598
    Loblox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭Loblox


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082859#Comment_124082859

    I would say Gay has higher odds for returning, either through AI or the old school ouija board.



  • #7599
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082859#Comment_124082859

    Why would he stay in London. I'd say he's packed already.

    ______

    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #7600
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,568 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Senior Hurling, wasnt it? Turns out he wasn't fit for Junior B



  • #7601
    yagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,373 ✭✭✭yagan


    A bid might come in yet from radio Norwich.



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  • #7602
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth 8-bit


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082877#Comment_124082877

    OR

    Chrystal Ball, / Seance that's being livestreamed



  • #7603
    archfi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭archfi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082933#Comment_124082933

    That's aiming too high.

    North Norfolk Digital Radio might though.



  • #7604
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,412 ✭✭✭GSF


    Q102 we’re pretty quick to pull him off their schedule page - he’s still there but only for the 2 hour Sunday morning show - all references to the weekday show gone



  • #7605
    its_steve116
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,541 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082910#Comment_124082910

    I'd say Graham Norton is more likely to move back to Ireland.



  • #7606
    DaithiMa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭DaithiMa


    Tubridy on Talk sport😂 He'll fit right in there. "Welcome to Drive Time Live with Jamie O'Hara, Jason Cundy and Ryan Tubridy". Maybe they are going to branch out into covering competitive spelling bees.



  • #7607
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    So much begrudgery, so little else.



  • #7608
    Morgans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,521 ✭✭✭Morgans


    We've been through this. Those who clutch their pearls over how Tubridy is perceived are the outliers or paid to support him.

    It has been nothing but success since he left RTE. All coming up roses. Well, according to his agent.



  • #7609
    csirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭csirl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082840#Comment_124082840

    His management got him paid way way more than he's worth for many years - thats good management.



  • #7610
    Expunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,397 ✭✭✭Expunge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124083155#Comment_124083155

    The chap has had his pants pulled down. This is all of his (or his people's own making).

    And you're concerned about 'begrudgery'?

    Go-on away outta that and give us your analysis on what has happened to the fella.



  • #7611
    Expunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,397 ✭✭✭Expunge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124083183#Comment_124083183

    Yes, absolutely yes you're right. No question.

    These last few years, though, it appears Tubs is being used to show that uncle Noel is not a failure. And look where that has got Tubs.



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  • #7612
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124083188#Comment_124083188

    i'd hazard a guess he's doing better than a lot of the begrudgers on here.



  • #7613
    nachouser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,053 ✭✭✭nachouser


    He got married about ten days ago, so, yeah, I'd say he's happy enough. Unlike the borderline stalkers on here.



  • #7614
    Ardent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,396 ✭✭✭Ardent


    Such a bunch of begrudgers and losers in this thread. Keep banging that drum lads.



  • #7615
    Expunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,397 ✭✭✭Expunge


    His excruciating, continuing, Partridgesque fall from success continues but, yeah, what about the lads on here.



  • #7616
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,489 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    It’s not begrudgery as far as I’m concerned. I hadn’t realised he’d recently gotten married so congratulate him on that and wish him and his wife many happy years together.

    In the context of broadcasting he was artificially boosted to the top of the tree in RTE. It was painfully evident he lacked the X factor when it came to presenting shows like the Late Late. He held his own on politics and history but that was it, bar the toy show but that became more about him than the toys or the kids in the end. Numerous attempts to get the foot in the door at the Beeb didn’t work out either.

    Cast into the wider world of broadcasting he hasn’t set the world on fire at Virgin and seemingly hasn’t caught the attention of anyone either here or in the UK radio market. He’s now doing his own make work scheme which Noel Kelly managed to attach to Times Radio. The jobs are getting progressively smaller in scale and you’d have to wonder at what point now rationality kicks in and he figures out finally it’s time to call a spade a spade and try his hand at something he’s more suited to.

    He’s the closest thing I’ve seen to Alan Partridge at this point and I’m not even joking.



  • #7617
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭Tork


    Ah, I get it. We're back to the tired old 'begrudgers living in mammy's box room' argument again, are we? I thought you'd have had time to come up with something more creative by now.



  • #7618
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,746 ✭✭✭Allinall


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124083275#Comment_124083275

    You can’t make up the truth.

    It’s just there.



  • #7619
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭Tork


    I hope they're paying you well to defend Tubs at 7:45 on a Friday night



  • #7620
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    If he's going to do less of the disc jockey and more one to one interviews, documentary presentation and the like I think that's what he's best at. On Virgin radio always wanted the music over to hear what he had to say.

    Hope he does well.



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  • #7621
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭RoTelly


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    I was missing this tête-à-tête. I had just being saying how quite this thread was, and here we are again.

    You'd never get it with the Ray D'Arcy fans.

    ______

    In the end they were just greedy, they all knew one another and knew what to expect more money for no return, it was a secure cash flow, but in fairness they looked for what they wanted and fair dues to them for that, and wouldn't you be doing the same!

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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