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

This is the guy who was finished his working day at 10am Monday to Thursday and regularly talked on his hour show about going to the cinema for the day after the show to watch two movies. I can't, I just can't. He's getting in on me now.

He's so tone-deaf isn't he? Never mind all those hard-working single mothers who barely have time to see their kids, Ryan is the one in real pain.

Why isn't NK telling him to shut the hell up? Every time he opens his mouth, he takes another step back.

Maybe NK is a crap agent who's probably goaded on RTs ego.

Newstalk absolutely gutted that they didn't move to secure Tubridy's services to replace Pat Kenny. They will have to make do with Claire Byrne, but they've really let a broadcasting titan slip through their fingers.

Combination of astute management and common sense I'd imagine

You had me going for a second there!

Well, I mean, if they want him, they can get him still surely, I'm sure he's free weekdays. They can just pay someone else off to clear a spot in the schedule. Alternatively, they could start live broadcasting overnight, Tubs could do the midnight-3am shift.

Gerry Ryan was no different - he himed and hawed about taking a salary cut on national radio before he eventually relented - talk about tone deaf and reading the room - had zero respect for him after that

if he was capable of feeling disappointment, I’d say he’d be a bit disappointed with that number

I think there may be an element of car crash voyeurism in that viewership.

I"m sure it will be spun as an enormous win. Perhaps something like "Tubridy's appearance on The Assembly had the BIGGEST viewership EVER for a Virgin Media documentary series aired on a Monday night in February in 2026."

Considering how we were bombarded we were with publicity for the show, it's a poor figure, and I imagine a fair chunk of that were people hatewatching.

I would imagine that financially, it must be starting to hit RT. I imagine when he was on the big salary there was an element of profligate spending

he wasn’t in many movies was he?

Because hatewatching is something people do nowadays. The ill-fated Sex and the City reboot is a good example of that, if it wasn't for hatewatching, no one would watched it.

For anyone interested, hatewatching is defined the activity of consuming media, usually a television show or a film with the intention of acquiring amusement from the mockery of its content or subject.