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

How many reinventions since his departure from RTE has he launched?

disappointed that he hadn’t revealed this weeks near death celebrity! Could become a weekly feature.

Film reviews, that'll catch on.

Its not like no-one has thought of this before.

Ok, a recap check list of post RTE projects

• First up was the home podcast studio, pics were furnished, but after a few weeks static
• Then there was the youtube interview series that aside from Andrea Corr never reached over 1000 views per episode
• Then the move to London
• After that ended it was supposedly a few projects involving obituaries and sports punditry
• Now film reviews

Anything I'm missing?

I find it fascinating. Do you remember when Pat Kenny was trying to block the public from finding out how much our license fee went his way?

Following this topic is an examination of an engrained Montrose entitlement syndrome in the wild.

Well I should have got the popcorn out.

On the one hand Tubs should not be admonished for not speaking out about his wages when they were published. We should not expect him to be a whistleblower.

On the other hand he exited from the company because it was he who revealed (even if just tangentially, and also not at all) his bosses miss doings. And for this he should be forgiven.

I am all for moving past the problems surrounding Tubs exit and wishing him well, but I feel this is a bit of a re-writing of history.

As I say you can't turn around and say that Tubs helped to uncover any of the governance issues at RTÉ, he also cannot be praised for failing to tell RTÉ "if the published figures are published then the figures are incorrect".

It's highly likely that had RTÉ not seen a change in the chair of the board or CFO that many of the issues at RTÉ would not have been uncovered. I suspect that Tubs would still be on the Radio today had these governance issues not been highlighted, and he be largely safe.

D4bes would be making a key note speech at the 100 years celebration in UCC, as a proud Cork woman, and Jimbo would still be on KB4's Executive Team.

I respect that Tubs did turn up at the Oireachtas (unlike Dee Forbes and Jim Jennings) and the findings of the GT report.

However, it does not take from the fact that RTÉ were running around

1. Trying to keep people they didn't need
2. Trying to make the payments to those people look less excessive than that really where

Both Tubs and Noel could have said at many stages

1. The figures your about to publish are incorrect
2. This deal with Renault is to convoluted for us

Sorry, I should say he should be praised for mention it after the fact!

He has two producers on his podcast(think that one of them is Aidan Power) and has lost his sponsor. With the viewership figures on YouTube, I'd imagine that it's running at a loss at the moment. Getting a thousand plus views would deliver very little income. He really needs to get a new sponsor.

He's obviously not getting a carryover from his old audience onto YouTube. He was mainly targeting an older female audience with book reviews and celebrity gossip. YouTube has a younger audience so would he not be better off targeting this age group? He's recognised by young people for the Toy Show and being funny. Why not review toys on YouTube. Show himself unboxing and using new toys.